I smell a rat! And it’s not in Denmark.
Joystick Division totally busted TriplePoint PR for sneakily starting up a game review website. Hilarious! But at first read, I thought, yeah so…that’s just par for this course, Tiger. Game Informer* and you-have-to-buy-all-your-GAMEs-at-this-STOP are separate tentacles on the same part-Godzilla, part-shadow creature, semi-squiddy monster gaming/techie conglomerate . And IGN’s torial is about 78 percent adver and 22 percent edi. But then I read this:
Is Telltale Games a client of TriplePoint?
They were a client; they are not a client.
Not currently? Now, according to the TriplePoint site, you’re an investor in Telltale Games.
I am.
Okay. And—
This is something by the way that Jesse did not know. He is a very big, uh, Telltale fan and a Strong Bad fan (I had not mentioned Henning’s glowing reviews of the Strong Bad games - gwh). He also wrote reviews of games from Empire Interactive and products from Nyko that were quite negative. The reviews of Telltale were obviously positive.
A glowing review of Strong Bad? Oh I call bullshit! Okay, sure…you probably already figured this by my aforementioned reckless WiiWare downloading behavior** , but yes, I downloaded and played Strong Bad episode. Sure, it’s funny, but I refuse to download any more episodes for two reasons. 1. Like most point-n-click “adventures”, I find it to be over-priced. And 2. I could not possibly smoke enough weed to continue to find Strong Bad funny for one more episode…nevermind ten! Sure, there’s probably enough weed in the state of California, but I just can’t smoke that much. Moderation, people!
* I admit I kind of like Game Informer…except for their strange compulsion to argue with 14 year olds in each and every Letters section.
** Please wait for my pending lemon drop before recklessly downloading My Aquarium.
