Oh please, game reviews ever always bullshit. Especially from "Official" magazines like Nintendo Power, Sonic the Comic or Playstaion Official Magazine. On the bright side they came with Comics, Guides with maps and demo discs.
@t4washere3842 күн бұрын
Were, not ever. It's too early for this
@Pehmokettu4 күн бұрын
There were huge quality differences between the different video game magazines in the 1990's. I live in Finland and I really loved Super Power. It was a Swedish video gaming magazine and the Finnish translation of that magazine with some added content was published one month later than the Swedish one. I still think that the journalism in that magazine was very good. I read also some video game magazines imported from UK even though they were really expensive to buy here in Finland. The Official Nintendo Magazine was very good. But I remember also reading some British magazine that mosty had just sexist jokes about various female characters in video games. Like jokes how Candy Kong from Donkey Kong 64 makes the video game reviewers puke because she has hairy legs...
@GugureSux4 күн бұрын
Coming from a non-English speaking European country that has a long history of printed gaming journalism, which for the most part is still free of the problems infecting the modern-day online journos, I can honestly say that just like gaming and culture in general, the oldschool reviews were way better as a whole. Reading some up to six-page-long, colorful epoch of a review for some guaranteed GOTYAY masterpiece was a sight to behold, and the writers REALLY went into great detail explaining their take and experiences, plus even recommending more games like it. These days, especially the Anglo-Sax journos online are too keen on virtue signaling and outright demonizing their target audiences, often outright admitting out loud (accidentally or not) that they do not play nor enjoy gaming. And then they block or shadowban any and all criticism they face.
@mariic24 күн бұрын
Nintendo Force: Am I a joke to you?
@astreakaito56254 күн бұрын
About "Value", I think independent game reviewers like most youtubers should take the concept in reverse, and rank games higher the more condensed the experience is. A game that respect your time instead of utterly wasting it on bs, should be getting a better score, not less.
@Grayfoxhound4 күн бұрын
worthabuy is a great professional game reviewer, I always trust his judgement on a game
@BaxterAndLunala4 күн бұрын
I don't trust outlets anymore unless they've proven to put honest reviews over money, but most of them choose money.
@UKERU004 күн бұрын
Its funny how much nostalgia I get from reading my old magazines, I get the same or even more nostalgia from them than the actual games unless its a game I replayed a lot (like majoras mask). I even went back to get the editions I couldnt get previously and read about games I could get easily today but at the time were too expensive or I didnt had money for the console. The design of the magazines were all so good, I especially loved them because some featured art from the game and I loved using them as reference to draw, the reviewers managed to even be ACTUALLY be funny sometimes, something that basically never happens today because the person writing either lack any amount of skill there or just treats it too seriously (POLITICALLY serious usually). If I was a child these days I would probably turn into brainrotted politics zombie or just have never got that much into games, which if I be a conspiracy theorist might actually be their goal. Or maybe I would just love japanese games like I always have done and think all western gaming companies have always been terrible which was far from the truth in the 90s.
@drowningin5 күн бұрын
I think numbers are a bad system for game reviews. It always results in a situation where people give a worse or cheaper game a higher score than a bigger budget overall better value game. It ends with most of the numbers not used and being a 7, 8, 9. They should just say Recommended/Play, and Bad/Don’t Play because that’s really what you want to know right?
@calciumsigma1755 күн бұрын
I feel another thing about gaming reviews is how homogeneous the reviewers are. You can look at all of these game review websites, and the vast majority of their contributors are basically interchangeable: Upper middle class, West Coast, "journalism" majors. It gets to be a real problem when you see some niche game that doesn't get a fair shake because nobody who works there would actually be part of the target audience.
@mRahman925 күн бұрын
I think the rush to get the review out closest to the release date has really taken its' toll in the quality of the writing in games reviews. I pretty much never buy a game during release anyway, especially if it's a big expensive game, I delay and contemplate the purchase even more. I heard "mixed reviews" about Death Stranding. It was a friend that helped convince me to finally get it. CP2077 on the other hand. . .I bought it because of friends, but never actually played it lol money wasted. Yeah, I pretty much never read online reviews, especially for recent games. I used to read retro reviews for fun, especially screenshots of magazines. Every once in a while, I'll write a review about a game, but this is to voice a concern or opinion, or issues I might have with the game. I want to try my hand at "video games journalism", but I don't know where to start. Which is why I watched this video lol I wanna show people what a decent review online can look like.
