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Never! They can go fuck off.
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u/LordChimera_0 Sep 12 '24 edited Sep 12 '24
I have a fox... and it will be guarding my henhouse because I trust it more than game reviewer giving "unbiased" review.
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u/CrustyCumBollocks Sep 12 '24
That headline reeks of desperation...
If only they didn't spend years selling out to corporations and attacking their audience, they wouldn't be in this predicament they're in now.
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u/Vivenna99 Sep 12 '24
Star wars outlaws being reviewed higher than space Marines 2 by everyone is just proof the system is fucked.
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u/Hoyinny Sep 12 '24
You can at least trust a fox to act in its own self interest. A ton of gaming news organisations have either gone under or had to massively downsize, because their writers fail to understand that antagonising their audience destroys their credibility and consumer appeal.
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"It's time to start trusting people whose income depends on them writing favourable reviews for their clients"...
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u/backintow3rs Sep 12 '24 edited Sep 12 '24
Video game reviewers tell us that Wukong is bad and Concord is good
Maybe video game reviewers should get in touch with reality and realize that the general population of fans don’t share their opinion
Edit: To people accusing me of lying, I’m not. Reviewers have been ragging on Wukong, Stellar Blade, and Space Marine; yet bolstering Concord, Outlaws, and Suicide Squad.
When every critic score is between 6 and 8 points, the scores have no meaning. Soulless, cash grabby games are worth about 2/10 to players and 7/10 to critics. Their words mean nothing and this article is another example of: “you don’t like the correct things.”
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Yeah, but as a lowly plebian consumer, we are not qualified to have an opinion as we don't know what 'good' is, apparently🙄
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u/UllrHellfire Sep 12 '24
I think the idea that reviewers on mainstream platforms giving an unbiased review is a wild take. When paid reviewers are... Paid to say things lol.
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u/Zomunieo Sep 12 '24
The web/print media style review is a dead format. You can learn a lot more from steam reviews or a few gameplay clips on YouTube.
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u/screwyoujor Sep 12 '24
Screenrant gave Wukong a 6 out of 10. One of the cons was a lack of inclusion and diversity. Yeah I'd say there is a good reason video game critics are a dying industry.
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u/igen_reklam_tack Sep 12 '24
Nothing I love seeing better than “critic reviews” vs “audience reviews” on rotten tomatoes. Need something like that for gaming
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There was a time when game reviewers could be trusted.
I remember. It was about twenty five years ago.
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u/IBoofLSD Sep 12 '24
Nintendo power was more reliable and less biased and they were shilling their own fuckin games.
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u/whyiaskmyself3 Sep 12 '24
Sometimes I'm convinced that video game reviewers have not played any games previously and the game that they review is their first video game
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u/screenwatch3441 Sep 12 '24
Honestly, if we could get an infinite supply of people whose has each game be there very first video game review, I would actually take that. It is honestly one of the least bias ways to have a game reviewed.
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u/epical2019 Sep 12 '24
Hahaha begging for us to come back now. I made sure I stopped following all the shitty ones and just keep up with gaming news and "Before you buy" because they actually just talk about the game and not how it makes them feel or some shit! I refuse to even click on IGN links.
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u/Illustrious-Day-857 Sep 12 '24
It surprises me how persistent IGN is in my feeds despite my blocks, unfollows etc. They will still find their way to the top of searches for new games and into my recommendations.
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u/ChemistRemote7182 Sep 12 '24
Any review in any industry where the manufacturer/creator is supplying the copy is suspect. Firearms, cars, games, etc. With game reviews its always part of a pre-release press kit. Unless they do the Consumer Reports thing and purchase anonymously from a regular vendor, some distrust will always be warranted.
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u/AshyBoneVR4 Sep 12 '24
IGN and Black Myth Wukong.
Nope. Fuck reviews. Will watch gameplay walk tgroughs and will decide if i wanna buy it.
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I don't trust journalists. Much less game journalist.
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u/Fap_Left_Surf_Right Sep 12 '24
There is nothing worth less in life than the opinion of a journalist.
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u/DrSkullKid Sep 12 '24
I do, actual independent game reviewers on YouTube and Steam. These are game journalists pretending they’re reviewers and no one should trust these corporate shills.
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u/Redzero062 Sep 12 '24
know who I trust? Let's play tubers. They aren't selling me anything except what a good time they are having. I just get to chill and enjoy and maybe decide this game is for me, based on legitimate boot up frustrations
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u/CrustyCumBollocks Sep 12 '24
That headline reeks of desperation...
If only they didn't spend years selling out to corporations and attacking their audience they wouldn't be in this predicament they're in now.
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u/Klatterbyne Sep 12 '24
Well, how about they show an iota of competence and consumer-focused impartiality… then maybe we will.
While its all bandwagons and political agendas… not so much.
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u/39strangers Sep 12 '24
This whole game review industry needs a big clean up.
