I used to really love this site when it would look down its nose at the likes of Kotaku and IGN for using wanking - the single biggest weakness for any gamer - to pull in punters. It was great to be able to point people in the direction of a gaming website that had interesting things to look at and read that were not porn-related, unlike what most of its competitors were doing. We all spend 95% of our recreational internet time looking at porn as it is, and a gaming site should be what it is. Who cares if other sites get more hits from scraping the bottom-most barrel of N4G, promising sweaty, shivering wrecks a glimpse of some Japanese bird with half a tit out.
But now I'm clicking over here and seeing a video simply showing pole dancers at TGS or an "exclusive" video from a Playboy model holding a joystick like it's her cock, with Nero (I love you mate, but come on now eh) declaring:
On one hand we stubbornly have ignored our numbers and rarely strayed from core gaming news. On the other hand ... well, you don't want to know what the other hand is doing.
And just because the biggest ever click rate came (no pun intended, VOM) from the nerdcore gallery of boobs in 2006, don't believe that, once their cold sweat had dried, they'd mopped up, finished walking in on themselves and woke up to reality, these people ever returned.
It was also always great that the Dtoid community was full of some strong female writers and commenters often trying to find somewhere that they could belong, but really and truly this is a bit of a door slamming in their faces. Panic over: Dtoid is a boys club, afterall. Phew.
Just a little disappointed that's all. You're better than that, Dtoid. And I say that having spent many hours reading and blogging on here. You haven't even posted a review for fucking Resistance 3 yet, so let's just put the fucking kittens on hold indefinitely and focus on being a decent gaming website, minus the sexist bollocks, yeah.
Thank you and goodnight.
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Hopefully the stars don't align in this manner again and we can get back to just talking about games!
(and I too am waiting on the Resistance 3 review!! LOL!)
I saw your blog after my one (bloody good job you did, far better better than this little rant - get it on front page I say) - I may not have written it had I seen yours but glad I did anyway.
Get a strange feeling it has something to do with advertisers and hit rates and pressure to get these hits... I sincerely hope I am completely and utterly wrong and there is no danger looming for Dtoid but by the same token I do hope the site doesn't continue to go down this road, even if it is desperate for hits. Having it is bad enouigh, but it's not necessary having the Playboy thing on the top banner all day long, is it?
It's strange that gaming is becoming more and more popular and accepted as a plausible grown-up past-time for everyone, while the gaming sites who go out of their way to defend them against a mass media onslaught ("games make you kill people" "Kids as young as 10 playing GTA" etc etc) seem to continue to play into an equally embarrassing stereotype at every opportunity.
I think you actually nailed an important point regarding gaming becoming more plausible as a grown up past time... because grown ups have credit cards. I do think that the sex industry will make a push to attact gamers, and I hope that gaming sites can make a differentiation between gaming "news" and being used as a marketing tool by the sex industry (for example the playboy/porn star stuff was inherently there to evoke interest in those sites). Yes, gaming sites are also used as marketing media for games... but that's ok... that's part of being a gaming website. The occasional bit of fluff is fine - especially if someone takes the time to write something interesting about it from a more analytical viewpoint, but the headers and stories on the front page form an impression of the overall site (especially for newcomers) and it should reflect "gaming" with an inclusive feel.
The campaign is very solid/fun but kinda short, the weapons/upgrades are great, and you can do a second playthrough with upgraded weapons.
I haven't checked out the competitive multi yet, but I am already kinda sad they got rid of the R2's version of co-op. I could've sunk hours into that..