Which games journalists are still trustworthy apart from Yahtzee
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Yahtzee is a guy with a swell hat who's paid quite well to make even the good games look awful (everything I gathered from today's video suggests he actually LIKED Fallout 3), which on the one hand makes his praise of Portal stand out and on the other hand means if you're using his reviews to make buying decisions, the only games you'd own would be Prince of Persia, Portal, Thief 2, Silent Hill, and System Shock 2.
I like Game Informer, I don't know about anyone else here on the Escapist but I like their reviews.
I just got the newest issue with Halo 3 Recon for the cover story, and it's a pretty good magazine.
Some of their jokes are kind of lame though.
I just got the newest issue with Halo 3 Recon for the cover story, and it's a pretty good magazine.
Some of their jokes are kind of lame though.
I don't trust any journalists, per say, but there are a few from Gamesradar that tend to have my ear on some games, or other instances. Only because my tastes towards games happen to be pretty close to what theirs are.
Penny Arcade loves videogames as much as you do, they have yet to stear me wrong with one of their recommendations. All of The Escapist reviewers are pretty good as well, Susan Arendt's reviews of Fable 2 and LPB are fairly accurate in regards to my experiences with the games and Russ Pitt's review of Fallout 3 does convey a fairly accurate description of the title.
Lets not forget, Yahtzee is FAMOUS because he's caustic, not because he's affable. He's like Ebert, trust that when he says a game is good, it's good, but his personal tastes severly effect what he considers to be a bad game and he tends to rip them apart. Then again, ALL journalists are biased by their own tastes, you're best bet is to pay attention to the individual reviewer and see how close their tastes are to what you like/don't like. If both you and a reviewer have the same "Best Games Ever" superstar tagteam lineup, chances are if they call a game good, you will like it.
Also, use Metacritic, it's a good gauge.
Lets not forget, Yahtzee is FAMOUS because he's caustic, not because he's affable. He's like Ebert, trust that when he says a game is good, it's good, but his personal tastes severly effect what he considers to be a bad game and he tends to rip them apart. Then again, ALL journalists are biased by their own tastes, you're best bet is to pay attention to the individual reviewer and see how close their tastes are to what you like/don't like. If both you and a reviewer have the same "Best Games Ever" superstar tagteam lineup, chances are if they call a game good, you will like it.
Also, use Metacritic, it's a good gauge.
I usually trust Gametrailers and IGN and find the Eurogamer is generally more detailed than IGN, although not always.
I have to admit though that my confidence in Gametrailers took a significant knock after watching the latest episode of the "Bonus Round"; not so much the reliability of their reviews but the possibility of subliminal bias towards the Xbox 360.
When doing an episode concerning the consoles' online service they chose three journalists, all of whom admitted to not actively using the PSN.
Michael Pachter claimed that Sony's free service "hurts them", as it encourages "the biggest turds in the world", to "trash talk and get in your way". In contrast he was fine with the situation on Xbox live considering griefers are "paying for the privilege".
In a brilliant moment of dramatic irony he dismissed the number of people playing games on the PSN as "tiny ... not even 1 million", while the accompanying video showed a piece of news from another website, dated May 28th, announcing over 1 million PSN users solely in Japan.
I think the part of the video that hurt the most was when the host started inferring that one reason people aren't getting the PS3 for online services is that "you have all your friends on Xbox, that's where your friends are". Pachter followed this up by claiming that "Microsoft have created a club and you want to be a member of that club because the people you want to hang out with are at that club.
All this was said during the time they were supposed to be commenting on how Sony could improve their service.
Sorry that I've gone off on a bit of a rant here but I was that profoundly affected by what I thought to be a reasonably balanced site making such a poor job of remaining fair, or even on topic, regarding current state of affairs.
I have to admit though that my confidence in Gametrailers took a significant knock after watching the latest episode of the "Bonus Round"; not so much the reliability of their reviews but the possibility of subliminal bias towards the Xbox 360.
When doing an episode concerning the consoles' online service they chose three journalists, all of whom admitted to not actively using the PSN.
Michael Pachter claimed that Sony's free service "hurts them", as it encourages "the biggest turds in the world", to "trash talk and get in your way". In contrast he was fine with the situation on Xbox live considering griefers are "paying for the privilege".
In a brilliant moment of dramatic irony he dismissed the number of people playing games on the PSN as "tiny ... not even 1 million", while the accompanying video showed a piece of news from another website, dated May 28th, announcing over 1 million PSN users solely in Japan.
I think the part of the video that hurt the most was when the host started inferring that one reason people aren't getting the PS3 for online services is that "you have all your friends on Xbox, that's where your friends are". Pachter followed this up by claiming that "Microsoft have created a club and you want to be a member of that club because the people you want to hang out with are at that club.
All this was said during the time they were supposed to be commenting on how Sony could improve their service.
Sorry that I've gone off on a bit of a rant here but I was that profoundly affected by what I thought to be a reasonably balanced site making such a poor job of remaining fair, or even on topic, regarding current state of affairs.
Non are really. Do what I do and just read the text and don't look at numbers. There have been plenty of games I loved that got a 7 or equivalent score. You can tell much more about a game though body of text than
Graphics 8.4
Gameplay 8.7
Sound 7.1
multiplayer 8.9
Graphics 8.4
Gameplay 8.7
Sound 7.1
multiplayer 8.9
Hmm, I tend to use metacritic, although I have a read of some of the reviews they take scores from. I go for gamespy and gamespot first, although there is no logical reason behind this whatsoever...
