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Galaki on 18 August 2010

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/games/article/838530--dragon-quest-ix-unsatisfying-hybrid-lacks-storytelling-depth

What's wrong with the gaming reviews? They never played the freaking game they reviewed.

The image is even from the wrong game...

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miz1q2w3e on 18 August 2010

Galaki said:

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/games/article/838530--dragon-quest-ix-unsatisfying-hybrid-lacks-storytelling-depth

What's wrong with the gaming reviews? They never played the freaking game they reviewed.

The image is even from the wrong game...

:-O

that's simply unjustifiable... >_> what has the gaming media come to?

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Kantor on 18 August 2010

miz1q2w3e said:

Galaki said:

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/games/article/838530--dragon-quest-ix-unsatisfying-hybrid-lacks-storytelling-depth

What's wrong with the gaming reviews? They never played the freaking game they reviewed.

The image is even from the wrong game...

:-O

that's simply unjustifiable... >_> what has the gaming media come to?

The Star is not, by any stretch of the imagination, gaming media.

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lestatdark on 18 August 2010

Galaki said:

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/games/article/838530--dragon-quest-ix-unsatisfying-hybrid-lacks-storytelling-depth

What's wrong with the gaming reviews? They never played the freaking game they reviewed.

The image is even from the wrong game...

I think this video sums my feelings pretty well:

Seriously...WTF is wrong with these so called "journalists"? I guess professionalism is really dying in this medium.

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