Well there, how not to turn it into a little rant. I have been always sceptical about games reviews, I am talking about your casual, big game magazines reviews and marking/score system, where the magazine is put together in two, three weeks and leaving the writers with content they have to produce in a massive rush, no time to think, can a review like this be trusted? I don't think so. Not to mention a little "corruption" in those kind of things, I mean left with question who really pays for the bullshit they write. Also, hey you can only find commercial bullshit, and well promoted games being reviewed, what about little gems? Why can't they find little pretty games like in old days, now-a-days you have to dig for stuff yourself. It's sad because I am lazy so I rely on friends recommendations. Okay, alright, now to get through this calmly.
In the depths of the internets, you can find all kind of fun stuff, good example in this topic is New games journalism. Where people take their daily dosage of coffee and a nice sandwich and take their time to write interesting, (THEIR) opinion based reviews on games they carefully analysed, most of times. That is surely a thing that your popular game review magazine lacks, time. Time is the issue, cuts in staff and budgets are the issue and stopping them from writing anything that is worth a good read. Man I used to love to collect this magazine called "Click" back in the days when I lived in Poland, read everything, looked at every screenshot, it was exciting. Now it is all about sweat of employee writing little paragraphs about games that hundred of other magazines/sites wrote about with every game having score of 8/10. Every fucking game I swear down. Makes you want to commit to sudoku instead.
I believe to write well about a game, you need time and patience to research your facts and build your opinion about it. The rating system, metric system whatever you'd like to call it, it is useless, user ratings are nicer, it's actual feedback from people who played the games, but a score from few people reviewing the game for money and publicity of the spoken game is a bit shady. Noone should ever look at games score, what is important then? Words, words are, if game-play is nice, not boring or repetitive what is the beauty of the game, is the story worth it and what is the game good for, that is all that should matter in my opinion.
Apologies for this little rant of mine. I love games. There are good people out there who can review stuff well and are worth your time and their careful examination of the game is precious.
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