{"id":460,"date":"2011-12-18T14:29:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T14:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2011-12-18T14:33:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T14:33:42","slug":"i-have-been-converted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"I have been converted!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No longer do I believe GameSpot to be the better resource for all things video games.\u00a0 At least, not the more trustworthy one.<\/p>\n<p>There was the whole situation with Jeff Gertsmann, who reviewed games for the site <em>forever<\/em> and was canned for giving an honest (in other words, &#8220;bad&#8221;) review of <em>Kane and Lynch: Dead Men<\/em>.\u00a0 The game happened to be a sponsor for the site in the weeks leading up to its release, and it was more than just a coincidence he was &#8220;let go&#8221; after giving the game a low score.<\/p>\n<p>I let that one slide, even though it didn&#8217;t really seem fair.\u00a0 After all, I&#8217;m tracking my entire video game collection on GameSpot, something I can&#8217;t seem to do anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, a glitch was recently uncovered in the new <em>Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword<\/em> that would make the game un-finishable.\u00a0 By that, I mean that if a specific sequence of events occurs within the game (by trying to complete the game &#8220;out of order&#8221; from the storyline), Link won&#8217;t be able to proceed to the next objective.\u00a0 The player would then have no choice but to restart the game entirely<\/p>\n<p>A full (mostly negative) article was posted at GameSpot, basically stating &#8220;not sure how this could happen in this day and age, but Nintendo says &#8216;don&#8217;t worry about it'&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>About five years ago, a slightly more aggravating glitch reared its ugly head in <em>Zelda: Twilight Princess<\/em>.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t delve into details, as the video below describes it pretty well!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XkB53h2M5Pw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was a pretty serious muck-up, but I never saw a thing about it at GameSpot.\u00a0 Being concerned about it at the time, I looked it up elsewhere on the interwebs, and found a few websites confirming what was happening.\u00a0 It never affected what I ended up thinking about the game when I bought it a month or two later, but I did make sure to avoid the glitch.<\/p>\n<p>The site&#8217;s sponsor for a week or two back in &#8217;06 before its release?\u00a0 <em>Twilight Princess.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Interesting&#8230;\u00a0 <em>Skyrim<\/em>, which I have almost no interest in, but somehow keep hearing about, has almost crippling graphical issues on the PS3 edition, yet that gets no coverage.\u00a0 <em>Skyward Sword<\/em> gets lampooned for a glitch that only shows up if you do a specific sequence of events.<\/p>\n<p>What was GameSpot sponsored by for a few weeks last month?<\/p>\n<p>Ahh, right.\u00a0 <em>Skyrim.<\/em>\u00a0 Not <em>Zelda<\/em>&#8230;\u00a0 I see a pattern.<\/p>\n<p>I have converted to IGN-ism.<\/p>\n<p>I will return to video game memories very soon!\u00a0 Worry not!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No longer do I believe GameSpot to be the better resource for all things video games.\u00a0 At least, not the more trustworthy one. 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