Jenuall wrote:Tafdolphin wrote:Uuuuurgh. RPS have given John "I dislike modern videogames" Walker the review for this so, I dunno, take the below with a huge pinch of salt.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/0 ... -3-review/This is a sad affair. It’s playable, which is the faintest of damning praise. “I played it from start to finish, and only hated it a bit.” Pop that on the posters. But it’s mundane, humdrum, and irritating. It’s anachronistic, horribly left behind by the rest of gaming, and curled up shivering in the shadow of Saints Row IV that it so clearly wanted to be. Not even Terry Crews could make me like it, and gosh I love Terry Crews.
Ugh, classic Walker.
Is he still being a hyper aggressive arse to anyone who disagrees with him in comments these days?
Yup. He's the reviewer who most consistently torpedoes his own writing with a barely restrained disdain for any games that even hint towards modern sensibilities, and who uses the comments section of his own website to troll anyone who disagrees with him, or calls out his incredibly aggressive house style.
Which is a shame. Back when RPS was, I dunno, RPS he was a great presence on the site. He seems to have become incredibly jaded in the past few years and his reviews are almost useless as critical appraisals because of it.