Your most trusted reviewers on the internet?

[CrashBang]

If your answer isn't Yahtzee you're wrong.

good or bad Yahtzee's honest.

Yahtzee's reviews aren't really reviews. He's a critic, he pulls apart the bad parts very dramatically. I agree with his over-the-top niggling complaints most of the time but I can't take his 'reviews' seriously, they're just entertaining

OT: For films, I usually agree with almost everything MovieBob says. For games, most reviews on The Escapist (especially John Funk). I used to love GameTrailers but they've really lost the plot and gone downhill quick. For comics, I usually rely on user reviews from Amazon, they're surprisingly helpful

 

[mireko]

RPS and No High Scores, although those aren't really for reviews. The reviews on Ars Technica tend to be pretty good as well, and even though Edge has softened considerably, they're still pretty good.

That said, I don't rely on any "bottom line" answers in reviews. I trust these critics to tell me what the game looks and feels like, not whether I'll like it.

[sub]But I will admit that I check the metascore. It's stupid and pointless but IT'S SO MUCH FUN. LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS, EVERYTHING FEELS SO MUCH SIMPLER NOW. I'M SOARING, SOARING LIKE AN EAGLE.[/sub]

 

[Gregg Lonsdale]

Jumping on the bandwagon a bit late, but I'm gonna go with Yahtzee. He's brutally honest, absolutely hilarious and he doesn't feel the need to generalize everything with a score at the end. If I play a game that he reviews badly I will usually enjoy it more that he says, but his style means that truly great games get the recognition they deserve (rather than most reviewers who will give an 8 to something that's okay and a 9 to something that's brilliant).

 

[Mikeyfell]

If your answer isn't Yahtzee you're wrong.

good or bad Yahtzee's honest.

The funny thing is that he isn't at all and criticizes everything for so-called "comedic value".

He's not a reviewer. He's a critic, and a mediocre-at-best one at that.

Yahtzee mentions everything that's bad about a game, and that's what I want.

If I wanted to hear what's good about a game I'd read the back of the box, or believe the marketing material.


I've read "reviews" on the escapist they're empty and shallow.
they can all be boiled down to "This game comes in a box and you use a controller to play it!"

The Escapist "review" for Mafia 2 said the game had cars and music. Stop the fucking presses.

Yahtzee said the campaign was linear and tedious. I'm not going to buy that game.

I want the criticisms and I want to hear the bad stuff.

 

[Laser Priest]

If your answer isn't Yahtzee you're wrong.

good or bad Yahtzee's honest.

The funny thing is that he isn't at all and criticizes everything for so-called "comedic value".

He's not a reviewer. He's a critic, and a mediocre-at-best one at that.

Yahtzee mentions everything that's bad about a game, and that's what I want.

If I wanted to hear what's good about a game I'd read the back of the box, or believe the marketing material.


I've read "reviews" on the escapist they're empty and shallow.
they can all be boiled down to "This game comes in a box and you use a controller to play it!"

The Escapist "review" for Mafia 2 said the game had cars and music. Stop the fucking presses.

Yahtzee said the campaign was linear and tedious. I'm not going to buy that game.

I want the criticisms and I want to hear the bad stuff.

And the entirely made-up stuff, and the stuff where he only plays a small bit of the game and immediately judges all of it.

It's his fucking job to only point out the negative aspects and to overinflate them to no end. You might as well go ask Jack Thompson if Mortal Kombat is a good game.

 

[Theysaid]

It's impossible to know if you'll like a game without playing it. But I don't discount reviews of the game. But I also don't accept any one review as the right opinion. (Even if that one opinion is on the Escapist.) I read a bunch of different reviews and if the game is bad or a portion of the game is bad you'll usually get a consensus. And if not, you can always read through the comments to a review. Yes, you have to sift through a lot of garbage at that point, but if there's a common complaint its something to keep in mind.

A demo or an open beta really helps to finalize whether I'll buy a game or not. Also, I've stopped pre-ordering games. You can try to fight the hype, but sooner or later the hype will bite you in the butt.

 

[darkfall594]

First of all, Yahtzee. Not to help me choose games, but to help me NOT choose games. If he really rips a game apart, I know that I should stay away from that game. Other than that, there is Josh Thomas from TheBitBlock.com who reviews wii games.. And if both of them fail, I just go with my instinct.

 

[Mikeyfell]

If your answer isn't Yahtzee you're wrong.

good or bad Yahtzee's honest.

Yahtzee's reviews aren't really reviews. He's a critic, he pulls apart the bad parts very dramatically. I agree with his over-the-top niggling complaints most of the time but I can't take his 'reviews' seriously, they're just entertaining

OT: For films, I usually agree with almost everything MovieBob says. For games, most reviews on The Escapist (especially John Funk). I used to love GameTrailers but they've really lost the plot and gone downhill quick. For comics, I usually rely on user reviews from Amazon, they're surprisingly helpful

ugh, I'm probably going to get quoted a billion times by smug people (no offense to you because you got here first) telling me that Yahtzee has called him self a critic and that's not a "reviewer". Well fuck that. If I watch a Zero Punctuation video I know whether or not I will buy that game. He bangs on and on and on about all the negative aspects and that's exactly what I want to hear before I make a decision on whether or not I want a game.

