Reviewers: Gave Duke Nukem a bad review? No more games for you!

[Rob2600]

it suddenly became overly popular to hate on Duke... It seems like sometimes the gaming press does this.

Yeah, it's weird. Sometimes a game comes out and critics feel the need to out-bash each other in their reviews. Once the downward spiral of negative press starts, it's almost impossible to stop.

What's odd about Duke is that you had this huge amount of hype surrounding the demo and how great that was... With the game coming out, suddenly journalists are complaining about the same stuff that they were saying was so great earlier.

This happens a lot in video game "journalism." I used to read IGN every day and the writers there would hype up games like crazy in the previews, only to bash them in their final reviews. Eventually I recognized that pattern, stopped getting excited about game previews, and stopped reading IGN (and every other gaming publication).

All the publications are guilty of doing that. Before the game comes out: hype! hype! hype! After the game comes out: meh. It really seems like "previews" are just paid advertisements in disguise.

what I find interesting about this story is that it's another example of people getting in trouble because of twitter. ... People in the public eye should be forbidden to have access to a twitter account. ... When people get pissed they can say some crazy stuff. The world doesn't need to be privy to that.

I disagree. The world needs to see *more* of the truth, not less. Each time something like this happens, the curtain gets pulled back another inch, exposing more behind-the-scenes shenanigans (a.k.a. "industry secrets") and revealing the way things *really* are. It's a good thing.