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Which outlets will review Hogwarts Legacy unbiased?
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Cyborg
Member
Or you are.
NickFire
Member
Reviewing this one will be like a wet dream for at least a few people. Most of the non-gaming anecdotes and pontificating will come from those still fighting the good fight against comedy and normal thought. But there will also be some over the top love fests and score inflation from people who hate the first group. All together, I'm expecting a shit show of scores ranging from sub 1, to 14 out of 10. And actual gameplay / graphics information will probably be about 2% (maybe 3, but doubtful) of the text in the collective reviews.
Spaceman292
Banned
Doesn't sound salty, more incelly.
The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
So if he buys the game then he wants to kill women?
Never thought I should see something this irrational on Gaf.
Elder Legend
Banned
We will review it gladly and happily.
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
He is just fucking around
StealthGoblin
Banned
Given how Rowling’s views aren’t represented in the game, I don’t see why you can ding it for that.
oji-san
Banned
I respect your view but what does it got to do about the game review? you review a game? then talk about the game. want to talk about whatever your issue with the creator? make an article about that, why mix things?
fart town usa
Member
This should be banished from the solar system. Shit is straight nightmare fuel, lol.
SegaSnatcher
Member
Definitely not, but it's hard to watch in real time how irrational people can be.
I figure between the woke tearing it down and the white knights holding it up it'll be at least a month before real reviews come out that would let you know if it's good. (I mean short of just playing it.)
ZoukGalaxy
Member
They don't review games, they just ban and hunt people for the new mind dictatorship order.
Platinumstorm
Member
I am still struggling with why people think this looks fun. I am definitely not pre-ordering.
Raven117
Member
This. Just wait a week or two and see what the OT looks like.
TheSHEEEP
Gold Member
While that's true, there is a planet-wide difference between what a professional review should do (acknowledge own biases and then approach the subject as objectively and fairly as the author can) on one hand and on the other hand whatever the fuck it is that hacktivists like IGN, Kotaku, etc. are doing.
Actual professional reviews have become extremely rare, though. I get it, it's a way more difficult thing to do than just writing about your "feelings".
While it's sad, I nowadays recommend people to find a few single reviewers that match their own biases and go with those for a start.
01011001
Banned
videogame reviews were always absolute dogshit, nothing has changed.
if you go back and read some retro magazines from the early 90s or earlier, they all were just a bunch of people playing a game for a few minutes and then giving it a vague rating, often without actually goin in-depth in any way.
over the years I now completely ignore any and all reviews that are released with the game or before it.
the only reviews I look at are in-depth independent reviews that have been released after the game, by people who actually care and who played the games enough to know them in and out.
no deadlines, no embargos, zero incentive to skew the rating due to advertising deal nor management.
like "TheGamingBritShow" for example.
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TheSHEEEP
Gold Member
Sure.
But I wasn't talking about Retro-Magazines, those were in huge parts paid by Nintendo, etc. directly and the contents, while nostalgic fun were therefore definitely highly biased.
What I'm talking about was admittedly something that might have been a local phenomenon where I grew up (Germany).
I never really thought about it, but it's quite possible there were no reviews like that in many other places.
In the mid/late 90s and up to the late 00s there were many magazines that followed an unofficial but de-facto standard in rating, bugs would get a score minus depending on severity, graphics a bonus/malus based on how competently they were made, story for coherence, etc.
And the people who wrote those reviews were writing it in an at least partly "higher" language that showed they actually knew about game theory and development.
They understood game development as a craft (which it is, and I say that as someone who did actually study it though I opted to not make it my career) and not just an art that would be fully subjective.
And due to all that, the reviews were generally written in a very neutral and mostly objective manner.
Of course not a perfect schema as not all games fit well into it, but still more professional and advanced than most things today.
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Cyborg
Member
Like I said they should review it like any other game
Freeman76
Member
Not a gamer then eh?
John Wick
Member
Same here, gonna buy two just to rub it in.
Don't see what the controversy is myself???
Davevil
Late October Surprise
It's not only a game, it's a battle versus Reetards and similar
Xdrive05
Member
From what I remember, the last time a game got review ghosted for political reasons was Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Actually, I believe giant bomb didn’t even cover the thing at all. And that’s the same site that used to be edgy boys not too many years before that.
Can we not point out that the game is being shunned because of the views of the creator of the IP and it’s based on, and not at all about anything to do with the game itself or the people making it? At least with the case of kingdom come, it was the lead developer who people were pissed at for some ridiculous reason.
Can we not point out that the game is being shunned because of the views of the creator of the IP and it’s based on, and not at all about anything to do with the game itself or the people making it? At least with the case of kingdom come, it was the lead developer who people were pissed at for some ridiculous reason.
diffusionx
Gold Member
If a review mentions the “controversy” you can be sure they are not grading the game on its merits. I would not be surprised to see a site or two score the game very low as a protest.
best bet is to wait a week or two after release (after initial hype/buzz starts to wear off) see what people are saying on forums and possibly some YouTube reviewers you trust.
Possibly. And yet as someone who played vidya in the 80s and 90s, just by reading those magazines because that was ALL we had outside of schoolyard/rentals, I played an absolute shitload of great games, games that are still held up as classics today. GamePro might have been full of shills and people who played the game for 10 minutes but they did a better job in terms of telling me what games are good than Eurogamer does today.
best bet is to wait a week or two after release (after initial hype/buzz starts to wear off) see what people are saying on forums and possibly some YouTube reviewers you trust.
Possibly. And yet as someone who played vidya in the 80s and 90s, just by reading those magazines because that was ALL we had outside of schoolyard/rentals, I played an absolute shitload of great games, games that are still held up as classics today. GamePro might have been full of shills and people who played the game for 10 minutes but they did a better job in terms of telling me what games are good than Eurogamer does today.
Puscifer
Member
Another thing people don't realize is that once you really start talking to people outside of the internet...the overwhelming majority don't give a shit and just want to move on. The people who have a problem with JK Rowling are those whose identity are wrapped into their online persona.
I know it's sounds shitty but really, so many people need to touch grass and go the fuck outside.
