Ego, or major fuck-up, you decide:
GamesFirst! prides itself on being the most well-written game review sites on the web. But don't just take our word for it; the site has won tons of awards. So without further ado, here's a brief history of the awards we've managed to garner thus far.
When you have to boast about the awards you get and many of them are of a wide category nature of many different kinds of sites, then it pretty much means that they got the award due to an unrepresentative sample.
In addition, the article writer is a Grade A Twit. The rampant idiocy was too obvious, but here's a recap:
Baldur's Gate has a TB gameplay?
F
OS had a walk-by preview?
He believes that the saturation of easter eggs and pop-cuture references are what makes up a portion of Fallout.
And more that shows this kid has no clue about game design or Fallout.
Even his made-up terms are illogical in themselves:
Fallout was one of the first games to offer what I call closed-road plotting, meaning that your actions or inactions directly affected how you could play the game.
That's called
role-playing, moron. Funny, isn't it, since it's a
role-playing game.
In such a usage, "closed-road" would lend to mean a linear plotted storyline like the Final Fantasy games. "closed-road" and "open-ended" tend to mean the exact opposite. Perhaps if My First Job Is McDonalds bothered to think a little bit, he would have come up with concepts like "non-linear", or to use somewhat of his terminology, "open-road".
For a senior staff member, he certainly does well to present the site as ignorant beyond belief.