@mrmeatman5 күн бұрын
Just realized this video only has 3k views. I genuinely assumed I was watching a bigger channel until I looked at your views/subs. Very surprised (in a good way). VERY GOOD VIDEO!! ❤ Keep up the great work.
@ISV_Damocles5 күн бұрын
The explanation about HTML is very confused. "Websites" didn't exist until the "World Wide Web" (WWW) came about and that went hand-in-hand with the "Hyper Text" in the "Hyper Text Markup Language" that allowed text on one document to be linked to another to create said web of links. Prior to this, the protocols used on the internet were mostly things like telnet to log into remote servers, ftp to transfer files to/from servers, irc for relay chat messages over the internet, and gopher, being the closest to the web as we know it, but were more like online encyclopedias of closed-off knowledge bases you could access. So, it wasn't that HTML helped "standardize" web development. There was no web before there was HTML and it's HTTP protocol.
@zg-it6 күн бұрын
Every modern game review: It's a Souls like Metroidvania with some janky controls.
@redfoxbennaton6 күн бұрын
Modern game reviewing is worthless. Back in the day games used to be reviewed by gameplay, concept, graphics, sound. Nowadays video game reviews just run on ad revenue and socio political rage bait. They can hardly come to a conclusion! How could game journalists screw up something a 20 year old dude living in his mom's basement do for free?!
@SummerSn0w6 күн бұрын
I love this video and the concept, but im very confused about the theme of the channel. Im subbing anway, its got a lot of potential, hope it doesn't confuse my feed >_> I bet in five years ill be able to make cringey comments on your videos about how im sub 200 sub crew or something. #139
@anthonylancer6 күн бұрын
You can relate it to any other media review such as movies or music. The people reviewing it at total bozos and you'd have to be regarded to listen to what they have to say.
@birdroll6 күн бұрын
combination of no regulatory body and a low barrier of entry (due to the internet) means joe shmucks opinion is just as valid as a "Journalist", the difference being joe doesnt go on a tangent about politics, and he probably wasnt bribed either
@drinkyourtea6 күн бұрын
Nah you know what killed game "journalism"? I bought a magazine because I saw there was a review for police simulator 2 and instead of you know TALKING ABOUT THE GAME they were talking about sexism in the actual police and old white men I shit you not. Unfortunately most "journalists" not just in video games only have the degree part not the other 3.
@alewis5146 күн бұрын
It's hard to find reasonable reviews of video games, especially larger releases. Big review vendors and biggest influencers are often bribed to give out a favorable review, so you have so many terrible (but corporate) games that land 6-7 out of 10 scores, which technically are reasonably high notes but should be interpreted as barely fucking playable (especially high budget titles getting these marks). Users on the other hand are eager to march with torches and pitchforks over the smallest controversy imaginable and basically swarm metacritic with 0/10 user ratings. Therefore user score tanks to below 1/10 where the game is objectively 3-4 ish out of 10. Maybe 5-6 even. 6-9 out of 10 is so overused on the numeric scale. You hardly ever see games rated below 6 and over 9. This is just a third of the avaialble scale yet it encompasses about 90% of all video game releases.
@acacacacacacaccaca76667 күн бұрын
I remember there was a review I don't remember the game but it was one paragraph about the game then two pages about how the writer felt when Donald trump won the elections and I felt like the entire industry could go fuck itself at that point
@turbinegraphics167 күн бұрын
steam reviews and if most people only played it less than 4 hours it mustn't be that good
@applesthehero7 күн бұрын
all the colour and screenshots in the magazine make me a lot more excited to play a game than the dull plain text on both the modern and old web versions it's not like this is a technical limitation! You can format a web page just like those old magazines where
@pilouuuu7 күн бұрын
If it doesn't focus on gameplay, technical aspects, and if it's a genuinely good game, worth your time and money, it's simply not a good review.
@PurpleRaccoon.7 күн бұрын
If someone talks too much about why you should trust them - don't trust them.
@ghost2021a7 күн бұрын
"Are Professional Video Game Reviews That Bad?" Yes. Video over.
@PJ-sv4iw7 күн бұрын
Thank you. I clicked off the video after I read your comment. <3
@BasicSneedEducation4 күн бұрын
Thank you for saving me 18 minutes
@WhoCaresAnymoreTho7 күн бұрын
If theres photos of gameplay i'll trust that review
@dankl3ss1947 күн бұрын
The biggest problem I find is that Journalists are not passionate gamers. So how do I even trust them to recommend something fun.
