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Joker does a couple, performance reviews also https://www.youtube.com/user/jerzybakes420/videos
Good PC Game YouTube Reviewers.
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ZeroPunctuation! (Ben Croshaw)
Tells it as it is imo
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation
Tells it as it is imo
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation
ZeroPunctuation! (Ben Croshaw)
Tells it as it is imo
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation
Nice One!
Finally....someone out there who sees it:
"Bethesda RPGs, are always deeply explorative but never immersive"
"Bethesda RPGs, always loaded up with a whole bunch of ** Fully star out any swearing **thats completely detached from each other"
Mind you, I get the feeling this dude might not have much good to say about any game.
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Which is why I don't rate types such as Angry Joe, or Jim Sterling, or most of the others out there....the way they hype and rave about games which are clearly mediocre at best robs them of all credibility.
Best find on this thread was Zeropunctuation....Ben Croshaw....yeah...he has lots bad to say about practically every game...BUT he will also tell you if it's any good. Furthermore, seems that his taste is matching pretty well with mine, i.e. he won't happily consume any old hyped up garbage....even his Witcher 3 review went along the lines of 'full marks for storytelling but gameplay otherwise sucked'...........who else told the truth about that game?
Can you give us some examples of this as I've never found either of thoses reviewers pandering to developers/publishers, maybe I've missed some of the clearly mediocre stuff you talk of.
You may not always agree with the hype Joe gives certain games but he is always honest with his opinion, he tells you what HE thinks and you can be sure that when he is championing a game its because HE genuinely likes it, not because someone has paid him or the game is from a IP or developer he likes.
I mean the guy has gone to developers offices and laid into them to the point where he's blacklisted from some. I find if a company won't send him a review copy it's a great indication that the game is going to suck.
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That's his shtick, really
It's more entertainment (and cantankerous misery) than review. It's well worth going through his back catalog. He's got a few glorious rants.
Well...the guy is a low attention span idiot with crappy taste...whatever, I know that as far as I am concerned, the guy is not to be trusted....if anything, his view serves as a good contrarian indicator.
that is why i rate none.no mainstream people will give honest reviews just as media sites dont. often as they are in bed with the very developers who make the game.
big battlefield people = paid in ronku programme.
so jack frags and the like.
if you want the most honest and best reviews for a game. ask your friends.or close nit forums . thats where you will get the best idea about a game.
also reddit is often corrupted by similar kind of abuse or people with multiple accounts helping themselves
lirik admitted to do this.Super Bunny Hop
When I watch/listen to his reviews I always get the impression that he is incredibly intelligent and that everything he includes in his narration has been very well thought out. He won't just say "combat was great" - he'll explain what makes the combat great, why these certain mechanics are enjoyable, why they work so well.
When I watch/listen to his reviews I always get the impression that he is incredibly intelligent and that everything he includes in his narration has been very well thought out. He won't just say "combat was great" - he'll explain what makes the combat great, why these certain mechanics are enjoyable, why they work so well.
Total Biscuit is just as bad as mainstream media imo. He might not get paid to do the reviews, but tends to go against the grain on certain games just to get attention and thus more views = more cash.
Plus he only plays the game for a couple of hours and gets around this by saying aha but its a first impression not a review. Which is great, but it kinda makes the whole thing a waste of 30 mins. The games he likes he will play for longer and give a better review, like Xcom, but this means his 'reviews' are far from biased.
Plus he only plays the game for a couple of hours and gets around this by saying aha but its a first impression not a review. Which is great, but it kinda makes the whole thing a waste of 30 mins. The games he likes he will play for longer and give a better review, like Xcom, but this means his 'reviews' are far from biased.
Clearly mediocre according to who? You? You realize the point of them doing reviews is to tell people what THEY think of the game? Believe it or not, there is no single correct assessment of a game. If you dont think a game is as good as somebody else does, they are not wrong or overhyping it or being shills, they simply dont have the same taste as you. Which is OK. I guarantee you enjoy games they probably feel are clearly mediocre, too.
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While I do think sometimes he acts up the 'Angry' side sometimes I can't say I agree with a single word you have just typed. But each to their own!
Does sound a little like he ran over your cat or something though
I really find looking solely at scores the absolute worst way to use reviews. You've really gotta delve into what people are saying. 9 reviewers out of 10 could complain about a bad story in a game and knock it hard in terms of score, but as somebody who generally doesn't play a game for great storylines, I dont 'weigh' that negative as heavily as they would. And that goes for basically everything. You will weigh specific elements of games differently than others, so scores without context aren't terribly useful.
You might not like his style (I enjoy it, myself), and might not share his taste in games (I sure don't), but I've never been able to find much fault in his reviews. What games has he overrated?
You'd probably approve of his Fallout 4 review, to be honest. It has to be taken in the context that it's a type of game he likes, but he outlined plenty of problems throughout the review, on his way to awarding a marginal 8/10 score (nearly a 7).
In terms of the "traditional" media, I'm not sure it is all that bad (unless we're just talking magazines). I love reading RockPaperShotgun's coverage - though I tend to like indie games more than AAAs, so it fits that bill for me pretty well. Eurogamer seems alright too, though I don't go there so regularly.