@@jackmichelle7015tbf it’s because the game is given to whoever is available to play it as opposed to those who like those games/ are good at it. On the one hand you get a better first impression of a game because the person might not know much to begin with. On the other you get situations like you described where they just cannot play the game. Is that better than somebody would would rave about the game regardless of its faults?
Even I don't have much confidence in myself at times but then I remember these people exist then suddenly I feel happier for the remainder of the year lol.
I’d argue most journalists are no different. The only real journalism done is by one’s that make documentaries like Icarus, but even those good ones are few. Also the real heros being the ones in other countries wearing helmets and those blue PRESS vests.
The big problem with game reviewers is that they used to be gaming/tech enthusiasts in the 70s, 80s and 90s, but in the 2000s, as gaming became more mainstream, the old guard of enthusiasts that staffed those sites/magazines were replaced by young failed journalism degree holders and failed movie writers that hate games and gamers, but couldn't get jobs in the fields they wanted. Games journalism just happened to be the easy way to go for them. There's a reason I haven't visited a gaming news site in almost 20 years.
Yep many of them can't cope with the fact that they are not doing "real journalism" and they take that frustration on their readers. Besides that the death of gaming magazines and the failure of journalism in general to adapt to the internet age forced many to prostitute themselves to the game publishers they should be keeping in check.
“Trust me, while the original poster offered no concrete evidence within his comment to back his claim, this condescending reply which likewise has no substance with which to refute his claim is so clever and witty, I am incredibly likable and people flock to me for social interaction.”
@@casteanpreswyn7528 "my iq is so low, that i can't comprehend a statement that is clearly proven true through simple observation" there should be an iq test before reddit creatures are allowed to voice opinions (outside of reddit, so it can be your little containment shithole)
Alana's statement about "I would never review a shooter because I'm not good at them." is how it USED to be! Back in the day of gaming magazines they had reviewers who handled specific genre's of games because they WERE GOOD AT THEM. made sense! You had someone who was a FAN of the TYPE of game that COULD ACTUALLY PLAY IT to give a knowledgeable review.
TBF, those reviews are important for people with similar experience. If there's a reviewer who's very noobish at MOBA's for example and he says that he didn't enjoy smite cause respawns are too long and item management is confusing, that lets others who aren't familiar/skilled at monad know that smite may not be for them and they should spend time else where. As long as you put in your review "I'm not familiar/skilled with _ genre so take this with a grain of salt", it's fine. Additionally taking chances on genres you suck at can lead to amazing discoveries. I hate 2d platformers, I'm not good at them, but I'll tell you Hollow Knight is one of the greatest games I've ever played period, and I'm pretty good at it. So when I, somebody who says "I don't like 2d platformers" says "I love hollow knight" that should tell you that it ain't just good , it's REAL good. All about transparency though, if you're not well versed on shooters, don't talk about it like you know them inside and out. Just let the audience/reader know your weaknesses and where you're comin from.
@@seighartmercury That would make people who can't handle horror stay away from it and not spend their money on it. Makes sense. It only ever gets bad if you see reviews in a way that confirm or deny your biases. It's only a problem if your game, or team, doesn't win. It's fine to have a review by a casual gamer for a cult hit or a game with an entrenched community. What would you rather have? People knowing nothing about a genre and then complaining about it 24/7, like it happened to Elden Ring for example, or a reviewer that tells these people to just stay away? Edit: Reviews are not sober evaluations of quality. In fact I have played many games that are well made and polished. But I just don't like them. They're just a rudimentary buyer's guide. Like your car salesman.
This was literally the reason for the start of gamer gate, and we all saw how the media responded to our concerns with that. At this point game news is a total joke.
@@TheyCallMeSpincan't tell if it's a joke. So let me clue you in. To sum it all up, the female developer they were "attacking" was sleeping around with reviewers to get her game a more favorable review score. And sane people weren't attacking her. They were calling her out for it.
Game journalists are terrible because they have ZERO passion for the hobby and never wanted to be game journalists in the first place. It's the same for developers that keep making "cinematic" games with terrible gameplay and walking simulators, failed movie directors that landed in the gaming industry because nobody from the "mature" old media would hire them; those guys are aspiring journalists that failed into the position they are in currently. That's why it's all shit, it's people that see gaming as something inferior to what they wanted to work on and absolutely despise the medium as a whole. That's why they can only produce crappy review and terrible walking simulators. And since they're both wheat flour from the same bag (Brazilian saying), of course they would be on bed with each other behind the scenes, which is why we get journalists giving massively positive coverage to the worst titles ever and terrible coverage to the games gamers are actually in love with (GamerGate, anyone?)!
@@yesyes-om1po yes, going from zero to one is technically an infinite increase, but that's still going from less than the intelligence of a pigeon to something that might be confused for a pigeon on a good day.
The problem is that, by and large, games journalists are the garbage that wasn’t able to become real journalists. They resent and have disdain for the very thing they’re supposed to be reviewing.
Dude I feel like I can’t even trust reviews by gamers because they either say “game is complete garbage because controls bad. Don’t waste money.” Or “the game fantastic. Gameplay is amazing and is worth the money.” Like give me details and specifics.
Atleast meteorologists have a good excuse, the weather can literally change on a dime and you’re job is making estimates of what the weather SHOULD do and to what degree it does those things, you can’t change at 8am saying “the charts for today show it’s should be sunny with low wind today but cool and rainy tomorrow ”, till at noon, “oh shit a cold front is moving much faster than expected, it might rain by 5pm instead of tomorrow” but everyone already checked in at 8 and they said it was gonna be sunny all day, why would they check again? And now everyone’s surprised it rained on them after work and they’re mad. Game journalists for the most part are expected to to keep up with what going on in the industry, have the motor skills and hand to eye coordination to not fuck up timing your jumps and know how to write coherent sentences, and they can’t even do all that.