@Hybris511297 күн бұрын
This is honestly my biggest redflag. Even if a journalist openly stated that they are more of a FPS gamer or RTS gamer while they are trying to review a JRPG game for example at least gives me more trust in their opinion than someone who is just a writer doing whatever is plopped in front of them.
@zg-it6 күн бұрын
You also don't know who's paying that journalist. Advertisers have strong influence and sometimes they're reviewing the advertisers product. Luckily we have vast social Outlets to discuss games now
@LethalBubbles7 күн бұрын
yes because they are paid to have fake opinions and nobody cares about user reviews
@metro_50177 күн бұрын
your channel has a bright future ahead. keep it up!
@MPSN142 ай бұрын
i think gojo's parfum is ultramale jpg, because this is fragrance who's anyone can catch any girl 😂❤
@rafaelsoares70733 ай бұрын
So cool! I was thinking about some characters and if you made a video with them as well, it would be amazing: - Roy Mustang from FMAB - Kyoraku Captain from Bleach - Chrollo Lucifer from HxH - Hisoka from HxH - Frieren from Frieren (who would've thought...) - Toji from JJK Amazing video, hope you do more!
@galxyt303 ай бұрын
Great recommendations, will take a look into those!
@akagi2793 ай бұрын
Great video and great analysis bro!
@ellierowsell22494 ай бұрын
lol
@paulolagran16664 ай бұрын
I wish this video of yours would get thousands if not just 3.5 million views because this is a message to all us consumers of entertainment not just in America but everywhere in the world 👏🏼
@Yashone5 ай бұрын
Just hope hollywood keeps it's hands out of anime.
@PsilocybePsientist5 ай бұрын
Ignore the absolute braindead replies. You've hit the nail on the head on this time. Hollywood has switched wholesale to pandering to the woke crowd and has actively given up telling good stories, writing good characters, and writing something decent in general.
@PsilocybePsientist5 ай бұрын
I'd also like to go on record and say, be whom ever you want to be. Be gay, be lesbian, be trans, do whatever. So long as you aren't hurting anyone else you should be able to do, say, and act how you please. No one else has that control over you. That being said, your mentality and how you choose to spread it IS actively harmful to anyone who does not share the exact same opinions as you.
@prinka20964 ай бұрын
@@PsilocybePsientist If a child [12 years old] wants to be in a relationship with an adult [40], should that be allowed since no one is getting hurt?
@ahmadfitri79765 ай бұрын
Anime doesn't want to pander to anyone. They are focusing on good storytelling. As how it's creators wants to tell it.
@eamonndoyle47535 ай бұрын
It's a Slam Dunk 🇯🇵
@felmarg88405 ай бұрын
The Anime has bin better then Hollywood animation and movies for a long long time. The fact is you can't make the same effects or movies with real people like animation. Not every actor is like Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy, Jackie Chan, Robin Williams, Jack Nicholson, and others who really can show a face action. You just see there faces and now what is coming. Women can't do that. If they do they have to get to much over pay for plastic surgeries later hahaha. And the Hollywood animation is just forgot about that it is ether to sticker type or almost no body language. And there are like no more people in Hollywood who have the passion of doing it. For Japanese animators that is life for Hollywood animators now that is just a job.
@arcailecorp5 ай бұрын
Always way way better than Hollywood
@arcailecorp5 ай бұрын
RIP Disney
@rostyloco15 ай бұрын
EuPhoRiA! ! ! ! ! ! !!!
@D0omC0okie5 ай бұрын
“Woke message” lol I wish you luck on your endeavors
@PsilocybePsientist5 ай бұрын
If you genuinely do not believe the modern hollywood slop machine isn't set to "Giga-max-Wokeness" you are just willingly blinding yourself to the truth. They actively sacrifice writing, characters, and stories in exchange for forcing and spreading their ideology and rhetoric.
@augustineokafor13305 ай бұрын
Very good video anime will surpass Hollywood this year
@JasperDasper5 ай бұрын
Get out of your bubble bro
@kaydgaming5 ай бұрын
Lmao
@zazu28905 ай бұрын
crazy good video left a like and sub. didnt realize until the very end that you are a small creator, keep it up
@ariebirb5 ай бұрын
damn, i guess just about anyone can say anything on the internet these days
@fallentedge76945 ай бұрын
Shallow observation. Get better media literacy before saying shit
@fakename91145 ай бұрын
Calm yourself. Its not a channel with a million subs. Totally unnecessary.