Game critics are too afraid nowadays

[Johnson]

As we know most video game critics suck but im talking about how game critics are afraid to give an honest opion and most sites a 7/10 is the average and unless the game is complete garbage the lowest it will go is 5/10 this is especially prominent in big sites like IGN and I think video game dunkey's video about critics discribed my thoughts well and what I guess im asking is do you agree or disagree with the statement? and why?

also sorry for no punction because im too lazy to write out full sentences

[Violeta]

They get paid to give good reviews. Be it money, freebies, early acess copies, ect.

[Violeta]

That many sites now have user scores, is pretty telling that everyone knows offical critics are untrustworthy

[Smash Palace]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI8K5bb6bXw

Sums up what i think about "Gaming Journalism" perfectly.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Game critics aren't afraid of ANYTHING other than being truthful, and not getting paid to say what the puppetmasters want them to say.

Same thing with "professional" movie critics.

Look at sites like metacritic and such where they have a "critic" score that will give some trash big budget movie 10/10 while hidden down the pagethe "audience" score will say it was nothing more than a 4/10 movie....

Same thing with games.

You'll also notice with the big review sites like Metacritic, Fandango, Rottentomatoes and so on are all making it harder and harder to find their unpaid "user/viewer" scores because they want the money from advertisers more than honest opinions.

NEVER trust a "professional" reviewer, they get paid to say what the companies want them to say.

[Johnson]

Originally posted by Smash Palace:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI8K5bb6bXw

Sums up what i think about "Gaming Journalism" perfectly.

Thank you I love gundam I havent seen this episode yet so cheers

[AustrAlien2010]

I don't see how fear would play any role.
I think many reviewers are reviewing for a specific demographic (age, cultural background, etc.), that demographic has much game experience. I think that's one of the problems with traditional online review outlets.
For example: when do you ever see a reviewer, thoroughly review a modern game, targeting a completely new audience? (people lacking any previous knowledge about games.)
I think curators could (potentially) be a better source to get your information. Because you can navigate between different curators based on the how they review, what pros/cons they find important, what they prefer to review and what games, the quality and writing, etc.
And those reviews can also be edited, in case something gets patched.

[Incarnate]

Depends on the outlet and the game studio. Smaller studios like CI games always get blasted for mediocre games, while it takes a massive fu**-up on the scale of Fallout 76 for big studios to get a metacritic score below a sixty. Seriously, Fallout 76 had over a 60% rating the first days after it came out...that's above average.


Coincidentally, I've never heard a fan bothered by fact that reviewers were only allowed to play 40 hours of Phantom Pain, and they had to do so at a special "boot camp" run by Konami. I'm almost postive (since most mainstream game reviewers are Kojima fanboys anyway) that they gave masturbatory reviews in order to maintain a good relationship with both Kojima and the company. But since most gamers are fanboys too they just sort of gave that game a free pass, even though more critical reviewers have torn Phantom Pain to shreds for being a repetitive, uninspired, plotless, bloated piece of crap.

[BanOphobia My Struggle]

This a good one Forbes gaming journalists called out some industry game journalist shill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfF3_VlZ2Fg

[Gus the Crocodile]

Originally posted by Johnson:

Awhat I guess im asking is do you agree or disagree with the statement? and why?

Nah, there's plenty of honest criticism out there. Gamers scream at anyone who says anything that might challenge their thinking a little though, which doesn't help.

[LostFox]

I dont listen to them anyway, we all have our own opinions.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Originally posted by Miss Ann Thrope:

Originally posted by Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

Game critics aren't afraid of ANYTHING other than being truthful, and not getting paid to say what the puppetmasters want them to say.

Not every critic is a shill for the industry. Jim Sterling is outspokenly against the AAA games industry, and Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation seems to dislike 90% of the games he plays.

Wow! 2 whole youtubers! I guess they must balance out the 100s with the likes of IGN and Gameinformer and whatnot that just print what they are paid to print.

My statement still stands, but I'll put in a qualifier for you like "Most" or "Almost" all professional reviewers will do and say what they are paid to do and say.

[gugnihr]

Originally posted by Black:

They get paid to give good reviews. Be it money, freebies, early acess copies, ect.

I think they just don't even know how to properly judge a game and because of this they never will either. It is clear by now that their job is not to judge a game and to write honest opinion about it.

[Westile]

Originally posted by Miss Ann Thrope:

Not every critic is a shill for the industry. Jim Sterling is outspokenly against the AAA games industry

Shame that his opinions are crap tho and are entirely based on emotion.

[BanOphobia My Struggle]

Originally posted by Westile:

Originally posted by Miss Ann Thrope:

Not every critic is a shill for the industry. Jim Sterling is outspokenly against the AAA games industry

Shame that his opinions are crap tho and are entirely based on emotion.

If you really think that then you have a really poor level of deduction skills.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Originally posted by Westile:

Originally posted by Miss Ann Thrope:

Not every critic is a shill for the industry. Jim Sterling is outspokenly against the AAA games industry

Shame that his opinions are crap tho and are entirely based on emotion.

Yeah, he seems to be one of the people pushing for SJW agendas in games, as well as hating AAA games just because "big evil companies", and pulling the "Indies are great because hipster!" stuff.

He got way too preachy and hypocritical for me.

I mean it is one thing to have a certain biased opinion about things, it is another to be hypocritical about said opinion, like when he will let bugs and writing in terrible indie games slide, then turn around and destory a AAA game for the same things he just let the indie games slide on.