Low score embargoes, review guides and $800 swag bags, oh my!

[DarkNight_DS]

Erik Aston said:
Naznatips... You seem to be saying the system is corrupt because reviewers don't have the same opinion as you. You think FF7 sucked, you think Godfather was better than GTA... Therefore the system is broken.

I don't buy it. You even shluffed off temporary score embargoes. The fact that a publisher can hold the press hostage so that consumers only see high scores before a game's release is far better evidence that gaming criticism is dead than your personal opinion of a 10 year old PS1 game.

And I'm sure there's plenty of sites getting swag with no real standards on it. Let's start with IGN, Gamespot and 1up, the biggest gaming sites of them all, who take all the press junkets, getting flown around the globe for special events on publisher's tabs. I guess it's not people going on those trips, though, it's just "the office."

 Am I one of the only one's who hated San Andreas?  Vice City was soooo awesome, I expected a game as good or better.  I felt so let down when I plopped in San Andreas...  Ugh...  Godfather was not as good as Vice City, but was easily way more fun then San Andreas for me.