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Article #721044Re: Games Reviewers Not Doing The Job Properly
From: Peter Huebner
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 01:45
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 01:45
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In article <mo6ji7$2t3$1...@speranza.aioe.org>, no-spam@never.spam says... > > Games Reviewers Not Doing The Job properly as we need. Long gone the days of early Computer Gaming World where you'd get actual, real, honest several-pages-long reviews of games. Does anyone else remember the early editions printed on coarse brown paper? Then they were taken over and turned into an advertising glossy, and I eventually stopped my subscription because the content was getting less and less in favour of advertising. These days when I look at a 'review' on one of the 'professional' gaming sites, it's mostly just some idiot paraphrasing the publisher's publicity guff, typically without any critical review at all. A few colourful screenshots. They've all turned into mindless cheerleaders. Few of them seem to've played the game for more than half an hour. I find I do a hell of a lot better by, as Mr. Stowleigh says, looking at user reviews on steam, or other fora. My online boxed-games store for instance does publish critical user reviews despite the fact that it might hurt their business. -P.
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