Decline PC Gamer Presents: The Ultimate RPG Handbook

[Average Manatee]

I gotta say, I've always felt slightly intimidated by how much more some people at the Codex know about classic RPGs than me. Always felt like I was missing out on something. This magazine is perfect, I'll get to know all the details of classic RPG games that came before my time like Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced Edition, Oblivion, and Diablo 3.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Well, it says "vol. 1", so maybe they'll make 3-4 other books? 150 pages each... But who knows, right?

Gaming journalism, ladies and gentlemen.

Fucking hell. What dirty, rotten bastards they are.

"I write what people ask me to write". Absolutely pathetic.

 

[pippin]

Quality content:

Let's look on the bright side. It was BS like this that brought me to RPGCodex in the first place. Some Codexers occassionally agree with me, some tell me to go fuck off, but it is all reasonable somehow. Outside the Codex it is just surreal.

Because people are ok with games being a "service". That service is "keeping me away from suicide".

 

[Stella Brando]

I never did finish Daggerfall's main quest.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Wanna read (and steal info), but damn, 18.99 dollars is a lot for one magazine. I'm a third-world immigrant living in Tokyo, don't have the money to spend on this right now...

This is why the CRPG Book is free.

your book is gonna be free? damn. doing god's work and i am an atheist

 

[Hoaxmetal]

doing god's work and i am an atheist

Found the vegan atheist.

 

[Zed]

Quality content:

Let's look on the bright side. It was BS like this that brought me to RPGCodex in the first place. Some Codexers occassionally agree with me, some tell me to go fuck off, but it is all reasonable somehow. Outside the Codex it is just surreal.

shoulda stopped registrations 10 years ago

 

[HoboForEternity]

doing god's work and i am an atheist

Found the vegan atheist.

i am the furthest thing you will find from a vegan.

Animals are delicious and it is their fault for being stupid and we develop guns and shit to enslave their whole species and breed them for food.

 

[felipepepe]

your book is gonna be free? damn. doing god's work and i am an atheist

Uh, I thought that was obvious? I mean, you can download a 350 page preview right now... do you expect it to be like shareware and have a "to unlock more pages, please mail Felipe $10" ad?

 

[mitochondritom]

Uh oh, you might have pulled a nerve...

 

[Infinitron]

lol ffs Matt7895, that didn't mean what you thought it did.

 

[garren]

To be fair, he did say that he writes what others tell him to, then he twists that around by saying that we're criticizing him for getting paid to write. Dude, reading comprehension.

 

[Infinitron]

Yeah but what he meant by that is "I'm just getting paid to write articles for this book, I don't get to pick its title". Matt seems to have interpreted that as a nefarious admission of paid shilling.

 

[garren]

Fine. The statement was missing the context.

Spoiler

OR WAS IT NOT DUN DUN DUN

 

[tormund]

Infinitron's job is to keep Codex's relations with industry as cordial and submissive as is humanly possible, given the situation. It's pointless to argue this with him.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

The whole point of journalism is that you don't "write what people ask you to write". Yes, your editor might ask you to cover a particular story but they don't tell you how to write it.

I'm not pretending I know all about journalism, but if press freedom means anything, it means the journalist writes whatever the hell they want (provided it meets the quality expected from whatever publication they work for) and they aren't beholden to game publishers or required to provide them publicity for their games (e.g. EA and Dragon Age/Mass Effect).

There are examples of game publishers getting journalists fired because they wrote something the publisher didn't like, and you don't have to look very hard to find examples of corruption in gaming media.

I probably spoke too harshly about Richard Cobbett himself - he was probably being sarcastic or ironic in that tweet, but sarcasm doesn't come across well on the internet.

 

[Prime Junta]

to unlock more pages, please mail Felipe $10

You should totally do that. Or at least make screenshots paid DLC.

 

[Lord Azlan]

Happy that we have guys like Cobbett and Felipe around.

In NFL terms, Who's Got It Better Than Us?

Pretty excited these days. PST nearly done. The whole series of Baldurs Gates to do. And two decent books to read about RPG.

Then we have D:OS 2 on the horizon as well as Numera.

The time of RPG has arrived.

 

[tormund]

Happy that we have guys like Cobbett and Felipe around.

In NFL terms, Who's Got It Better Than Us?

Pretty excited these days. PST nearly done. The whole series of Baldurs Gates to do. And two decent books to read about RPG.

Then we have D:OS 2 on the horizon as well as Numera.

The time of RPG has arrived.

Yeah, not to mention all the Assassin's Creed games, and the upcoming new Mass Effect, how No Man's Sky's updates are turning it into even more groundbreaking experience... This is veritable golden age for us RPG nerds.

BTW you should add "based" in front of Cobbett.

 

[mitochondritom]

I actually caught that screen before the follow up tweets where he praised Filipepepe's book. I think Richard is an OK dude, I used to love his crapshoot column in PCG when I was a subscriber.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

I actually caught that screen before the follow up tweets where he praised Filipepepe's book. I think Richard is an OK dude, I used to love his crapshoot column in PCG when I was a subscriber.

Context is key I guess. "I write what I get asked to write" takes a whole different meaning if its from Geoff Keighley.

 

[felipepepe]

There are very few "staff writers" in gaming journalism that get to write what they want. Most are paid to write a specific thing or write an article and go around pitching it to various websites.

That's a critical flaw of the system - if say, a freelance writes an article criticizing Polygon for something, he'll be burning all bridges to that website, and probably to some nearby friends as well.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Is Realms of Arkania HD included or not?

 

[Stella Brando]

That's a critical flaw of the system - if say, a freelance writes an article criticizing Polygon for something, he'll be burning all bridges to that website, and probably to some nearby friends as well.

Whats wrong with polygons?

 

[Grauken]

There are very few "staff writers" in gaming journalism that get to write what they want. Most are paid to write a specific thing or write an article and go around pitching it to various websites.

That's a critical flaw of the system - if say, a freelance writes an article criticizing Polygon for something, he'll be burning all bridges to that website, and probably to some nearby friends as well.

There are a lot of specialist journals in a lot of fields that are like 99% subcontracted to externals, except the editorial, it's not just gaming press