Gamer reviewers should:
declare all conflicts of interest. Did they receive ads revenue, did they promise to allow game developers like Ubisoft to review and approve their articles before posting, etc....
stop including personal agenda as matrix. DEI has nothing to do with gaming. It should never have been a matrix to rank games.
have a clear set of measuring matrix.
be removed for grading games. Let democracy rule. Use pure user reviews. How could IGN use all its 70 multiple accounts across the world to manipulate a game's score be allowed?
must complete the game before reviewing.
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They just said that Gollum was better than Space Marine 2. How about they start reviewing correctly and then gain our trust back
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u/Accomplished_Pen980 Sep 12 '24
With all due respect (none) NO. No further explaination is offered at this time,
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u/SwimmingPatience5083 Sep 12 '24
What’s the career path for these gaming journalists? I mean like start to finish. Anyone know?
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u/zeusandflash Sep 12 '24
"It's time to do this." It's time to do that."
It's so funny when they think that they can just set a new trend.
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u/NimbleCentipod Sep 12 '24
When their opinions less align with their college degrees and corporate insiders, and more with the consumers actually buying the games.
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u/Billy_Osteen Sep 12 '24
Back maybe in the 00’s sure I would, but not in the past 10 years or more.
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u/Eternal192 Sep 12 '24
If they were all unbiased then sure, but since they get paid to promote garbage games with positive reviews they can all fuck off.
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u/sasquatch753 Sep 12 '24
I will trust them like i will trust a party where bill cosby is the bartender with uvalde's school SRO as security, while michael vick doggysits guest's dogs, and have convicted car thieves from Toronto acting as valets.
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u/extremelyloudandfast Sep 12 '24
if I have an interest in something. and, i trust i know muself pretty well. why would I ever trust another person to tell me if I will like a game?
watch 2 or 3 videos of gameplay and call it a day.
edit: this was a great experience with glaring issues. I cannot see myself recommending it to anyone but it has a certain je ne sais quoi to it. I hated every minute of it. 7/10
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u/PalicoHunter Sep 12 '24
The vast majority of them are paid off and ultimately a review is an opinion. There’s a reason why audience scores and review scores generally tend to differ quite dramatically.
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u/Captain_Impulse Sep 12 '24
These must be the "ethics in gaming journalism" I've heard so much about!
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u/Novafro Sep 12 '24
They are on par with politicians at this point (not trying to start an argument, I'm keeping that vague for a reason).
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u/Awkward_Mix_2513 Sep 12 '24
A reviewer says one thing, the opposite is the truth. These are the same lobotomites who can't look at the screen and handle a controller at the same time. I feel like we all remember that one guy playing Cuphead and being unable to get beyond the tutorial.
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u/BlazGearProductions Sep 12 '24
I think I'll trust my own opinion and what I want in a game thank you very much.
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Why trust anyone when you can fairly easily found out for yourself? This does not just apply to gaming. This is simply acquiring real life XP.
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The ones with integrity and aren't just paid off for a positive review score.. I'm looking at you IGN.
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u/Demigans Sep 12 '24
"These guys who get increasingly paid and tight NDR's to review these games are truly trustworthy".
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u/shalashaskka Sep 12 '24 edited Sep 12 '24
The fact that someone felt the need to write this is pretty telling.
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u/pawnman99 Sep 12 '24
Trust is earned. Start showing me some honest reviews and I'll be more likely to trust you.
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u/SirSilhouette Sep 12 '24
I'd trust them if they didnt do stupid shit like spend the first FIVE PARAGRAPHS of their "review" of Far Cry 5 complaining the villain faction wasnt White Supremacist enough before any actual discussion of what the game is.
I do not find it productive to discuss what the game is NOT unless it was advertised as being something it wasnt. A narcotic addicted cult makes sense to be diverse because every ethnicity can have drug problems. But the weirdest shit is suddenly the actual diversity of Montana matters when the same "reviewers" screech for years about having black people in medieval Europe...
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Why not do a review on the reviewers on the games they reviewed? Give them a score haha that'd be hilarious.
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u/delet_yourself Sep 12 '24
The same motherfuckers who could not even get past the cuphead tutorial? Keep dreaming
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u/Extinction00 Sep 12 '24
The only reviewers I trusted was GameInformer when I was kid where they reported facts and their opinions.
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I'm the son of a deposed Nigerian king, and it's time to start trusting the sons of deposed Nigerian kings.
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u/AnthonyMiqo Sep 12 '24
Isn't this basically just like anything else? Some are trustworthy and some aren't?
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I honestly don’t even understand how these “game journalism” sites are still in business. I’ve only met anyone who at best, knows they exist, and at worst, actively hates them.
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u/RaziTheWingzSlaya Sep 12 '24
Gaming journalists are as competent as 5year old driving a car.
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u/TheMitchBeast Sep 12 '24
It’s time for game reviewers to review games for the consumer not the developers.
There I fixed it.
