Why am I not informed about games?

[wizzy555]

I go to several games sites, youtubers and have additional RSS feeds. But I was utterly surprised to learn that an assassins creed game was almost ready and it is set in Egypt.

I'm not actually interested in Assassins Creed much but it occurs to me 10 years ago it would have almost been impossible to not be aware of a game in such a large franchise.

Hell half the plot of bioshock infinite was being shown at every opportunity years before it came out.

Is this the media, the company marketing strategy or some oblivious changing in my own behaviour (like getting old)?

 

[DefunctTheory]

Probably the sources you're using. I get surprised too, and it's because I don't frequent the 'billboard' gaming sites.

 

[CaitSeith]

Both the sources you have and the company marketing strategy. I remember that Ubisoft was pretty angry about AC Syndicate being leaked. They probably took more precautions during the development of Origins.

 

[Jamcie Kerbizz]

I go to several games sites, youtubers and have additional RSS feeds. But I was utterly surprised to learn that an assassins creed game was almost ready and it is set in Egypt.

I'm not actually interested in Assassins Creed much but it occurs to me 10 years ago it would have almost been impossible to not be aware of a game in such a large franchise.

Hell half the plot of bioshock infinite was being shown at every opportunity years before it came out.

Is this the media, the company marketing strategy or some oblivious changing in my own behaviour (like getting old)?

Which sources You use if may I ask?

 

[Xprimentyl]

If it?s any day of the week, sometime between 12:00am and 11:59pm, it?s a safe bet another Assassins Creed game is ?almost ready.? Be more surprised when an RSS feed tells you Ubisoft is finally putting that dead horse in the ground...

But seriously, could be oversaturation. It?s easy to hear what one person is yelling, but a lot harder to hear that same person when a thousand people are yelling just as loud. There?s a lot of ?news? going on with new consoles, holiday releases, etc.; unless that Ass Creed or any other title of note is ?almost ready? enough for a November 2017 release, no one?s interested.

Or you could be getting older. Not sure of your age, but I?m 37, and ten years ago, I was plugged in everywhere; if it was game-related, I was in the know. Nowadays, I?m so disaffected and disinterested with the piecemealed sameness across the industry, I?m basically tuned out; 90% of my gaming news comes from my girlfriend?s 12-year-old son when he slows down long enough to tell me about the next CoD or DLC for [insert generic CoD-like FPS] he?s getting.

 

[wizzy555]

I go to several games sites, youtubers and have additional RSS feeds. But I was utterly surprised to learn that an assassins creed game was almost ready and it is set in Egypt.

I'm not actually interested in Assassins Creed much but it occurs to me 10 years ago it would have almost been impossible to not be aware of a game in such a large franchise.

Hell half the plot of bioshock infinite was being shown at every opportunity years before it came out.

Is this the media, the company marketing strategy or some oblivious changing in my own behaviour (like getting old)?

Which sources You use if may I ask?

Probably the big issues is that game trailers shut down and the escapist aren't pushing game announcements as much as they did. I subscribe to easy allies but: a) I don't listen to them as much as they should and b) they don't host game trailers like "gametrailers.com" did.

I admit I keep a black list of what I consider the "clickbait" sites, like Kotaku, but I never visited Kotaku even back then.

In my RSS feed I have Niche Gamer, tech raptor, gather your party, normal boots, gamesradar, various fan specific sites like blizzard games.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Gaming news has certainly changed. It simply draws more clicks, views, comments and attention to do fluff pieces and political news. Why report on the new Shadow of Mordor game's improved Nemesis System when you can call the developers sexist for having the magical female spider magically project a sexy lady to seduce the hero?
Why bother reporting on a new Assassin's Creed game if there was a guy and a gal in the trailer? Where's the news in just another game if there's no controversy?!

Little Nightmares just came out and despite being a charming, dark Limbo clone, it doesn't say anything about race relations or take a dig at GamerGate, so who cares?!
The First Tree has been in development for nearly two years, and not once does it decry PewDiePie for saying the N-Word! Why waste the time to write an article about it at all?!

Gaming 'news' left video games behind years ago. Its all about Controversy, shaming and victimization.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Sometimes sources just...miss things.

