Which games journalists are still trustworthy apart from Yahtzee

[superbleeder12]

I go to metacritic.

 

[Dommyboy]

Trust no one, walk softly and carry a big gun. IGN and Gamespot are the only good reviewers for me as Gamespy is 90% ads. Game trailers are also good because most if not all of their reviews are in video form so you can actually see the game play and what the reviewer is talking about.

 

[Amnestic]

I'd intended to go with "moron" or "bloody idiot" at first, "fool" was polite by those standards.

You liked Super Smash Bros Brawl, didn't you?

When he did both the review and Mailbag Showdown I hadn't even played the game because it hadn't come out in the EU. My posts in this thread have already displayed how I feel about Yahtzee and critics on the whole in regards to professional reliability. How much I agree with them and like them are entirely separate matters in my eyes.

The fact that you think I dislike Yahtzee because he insulted a game I like shows that you have an extremely flimsy view of the world, not everyone is that petty. Some of us recognise that, shockingly, not everyone will think the same thing and that just because we disagree doesn't mean we have to hate each other.

 

[OHC]

The fact that you think I dislike Yahtzee because he insulted a game I like shows that you have an extremely flimsy view of the world, not everyone is that petty. Some of us recognise that, shockingly, not everyone will think the same thing and that just because we disagree doesn't mean we have to hate each other.

Your response shows you left your sense of humour in your other jacket

 

[Amnestic]

The fact that you think I dislike Yahtzee because he insulted a game I like shows that you have an extremely flimsy view of the world, not everyone is that petty. Some of us recognise that, shockingly, not everyone will think the same thing and that just because we disagree doesn't mean we have to hate each other.

Your response shows you left your sense of humour in your other jacket

I'm not wearing clothes at the moment, so quite likely.

 

[Spleeni]

The fact that you think I dislike Yahtzee because he insulted a game I like shows that you have an extremely flimsy view of the world, not everyone is that petty. Some of us recognise that, shockingly, not everyone will think the same thing and that just because we disagree doesn't mean we have to hate each other.

Your response shows you left your sense of humour in your other jacket

I'm not wearing clothes at the moment, so quite likely.

For one thing, that's hot.

Another thing, is that I found the game GunZ to be fun. I've even reviewed it, and tried to get some people to try it out. I thought it was unique, and worth dipping into for a bit. People disagreed with me NOT because they found my points to be invalid, but they weighed in their judgements that the community and the terrible weapon balancing were too horrible to ignore.

I doubt that each specific topic that I covered was ever proven false. It's because facts are always true and trustworthy! Facts are always, forever true. Criticism is bashing facts; therefore, whatever review pumps out the most negative criticism, and brings up the most of the bad points is likely to be the most reliable. (Not infallibly so)

Unless they're
A. Lying
B. Ignoring major good points
C. Squealing about petty trivialities
D. Ugly

That's why I love Yahtzee, that sexy beast.

 

[dukethepcdr]

How about Sean Elliot from EGM? His "Rest of the Crap" reviews are hilarious. He can be counted on to give funny reviews of crappy games in every issue.

As far as buying games based on reviews go, I always read reviews from at least three or four different, unrelated magazines and/or web sites before I make a decision based on reviews. If I can rent the game from Blockbuster or Gamefly first, even better.

 

[Doug]

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.

Pyschonauts and possibly Assasins creed too

 

[Brian Name]

The fellas at Penny Arcade take a very pricipled stance on reviews. They often give out stinks about whatever "incentives" they get offered to give a good review, or tell the readers that they've got something for free. So, even if they are unintentionally biased, they still make sure they're fairly transparent.

 

[orifice]

Edge magazine used to be fairly impartial, but nowadays it's only yahtzee that seems to be honest.

 

[Fiskmasen]

I also agree with everyone who's mentioned Penny Arcade. They tend to review (or at least mention their thoughts on) most big releases. Both of them give valid arguments in all their views.

I've also bought every game on Greenhouse, and they're all great. Just more good things to say about Gabe and Tycho.

 

[A Papercut 000]

Everyone is biased. But Yahtzee is the least biased. Don't be mad because he shoved a game that you like flaws in your face, which you chose to over look because over all you liked it.

 

[Sylocat]

The sad thing is, ever since Yahtzee became so popular, even the FREE, amateur critics can't be trusted, because most of them are now trying to get hired by some website just like Yahtzee was, and they're willing to say a lot of crap in order to get attention.

However, there are a few good ones still out there. I recommend Game OverThinker [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhzyOzItDnc] for a refreshing change.

 

[D_987]

Yahtzee trustworthy...hilarious yes, but trustworthy - no.

I trust Gametrailers and occasionally IGN.

IGN are pretty much Xtards last I heard.>.> As is GT.

lol, thats just PS3 fanboy talk, they did a very fair review (Gametrailers) of Resistance 2, gave it 9.1, and someone on this site made a thread complaining it was biased and that it should have got a higher score....they are the biggest sites for a reason.

 

[Amnestic]

Everyone is biased. But Yahtzee is the least biased. Don't be mad because he shoved a game that you like flaws in your face, which you chose to over look because over all you liked it.

*facepalm*

 

[Amnestic]

When he did both the review and Mailbag Showdown I hadn't even played the game because it hadn't come out in the EU.

So do I trust you or do I trust Yahtzee who says in the beginning that he got an import copy of the game thanks to the charity of GAME TRAIDERS ROBINA?

You trust neither of us. Yahtzee hated SSBB, I quite enjoyed it when it finally came out about 3-4 months after the US release. Whatever Yahtzee and I thought (putting myself next to him in the same sentence seems terribly strange), it probably didn't have a great impact on your game experience on the whole. So why should it matter?

 

[Susan Arendt]

Yahtzee? The man that said a 3 hour long puzzle game with no multiplayer can be judged the height of gaming? The one who's never played the first two Fallouts before reviewing #3 (okay, that was kinda unnessecary, but come on.)?

I think you lost me on how he was trustworthy.

So a game has to have multiplayer in order to be worthwhile?

 

[thiosk]

yahtzee HAS influenced how i think about the games I play, and has encouraged me to look at different things. I've always had this burning feeling as I play games-- especially console games but also on the PC-- that games just aren't fun anymore; at least, not like they used to be. My favorite games are the simple 16 and 8 bitters.

On the other hand, I still play, and enjoy, several games he has trashed. It never made me like the game less, it did take away my complex of considering any game to be the best game ever (which all sane people agree is super metroid AMIRITE?)