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DJjazzyGETH on 15 March 2017
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John2290 said:
DJjazzyGETH said:

I mean there will always be contradictions to an overall trend, and I'm sure there were very good writers back then just as there are terrible writers now. But the major outlets have improved their performance, and produce much better, deeper critique. The death of magazine writers coincided with the rise of video reviews, and if you haven't seen any GameTrailers/EasyAllies reviews, you're missing out on some the best in the business.

The video reviews are just readings of the written reviews though, I guess they have more vested interest in making the review good because of this however, I'd like greg miller to read that dead space review. 

Oh I mean back then the video reviews were even worse. Basically just mumbled overviews of the poorly written reviews. Nowadays I think the video scripts are just word for word readings of the written reviews, so there's probably a greater emphasis on giving reviews proper flow and brevity. I really think IGN has much better reviews now than they used to.