One Angry Gamer "Cleril Calamity Studios really went and did it this time. I don’t know how long the this interactive visual novel will stay up but the indie outlet posted up a new game to Steam’s Greenlight community page, and oh boy did it rustle some Jimmies like a nerd running a wedgie-gauntlet through a high-school’s locker room full of football jocks."
Gary Hartley Writes: It’s blunt and crude in that way brutal honesty often is, and credit goes to the developer -- one man outfit, Cleril Calamity Studios -- for not shying away from courting controversy. Some things said in the midst of furious rants or sorrowful retrospective are sure to be upsetting to some, but they’re born organically from continued suffering rather than thrown in for shock value.
One Angry Gamer "Being a game designer doesn’t mean that your title will get a fair shake for exposure. A lot of titles largely go unnoticed and even more fall flat right out of the gate even after receiving a bit of promotional loving. In today’s climate, gaming journalists only want to report on games that drive clicks, and games that obviously fall within the clique’s circle of promotional amicability. One of the independent developers who isn’t part of the clique and can’t find a bit of coverage from the larger outlets is Cleril Calamity Studios."
And the mainstream media will still label gamergate as mysaginy. Sad that no one really does any investigation anymore.
hopefully gamergate can change how these "game journalist" report or just get rid of them all together.
Meh I guess I'm the only one that couldn't give two craps about this gamergate stuff.
you probably should if you actually like video games, unless you are content with a bunch of outsiders who do not care for games or gaming culture and hold gamers with such contempt by controlling the video games that get made.
when you have a big site like gamespot give a game a 3/10 just because it conflicts with the political or social values of the reviewer, that is when you know these social justice warriors are out of control and we seriously need #gamergate. these self-righteous pinheads need to stick to tumblr and stop tainting gaming. all they do is belittle and slander us and the creators of games.
What? Why should somebody giving their honest opinion about a game be thrown into the lions of #gamergate like other people? Having a more open and honest environment from journalists is what the movement is all about, not reshaping their opinions to be more 'fitting.'
So the idea is to trade one set of "thought police" for another? What happened to thinking for ourselves?
Do you really think developers are only inundated with SJ issues? They aren't, they get every single thing you can imagine.
And yet what impacts games the most is Capitalism. Reality is that:
1. Games are protected by the first amendment.
2. Feedback from the customers is what is largely responsible for the tragic changes made to some games.
But no, GG has to tear through this industry and root out certain types of criticism because it offends their precious little ears. We are too weak to just disagree and need GG to rescue us from people saying mean things about our games.
Gamespot's other sin, a woman had negative things to say about how women are treated in GTA V, still gave it a 9/10, but it wasn't 10/10 so we must be spared from her opinion too.
You want to see what kind of power these site have?
Kotaku is worth about $2.2 million. Polygon is around $430,000. RPS and Gamasutra both around $300,000. Metacritic is worth 1.5 million
TotalBiscuit is in the low six figures, say $200,000.
Marketing budgets for AAA titles go from $10 million to over $100 million, just for marketing.
We'll ignore the fact that a youtuber can make as much or more than an entire website with several writers. But instead focus on the fact that combining the websites that actually cover game would just barely break the $10 million mark.
What does GamerGate go after? A bunch of websites that are losing viewers to youtubers and small time Indie scenes.
I really don't care much what someone says about a game. I'm capable of forming an opinion all on my own. Who are you to tell me I can't agree with the 3/10 for Dead Rising 3? Why should gamers be forced GamerGate's agenda?
Thanks, but no thanks, wake me when GamerGate decides to tackle real corruption.
It IS tackling real corruption within the industry.
Just Google up the GameJournoPros, or EA's attempt to hide 40,000 users who were hacked and only managed to get exposed because of a whistleblower. You know who helped keep it a secret? A game journalist... because they didn't want to ruin the relationship they had with EA's PR.
Ben Kuchera and Kyle Orland have been exposed for the frauds that they are. Feel free to ignore how they've manipulated their platforms to push their crooked agendas.
THIS is the time to wake up. THIS is a consumer revolt.
Standing by idly is giving rest to justice so corruption feeds at will.
It takes work to care about anything. But don't whine about corruption when you expect everyone else to do the policing for you.If you are a gamer you should care since these folks are impacting the games you love with their social justice garbage. Also you should be tired of being branded a mysoginist, homophobic, while these morally bankrupt "journalists" can't show an ounce of professionalism. Perhaps you'll care when your favorite game characters are turned female for equality sake. Maybe you'll one day want to let the mainstream public look at you with a tad of respect when you proclaim out loud that you are a gamer? That is what this is all about. You should care, but apathy is an epedemic.
…woah. “Highly emotional rollercoaster,” the Greenlight page says. He definitely did not expect that.
My Name Is Addiction is something we are starting to see a lot of in the indie community; autobiographical works that hit hard because they are true. It is a look into the mind of a guy, the developer, Cleril, who outwardly appears to slowly be going insane due to the weight of his addiction to porn.
Bored.
god damn art students I tell ya...
Im confused. Is it about fine modern art sexually harassing you?
It's a one hour visual novel that costs $15. The game should've been about prostitute addiction. The game would've been about being a prostitute but then the swerve ending would be that you were really playing as the person paying the prostitute much like you paid for the game...The game being called "Prostitute".
I can't lie, it's an interesting idea to get people talking about something rarely addressed.
That being said, not sure Steam is the right place for it. Nor am I sure that it'll communicate this terribly well. That trailer did not instill confidence with that last question.