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Chazore on 30 July 2019
Cerebralbore101 said:

Yep. They are just trash. When's the last time you saw Nintendolife or PushSquare put up a post like "If only Halo was on Switch/PS4!"? Then they spam their site with all the Fortnite crap you can imagine. "The Best Headset for Fortnite!" "Fortnite Season 10 details." "Fortnite championships!" Really? Between that and their constant defense of the EGS, it's obvious that they take money from Epic at this point. 

The only good thing about PCG is that their reviews are actually pretty good. If you can find them beneath the heaps of garbage clickbait articles that is. 

Edit: BTW been enjoying DSOG. Their comments section is wild, but otherwise they are pretty good. 

There are literally thousands of games on PC, yet PCG only seems to focus on just the "hip n' trendy", like FN and E-sports and mods that are designed to resemble console exclusives, it's just boring and stale.

Yeah, DSOG has a wild as hell comments section, but I've blocked most of the spurgs that ramble baseless crap, and I've got a few friends on there as well.

DonFerrari said:
Journalism in a whole isn't as it was before.
The need to be the first to give the new on social media time, lack of checking and agenda pushing destroyed it.

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I'm hating how gaming yournalists are basically tapping into political talks, cramming them into games, and complaining in a review that something offends them, or how a game isn't being inclusive enough. I play games to escape that toxic dumpster fire, yet here I am, seeing gaming and pol talks being duct-taped together.

All I want are objective reviews, no stuffing a journo's personal beliefs, or opinions on how X should be done, just the damn review, plain and simple.



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Baddman on 31 July 2019

I think it's better gaming journalism was terrible if you ask me especially those magazines that straight up lied



haxxiy on 31 July 2019
Baddman said:
I think it's better gaming journalism was terrible if you ask me especially those magazines that straight up lied

Yeah. Chalk it to lack of proper channels of information... or whatever... but game coverage in the 80s and early 90s was terrible. Nowadays, the easy access to information does the opposite. Game journalists rush reviews out of the gate so they can get the clicks, and also dare not critisize games too harshly as not to lose their privileges.

Also, OP, a lot of sites have staff with differing opinions and don't follow a single editorial line. That's why GoW can get a 10 from a certain author and then be excluded from any "best of" list from another author. It's a bit jarring and amateurish, but, of course, it's not because a reviewer sometimes won't like a certain game as much as you do that it's bad journalism. As for the clickbaits and repeated content of a certain game or genre... well, this sort of content is there exactly because it's extensively consumed.



 

 

 

 

 

DonFerrari on 01 August 2019
haxxiy said:
Baddman said:
I think it's better gaming journalism was terrible if you ask me especially those magazines that straight up lied

Yeah. Chalk it to lack of proper channels of information... or whatever... but game coverage in the 80s and early 90s was terrible. Nowadays, the easy access to information does the opposite. Game journalists rush reviews out of the gate so they can get the clicks, and also dare not critisize games too harshly as not to lose their privileges.

Also, OP, a lot of sites have staff with differing opinions and don't follow a single editorial line. That's why GoW can get a 10 from a certain author and then be excluded from any "best of" list from another author. It's a bit jarring and amateurish, but, of course, it's not because a reviewer sometimes won't like a certain game as much as you do that it's bad journalism. As for the clickbaits and repeated content of a certain game or genre... well, this sort of content is there exactly because it's extensively consumed.

This varying review is one the biggest problems they have and is supported by people who want most if not all review grade being based on how much fun they had with that game.

When you do a technical evaluation you can use metrics and compare on a objectively manner. When you go for fun it becomes totally subjective and you can't compare scores, reviews or anything.



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