This is why I miss gaming magazines, We had Australia's best selling gaming magazine an all format mag called Hyper for around 20 years and it had great reviewers especially Elliot Fish who is still in the industry involved as a behind the scenes expert and TV gaming show producer, and because the body of work of editorial staff tended to be lengthy with some spanning decades you had a long history of reviews to gauge who's tastes were closest in alignment with your own. also I also think it helped that the staff loved playing and reviewing games across all formats, I remember the Editor who spent 2 weeks straight playing FF7 at home so that they would not only have the review out for launch but also the 2 part playthrough completed he sadly left later on down the track to work for creative assembly as a designer. they even roped in their design editor to do review's of Wipeout games when they found out he won Australia's Wipeout title and set records.sadly this familiarity never translated across to online.
Last edited by mjk45 - on 31 March 2021Research shows Video games help make you smarter, so why am I an idiot