As for the Cuphead tutorial guy, he started shilling for gaming nfts around the time they were suggested so he was still as out of touch in the 2020s as he used to be.
Titanfall 2 was excellent, it's the hackers and EA's laziness dealing with it, that ruined it. No Errm about it. On the other hand, Titanfall 1... Yeah that was bad. It's the inverse Destiny problem.
@@kaiishere016 TF1 was bad due to how it was packaged and priced, not the gameplay. It marked a significant regression in what you were getting for what you paid. A $60 multi-player only title is not something that's going to pass the sniff test for anyone who actually cares about spending money responsibly.
@@kaiishere016 Yeah, the problem was that the "campaign story" didn't exist. You'd play through the 5-6 levels, and the "story" would "change" based on which side won each round, but it was just a line or two of flavor text. None of the actual story main points changed regardless of who won. The gameplay itself was a ton of fun (assuming you were in for big mecha fps playstyle, anyway), but it should've been a $30-$40 game.
One of my favorites for reviews gaslighting their own inability to play is still the early Devil May Cry 5 reviews. First they call the game button-mashy, claiming just hitting the attack button causes the character to do all the flashy moves on their own, which anyone with even passing knowledge of the series instantly knows they're playing on Automatic mode. Then even better, they said the game's music is very undertoned and barely even there, when the game in fact has a dynamic music system that makes the songs louder and more bombastic based on your combo score, launching into the song's chorus hitting the S rank. So they couldn't even hit good combo scores when playing on easy with automatic combos enabled.
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The problem with "modern" games journalists is that they're not game-journalists, they're journalists, trained in primarily west-coast journalism where sensationalism and outrage culture is taught as the method to get clicks and views, who get hired by outlets to just so happen to cover games media. They either apply sensationalist methods and try to be "counter-culture" shock jocks, or they're given a list of bullet points to cover with a game in-hand to references scenes for "legitimacy". Which is why they need, and use cheats. They're not interested in the media, involved with the culture, or in anyway in it for personal interest. They're an employee working for an outlet with a pay-check mentality. Nothing more.
I still refuse to believe that "game reviewer media" have the impact companies think they have. Nobody buy magasins and nobody go to dedicated review sites anymore, the shift toward "content creator" happened a decade ago. Now when you average normie wants to know if a game is good they will just go check on youtube or twitch.
They can mostly only affect mid tier releases that don't get the marketing needed to really push sales. For example, if the D team reviewers IGN assigned to God Hand or Double Dragon Neon hadn't been completely incompetent and/or if the (actual) Editors had done a better job of babysitting them, the games may have sold or better.
@blueishgreen76 I dont think so. People vastly overestimate the readership of these sites, a readership that has been dropping like a rock for a decade now. Gamers dont read these sites and normies don't even know they exist. They are almost no reach or target audience, not anymore.
it's part of big companies' marketing budges for sure, these reviews are paid for, any exposure is good exposure for these companies, especially with most of them having their reputations dragged through the mud (by their own doing of course)
These exist just for the sake of marketing in GOTY\Golden edition afterwards, or on the release with "100% real masterpiece" on the box just to give the front of "oh shit its actually critically acclaimed so it won't be bad" to the consumer. They are not really "by gamers, for gamers" type of industry anymore, but yet another phase of marketing nowadays.
@@user-gz5ze2cu8z Even that I don't believe. These walls of 10/10 they love to do to sell goty have been done so much that they don't anything anymore, people nowadays just open the steam page and look at the score.
This is the type who wants every game to have an easy mode but also doesnt want that he wants a "story mode" which is just an easier easy mode that doesnt have the negative implications of the word easy.
One of the best games in the last years was the remake of System Shock, and it ran into exactly this problem. The game expects you to actually listen to audiologs and take a look at your map, but the remake includes waypoints for modern gamers you can select in the difficulty settings before starting the game. However, they made the mistake of naming this easy mode and the 90's design as normal, so journalists didn't select it. Nearly every review game focuses on complains about getting lost and then giving it a low score for that. Imagine failing at the difficulty select screen and then blaming the game for your own pride and ignorance.
Game journalism is not respected from the outside because it's not respected from the inside. Most written game reviewers from big websites see it as a stepping stone to greater things like investigations or political pieces. Very few are truly passionate about what their job and you can clearly tell who is in what camp.
imagine wanting to be a journalist and reveal super important information like in the movies, then becoming a game journalist, hating your daily worklife so much, that you cant even be bothered to try these "childish" games
@@almalone3282 it's worse, they are the outcasted trash, that didn't cut it in normal journalism, even with how down in the dump that bar is. So you only have the worst of the worst
Titanfall 1 was a game with a simple system arena and weapon selection, the freedom of movement and card powers added the element of fresh into the game as even the best players would run out of their go to power ups after about 45 minutes of play forcing players to adapt to the situation they were presented with, not only that it also forced a higher skill entry level in order to get the most enjoyment out of the game. What a lot of players who criticized the game failed to get down was the vast freedom of movement and their inability to take advantage of it making them easy targets for players who could whilst engaging in combat. Since the majority of journos and independent critics were raised up with the classic 2D movement from doom to the COD games that cemented the FPS genre the liberation of movement liberated the skill of great players closely competed by good players in COD like movement style of games and allowed the great players to dunk on the good players, and that’s what the even the better jurnos and independent reviewers were, good but not great. Titanfall failed because it rewarded the great players that could think and breathe simultaneously and neglected those that couldn’t which ensued the bitch fest surrounding its existence and tainted the sequels release leading to the dog shit lobotomy of an “evolution” that respawn created in Apex
The worst thing about the influx of 90/100 scores after 2013 is because thats when mainstream games began to measurably decline in quality and quantity. Meaning they have to give even less games, that are becoming worse an even higher score on average to make that large of an offset to the pre 2013 review scores.
