You CANNOT Trust Mainstream Game Reviews 

Honestly I dont think Mainstream should refer to the establishment anymore. Isnt that a misnomer at this point? Also it is providing power to people that at this point have none. I think the Mainstream games reviews are now the alternative content creators, somewhat you, Skill up, gameranx (even though they like to steal content.), and many of the other youtubers and twitch content creators. I mean, the mainstream should be whoever get the most eyes right? and by far that isnt gonna be polygon, kotaku and other gaming sites is it? I think at this point they should be referred to as establishment or corporate media and not the mainstream media, they simply dont hold the views and beliefs of the mainstream public do they? Their reach simply isnt what it should be to be considered that anymore. I suppose IGN could be, but IGN i feel is slowly dying because their ability to monetize is not nearly enough to maintain their level of employees. I think tim pool said it best that small platform is more effective at being profitable in this new age and that corporate media will slowly die out because it will be harder and harder to maintain profitability. A single guy can pick up a camera, make a video, edit and upload videos on youtube and make the same amount as an entire corporation. So I ask you, at what point of the corporate medias collapse will you stop calling them the mainstream and start to calling yourself the mainstream?

That is why is best to only see the gameplay for yourself see the gaming reviews from actual video game players who experience those video games.

Elden ring finished? What about the sorry state of the pc version that still is unresolved? Or the fact they only finished some of the npcs questlines recently.

You should also talk about RU-vidr that yet early access and free stuff from gaming company, some won't even tell their audience. Recently Larian studios invited RU-vidr to their studios from the Pannell from hell in a all pay vacation. There is big studios that doe that with some RU-vidr and you won't make me believe that doesn't affect the review. Creative assembly did something similar with early access, free stuff and game with the RU-vidr couldn't gave their opinions about the game before 1 day before launch. Futhermore they cried now about Warhammer 3 but don't understand they were part of the problem because they agree to the terms. This is a broken system, like the media and the Biden administration. "It's not his fault, he as Irish Blood." The west is doom in gaming and politically.

I just signed up to show my support as I’ve followed you now for roughly 2 years. Your content is something I really do enjoy- along with other creators like Better Bachelor and The Act Man.

It's like imdb movie reviews, you gotta wait past the 14-day fanboy falloff :D

Not since The Last Jedi for me. I came out of the cinema genuinely confused how it got such good reviews. That film sparked a huge outpouring of amateur independent reviews and launched several online careers lol.

Ya, no one I know has trusted them for at least a decade. How are they still in business?

*Filthy casuals:* _Oh look IGN gave this game 10/10 so it must be a masterpiece. Let me go blindly waste my parent’s money on it durrr_ *Few minutes later* *Filthy casuals:* _Oh what’s this?? This game is beyond broken and sucks ballz! NOOOOO I SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT FOR MYSELF WAAAAH_

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agreed. who are your favorites

I find gamereactor okay, mostly because they're more American, or activist

I can't remember the last time a game that wasn't worth full price had a good metacritic score.... wtf are you talking about? if a game is even remotely bad it gets steamrolled on sites like metacritic so i don't understand where you're pulling that out your ass.

But now a days the industry has caught on to that. Online only service can and does change the game with every update. (The newest racing game is a good example.) Often to gain more cash from the consumer, not giving to turds about the customer.

Independent creators are killing ign and kotaku reviewers because they usually play the entire game ends then some before rhe review and give you a more details on l gameplay and such on top of theyir opinions.

I feel for GT fans. They love a series that doesn't get new entries as often as other series, and then the latest installment is just fucking predatory in how overmonetized it is, on top of something that people loved. Sony needs to get their heads out of their ass.

They did that?! I knew Sony was over when they moved their base of operations to California, but that's just so low.

To be fair even without those microtransactions the game by itself shouldnt be higher than a 6/10 especially since its just a worse version of GT Sport with its economy

Stop calling it what it's not. There's nothing micro about the. They're MACROtransactions.

@@Mernom yep.. there is nothing micro about a single car costing more than triple the base game price..

Call em corporate media

@Hylisk Corporate Media is a good term for it.

Corpo lies

I like the term "dino media" because it implies they will be extinct like the dinosaurs because they are stuck in the older pattern of thinking which is they think we are like baby boomers and just go to one source for all our information and expect us to automatically believe what they say without actually looking into the claims they make to check for propaganda and spin. These days kids are much more paranoid of dino media because they have been caught lying many times. You don't continue to automatically trust something when it has bad track record of making shit up. What you do is hear what they have to say about an issue and take everything being said with a grain of salt and maintain cynicism about who writes it. (since it's all profit motivated)

sucks to miss out on sweet beginnings, some of my best times were playing bf3 and dayz on launch for console

I only rarely buy games at full price, and when I do it's always one that I know is worth, like Elden Ring for example.

