Afternoon folks! What a lovely Sunday it be.
Minor depression still within me after yesterdays Rugby, Wales loosing to France over a stupid decision from the ref. Makes my blood boil it does.
Congratulations to the all blacks for their win today, and can’t wait to see Wales play Australia to compete for 3rd place.
Done a little bit of painting this morning then drove over to my aunties to drop off some things, and ended up helping my auntie and uncle herd their chickens into the new winter coop they just built. It was my first experience of herding animals and it made me feel like John Marston, just without a rope… or horse… or cows.
Following which I returned home, and I have just removed the underlay off the stairs in preparation for the new carpet to be fitted tomorrow.
Onto my subject of interest. As you probably know, as I have not been able to shut up about it for the last few weeks, Batman Arkham City is released this coming Friday, and already the reviews are up and it is getting 9.5s and 10s, so I am pleased.
I often go on the gamespot website and look through the forums for different games, and saw one post warning not to watch the gamespot video review, as it reveals a major spoiler without warning.
My point is this, should games reviewers be allowed to give out any plot points other than the basic story? It is one of my major peeves to sit through a video review only to have the reviewer suddenly say “and it shocked me in the 3rd act when it was revealed Kirby was actually Keyser Soze!”
So, should video game companies try and in force some sort of ”no spoilers” rule on review companies? I think so, unless it is explicitly stated before a review, in type so bold it jumps out of planes without a parachute, that there are spoilers within.
Generally, you’re a bit of a douchebag and an idiot who will only be serving to piss off his potential future audience. Yes I do think that reviewers should take it upon themselves to display when their feature contains spoilers – I saw an article the other day on an IGN post about spoilers being talked about in the article, so it’s not everyone that does it.
It is however, nice to hear retrospectives on games which includes delving deeper into the story, and covering potentially spoilerific content, but it should always be noted as containing spoilers.
Tom spoiled Fight Club for Jen the other day. It’s one of those weird situations where Jen said something along the lines of wanting a story based on “x” and Tom said “Oh, you mean like Fight Club”. Spoiled, without even needing any further explanation. Jen would have needed to know that Fight Club had a twist to be spoiled, and not knowing the content of the film couldn’t tell him not to say anything about it. Even saying “have you seen Fight Club” instead of “like Fight Club” would also have spoiled it, so the easiest thing to have done to not spoiled it would have been not to have mentioned it at all.
The question is – how long after something is out should it be considered general knowledge and you can freely talk about it?
Lol I saw the first line and thought you were having a go at me there
Great way to say hello.
But yea it is annoying as hell and would only really serve to alienate people from the film or game or whatever. like “Oh i know the main character is actually the bad guy who dies in the past to save his sister, so now I don’t need to watch this”.
And Tom is good at that spoiler thing. A few times Ive known him to blurt out spoilers.
My mom spoiled Sixth Sense for my brother once, he had to leave the house near the end of the film but was recording it, came back later and first thing mom said was about the big twist at the end.(And thats not spoiling it for people, its an M. Night Shamalamadingdong film, they all have twists).
As for the timing thing, I would say for films, 6 months after its come out on DVD.
For games, about a year and a half after release, when its been on the pre-owned stands for a good few months and is nice and cheap. That way people could usually have afforded to buy the DVD or game, so its on them for not doing it sooner. But still as a courtesy after that point people should still ask if you have seen or played it first, and mark potential spoilers in forums and articles.