Abriael_GN
RSI Employee of the Year
So, Kotaku just published its "review" of Microsoft Flight Simulator. It's pretty much the worst trainwreck I ever saw in a review short of some exceptions like plagiarized ones and such.
The author (some Will Partin which I honestly never heard of) wrote a giant wall of text reviewing the concept of games as a service and cloud, with a smattering of politics for good measure, and didn't spend a single word actually reviewing the game.
In order to appear smarter than everyone else (the other "journalists and YouTubers" as he says) he starts with a convoluted premise about a mine in Indonesia (Grasberg MIne) allegedly being absent in the game. He even posts a screenshots of what he thinks is the location of the mine.
So, what is the big deal, you ask? besides the fact that he didn't review the game at all in the review of the game?
Well, anyone who knows how the game's map is generated, would immediately find his claim suspicious, because unless the mine is very recent, it's basically impossible that such a large feature is completely absent from the game. So I fired up the sim, and five minutes after, lo and behold...
The mine is indeed there. Not only, it actually looks awesome, and it's MASSIVE.
I guess for someone who has absolutely no intention to actually review the *game* in the game's review, doing the tutorial to learn to fly VFR (which incidentally is the only form of navigation the MSFS' direly sparse tutorial teaches, which is a flaw an actual competent review should probably mention) is too hard.
Too bad, because it would have perhaps helped him find a giant landmark in the game that is almost impossible to miss.
Incidentally, he also decries the death of freeware addons, which are instead perfectly alive and kicking, but that wouldn't fit his narrative about capitalism I guess.
The author (some Will Partin which I honestly never heard of) wrote a giant wall of text reviewing the concept of games as a service and cloud, with a smattering of politics for good measure, and didn't spend a single word actually reviewing the game.
In order to appear smarter than everyone else (the other "journalists and YouTubers" as he says) he starts with a convoluted premise about a mine in Indonesia (Grasberg MIne) allegedly being absent in the game. He even posts a screenshots of what he thinks is the location of the mine.
So, what is the big deal, you ask? besides the fact that he didn't review the game at all in the review of the game?
Well, anyone who knows how the game's map is generated, would immediately find his claim suspicious, because unless the mine is very recent, it's basically impossible that such a large feature is completely absent from the game. So I fired up the sim, and five minutes after, lo and behold...
The mine is indeed there. Not only, it actually looks awesome, and it's MASSIVE.
I guess for someone who has absolutely no intention to actually review the *game* in the game's review, doing the tutorial to learn to fly VFR (which incidentally is the only form of navigation the MSFS' direly sparse tutorial teaches, which is a flaw an actual competent review should probably mention) is too hard.
Too bad, because it would have perhaps helped him find a giant landmark in the game that is almost impossible to miss.
Incidentally, he also decries the death of freeware addons, which are instead perfectly alive and kicking, but that wouldn't fit his narrative about capitalism I guess.
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