Biased Article

[packerfan8675309]

Was it just me or was game informer really biased and on neversoft and activison's side during the guitar hero 4 article. they kept talking about all the bad features for rock band like the "tricky green hit" and they talked of how guitar hero 4 would totally blow everyone out of the water. they ignored the fact that guitar hero 4 is essentially ripping off rock band and how guitar hero 3 was not really that good. their excuse was, we were learning the mechanics and stuff. come on now, what is there to learn, you just did the same thing as guitar hero 2 except with online and battle mode which is questionable. well i vented, i feel better now.

[raging poodle]

They make nice with WHOEVER is granting them an interview and information.

[Sgt_Rok]

The Game Informer article, like all Game Informer cover articles, are biased as they were paid big bucks to do so. Game Informer is owned by Gamestop who cares more about making a buck from advertisement sales and game sales then slamming a game from one of the largest game distributors in the world.

[shadebug]

that being said, let's not discount GHIV, it does look to be a huge leap in the functionality of music games in general and we can only hope that HMX can keep up and surpass it

[Cranioclash]

It seems to me that when it comes to <i>previews</i>, gaming media usually glosses over any kind of perceived negatives. They usually hype any good qualities and gloss over anything bad, so as not to poison the well prior to the game's launch.

I've seen a lot of good or neutral previews get followed up with awful official reviews.

[Phane7]

that being said, let's not discount GHIV, it does look to be a huge leap in the functionality of music games in general and we can only hope that HMX can keep up and surpass it

I'd agree with your point if I felt like Activision was going to try to fairly compete with Rock Band instead of trying to force them out of business by making all their instruments incompatible.

[BetterSandw1ch]

The Game Informer article, like all Game Informer cover articles, are biased as they were paid big bucks to do so.

This. However, The Guitar Hero article stuck out to me not simply because of it's bias towards GH, but the decidedly negative bias against Rock Band. There were quite a few underhanded jabs at RB that struck me as very petty, and a few quotes that shouldn't have made their way to print. I don't care if the article plays up the features of Guitar Hero - it's how a preview is supposed to work - but it shouldn't attack the competitor.

[888091]

i hope it DOES blow rock band out of the water. dont get me wrong, i have no problems/issues with rock band. but if GH4 really does blow RB out of the water, that just means we'll have an even better game to play.

[TuesdaysGone]

Was it just me or was game informer really biased and on neversoft and activison's side during the guitar hero 4 article. they kept talking about all the bad features for rock band like the "tricky green hit" and they talked of how guitar hero 4 would totally blow everyone out of the water. they ignored the fact that guitar hero 4 is essentially ripping off rock band and how guitar hero 3 was not really that good. their excuse was, we were learning the mechanics and stuff. come on now, what is there to learn, you just did the same thing as guitar hero 2 except with online and battle mode which is questionable. well i vented, i feel better now.

"tricky green hit"... what the hell is that? That's just the Guitar Hero name brand getting sucked up to.

But yeah, Game Informer always sucks up to whatever game they feature. That would be why I did not renew my subscription.

[TuesdaysGone]

I'd agree with your point if I felt like Activision was going to try to fairly compete with Rock Band instead of trying to force them out of business by making all their instruments incompatible.

Actually, couldn't Harmonix one-up Activision by just making BOTH GH4 symbols the green drum on Rock Band, thus giving people an incentive to get both? That would screw Activision over... their only hope is to keep talking **** about RB's instruments.

[TuesdaysGone]

i hope it DOES blow rock band out of the water. dont get me wrong, i have no problems/issues with rock band. but if GH4 really does blow RB out of the water, that just means we'll have an even better game to play.

No, it means we'll have millions of even better games to play, since Activision likes milking GH for all it's worth. We'll see band games out the ass. I hope that never happens.

[Apples]

They make nice with WHOEVER is granting them an interview and information.

This sums up the thread. If someone is granting you inside information/interviews that are going to directly improve your standing/sales, badmouthing them would be a disservice.

Would you bite... the hand the feeds you?

[Solid_Snake]

their excuse was, we were learning the mechanics and stuff. come on now, what is there to learn, you just did the same thing as guitar hero 2 except with online and battle mode which is questionable.
Activision had nothing to do with the first GH games. They took over the franchise with GHIII, so that excuse is valid. However I'm hoping that they have indeed learned and GHIV turns out to be great.

[TuesdaysGone]

Activision had nothing to do with the first GH games. They took over the franchise with GHIII, so that excuse is valid. However I'm hoping that they have indeed learned and GHIV turns out to be great.

Yeah, but they just redid what Harmonix originally did. The reason GH 3 sucked was because THEY CHANGED THINGS from Harmonix's formula. Longer note windows? Ugh. Infinite HO/PO timing? Stupid. Battles against a CU? Pointless. Ugly graphics? Hell no.

[an1m051ty]

The Game Informer article, like all Game Informer cover articles, are biased as they were paid big bucks to do so. Game Informer is owned by Gamestop who cares more about making a buck from advertisement sales and game sales then slamming a game from one of the largest game distributors in the world.

Not really true, about the ownership I mean. They have a partnership to promote the magazine that way. In turn Game Informer has like coupons and such for GameStop. They even had trouble with getting advertising a while back because advertisers assumed the magazine was free - GameStop employees would push the discount membership card and say you get the magazine subscription free... and it was supposed to be the other way around.

Their pitches have changed recently, probably to avoid breaking off the contract or whatever.

[Parodygm]

This sums up the thread. If someone is granting you inside information/interviews that are going to directly improve your standing/sales, badmouthing them would be a disservice.

Would you bite... the hand the feeds you?

I'm pretty sure the Game Informer interviewer was on his knees...

[MrGlass214]

ROFL

People on the RB forums have no place calling something or someone biased. That's like Kirstie Alley calling someone fat, or me calling someone a ninja.

(I'm not really a ninja)

But seriously, you guys are so biased towards RB that it isn't even funny.

[Quinarvy]

ROFL

People on the RB forums have no place calling something or someone biased. That's like Kirstie Alley calling someone fat, or me calling someone a ninja.

(I'm not really a ninja)

But seriously, you guys are so biased towards RB that it isn't even funny.

What differentiates the RB and GH forums other than games?

We have less 12 year old "OMGZ i LIK JST 5 STRED ThROUGh THe FiRE and TEH FLaMES" people.

[frostywolf]

I can't really talk since I haven't seen the article myself but it's not that surprising since game journalism isn't exactly the most reliable source for game reviews - there was the whole Jeff Gerstmann controversy over at GameSpot about him being fired for giving too low ratings for games and advertisers didn't like that very much. I have absolutely no clue what Game Informer could possibly mean by the "tricky green part" in Rock Band.

OP, can you post a link or something to the article?

[packerfan8675309]

it is true that we are biased towards rock band but... i still think that they bashed rock band way too much