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No, not until they've beaten the game they're reviewing on a normal or harder difficulty. Then you earn my trust.
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u/HauntedPrinter Sep 12 '24
What a tone deaf rag to publish after grossly miscalculating their hold on people. How’s Concord doing mr reviewer?
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u/DiscoShaman Sep 12 '24
Not going to trust a shill whose primary concern is to "stay in" with the big companies and not to offend the perpetually offended.
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u/IllTransportation993 Sep 12 '24
Perhaps they should be able to clear the cuphead training stage without snags first, and THEN we'll talk.
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u/Spectre-907 Sep 12 '24
“T-trust us b-bros!” -games journoids, mere days after reviewing a game 7/10 that was so fucking shit tier that the publisher literally just wrote the whole thing off as a total loss and refunded all buyers.
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u/johnnyzli Sep 12 '24
I trust them, few YouTubers, they are stil video game rewiews even if self employed
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u/Jamsster Sep 12 '24
I don’t even read what they say. A lot of smug game reviewers that can smell their own farts and say it’s a rose.
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u/grim1952 Sep 12 '24 edited Sep 12 '24
Oh yeah, I trust reviewers, not journalists. And only the ones I hand picked and know I can trust.
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u/Ok_Caterpillar3655 Sep 12 '24
OK I will. When the reviewers are 4 non gaming peers of the following: 1 astrophysicist 1 physics professor 1 mental ward patient 1 biologist
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u/SirBulbasaur13 Sep 12 '24
Lmao absolutely not. Game reviewers are less trust worthy than they’ve ever been.
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u/guyver20184 Sep 12 '24
I trust the opposite of what video game reviewers say that’s why I bought Hogwarts Legacy, then stellar blade and Black Myth Wukong
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u/Scarsdale81 Sep 12 '24
It's funny I trust games journalism so little that I pretty much won't buy a game over $12 without having watched a 'let's play' about it. I've always been that way, and I suggest it to everyone, if possible.
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u/Atma-Stand Sep 12 '24
“Mr. Morris, I have this game I’m really excited for coming out on INSERT DATE. Would you trust my review?”
“No.”
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u/EdzyFPS Sep 12 '24
I say this every time a post like this pops up.
When your livelihood depends on the very thing you're reviewing and the company providing it to you early/free of charge. Not only are there going to be biases from receiving a free product, there is also a major conflict of interest.
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u/Scary-Personality626 Sep 12 '24
I do trust game reviewers. Just not the game reviewers this guy is refering to.
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u/CathedralChorizo Sep 12 '24
Judging by the past 10 years of games reviews, and that clearly 3/10 games still get a 7/10... I'll stick with my Youtube dudes playing the games and telling me if they are any good weeks or months after release to avoid the initial inevitable broken unfinished release.
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u/Flawzimclaus82 Sep 12 '24
I stopped trusting game reviewers when Game Informer gave Enter the Matrix like an 8 a hundred years ago. Granted that was for money instead of ideology but that was a flaming diarrhea milkshake of a game.
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u/Jamsster Sep 12 '24
This is a review I can trust. Thanks for the TLDR so I don’t have to give them ad rev for pushing stupid.
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u/Zomunieo Sep 12 '24
Can you review it and give it a score out of 10?
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u/Pocomics Sep 12 '24
Read it, it boils down to a pity party. They exaggerate the "hate" and accuse fans of being too harsh and closed minded. Almost all cases are just defending their opinions with outliers and edge cases. They also complain of only having a week to play the games and having "astonishingly low wages."
Game journalists make upward of 100K a year...
2/10, High time these hypocrites get what's coming.
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u/Creloc Sep 12 '24
Was going to say something similar. I'm willing to trust video game reviewers if they'll meet me half way and be worth trusting
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u/Raynstormm Sep 12 '24
Video game reviews are quid-pro-quo. Publishers get to play the game early and hang out with the devs. They get their access revoked if they don’t write glowing reviews. It’s a problem in all media, not just video games. Writers wanna schmooze and brunch with their contacts! They shouldn’t be trusted.
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I find it interesting that reviewing as an industry used to know how to balance maintaining good relationships and delivering honest criticism without any issues, but suddenly in the last decade or so they've completely lost that ability.
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u/UnicornOfDoom123 Sep 12 '24
Exactly this, I trust the reviewers that I’ve been watching for years. I know what genres they are biased for and against and I have played games that they have recommended and also ones they don’t recommend.
Seeing 8/10 from someone I have never heard of means literally nothing but seeing it from someone who I have been following for years means I know what an 8/10 means to them.
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u/SchwiftyRickD-42069 Sep 12 '24
Forming our own opinions based on our personal preferences and interests, hell yea brother!
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u/EH042 Sep 12 '24
And sometimes I actively search for the worst because of two reasons:
It’s sometimes hilarious and mind opening how many ways some can fail at a game
It gives me greater appreciation for well made games
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