Another point I'm going to hear a billion times is that "his reviews are entertaining so they're not helpful by default." and fuck that again. Just because the other Escapist reviewers have all the emotion of a lobotomized robot doesn't make the better written stuff irrelevant.

If you look at the Dragon Age 2 review (just the best example that happened recently.) where the Escapist review is full of (well lets not beat around the bush) lies. Where the Zero Punctuation video actually addresses things that are wrong with the game.

Now what ever you want to call it reviewing, critiquing, fond ribbing, flaming all over, it's informative and helpful.

I'm most likely going to copy-past this on the next 999,999,999 people that tell me Yahtzee's not a reviewer.

 

[Still Life]

Mark L. Bussler from classic game room.

[HEADING=2]Classic Game Room Reviews: All Awesome.[/HEADING]

 

[AbstractStream]

If your answer isn't Yahtzee you're wrong.

good or bad Yahtzee's honest.

Glad my answer is Yahtzee.

 

[Ickorus]

Yahtzee & The Yogscast

Yahtzee - Gives me a fair heads-up on issues I might have with the game, I don't always agree with him but I know from experience that his points tend to be valid.

The Yogscast - When they play games, they'll give you their own opinions without folding in on the popular opinions in a desperate bid for viewers, it's kinda like having a conversation with a friend, sure maybe sometimes they'll not like a game but at least they're being honest about it and don't try to make out that you absolutely should not get it.

 

[BanthaFodder]

pretty much any review from Gamesradar (I've only greatly disagreed with 3-4 reviews)

also, Angry Joe. he's great. his reviews are basically "you are not a games journalist and you do not make a TON of money. you can only afford so many games, here's the games that are worth your money". I also love his rating system. 5=average, 6=slightly above average, 10=as close to perfect as it could get.

 

[darksakul]

Anonymous on 4chan, he never misdirects me

 

[Super Toast]

If your answer isn't Yahtzee you're wrong.

good or bad Yahtzee's honest.

He also exaggerates minute issues for the sake of comedy. Yahtzee is an entertainer first, and a reviewer second.

OT: Game Informer hasn't let me down yet.

 

[Bobbity]

Yahtzee, actually. I know that he's not a proper reviewer, but he does a reasonable job of laying out the flaws of a game, things that the other reviewers always seem to forget to mention.

His reviews, combined with one of the excessively good ones from any other websites, generally allow me to get an accurate sense of the game, so as to allow me to decide whether or not to buy it.

 

[Mikeyfell]

If your answer isn't Yahtzee you're wrong.

good or bad Yahtzee's honest.

The funny thing is that he isn't at all and criticizes everything for so-called "comedic value".

He's not a reviewer. He's a critic, and a mediocre-at-best one at that.

Yahtzee mentions everything that's bad about a game, and that's what I want.

If I wanted to hear what's good about a game I'd read the back of the box, or believe the marketing material.


I've read "reviews" on the escapist they're empty and shallow.
they can all be boiled down to "This game comes in a box and you use a controller to play it!"

The Escapist "review" for Mafia 2 said the game had cars and music. Stop the fucking presses.

Yahtzee said the campaign was linear and tedious. I'm not going to buy that game.

I want the criticisms and I want to hear the bad stuff.

And the entirely made-up stuff,

Which one of your favorite games did he not like?

Everything he said about Mirror's Edge is true. I still love the game.
Everything he said about Red Dead Redemption is true. I still hate it.

and the stuff where he only plays a small bit of the game and immediately judges all of it.

Would you go buy Mindjack based on the stuff he did say about it?
Were you planning to go pick up A Shadow's Tale?
The guy finished Kane and Lynch 2 you've got to give his tolerances for shit some credit.



You mentioned you can read the details for any game in any article. What are the chances that any of those articles will mention bugs or bad level design or crappy voice acting or a broken cover system, ungodly load times or a myriad of other things that Yahtzee will be sure to rail against?

You don't have to agree with everything he says (obviously I don't have to tell you that) but he says it. And with 90% of reviewers glossing over the negative aspects of the games they review it's good that there's at least one place you can go to find out what all the other reviews neglected to mention.

It's his fucking job to only point out the negative aspects and to overinflate them to no end.

He said in his Batman review "Consider me a praiser by exception..."
If it escapes the episode unmentioned it probably works just fine.

You might as well go ask Jack Thompson if Mortal Kombat is a good game.

I've heard good things about it, if that means anything to you.

 

[Mikeyfell]

If your answer isn't Yahtzee you're wrong.

good or bad Yahtzee's honest.

Glad my answer is Yahtzee.

Whoot go team!

 

[Mikeyfell]

If your answer isn't Yahtzee you're wrong.

good or bad Yahtzee's honest.

He also exaggerates minute issues for the sake of comedy. Yahtzee is an entertainer first, and a reviewer second.

OT: Game Informer hasn't let me down yet.

As everyone else is quick to point out he's a Critic first and an entertainer second.
Apparently he's not a reviewer at all

where else can you go to hear what a game does poorly?

 

[Rayne870]

I dont trust them, im leery of every single one. but i listen to what they say and evaluate each individual point while forming my own opinions based on what i see from gameplay, footage and demos. Most of the time i could watch reviews on mute.