There are just a few games I know that I should buy at launch each year. And only two or so games risk that preorder for the sweet collectors edition. I have only slightly been burnt by Rune Factory 5. The move to 3D, is not that great, compaired to the frame rate issues and viewpoint restrictions that came with it. Still enjoyable... But not great like it should have been. Then a little less recently Disgaea 6 on Switch was poorly optimized, but still had some fun to give. I'm still glad that I got the collectors edition for both games, but they feel like were not well made compaired to their previous entries. (But the sound tracks are awesome.)

Game has questionable reviews, but you want to play? Yar Har.

Funny thing here... You can buy this game on day 1 for 80 dolars, with bugs and witout DLC !!! 1 Year later....whole game + 3 DLC, fixed, tested, optimalized, 60%-80% off on steam :D :D :D

and due to this, rewievers should ALWAYS include a clause: "At the moment of early copy review, the game does not contain predatory monetization methods" and, hidden in plain sight in text: "game is privy to have predatory monetization methods due to previous history"

But gt7 is a good game? I don’t think you’ve even played it

@@crocodiledowny2191 You're god damn right I haven't even played it. In fact NO ONE could have played it during 30 HOURS of the server going down, not even OFFLINE play. Care to defend that bullshit? But by all mean, keep pulling that "you haven't played it" fallacy when it comes to anti consumer shit so obvious that everyone can recognize and get disgusted at, such as always online DRM and greedy microtransactions.

@@YarugumaSou the game was out long before the outage & compensated players with a mil in game. The micro transactions don’t affect the core gameplay, it’s not hard to get money in game. Don’t just be a typical Redditor

@@crocodiledowny2191 >still rewarding corporations mistakes by giving them money and maxing excuses to do so See, this is what I absolutely loathe, when people have been shoved a shitty product and/or are taken advantage of but then proceed to defend these shitty properties or actions like they have no self respect or control. "(game) is actually good, you just need to play more of it" "Don't worry, the updates and expansions will fix it" "Why yes I pre-ordered before independent reviews". I swear its some form of stockholm syndrome or the just can't accept that their once beloved franchises will one day end and will harshly defend them long after its been killed and bloated corpse is still being milked for its puss, all as a sort of comping mechanism. The old games are still there and you can still (usually) buy and play them, but people still have a feverish need to buy and play a new one all to relive those fond memories. Again and again people have been smacked with reality, yet they continue to reward these shits with their money

For real, counting every person I know who plays games, in total we've been to IGN and similar sites less than 20 times. Who the hell is giving them all these clicks?

Its weird because every time theres a big review scandal like the cuphead tutorial everyone knows about it instantly. Like are there that many people going on ign i dont know about?

@@kempolar9768 A lot of gamers who started checking reviews looking for games they never played, IGN is in every search-result, so they are learning the ropes for the first time. For everyone who learn the scam and moves on wiser, a new one replace them, rinse and repeat. The way to stop this is to create a informative gateway for people> to steer them away, which isn't easy because IGN is profitable to RU-vid, so RU-vid won't let that happen easily. A lot of people check their videos just to see what BS IGN spout

@@kempolar9768 Normies.

@@kempolar9768 I watch them knowing what they are. Gives me a view of the art style and UI of a game beforehand. Extra bonus, if the IGN reviewer thinks it's too hard and needs some more handholding, I know to actually give it a chance.

[INTIATE SHITHOSE]

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One problem can solve the other, use legacy game reviews as manpons.

so, only if you really have to and regret it later?

The last game I pre-ordered was MW3, and only because they had demos outside of gamestop.

Think I was one of the lucky ones. Got it early, not preordered but within a few days, had very few bugs, was blown away by the game.

@Foxtrout It took you this long to learn that lesson? It's been valid for at least a decade now.

I did the same, though I actually enjoyed Cyberpunk regardless of its issues. Now if I had pre-ordered Battlefield 2042... what a horrifying thought!

Aside MMORPG expansions (which i dont count) i have only preordered 3 games in my life. Animal Crossing New Horizons, Story of seasons Piooners of Olive Town and Cyberpunk 2077. Never.Again.

There is no journalism. Only activism.

@@Sixstringman nicely said i take everthing in the mainstream media with a grain of salt.