Games Journalists SHOULD be competent at games. The medium itself requires a skill floor to access some parts of it. trying to review a game like Cuphead without platforming game skill is like someone writing a review of Finnegan's Wake while having a fifth grade reading level. For the "multiple reviewers" angle, EGM magazine used to assign 4 people to review games.
The 3D platformer thing makes sense. Sonic games require replaying and learning the level layouts in order to get that rush you get flying through the levels once you do. (The reason people love them) Which isn't something you can manage as a reviewer, since you have a deadline and 0 skill. So you say a good game is trash as a result...
24:08 here is a crazy suggestion: why don't you have 1 person who is an expert at a genre and 1 person who doesn't usually play a genre review the same game and get a mix of both published?
I honestly don't get why more reviewers don't do this, it's like the perfect review system. I think in like the '90s there was a show where the two hosts were film critics with very different tastes in movies, so you could get a pretty good idea of how much a movie would appeal to your own taste based on their reviews of it.
25:28 The point of having someone knowledgeable is so you know when you are getting the good stuff and not poo. Just because a reviewer says a game its good, that doesnt mean that you will like it, but if you like shooters, and a shooter specialist says "this is good" there is a higher chance you are gonna enjoy it as well, and not get scammed out of your money.
I only knew of one games journalist who was a gamer. Gene Park at Washington Post, he beat Vaati vidya at getting out a comprehensive lore guide to Elden ring, platinum Ed the souls games and ghosts of Tsushima, and the guy in the famous Stadia lag gif where he taps the button and the character jumps several seconds later 5:27 it was for about 50% of its lifespan. Not consecutive 50% but it’s just so bad right now just play halo. 15:05 I defend this practice because it was hilarious following Gene when Cyberpunk was coming out years back. His article on it beat election stories on the Washington Post for viewership
If a game journalist and regular journalist were drowning and you could save only one, would you take pictures for the homies or just enjoy the show yourself?
I'm convinced game journos hate games and just want interactive movies don't get me wrong last of us 1 was a good game but felt like it should have been a movie and that seems to be a theme I see constantly
Fun Fact: Gamergate is still an active movement that still calls out these jokes pretending to be journalists, they just only get referenced by the larger media in past tense and lied about for easy dunking because "look at all these OTHER JOURNALISTS staying they're bad people, they must be bad!"
14:18 speaking of video game 'journalist' and yes I know he's not an official one but I don't believe 'gaming journalism' as a title alone but a behavior and mentality. Unfortunately this guy I feel emulates the mentality part despite not being on ign.
Way back in "Ye Olden Tymes" when it was a reputable magazine, Game Informer had a staff that was listed in the front of the mag that had their gaming specialties listed with their names and a little bio. So the FPS guy reveiws the FPSs and not the 3D Platformers and the RPG chick wasn't trying to understand Forza or the Sports guy wasn't stuck playing a Survival Horror.
Average trogs: "Spiderman 2 should have won GoTY!!!" Me playing Pathfinder Kingmaker: "ha ha ha, bandits go splat" Fun fact: The woman on that magazine cover was Makoto Kusanagi from the PSOne game "Ghost in the Shell". I still have my copy of it.
I personally disagreed with Angry Joe's opinion on Starfield but there is NO doubt in my mind that it was his genuine uninfluenced by anything opinion. Definitely not something I can say about most games critics/urnalists.
Righhhhhht.... "uninfluenced". With millions of crying sony ponies in the background reminiscent of my little pony tears flood, he surely didn't have one bit of simp for pony in him...?
If I ran one of these companies I would literally make a rule " this is a list of Ten notable games you have to have beaten and three fighting games your at least competent at before you can review for this company. "
Part of the problem is that game journalists are: A - Hired based on writing skill, not gaming skill B - DO NOT GET TO SAY NO. If you are given a game to review, you HAVE to play THAT GAME, and review it. You aren't allowed to turn it down.
For more context on his indie game exemple you should probably watch Mandalore's review of Brigador, since he pushed for the game's better reviews in a call for action.
I am thai and in thailand we have a salad and you can add chilies to it. I like to have 3-6 thai chilies while my mom likes to have 5-12 thai chilies in it. So for you it would be spicy, very spicy and extreme spicy. For me it would be mild, spicy and very spicy. While my mom would say mild, okay and spicy. So it depends on the spices and one's spice tolerance
QuantumTV would review games his wife said he never played. He would buy a TV, do a video review of the TV while it's still in the sealed box, then return it and get another one. I'm not even joking.
"I feel like you have to be able to be competent at video games to be a f***ing video game journalist" This is where you, me, and a lot of other people seem to disagree with media conglomerates.
Instead of eating just the least it's like taking a 3 course dinner blending and only having 1 cup, you still get a taste of everything, but loses all the depth and flavours.
There's a reason I stopped reading game reviews. Instead I watch let's players I like, that I know I have a similar taste too. That way I also get a feel for the game before playing.
A quote from Mass Effect 2 explains my own way of selecting videogames to play: "I learned long ago to form my own opinions. There's too much room for interpretation in the opinions of others". Luckily, i live in a country with VERY good customer security, and basicly any physical product you buy has a 14-30 day return policy for a full refund, as long as you keep the receipt... So as long as i buy physical copies for my PS5 and Switch, there's no danger for me to not wait for reviews, and i have full freedom to try it out and form my own opinion, and if i hate it, i can return it that same week for a full refund, no questions asked!
25:40 in the reviewer’s defense, that bowling thing moves the character forward before activating, so he can’t just “stand on the panel and hit the thing.” So what he should have been doing is stand off the platform, then start the bowling move so that it launches while on the button. So my problem with that “puzzle” when I played it was that I can’t aim, a consistent problem across the board for me.
Great video, except for one small part. Titanfall 2 was bad to you? I understand no game is perfect but i mean, it was so impactful that other shooter games that came out after it like COD Infinite Warfare and Halo Infinite (wow they both have infinite in the name) took the double jump, wall jump and wall running mechanic from it. The story was top tier and remains as one of my favourite game stories to this day. So what makes Titanfall 2 a bad game to you?
