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UncleScrooge said:
What really annoys me about game reviews is that the reviewers are completely out of touch with 99% of the gaming population. When gamers love a game and reviewers say "It's casual lol!" they don't do their job. The job of a reviewer is to tell people how good a game is. And they don't. They only do it for the handful of core gamers who visit gaming forums and participate in that ridiculous "hype game". And to be honest they'd buy their games anyways, no matter what the reviews say.

So basically reviewers don't do their job, which means they're useless. The only reason why reviewers get paid for their job is because they are part of the "hype game". Their job is to hype games up. If they don't people get mad and shout at them.

The best example I can think of here would be a magazine I've been reading for years and years. They just keep losing thousands of readers each year and they just get more and more "hardcore" (hardcore means that nobody is interest in the BS they write). But they just don't get it. They keep adding "Retro" sections to their magazine, do silly contests only nerds would participate in, are proud because they know when the first Mario game was released and so on. The most annoying one of them even created a "Casual gamer" magazine (!!!) but whenever he gets the chance he talks about "real" gamers and how silly "casual" gamers are and just keeps spitting his "analysis" to you, which is not only completely wrong but also boring because nobody wants to read it.

Reviewers should give you an idea what the game in question plays like, what it is all about and for who it is. They shouldn't rate each game at a score from 1-100 and tell you "this game is bad because you can't do X" because a lot of people just don't care if you can do X or not. Just Dance is the best example here. Reviewers went "Oh my god! Don't buy this! It's trash, you look like an idiot playing it!" Yes! You look like an idiot! That's exactly why people like this game!

Gaming journalism is silly anyways. All you need to do to be a gaming "journalist" is to open a website and write that X game has bad graphics so people shouldn't buy it. Woah, amazing...

Why would gameing sites write reviews according to people that dont even care about them, the guys that would find Just Dance fun dont go in those sites, and people who like GOW, gears or Halo do, so you would be better off reviewing for your audience.

Its the same as saying: "oh these music reviewers are out of touch with 99% of the population because they rate low things like Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, etc..."

Im just saying, if Im the kind of guy that visits gamespot, and they give a game a 2.5, that means I would probably give it a similar score or wouldnt buy it.