Respectable Reviwers?

[ameratsu]

I like playing games for myself. Short of that, Edge and Eurogamer are mosty well-written and fairly harsh. Some VGC reviews are good as well. User reviews on metacritic are mostly worthless.

The biggest problem facing reviewers and review consumers is that everyone seems to want tangible, immediately digestible information. The way entire games are condensed into a single number and a couple bullet points these days shows this pretty clearly. Even finding reviews that go beyond the obvious story, graphics, gameplay or sound talking points into something more substantial and meaningful (such as insightful genre or industry commentary) is rare.