It wasn’t that impactful. It’s why it didn’t get a sequel. Those other games that added those mechanics were not very popular either. Finally, that was not even close to the first game to have those mechanics. The campaign is extremely short and extremely overhyped.
I agree with you. People who deny the impact titanfall had on gaming are just flat wrong. No other fps was able to even come close to copying the gameplay of Titanfall and that's why the other fps games failed. There also hasnt been a single fps with a decent campaign mode since Titanfall 2. Not to mention the titanfall universe was one of the best concepts for a war fps imo. I'm still upset that they turned titanfall 3 into APEX. Titanfall 2 was slept on because of EA
I find that map very interesting. It's either outdated or league of legends is about the number 2 or 3 game of most countries because league has the largest viewer base on TH-cam and Twitch as well as having the highest reported daily logins. Hell, the only time I can remember when league wasn't the most viewed game on Twitch was the release day of Overwatch for 4 hours between midnight and 4 am.
The Cuphead Guy dod not post the video. His work buddies did because everyone thought it was funny. It was known at the office he did not do platformers period. Then the internet turned the video into something they never intended
I may have struggled in elden ring but i adapted but the fact that they suck so bad at a SpongeBob game a game for CHILDREN is “challenging” is pathetic
100% true. Game journalists should have to be licensed, on the games they are reviewing. By showing at least a moderate ability to play the game with knowledge and proficiency.
If I find the review from GameInformer I will mass share it because it starts with corporate "I hate JRPGS" while about to review a JRPG. It was pre-Cuphead and was ignored because JRPG fans don't read journalist reviews they are on boards talking to fans who honestly say rhe good and bad.
Battle for Bikini Bottom ruled. For a tie in game it was even better. They didn't have to try but they had the integrity to try and that's rare as heck for tie in games.
Were at a point where if game journalist praise it your probably better off avoiding it, if they hate it, its probably a decent to cult classic tier game.
"SpongeBob game is too punishing." Game journalism is a joke that writes itself
Nah I heard they use ai to write the pieces now. So in a way the profession is even more pathetic
I remember the doom 2016 polygon playthrough review...I bled internally that day.
@@jackmichelle7015tbf it’s because the game is given to whoever is available to play it as opposed to those who like those games/ are good at it.
On the one hand you get a better first impression of a game because the person might not know much to begin with. On the other you get situations like you described where they just cannot play the game. Is that better than somebody would would rave about the game regardless of its faults?
Clearly you haven't played SpongeBob: Boat-o-Cross.
Don't talk to me about punishing I got the switch version that took update after update to fix
"Games journalist" is the most unrespectable job title you can have in the modern age
Even I don't have much confidence in myself at times but then I remember these people exist then suddenly I feel happier for the remainder of the year lol.
@@MrImmortal709That's what these game journo's aspire to be.
"Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality"
I’d argue most journalists are no different. The only real journalism done is by one’s that make documentaries like Icarus, but even those good ones are few. Also the real heros being the ones in other countries wearing helmets and those blue PRESS vests.
@@thenickhelms84They also don’t believe in death of the author
The big problem with game reviewers is that they used to be gaming/tech enthusiasts in the 70s, 80s and 90s, but in the 2000s, as gaming became more mainstream, the old guard of enthusiasts that staffed those sites/magazines were replaced by young failed journalism degree holders and failed movie writers that hate games and gamers, but couldn't get jobs in the fields they wanted. Games journalism just happened to be the easy way to go for them.
There's a reason I haven't visited a gaming news site in almost 20 years.
Yep many of them can't cope with the fact that they are not doing "real journalism" and they take that frustration on their readers. Besides that the death of gaming magazines and the failure of journalism in general to adapt to the internet age forced many to prostitute themselves to the game publishers they should be keeping in check.
"Trust me, all this shit I made up to make myself mad is totally real and true."
“Trust me, while the original poster offered no concrete evidence within his comment to back his claim, this condescending reply which likewise has no substance with which to refute his claim is so clever and witty, I am incredibly likable and people flock to me for social interaction.”
@@casteanpreswyn7528 not his fault you don't have a functioning brain that can make inferences from basic information retard
@@casteanpreswyn7528 "my iq is so low, that i can't comprehend a statement that is clearly proven true through simple observation" there should be an iq test before reddit creatures are allowed to voice opinions (outside of reddit, so it can be your little containment shithole)
Alana's statement about "I would never review a shooter because I'm not good at them." is how it USED to be! Back in the day of gaming magazines they had reviewers who handled specific genre's of games because they WERE GOOD AT THEM. made sense! You had someone who was a FAN of the TYPE of game that COULD ACTUALLY PLAY IT to give a knowledgeable review.
Not Diverse enough.
The funny thing is that was the Cuphead dude’s stance. But they had no choice but to do it
Yeah. Imagine if a movie critic that can't handle horror wrote a review for a horror movie. Shit doesn't make sense.
TBF, those reviews are important for people with similar experience. If there's a reviewer who's very noobish at MOBA's for example and he says that he didn't enjoy smite cause respawns are too long and item management is confusing, that lets others who aren't familiar/skilled at monad know that smite may not be for them and they should spend time else where. As long as you put in your review "I'm not familiar/skilled with _ genre so take this with a grain of salt", it's fine.
Additionally taking chances on genres you suck at can lead to amazing discoveries. I hate 2d platformers, I'm not good at them, but I'll tell you Hollow Knight is one of the greatest games I've ever played period, and I'm pretty good at it. So when I, somebody who says "I don't like 2d platformers" says "I love hollow knight" that should tell you that it ain't just good , it's REAL good.
All about transparency though, if you're not well versed on shooters, don't talk about it like you know them inside and out. Just let the audience/reader know your weaknesses and where you're comin from.
@@seighartmercury That would make people who can't handle horror stay away from it and not spend their money on it.
Makes sense.