Like, if I were using the Escapist as a news source, I wouldn't know Destiny 2 released.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Don't depend on The Escapist to for any gaming news, for starters.

 

[sXeth]

Sometimes sources just...miss things.

Like, if I were using the Escapist as a news source, I wouldn't know Destiny 2 released.

Which is kind of funny, cause there was a long while there you'd swear Activision owned the place. Ads all over, constant coverage, patch notes for their games put up as full news items.

ACWhatever seems kind of low key though. Or maybe they're just keeping it back in the marketing cycle. The Playstation facebook is about the main spot I run into the AAA stuff and they're busy flogging WW2 CoD right now.

Some of is probably a marketing shift. More companies are chasing Youtube/Streamer "influencers" and shifting away from standard press. The big time of said influencers also tend to be not exactly popular amongst an older gaming audience, despite their millions of subs. So its easy enough to just be outside a weird demographic criss-cross.

 

[meiam]

I try to go for middle group news website, the larger one spend most of there time on controversy and opinion post and the smaller one don't have time to cover everything. Medium one in the middle tend to focus mostly on covering as many piece of news as possible while leaving opinion out as much as possible. They also usually have nicer page layout that allow you to quickly go trough all the news piece.

(I don't know if I can link to other site here)

gematsu is a pretty nice smallish website (they mostly cover Japanese game), but the layout is awesome.

gameinformer is also surprisingly decent

But above all else I think the best is to have multiple source, everyday I check about 7-8 website just to cover everything.

 

[Imre Csete]

Funny enough, my most reliable sources are hardware and PC tech forums getting ready for new releases and speculating system specs. Some retail chains/IT hardware stores started running news blocks and are all right if you want to get info about upcoming games.

They don't care about all that zeroth world problem outrage that's been going on for a while.

 

[Kerg3927]

I only really go to two gaming sites, this message board and the Neogaf message board. Well, other than game-specific sites. Neogaf has such an insane amount of traffic, if anything important happens, there will be a many-page thread about it on the front page. I don't even post over there, because my registration was never approved for some reason, but it's a good site to scan for gaming news.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

This site used to be my one stop shop but now... lolno.

 

[Fijiman]

I kind of know how you feel. My main sources for gaming news was the Escapist and occasionally YouTube. Since the Escapist in basically a dying husk these days and half the remaining population would rather spend the remaining time it's alive either making shitposts or being as aggressive as possible in the Wild West, a lot of stuff tends to go right past me.

 

[Hawki]

Yeah...sorry, I don't know how you missed that. I've known about it for over a year, and I don't even play Assassin's Creed.

 

[Mcgeezaks]

Yeah...sorry, I don't know how you missed that. I've known about it for over a year, and I don't even play Assassin's Creed.

Yeah, I feel like you should at least know about the big games that were shown at E3.

 

[Smithnikov_v1legacy]

Little Nightmares just came out and despite being a charming, dark Limbo clone, it doesn't say anything about race relations or take a dig at GamerGate, so who cares?!

Have any games actually taken a dig at the Gatekeepers?

I'd like to know, as I would be happy to support them financially.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Little Nightmares just came out and despite being a charming, dark Limbo clone, it doesn't say anything about race relations or take a dig at GamerGate, so who cares?!

Have any games actually taken a dig at the Gatekeepers?

I'd like to know, as I would be happy to support them financially.

Oh I'm sure. Any game that mentions ethics or someone being a fake Xer is taking the piss.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

I used to go to multiple sites for news, including the Escapist. Many of them closed down, others I just stopped visiting. Haven't replaced them with anything and I've also more or less stopped paying attention to previews or any pre-release promotion. Nowadays I get most of my info from reviews and lets players on Youtube, so yeah, it happens sometimes that a release completely catches me off guard, or that I know a game is upcoming but don't know exactly when.

There's a bit of a silver lining tho. Being somewhat out of the loop does mean I can sometimes be pleasantly surprised by a release. Not that that matters much, since I only very rarely buy day one anymore.

Also, it was hard to miss AC Origins. For a time, Youtube made ms sit through at least one ad for it per video.