@@TerraShockwave I take everything the mainstream media says as a falsehood designed to enrich themselves and their globalist friends at the expense of the American people.

I wait for the opinions that start coming out after the game is released. If there's a problem I either write the game off entirely or wait for the problem to be fixed. Depending on the severity of the problems and how close the actual game is to the game that was advertised.

Rebuild of Gaming Media 2.0: You can(not) trust Legacy.

The same is true for non-mainstream, as well. There are a lot of strange things going on when you venture outside of mainstream. Many people unfairly bash mainstream media, in my opinion (I'm not saying that UEG's video does that, by the way), saying that mainstream media always have a vested interest to say the things that make the most money instead of serving the people. I feel the same can be said of much of the non-mainstream media as well, in my opinion to an even higher degree. At least with big corporations we know that they want to make money for the shareholders. What do we know of the motivations of people on RU-vid, blogs etc.? They can be as self-serving and disingenious as anyone else. The best advice is to never blindly trust anyone. Always think critically, do your own analysis and put your trust where it's warranted. Just the same as you should never trust the mainstream just because it's mainstream, you should never DIStrust the mainstream just because it's mainstream.

@@oliver_twistor I have to disagree. Most small groups are just individual people talking, so though they can be wrong and biased most of the time no other group is influencing them. The more influential they become the more likely it is that other organizations will try to influence them. Mainstream media, on the other hand, has so much influence that every big player in their country will attempt to get a stake in them. They are exclusively controlled by powerful organizations and the individuals are not speaking for themselves, and thus not speaking what they believe to be the truth unless it is not detrimental to said organizations. As you say you should never trust anyone based on just what they say, but individuals are always more trustworthy than big organizations unless said organizations are transparent and accountable to an EXTREME degree.

@@oliver_twistor I think its a difference between trust but verify to verify before trusting. By and large, I found the best way to see is if a game is good is either by playing it myself, or seeing when the reviewer goes back to the game after reviewing it (the guys I watch don't primarily review games but sometimes get early access/review copies). Just as an example, Legend of Total War has refused to continue playing TWW3 until it gets massive updates because of how bad the campaign is.

Yea, like Netflix Witcher or Squid Game. People refuse to understand 5/10 is "mediocre" and 6/10 is "fine". And when they try to convince me Squid Game is 10/10 masterpiece I just laugh at their face. Painfully predictable, annoying trope characters, complete lack of subtlety (not to confuse viewers I guess), flashbacks to stuff we saw 10 minutes ago, obvious plot holes after watching the show just once... If the characters would be good the show could be 5/10, but nah. Just another overhyped mainstream show.

"No Bs, no sponsors" Except for that one time recently when ACG was sponsored by the New World MMO.

@@charmingpeasant9834 Yeah, I unsubbed his channel after watching he praise Uncharted 4 for a second time. That's when I saw that I don't share the same point of view as him, to overestimate the same game twice is already too much.

@@digitalgehn same. Idk used to be subbed to ACG, until most of his stuff became a podcast, and I just wasn’t interested.

Read that as: I've been miffed at mainstream reviews of big titties receiving way more praise than they should.

@@digitalgehn YongYea absolutely acts like a fanboy, what you talkin about? Remember 2077? Or Death's Stranding?

Even before, dear god the godhand review.

Exactly it's so annoying every time I'm interested in a game on ps I have to go on steam for the reviews such a joke!

yea, i had the same reaction with RDR2, but big production games and companies with money of course get the reviews

just wish Steam would add a Neutral option because sometimes a game isn't good nor bad, it's just flawed in such a way that hinders it.

I remember hearing one male mainstream reviewer (I forget which outlet he works for unfortunately) actually felt duped when it came to GT7 after seeing the macro-transactions for the first time and stated that he WOULD NOT HAVE recommended the game if they were in place at the time of the review period. I would have to give the dude respect for that and the respect for him being open and honest about it. Also, I wouldn't say that GT7's MTX are pay-to-win necessarily, but I would say that they are (or now were, Sony and Polyphony acknowleged the backlash they were recieving and are working to fix the problem) VERY stingy at the VERY least but I wouldnt go as far as pay-to-win.

Greg Miller is a nob.

YongYea, perhaps?

@@FelixRaycher Oh boy, that guy shilled cyberdump 2077 like a true coporate goon.

Isn't LevelCapGaming in EA's pocket?

Everyone has their favorites because theyre human yknow. I love capcom even through all the garbage. I understand when people like sir swag will shill ubisoft, or yong yea with cdpr. Because I do the same sometimes.