It only ever gets bad if you see reviews in a way that confirm or deny your biases. It's only a problem if your game, or team, doesn't win.
It's fine to have a review by a casual gamer for a cult hit or a game with an entrenched community.
What would you rather have? People knowing nothing about a genre and then complaining about it 24/7, like it happened to Elden Ring for example, or a reviewer that tells these people to just stay away?
Edit: Reviews are not sober evaluations of quality. In fact I have played many games that are well made and polished. But I just don't like them.
They're just a rudimentary buyer's guide.
Like your car salesman.
This was literally the reason for the start of gamer gate, and we all saw how the media responded to our concerns with that. At this point game news is a total joke.
actshually kotaku said it was because of sexism so checkmate sweetie
@@TheyCallMeSpin*sweaty
@@TheyCallMeSpincan't tell if it's a joke. So let me clue you in. To sum it all up, the female developer they were "attacking" was sleeping around with reviewers to get her game a more favorable review score. And sane people weren't attacking her. They were calling her out for it.
@@PlayfulDoggy didn't that woman become a murderer some time later?
@@Lampoluke no clue
The mobile game ads the ones that show simple puzzles failing multiple times are using game journo footage.
Game journalists are terrible because they have ZERO passion for the hobby and never wanted to be game journalists in the first place. It's the same for developers that keep making "cinematic" games with terrible gameplay and walking simulators, failed movie directors that landed in the gaming industry because nobody from the "mature" old media would hire them; those guys are aspiring journalists that failed into the position they are in currently. That's why it's all shit, it's people that see gaming as something inferior to what they wanted to work on and absolutely despise the medium as a whole. That's why they can only produce crappy review and terrible walking simulators.
And since they're both wheat flour from the same bag (Brazilian saying), of course they would be on bed with each other behind the scenes, which is why we get journalists giving massively positive coverage to the worst titles ever and terrible coverage to the games gamers are actually in love with (GamerGate, anyone?)!
Wheat flour from the same bag sounds like an english saying "two peas in a pod", or "birds of a feather"
@@Null_Experis Yes, that! I couldn't remember it when I made that comment.
Não tava esperando outro br aqui
it still takes infinitely more brainpower to make a walking simulator than to be a games journalist
@@yesyes-om1po yes, going from zero to one is technically an infinite increase, but that's still going from less than the intelligence of a pigeon to something that might be confused for a pigeon on a good day.
The problem is that, by and large, games journalists are the garbage that wasn’t able to become real journalists. They resent and have disdain for the very thing they’re supposed to be reviewing.
All journalists are garbage.
Like that one guy who spent over half of their PS5 review ranting about Trump.
@@Captain-J-Amadaeus True
It's been difficult to take critics/reviewers in media seriously when all I see is that critics grievances are straight up dookie.
Dude I feel like I can’t even trust reviews by gamers because they either say “game is complete garbage because controls bad. Don’t waste money.” Or “the game fantastic. Gameplay is amazing and is worth the money.” Like give me details and specifics.
@@bcd32dok36this is why I usually watch lets plays and the like. At least then I can see the actual game
@@PikachuLittle I do same whenever I buy a new game.
Weatherman and game journalist are the two jobs where you're paid to be wrong.
Also being someone elses stock broker
At least in Australia, being wrong as a weatherman is normal and beyond their control. The other… well lets just say game journalists have no excuse
Hey you leave Jim out of this! Nobody was quicker to call out """journalists""" on their shit than the Weatherman!
@@opponentsoup8795yeah weather here is ridiculous and illogical.
Atleast meteorologists have a good excuse, the weather can literally change on a dime and you’re job is making estimates of what the weather SHOULD do and to what degree it does those things, you can’t change at 8am saying “the charts for today show it’s should be sunny with low wind today but cool and rainy tomorrow ”, till at noon, “oh shit a cold front is moving much faster than expected, it might rain by 5pm instead of tomorrow” but everyone already checked in at 8 and they said it was gonna be sunny all day, why would they check again? And now everyone’s surprised it rained on them after work and they’re mad.
Game journalists for the most part are expected to to keep up with what going on in the industry, have the motor skills and hand to eye coordination to not fuck up timing your jumps and know how to write coherent sentences, and they can’t even do all that.
As for the Cuphead tutorial guy, he started shilling for gaming nfts around the time they were suggested so he was still as out of touch in the 2020s as he used to be.
Titanfall 2 was excellent, it's the hackers and EA's laziness dealing with it, that ruined it. No Errm about it. On the other hand, Titanfall 1... Yeah that was bad. It's the inverse Destiny problem.
Was Titanfall 1 that bad? I don't remember it perfectly but I do remember it being pretty good outside of some balance issues
@@kaiishere016 TF1 was bad due to how it was packaged and priced, not the gameplay. It marked a significant regression in what you were getting for what you paid. A $60 multi-player only title is not something that's going to pass the sniff test for anyone who actually cares about spending money responsibly.
@@KiraSlith Ah right, I see. Yeah that was a dodgy choice. Thanks for the reminder
@@kaiishere016 Yeah, the problem was that the "campaign story" didn't exist. You'd play through the 5-6 levels, and the "story" would "change" based on which side won each round, but it was just a line or two of flavor text. None of the actual story main points changed regardless of who won. The gameplay itself was a ton of fun (assuming you were in for big mecha fps playstyle, anyway), but it should've been a $30-$40 game.
@@kaiishere016it was bad of you were a perpetual scrub who couldn’t get good.
One of my favorites for reviews gaslighting their own inability to play is still the early Devil May Cry 5 reviews. First they call the game button-mashy, claiming just hitting the attack button causes the character to do all the flashy moves on their own, which anyone with even passing knowledge of the series instantly knows they're playing on Automatic mode.
Then even better, they said the game's music is very undertoned and barely even there, when the game in fact has a dynamic music system that makes the songs louder and more bombastic based on your combo score, launching into the song's chorus hitting the S rank. So they couldn't even hit good combo scores when playing on easy with automatic combos enabled.
