Eurogamer is pure ♥♥♥♥

[CadaveR]

"The broader mystery that emerges from this horror is dramatic and entertaining, though it lost me a little when I realised it was drawing heavily upon Lovecraftian archetypes. I liked Lovecraft as a teenager, and I learned a lot of fun new words reading his work (as well as some less fun ones). But putting aside the fact that Lovecraft was a colossal racist and, when it comes down to it, not a particularly good writer, video games have stripped that literary field of all and any fertility. Lovecraft isn't weird anymore, folks! Other cults are available! There's nothing more deflating when you posit a grand and spooky conspiracy, only for the answer to be 'oops we woke up some fish-people'."

[andersonm]

And this is why I don't read "professional" game reviews :-)

"I CAN'T be just equally important as some unpaid guy out of 100 000 that writes reviews on Steam. I MUST pursue and promote an enlightened vision where my work, art and readers form a trinity and synthesis in the process of reshaping of the human spirit!"

edit: I don't think the 'lovecraft is a bit old' is completely unfair. Just mostly unfair:

There's nothing more deflating when you posit a grand and spooky conspiracy, only for the answer to be 'oops we woke up some fish-people'."

Even the title screen and opening sequence makes the fish people thing quite clear from the very beginning. The fun is in the details. Like playing a Formula 1 game and saying that Formula 1 is kind of boring, repetitive, has been done to death, nothing more deflating than finding out it's just driving around a track in a Formula 1 car. It's fair as a preference but unfair as a professional criticism.

[Drakyn]

I used to get upset at some of these journalistic takes. But I have moved on to pity. Think of how horrid it is to wake up every day dominated by feelings of rage, pity, guilt. To think you have to "save" everyone. Being dominated, either "far right or far left", must be a pretty miserable way to be. Instead of just trying to be a good person and enjoying life, games, people, etc.

[Relative unit]

The unnecessary part about Lovecraft being racist notwithstanding it's right though. You don't see anything particularly new or innovative in Skald regarding this theme, and Lovecraft and cosmic horror in general are difficult to get right, especially in visual media.

[CadaveR]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Relative unit:

and Lovecraft and cosmic horror in general are difficult to get right, especially in visual media.

Agree on that, but the need of virtue signaling... Jesus...

[moonshine]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von 𝐂𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐑:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Relative unit:

and Lovecraft and cosmic horror in general are difficult to get right, especially in visual media.

Agree on that, but the need of virtue signaling... Jesus...

The great thing about people like that is they can't help but announce who they are with a megaphone whenever possible, even when it's hilariously irrelevant. It makes not engaging with them very easy.

So now you know where to not go to get your reviews, and can choose someone who writes on the parts you care about.

[Capt. Slappy]

oooo nooooo he was a racist. HP LoveCraft a man born in 1890 and who died in 1938 had different world views then you? Ooooo noooo say it aint so. You're a complete clown who time will forget while lovecraft is immortalized. Feels like you didn't actually read any of his work. He wasn't just ooo look we woke up fish people. He was a master of psychological horror, which so happened to have a few fishy lads but that is beside the point.

[Panic! At The Costco™]

That seems all true to me, but I also enjoyed SKALD anyway.

[etalian]

the biggest letdown of the game is not enough Deep ones in the game !

1/5 score because of it

[bondy034]

Lovecraft being racist is far from a hot take - I really like a bunch of his stuff, and have GM'd Call of Cthulu for yonks, but he definitely was racist, even for his time. It's right there in his stories, he certainly never worked particularly hard to hide it! Mind you, I think that's part of why Lovecraftian fiction works - because it's all about fear of the outsider, the unknown and unknowable. As much as his racism sucks, it kind of created the impetus for this kind of fiction, in many ways. We fear what we don't understand and what we don't know and experience firsthand...

Nevertheless, I thought SKALD was a decent, if not revolutionary take on the genre. And though there's a lot of Lovecraft influences in fiction, I've not played a CRPG that explored the genre quite like this. Needless to say, I'm very interested in what the dev will do with a sequel (which I really do hope we get!).

[Xafron Chi]

This is pretty much every games journalism website out there now.

[Count von Bunnyhopven]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Xafron Chi:

This is pretty much every games journalism website out there now.

And thats the reason that most every game journalism site is dying right now. I mean IGN's parent company just bought about 5-10 other sites out of near bankruptcy for pennies. At this rate the industry will just continue to consolidate until its gone and all reviewers that are left are independents and youtubers.

Dont know about Eurogamer, I have not heard about them for a decade now. But i doubt they will be around another decade from now.

[NerazarPC]

When people without talent judge others, the results are beyond funny.

"Oh, this mystery is fun and entertaining and very ominous... oh no... it's inspired by Lovecraft who is a [insert no-no word du jour]. The game thus is bad."

There is zero reason to read "professional" reviews anymore. Especially from those corporated "news" outlets.

[OmegaDestroyer]

Eh, I wouldn't worry about Eurogamer. Chances are, after being bought out by IGN, they won't be around much longer anyways. I used to like their content until they refused to review Hogwarts Legacy. They are so focused on virtue signaling, they cannot perform their simple task of reviewing games.

[CadaveR]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von OmegaDestroyer:

Eh, I wouldn't worry about Eurogamer. Chances are, after being bought out by IGN, they won't be around much longer anyways. I used to like their content until they refused to review Hogwarts Legacy. They are so focused on virtue signaling, they cannot perform their simple task of reviewing games.

They refused what? XD

If i remember correctly, IGN also made a video about how not make the Resident Evil 5 remake because you shoot african zombies\mutants

I don't want to live on the same planet with these idiots

[Ninth Hour]

You're not wrong, but this is simply an opinion. Why waste the energy to be outraged? You all act as if you've never come across critics before. Opinions like this are a dime a dozen- will you react to every single one?

Moreover, he is paid to write an opinion piece, so he has to fill it with something, no matter how much of a stretch it may be. Any article of this nature, no matter the publication, is to be taken with a grain of salt. You don't even know if his statements are sincere. When you are paid to write something, you simply write something to meet a deadline (even if it is nonsensical).

And some people may be intentionally provocative just to draw an audience. Sometimes, no attention is negative when it comes to readership.

Life has enough challenges without being bothered by inconsequential articles or their writers.