I feel that like anything new VG are in a state of childness. How old is electronic gaming? How is is electronic gaming compared to say professional cooking, theater, cinema, automobiles, wine, it's relatively more of a toddler than the others. The behavior of the entire industry shows this child like behavior as well. It's much like kid society in Star Trek(Kirk), Lord of the Flies, shcool, Fallout 3 little town. A place where kids pretend to be adults, but more end up not understand the nature of maturity ending up being some what extreme while still childlike. VG reviewers are people who write reviews instead of broad world write for their child siblings. So these aren't adult that wish to see other kids grow up right, but instead more with a malicious intent to be harmful or disruptive. Much like spreading bad rumours about other kids in school so they are ostracized.
This is probably why a review from a magazine like the Times, Life are more valuable than say Gamespot or IGN. They generally or at least always haven't been written with the notion of game is good, ok or sucktastic depending on the game design. It's not to say that they are not prone to misinformation themselves. Sometimes these mature reviewers tend to look at the kids because of their knowledge and assume they no better.
Gaming is in a transition from child to teenager and those kids are screaming like hell, dragging their feet and doing anything they can not to grow up. So yeah I would love to see core reviewers be more like Anton Ego, but that's going to take a lot longer.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
