BurntToShreds wrote:
In his most recent review, Borderlands 2, he talks about how horrible the writing is and points out a lot of the meme references and easter eggs without talking about how a good amount of them are easter eggs, i. e. something you have to search for. He also resorts to a bit of ad-hominem by calling Anthony Birch a "stupid asshole" for releasing the game with said bad writing rather than going into more detail as to why his writing is bad.
And apparently the next Loudhouse review is not going to be by RockCock. Hopefully there will be less slurred speech and farting.
Easter eggs are the same thing. You don't ever really read a sign that says; "this way if you like really bad jokes that you've heard a million times before!" If you're going to spend time developing an easter egg, it should be at least a little bit interesting and rewarding, and maybe even impact the gameplay experience. I'm not sure if this was the case in that random Minecraft thing but I know they made a reference to Dark Souls that you had to waste some of your gameplay resources on.
At that point, I don't feel like the easter egg is being used right. You're essentially performing an obscure, backwards task in-game just so you can see what amounts to a 15-second youtube video in content. It becomes sort of disengaging and pointless.
But yeah, that review was kind of garbage. He went through his "memes are bad" point for way too long without really being funny or saying anything constructive. Don't think he even mentioned the game's plot once other than "post-apocalyptic", and from what I've already seen, it looks pretty bad and has more than a few holes in it. He definitely could have done a better job at that instead of throwing a shit-fit about so little a point in the game.
e: Well not the game, the people who made the game. Digging around the developer's twitter looking for whatever dumb thing he said isn't funny or related.