@@martmine4618 One thing is "fanboism" because you genuinely like something and other is being a pos shill that's get paid for lying about the quality of a product, I cant imagine yong yea playing cybertrash 2077 and saying "yeah this is a complete and functional game, lets talk about it as the second coming of Christ".

FF16, probably.

Spirits Within and Marvel's Avengers are movies... and movies don't have "AAA reviewers". lmao.

@@bitsamui5104 Marvel's Avengers was a live service action brawler that was dead within days of release. The movie is just The Avengers.

@@bitsamui5104 don't confuse the avengers which is a great marvel film with marvel The avengers which is a terrible video game ultimate alliance one and two were great games and those were based off of the comic books

@@ingamingpc1634 yeah ultimate alliance was fucking awesome

You know if you dont want devs to get money you can also pirate games its cheaper.

@@martmine4618 Waiting to purchase a used copy works just the same. Why do you think companies so badly want to wipe out the second hand market? Because they don't make anything off it.

"try out stuff" I remember when game demos were a thing.

@@abadenoughdude300 shhhhhh, you're showing our age!

I like Dave from barstools pizza review system. Good, enjoyable pizza is 7.0-.8.0. Great to fantastic pizza is 8.0-9.0 and 9.1-9.5 is top 10 pizzas he’s ever eaten. There’s lots of other issues, but I really like the idea that a good good product you would be content with starts at a 7.0,

Let's play's will always tell you more.

Bro, gamers are just as bad. They give the worst reviews period. They have the worst hype and the most nonsensical 0s.

It is better to wait for release and check more source and check the comments for a real experience. There are reviews that the creator not even played the game. The older youtubers are sponsored by big firms and they won't give you a real stuff about the games. Look on AJ ,he was very good and realistic, now they did shitty reviews from smaller good games, like Guardians of Galaxy.... But Bf they spent a ton of Time, even the comments were bad but they were more interested in that bugged crap... Other problem is that software software products should have some common regulation to reach some result with the sold stuff. You buy a software and you use it and after some use you get into a bug it won't work, you can't get back your money.... When the product is failing and won't be fixed in a period of time then you should get back your money. Look on Fo76, that game has bugs from release....

i mean but some games ARE worthy of a 10, for various reasons. they are rare, SUPER rare, but they do exist. there are also games worthy of a 0, and there are WAY more of those. case in point for the later: bet on soldier. instead of waiting for reviews to come out years back....it sounded os awesome! and there was ONE copy left at my NEX(navy exchange), so i bought it full price on release day. 3 years AFTER the game came out, i for the upteenth time installed it, fully patched it and....still couldn't play it. i mean that final time i DID actually see the opening cutscene! i paid 60$ for a game that was LITERALLY unplayable. not even the FIRST mission. that is a fucking 0 out of 10 game. even with 3 YEARS of patches, it was STILL unplayable. 0 out of 10 game. but to the first point: when a game just BREAKS the fuck out of the mold, when it does just EVERYTHING better than anything that has ever come out before it, bar none, that is a 10/10 game. Half-Life was a 10/10 game. The lighting, music, sound design, story, voice overs, etc....all of it was the best of the best. many of the things were better than anything that had ever come out, and a number of them were at least tied for "best". One could also argue if a game exceeds in certain categories over anything else, that it is also worthy of that 10/10. even though it has some sections of criteria you might rate lower, the things it does right it does SO right, that it makes up for it. For me id say a game like Hellblade: Senua's sacrifice is that kind of game. its combat was meh, its puzzles were rather basic. both things i would not rate super highly. level design was decent but not amazing. BUT the sound design, voice acting and story were so far BEYOND anything ive ever played, in any genre, even NOW years later....that i would rate the game as 10/10. the best way i can put it is its like your LIVING through a great movie, or really great book. its not cutscene movies mind you, but YOU actually playing the game. the sound of her being utterly terrified as she slowly scoots along an edge, clearly TERRIFIED of falling to her death, her breath catching in her throat as she shakily shuffles through. The sound of the voices in your head trying to talk you out of going to your death in a vain hope of saving the man you love through resurrection, and on and on and on. its just bloody fucking brilliant. What it does right, it does so right, that the flaws just do not matter. it is one of 3 games in my life i would EVER rate sections of it in a break down as being OVER a 10/10. Why? Because it went so far beyond what i thought "perfect" was. it didnt just reach perfection, it somehow managed to exceed it, and became the standard in those categories to judge EVERY other game by that does anything even remotely similar. if it is a TRUE benchmark game, it is deserving of a 10/10 or very close to it. after all 10s DO exist, they should be rare, and be the epitome of either "this reaches perfection in everything" or "this exceeds perfection in several areas".