Me: "Huh, this Alana lady seems like a chill/based person. But every vtuber has a weird catch. I wonder what her's-"
Alana: "PisspissspisspisssPISSSS!"
Me: **Concerned look**
She just wants to build an audience on /ringo/.
It’s not her fault that piss is on her mind 24/7. Her CSF was overtaken by urine since childhood.
She’s become desensitized to piss, and is unaware of the lingering scent she exudes.
The Queen unwillingly marks her territory with a pungent miasma everywhere she travels to the dismay of others.
9:40 That's responsible. People who are biased against one genre should not review it. That's meant to be why these sites have multiple "journos"
The problem with "modern" games journalists is that they're not game-journalists, they're journalists, trained in primarily west-coast journalism where sensationalism and outrage culture is taught as the method to get clicks and views, who get hired by outlets to just so happen to cover games media. They either apply sensationalist methods and try to be "counter-culture" shock jocks, or they're given a list of bullet points to cover with a game in-hand to references scenes for "legitimacy". Which is why they need, and use cheats. They're not interested in the media, involved with the culture, or in anyway in it for personal interest. They're an employee working for an outlet with a pay-check mentality. Nothing more.
I still refuse to believe that "game reviewer media" have the impact companies think they have.
Nobody buy magasins and nobody go to dedicated review sites anymore, the shift toward "content creator" happened a decade ago.
Now when you average normie wants to know if a game is good they will just go check on youtube or twitch.
They can mostly only affect mid tier releases that don't get the marketing needed to really push sales. For example, if the D team reviewers IGN assigned to God Hand or Double Dragon Neon hadn't been completely incompetent and/or if the (actual) Editors had done a better job of babysitting them, the games may have sold or better.
@blueishgreen76 I dont think so.
People vastly overestimate the readership of these sites, a readership that has been dropping like a rock for a decade now.
Gamers dont read these sites and normies don't even know they exist.
They are almost no reach or target audience, not anymore.
it's part of big companies' marketing budges for sure, these reviews are paid for, any exposure is good exposure for these companies, especially with most of them having their reputations dragged through the mud (by their own doing of course)
These exist just for the sake of marketing in GOTY\Golden edition afterwards, or on the release with "100% real masterpiece" on the box just to give the front of "oh shit its actually critically acclaimed so it won't be bad" to the consumer. They are not really "by gamers, for gamers" type of industry anymore, but yet another phase of marketing nowadays.
@@user-gz5ze2cu8z Even that I don't believe.
These walls of 10/10 they love to do to sell goty have been done so much that they don't anything anymore, people nowadays just open the steam page and look at the score.
I may take user scores with a grain of salt but I've always taken critic scores with a whole silo of salt.
Remember when the pigeon beat the game journalist?
"Texas is the holy land for Quake and Doom players."
Can confirm. id software is based in Texas, we like shooty bang bang, it's a match made in heaven
This is the type who wants every game to have an easy mode but also doesnt want that he wants a "story mode" which is just an easier easy mode that doesnt have the negative implications of the word easy.
One of the best games in the last years was the remake of System Shock, and it ran into exactly this problem. The game expects you to actually listen to audiologs and take a look at your map, but the remake includes waypoints for modern gamers you can select in the difficulty settings before starting the game. However, they made the mistake of naming this easy mode and the 90's design as normal, so journalists didn't select it. Nearly every review game focuses on complains about getting lost and then giving it a low score for that.
Imagine failing at the difficulty select screen and then blaming the game for your own pride and ignorance.
I remember predicting the journalustic response to the TLOU2 backlash like clockwork. There's no doubt that the bias us real.
Game journalism is not respected from the outside because it's not respected from the inside. Most written game reviewers from big websites see it as a stepping stone to greater things like investigations or political pieces. Very few are truly passionate about what their job and you can clearly tell who is in what camp.
imagine wanting to be a journalist and reveal super important information like in the movies, then becoming a game journalist, hating your daily worklife so much, that you cant even be bothered to try these "childish" games
Exactly game journalists are normal journalists but got washed out by CNN
@@almalone3282 it's worse, they are the outcasted trash, that didn't cut it in normal journalism, even with how down in the dump that bar is. So you only have the worst of the worst
Last of Us 2 has a game journo difficulty setting. I cannot think of a better reason to avoid it like the Wuhan plague.
Imagine being so dumb that you think an easy difficulty makes the game bad
Titanfall 1 was a game with a simple system arena and weapon selection, the freedom of movement and card powers added the element of fresh into the game as even the best players would run out of their go to power ups after about 45 minutes of play forcing players to adapt to the situation they were presented with, not only that it also forced a higher skill entry level in order to get the most enjoyment out of the game.
What a lot of players who criticized the game failed to get down was the vast freedom of movement and their inability to take advantage of it making them easy targets for players who could whilst engaging in combat. Since the majority of journos and independent critics were raised up with the classic 2D movement from doom to the COD games that cemented the FPS genre the liberation of movement liberated the skill of great players closely competed by good players in COD like movement style of games and allowed the great players to dunk on the good players, and that’s what the even the better jurnos and independent reviewers were, good but not great.
Titanfall failed because it rewarded the great players that could think and breathe simultaneously and neglected those that couldn’t which ensued the bitch fest surrounding its existence and tainted the sequels release leading to the dog shit lobotomy of an “evolution” that respawn created in Apex
The worst thing about the influx of 90/100 scores after 2013 is because thats when mainstream games began to measurably decline in quality and quantity. Meaning they have to give even less games, that are becoming worse an even higher score on average to make that large of an offset to the pre 2013 review scores.
Games Journalists SHOULD be competent at games. The medium itself requires a skill floor to access some parts of it.
trying to review a game like Cuphead without platforming game skill is like someone writing a review of Finnegan's Wake while having a fifth grade reading level.
