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• 20May 09

  Note to self

  Everything Kevin VanOrd reviews, assume the complete opposite of his impressions.
  • Posted May 20, 2009 12:20 am PT
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• 6Dec 07

  The latest Gamespot review controversy

  Trauma Center New Blood review text wrote:

  "Just like the other operations in the series, New Blood is a surgery simulation that has you slicing into patients, excising their tumors, removing bullets, draining blood, and sowing them back up again, all with healthy doses of antibiotics and, most importantly, fun."
  
  "The rest of the dialogue and plot details that unfold between surgeries are as dull as local anesthetic."
  
  "Such an approach might've sterilized the game's injuries, if New Blood didn't go so over the top with some of them."
  
  "Trauma Center: New Blood is a successful operation. Even though the dialogue is insipid and some of the procedures are frustrating, this game combines signature surgical gameplay with a double dose of challenge and great cooperative play for a trip to the hospital you won't require painkillers to enjoy."

  
  
  One more bad pun and I'm boycotting Cnet. Healthy doses of fun indeed. edit: Side note, night of Gerstmann controversy exploding I contemplated doing a HNTPH of the last Blood Money level I had left, with the target at the end being Jeff Gerstmann via floating head as done in the past. I have since decided that I shall not do this, but I had a notepad running with some notes like I always do, I thought I'd share what was in there.
  
  shoot gerstmann zoom in on barcode back of head property of cnet shoot him six times cut scene esque (bars), cut to black slide back after every shot flash red and mock score ratings i.e. first shot "1.0 wounded" "2.0 bleeding profusely" etc. up to six text Too soon? credit roll
  
  title 47's editorial discretion
  
  voiceover? you thought you could get away with it didn't you? Hiding out here? Don't worry. My employers simply asked me to extend the same courtesy you did our... product.
  • Posted Dec 6, 2007 1:43 am PT
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• 30Nov 07

  In All Seriousness

  I was a little flippant in the last entry so just in case it isn't clear, I fully understand how completely messed up this is. It's as if Gamespot is trying to destroy their own credibility, trying to make people cancel their subscriptions, with how they're handling this. For the love of God apologize. And if you can't apologize, or don't feel you have to, put the situation out in the open. This policy bull crap about how we don't talk about former or current employee's hiring/firing status is a load of crap. Protecting his privacy? Then why can't Jeff talk about it? Cnet lawyers protecting him from himself?

  I don't want to be a big drama queen and leave Gamespot, that's always a load of crap to me, "leaving" the site. It's the internet, you're not really going anywhere. But I'll be damned, Cnet sure is trying it's damndest to change my mind.

  edit: And God dammit, do you even realize who you're firing? Greg Kasavin is gone, if he was still here I think Gamespot could weather this a little better (I'd like to think it never would have happened but what the hell do I know?), but now... I don't want to say this in an insulting way to the many editors left over who I've loved to read over the years. Brad Alex all them don't get me wrong I would grieve their leaving in a very real way especially under these circumstances but when you fire Jeff Gerstmann you're cutting off the goddamn head. I mean who the hell do we look to now? Who is the face of Gamespot? And how can we look at whoever takes Jeff's place without a sense of suspicion? If they can swallow their morals and take up his position in the wake of something so blatant as this, what the hell are we supposed to think?

  • Posted Nov 30, 2007 12:56 pm PT
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