I think the last of us 2 fiasco woke up a lot of normies to the industry. Every urinalist walked in lock step the second they realized they had to support their side no matter what.

The thing is, I can understand Giving those games an 8, every good game has it's flaw. But The Last of Us 2 was treated like it had no flaws, and that quickly raised eyebrows.

I’d give kh3 a 6/10 at the most, it was honestly not worth it in the end

@@-Ryu Oh no no I know the two games I mentioned do have flaws. I’ll spare you the details lol 😆. Every good game has a flaw. Honestly I give those two games a 9 at least.

9? LOL. Big review site giving unjustified score doesn't allow you to cheery pick and think that only your fav game get stuffed.

yes, mainstream corporate media “jOuRnAlIsT”

I can only imagine the ptsd the Cuphead person has suffered from after their harrowing ordeal. Truly they are the heroes of our time.

It would literally be more beneficial to society if they were paid not to work. That's how low the bar is

Who even reads reviews on sights anymore? Why not just say, fuck money, we are bringing in the real guys, and we are making sure that whether we get blacklisted or not, we do not fucking care. We are buying the games ourselves, and we are not reviewing it until after it's been out, patched if necessary, and has been after launch period by about 2 to 4 weeks. Let everyone else blow their reviews out early, get the heat and be eviscerated, while this other company comes around 2 weeks later, with multiple reviews linked which shows first, the launch period review, then the present, updated review. That way, it can show that A) they're holding onto their first one for a reason, and B) They value authenticity, by paying for the copies themselves, as opposed to doing early previews.

Only the hard core consumes youtube content from a certain game. Casuals read the headline from a big gaming journalism page and thing: "Oh NICE!". Sad truth.

Remember Driver 3? I remember.

It’s been a lot of fun mocking in on steam discussions and watching the rabid fan base react.

GOAT Game for sure

@@DefineHatespeech Definitely my favorite game that i've played in a long time. If you don't like it, that's cool though. It's no skin off my nose.

@@lookatmynips respect

Lmk if you can find that channel/company. I'd like to check them out, and see if they are more legitimate. (Assuming that this company isnt actually eurogamer)

@@Zynet_Eseled the company that currently owns EuroGamer (Gamer Network) also owns the channel (that was indie many years ago) and the fact that the one I mention is setting up/allowed to set up a Patreon is weird because the whole reason to "go legit" (be bought by Gamer News) was to insure that they had a reliable source of income/not have to rely on things the way someone like UEG does via YT ad revenue. And as much as I don't _want_ them to get kicked out, they wouldn't be the first group/channel that got (wrongfully) paired down by Gamer Network. Gamer Network did some really shady stuff with the board game channel launched by one of the long time presenters, and then ousted said presenter, and while it was all hush hush, taking timelines apart and UK law into account, they wanted the recognition and then paying the writers/producers/presenters less. Again, judging on UK law, and the fact that OxBox/OxTra knows that their fan base follows _them_ (a good chunk of the Patreon supporters also follow everyone's individual channels and socials, because it's not "oh we like the list videos" it's "we like the goofy fun stuff they do outside of List Features" where they talk about a neat game or do silly fun stuff-or play DnD) I don't think that in another few years they'll be apart of Gamer Network. In whatever form that is, because again, they could lose that brand recognition or be completely replaced by Gamer Network and I don't think the people who subscribe to Outside Xbox/Outside Xtra would actually stick around. It happened with Dice Breaker. Hell it happens every time a good host is lost from WhatCulture-whatever, people follow the writers/hosts, especially when original content is made and then the parent company pushes out the people who founded it/did the heavy lifting.

@@Crisjola yea but what channel is it that you are mentioning? I.E the one Gamer Network owns that isnt Eurogamer

@@Zynet_Eseled outside Xbox and OutsideXtra. Like I said, I have only circumstantial evidence and years of following the people directly, and the fact that they're setting up a way to bring in different income outside of the normal monetization via YT as YT only channels (since they don't have "news" website of their own-partially because they're not a news channel, they're just two fun channels and kind of a semi-dnd channel.)

@@Crisjola gotcha. I've been a viewer of theirs for years now.

Cyberpunk was made by inexperienced amateurs

@@exysa2798 Shouldn't have been advertised as such a cool game then

Make it 20.

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Nor companies claiming they're "customer friendly" (looking at you, CDPR!)