Posted Yesterday, 04:38 PM

tootbrush, on Yesterday, 12:59 PM, said:

Schreier is a good writer and I consider him to be one of the few writers in the industry who do actual journalism, but he's not blameless. He is the one that created the Dragon's Crown controversy after all. Letting him

Wyrdwad, on Yesterday, 01:22 PM, said:

The problem with that is, when you put a limit on what someone can say, where is the line drawn? I disagree with Schreier's piece on Kamitani, but I respect Kotaku for allowing him to post it, because it -- like everything else on Kotaku -- is an opinion piece. And a site that allows its writers to express their opinions, regardless of what those opinions might be, is a site I can respect. When there are "taboo" subjects on blog sites, you begin to question every blog post and wonder, is this what the writer really thinks, or is he/she being pressured to "clean up" his/her article to meet the site's guidelines? With Kotaku, there is no such doubt in my mind: when I read an article, I know it's completely accurate to the writer's full intent, for better or for worse.



And I like that. Even if I don't like everything that's posted on Kotaku, I like that I know it's all real, and it's all unrestricted.



-Tom



To be honest I even prefer Siliconera.

Ah yeah, now I remember why that Jason name sounded so familiar. Despite that, my opinion on his Kiseki curse article remains in that it was surprisingly good to read.Then again, recalling that infamous one paragraph-long article with a title like "developers should stop getting teenagers to design characters" just screams CLICKBAIT to me. Also, I think Vanillaware's artstyle is gorgeous, which it doesn't help to Jason's "criticism" to say it was done by a 14 year-old, as if it was amateurish (though I know it refers more to the content and not the quality of it) The only good thing that came out of that was Kamitani's response witth the three muscled dudes thing which I thought was effing hilarious but ehh... people nowadays are too politically correct and took that joke as a grave offense.Anyway despite my disagreement with Jason's views, I thought his trails article was done well and he's not a bad writer by any means.Well I don't think anyone is arguing against that, which is pretty cool, I guess, that Kotaku just lets anyone do their thing, certainly a plus for the site. And as a matter of fact, Kotaku becomes much more bearable if it's taken as an opinion site, because considering their content as journalism and news is too far-stretched to be taken seriously.Anyway, the reason I personally don't like them is because of many of their writers blatant clickbaiting titles and how many of their articles are written. Of course I don't mean to categorize every single writer in their site, I'm sure there are good writers there and good articles from time to time, yet their content isn't still good enough for me to browse their site. Sadly, I feel that the clickbaity writers of low quality there will always speak louder for the site instead of the well-thought, well-written good stuff.Now I don't want to get in the debate of what's good writing and articles and all that so I'll only limit myself to say that I don't like Kotaku. Doesn't mean I don't like all Kotaku writers (Jason's alright) nor do I condemn anyone who likes the site or looking for X or Y opinion's on something.Personally, I prefer to find news and discussions on more dedicated communities like forums or use twitter for fact-hard news.