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** The easiest test to see if someone is a gamer or not: Do they refer to the green-hatted, sword-wielding protagonist as ''Zelda''?
** Dear game journalists: ''[[Ocarina of Time]]'' and ''Majora's Mask'' Link was the only Hero of Time.<ref>Although he is referred to as such in Wind Waker, at least in the English release.</ref> The other Links either have different titles or no in-game title at all. And he's not an elf, dammit.<ref>He actually WAS an elf in the first game. It was later [[Retcon]]ned.</ref>
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'' actually made one of the most common errors of the criticisms at ''[[Final Fantasy X]]''. In one article, they say "Get some better voice actors", and provide an example. Problem? The example was taken out of context; and was one of the most [[
** Another article shows the gunblade of ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' as one of fiction's weapons that wouldn't work in real life. While good arguments could be made about it anyway, the article treats it as a [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|gun with a blade]], as in, something that shoots bullets at a distance, while in the game it's simply a blade with a trigger that causes a small explosion, increasing the damage you deal with your regular, melee attack. Also, note that the concept actually exists, although it's antiquated and differs notably.
* There was a newspaper article about how "Sega's mascot [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]]" was more recognizable than Mickey Mouse. If he's so recognizable, how do they not know what company he's from?
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* A news report on video game violence in late 2000 pronounced the title ''[[Deus Ex]]'' as "Deuce Ecks" and said that it was controversial because it allows the player to become the killer. First of all, why choose ''Deus Ex'' of all games to epitomize video game violence? Secondly, the report acted like murdering civilians was the whole point and completely ignored the [[Wide Open Sandbox]] format of the game, including the moral choices the player can make with varying consequences.
* The German report "Frontal 21" is quite famous for this. In "Videogemetzel im Kinderzimmer" (video slaughter in the nursery), "Gewalt ohne Grenzen" (violence without borders) and "Töten am Bildschirm" (killing at the screen), they said, between other things, that you can chop off the arms of grannies in ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' and described ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' as a [[WW 2]]-type shooter. That games in Germany are heavely censored (for example: no blood and no chopped-off parts in ''GTA'') did not stop them: They simply displayed the uncensored original versions which are not legal in Germany, at least not for anyone below the age of 18. This all gets worse if you realise that this was hosted on a paid-through-taxes publicly owned television station, ZDF, which has a governmental duty to educate. Well, at least on paper.
** They also described the ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|GTA:San Andreas']]'' [[Hot Coffee Minigame|Hot Coffee mod]] with the words "Like this game: whoever rapes the most women wins", later arguing on a message board that the player's ability to choose positions was where the rape part came in.
* A report about violence in videogames by the german show Focus TV also showed what was going on at a LAN party. They first tried to convince the public that the freeware shooter "Cube" was outlawed in Germany and then went on to say that now the participants of the LAN had switched to [[Warcraft]] 3, which they described as "Ballern bis die Aliens kommen!" ("Shoot until the aliens come", paraphrasing the german saying " X tun bis der Arzt kommt" ("Do X (substitute X for whatever activity you like) until the doctor arrives!", an equivalent to "Party hard!"). The kicker? The footage shown was from "[[
** The german media at that time really enjoyed purposefully giving out false claims about video games. The Bild-Zeitung (a newspaper about as "good" as "The Sun") showed a picture taken out of the uncut version of [[Soldier Of Fortune 2]] (which is outlawed in Germany, by the way, and our version has all the blood and gore removed and the enemies replaced for robots) taking heavy advantage of the damage system ([[Ludicrous Gibs]]) and said that it was a screenshot of ''[[Counter-Strike]] 2''. This game doesn't even exist.
* [[Nintendo Power]] has been known to misidentify the species of Krystal from ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star FOX]]'' more than once. In one issue, they called her a cat (using this as a device to say she should've ditched Fox and hooked up with Panther by the end of ''Assault''), and another claimed she was a ferret.
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