For the "multiple reviewers" angle, EGM magazine used to assign 4 people to review games.
The 3D platformer thing makes sense. Sonic games require replaying and learning the level layouts in order to get that rush you get flying through the levels once you do. (The reason people love them) Which isn't something you can manage as a reviewer, since you have a deadline and 0 skill. So you say a good game is trash as a result...
Im suprized they didnt say Spingebill had too much water
A goldfish had beaten godrick the grafted in elden ring which is more than any reviewer has done for ign.
What sucks is that I used to really like destiny 2 around its first 6 months, before they started deleting content.
I remember some gaming magazines had multiple people reviewing games, giving them multiple review scores. I thought that was a good thing.
I remember Nintendo Power having that for awhile.
24:08 here is a crazy suggestion: why don't you have 1 person who is an expert at a genre and 1 person who doesn't usually play a genre review the same game and get a mix of both published?
I honestly don't get why more reviewers don't do this, it's like the perfect review system.
I think in like the '90s there was a show where the two hosts were film critics with very different tastes in movies, so you could get a pretty good idea of how much a movie would appeal to your own taste based on their reviews of it.
Used to be that way.
25:28 The point of having someone knowledgeable is so you know when you are getting the good stuff and not poo. Just because a reviewer says a game its good, that doesnt mean that you will like it, but if you like shooters, and a shooter specialist says "this is good" there is a higher chance you are gonna enjoy it as well, and not get scammed out of your money.
I only knew of one games journalist who was a gamer. Gene Park at Washington Post, he beat Vaati vidya at getting out a comprehensive lore guide to Elden ring, platinum Ed the souls games and ghosts of Tsushima, and the guy in the famous Stadia lag gif where he taps the button and the character jumps several seconds later 5:27 it was for about 50% of its lifespan. Not consecutive 50% but it’s just so bad right now just play halo. 15:05 I defend this practice because it was hilarious following Gene when Cyberpunk was coming out years back. His article on it beat election stories on the Washington Post for viewership
Ea did my boy titanfall dirty
Both first and second game, first cause they refuse to fix the games servers... I wanna play it so bad
I don't pay attention to game journalists, I just wait till it comes out then watch like first 20 minutes of game play, usually has good outcomes.
Nevermind Alana has Blizzard Brain.
If a game journalist and regular journalist were drowning and you could save only one, would you take pictures for the homies or just enjoy the show yourself?
Why not both 😂
Both
3:15 Like max0r said, it's not fun to play games after a lobotomy
_insert Fallout:NV _*_Old World Blues'_*_ "scuffed monitor person" picture here_
I'm convinced game journos hate games and just want interactive movies don't get me wrong last of us 1 was a good game but felt like it should have been a movie and that seems to be a theme I see constantly
Fun Fact: Gamergate is still an active movement that still calls out these jokes pretending to be journalists, they just only get referenced by the larger media in past tense and lied about for easy dunking because "look at all these OTHER JOURNALISTS staying they're bad people, they must be bad!"
That SpongeBob Journalist is Essentially Most games Journalists sadly
14:18 speaking of video game 'journalist' and yes I know he's not an official one but I don't believe 'gaming journalism' as a title alone but a behavior and mentality. Unfortunately this guy I feel emulates the mentality part despite not being on ign.
I prefer following Audience scores more because that tells you how much the Target Audience enjoys the film, show, or game.
Way back in "Ye Olden Tymes" when it was a reputable magazine, Game Informer had a staff that was listed in the front of the mag that had their gaming specialties listed with their names and a little bio. So the FPS guy reveiws the FPSs and not the 3D Platformers and the RPG chick wasn't trying to understand Forza or the Sports guy wasn't stuck playing a Survival Horror.
I used to read game informer. I bought Resident Evil remake because of their recommendation.
Average trogs: "Spiderman 2 should have won GoTY!!!"
Me playing Pathfinder Kingmaker: "ha ha ha, bandits go splat"
Fun fact: The woman on that magazine cover was Makoto Kusanagi from the PSOne game "Ghost in the Shell". I still have my copy of it.
Damn lou2 has game journalist accessability mode
Btw to anyone who wants to know what the game on the magazine cover was it's called Oni. It's actually made by Bungie. Old PS2 game.
I personally disagreed with Angry Joe's opinion on Starfield but there is NO doubt in my mind that it was his genuine uninfluenced by anything opinion.
Definitely not something I can say about most games critics/urnalists.
Righhhhhht.... "uninfluenced".
With millions of crying sony ponies in the background reminiscent of my little pony tears flood, he surely didn't have one bit of simp for pony in him...?
@@ummerfarooq5383 Nope, he doesn't.
Joe just isnt that kind of guy.
@@ummerfarooq5383 you sound genuinely unhinged
Big fat Joe is a joke since gamergate
She called Latvia as Estonia, audacity of that woman.
If I ran one of these companies I would literally make a rule
" this is a list of Ten notable games you have to have beaten and three fighting games your at least competent at before you can review for this company. "
This game really makes you feel like Batman
Part of the problem is that game journalists are:
A - Hired based on writing skill, not gaming skill
B - DO NOT GET TO SAY NO. If you are given a game to review, you HAVE to play THAT GAME, and review it. You aren't allowed to turn it down.
That map is hilarious, North Korea loves OW apparently
For more context on his indie game exemple you should probably watch Mandalore's review of Brigador, since he pushed for the game's better reviews in a call for action.
I am thai and in thailand we have a salad and you can add chilies to it. I like to have 3-6 thai chilies while my mom likes to have 5-12 thai chilies in it. So for you it would be spicy, very spicy and extreme spicy. For me it would be mild, spicy and very spicy. While my mom would say mild, okay and spicy. So it depends on the spices and one's spice tolerance
QuantumTV would review games his wife said he never played. He would buy a TV, do a video review of the TV while it's still in the sealed box, then return it and get another one. I'm not even joking.
You're a good react andy. Soothing voice and interesting opinions added to the video. Nice!
"I feel like you have to be able to be competent at video games to be a f***ing video game journalist"
This is where you, me, and a lot of other people seem to disagree with media conglomerates.
“Titanfall blew ass” WHAT
“I couldn’t review a shooter because I’m bad at them” Oh, that checks out.
Game Journalists want to be Movie Journalists, thats why "Movie games" always get the highest score
Instead of eating just the least it's like taking a 3 course dinner blending and only having 1 cup, you still get a taste of everything, but loses all the depth and flavours.
There's a reason I stopped reading game reviews.
Instead I watch let's players I like, that I know I have a similar taste too.
That way I also get a feel for the game before playing.
This is why since tlou 2 i wait until youtubers have played it and then i may consider buying it
A quote from Mass Effect 2 explains my own way of selecting videogames to play: "I learned long ago to form my own opinions. There's too much room for interpretation in the opinions of others".
Luckily, i live in a country with VERY good customer security, and basicly any physical product you buy has a 14-30 day return policy for a full refund, as long as you keep the receipt... So as long as i buy physical copies for my PS5 and Switch, there's no danger for me to not wait for reviews, and i have full freedom to try it out and form my own opinion, and if i hate it, i can return it that same week for a full refund, no questions asked!
25:40 in the reviewer’s defense, that bowling thing moves the character forward before activating, so he can’t just “stand on the panel and hit the thing.”
So what he should have been doing is stand off the platform, then start the bowling move so that it launches while on the button. So my problem with that “puzzle” when I played it was that I can’t aim, a consistent problem across the board for me.
Great video, except for one small part. Titanfall 2 was bad to you? I understand no game is perfect but i mean, it was so impactful that other shooter games that came out after it like COD Infinite Warfare and Halo Infinite (wow they both have infinite in the name) took the double jump, wall jump and wall running mechanic from it. The story was top tier and remains as one of my favourite game stories to this day. So what makes Titanfall 2 a bad game to you?
It wasn’t that impactful. It’s why it didn’t get a sequel. Those other games that added those mechanics were not very popular either. Finally, that was not even close to the first game to have those mechanics. The campaign is extremely short and extremely overhyped.
I agree with you. People who deny the impact titanfall had on gaming are just flat wrong. No other fps was able to even come close to copying the gameplay of Titanfall and that's why the other fps games failed. There also hasnt been a single fps with a decent campaign mode since Titanfall 2. Not to mention the titanfall universe was one of the best concepts for a war fps imo. I'm still upset that they turned titanfall 3 into APEX. Titanfall 2 was slept on because of EA
Ironically enough, she probably just didn’t like it because she wasn’t good at it.
ALANA YOU FOOL! That spongebob music at the beginning was from the krusty krab employee training episode.
Sounds like a lot of
I find that map very interesting. It's either outdated or league of legends is about the number 2 or 3 game of most countries because league has the largest viewer base on TH-cam and Twitch as well as having the highest reported daily logins.
Hell, the only time I can remember when league wasn't the most viewed game on Twitch was the release day of Overwatch for 4 hours between midnight and 4 am.
“… I like spoungebob”
What a line. God bless us all
This happens because the boards of those companies are merged through stock ownership.
This person I wanna see them review games i wanna see her ramble about games she's reviewing lol
I'm so glad people began to realize that Last of Us was never a masterpiece
if you work at vidya or vidya journalism and you cant even beat a simple tutorial you need to be fired IMMEDIATELY
The Cuphead Guy dod not post the video. His work buddies did because everyone thought it was funny. It was known at the office he did not do platformers period.
Then the internet turned the video into something they never intended
How the fuck did A Hat in Time end up with a 76!?!?! That game is a goddamn masterpiece!
"Titanfall 2 is bad" Is a fucking outragiuos take and ill die on that hill
My philosophy is very simple if you haven't beaten the game, you not allowed to pass judgment on it.
I was going to say this vtuber has a very smug-looking model. Then I read the name.
I can't get over that my dude used sonic 06' music at the end.
Man I love Spongebob battle for Bikini Bottom. Plus throw a brick at the hoopla kid for me.
I think it was for Sekiro but the demo fromsoft used for the journalist had one of the late game boss as the first boss...
I may have struggled in elden ring but i adapted but the fact that they suck so bad at a SpongeBob game a game for CHILDREN is “challenging” is pathetic
100% true. Game journalists should have to be licensed, on the games they are reviewing. By showing at least a moderate ability to play the game with knowledge and proficiency.
If I find the review from GameInformer I will mass share it because it starts with corporate "I hate JRPGS" while about to review a JRPG. It was pre-Cuphead and was ignored because JRPG fans don't read journalist reviews they are on boards talking to fans who honestly say rhe good and bad.
Battle for Bikini Bottom ruled. For a tie in game it was even better. They didn't have to try but they had the integrity to try and that's rare as heck for tie in games.
Another based white haired fox woman. Kirsche out here multiplying
I love angry Joe. He's passionate and honest.
@16:09 You're looking at a cutscene from Warhamer 40k: Dawn of War (origional game)
Can we just abolish the idea of "professional critics" and just go by the general, real people reviews?
Were at a point where if game journalist praise it your probably better off avoiding it, if they hate it, its probably a decent to cult classic tier game.
"Titanfall blew ass" bro please say that was a joke 😭
Huh, you're quite literally the only person i've ever seen say that said Titanfall 2 was bad...
That’s because the game has a circle jerk and most people don’t bother ruining it because they haven’t played it
Honestly, I played the old.version of "Battle for Bikini Bottom" on my PS2. I loved it.
To be completely fair I played the SpongeBob game for my younger brother and I had some difficulties even tho I'm pretty good at games in general
I never thought I would hear that titanfall 2 was bad. I loved the game. Why did people not like it.
Not SmugAlana shitting on Titanfall 2...
the SpongeBob game platform Jorno was trigging me and i didnt know why...