Gaming journalism - (and why Game Informer sucks)

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What gaming mags do you trust?

  • Game Informer

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • Electronic Gaming Monthly

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • IGN

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other (please specify)

    Votes: 14 87.5%
  • Total voters
    16
The only reviews and gaming journalism that are worthwhile are things that show gameplay footage. I'm fond of people like TotalBiscuit because his videos show actual gameplay. Without it, I would have missed out on Section 8: Prejudice and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. If I had just read the printed reviews with a screenshot, I would have passed. Game Informer, Qore, Famitsu, etc are all a dying breed of media.
 
That list is just opinions, calm down.

And I no longer have a subscription to GI because I got fed up with GameStop in general. They make okay reading material when bored but they're nothing special.
 
Un Platano said:
Message boards and forums are a better source for info on games because at least you know that there they aren't being paid to share their shitty opinions
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I pretty much only read reviews by other gamers. Yeah sometimes you get the idiot who thinks anything not made by Nintendo or Square is inferior trash. But I just ignore those. Or I just watch some gameplay footage and decide for myself. I don't get why these professional reviews are even relevant now. But I guess print media still circulates. I haven't read an actual print magazine in ages. I haven't subscribed to GI in years. I still remember their hilariously erroneous Final Fantasy 7 strategy guide. I wish I still had it.

I hate embargoes. It just goes to show that something may be seriously wrong with your game if you are afraid of people pointing it out before the majority of your audience has plunked down $60 for it.
 
Dysnomia said:
I pretty much only read reviews by other gamers.
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The kind of low level shills who get a few pennies to shill for something are so brazenly obvious that you can just sift through shit on 4chan or wherever and get a reasonably good idea whether something is actually interesting to you. You also have to sift out the /v/ assholes who just reflexively hate absolutely everything because they're dicks.

It's fairly easy, though, to figure out what products you want to buy without ever paying attention to the worthless idiots in gaming "journalism" or the rigged bullshit at metacritic.
 
I still read the most popular gaming magazine native to my country, as it's still just the same people running it and they're competent enough to assign the journalist prefering certain genres (like survival horror or RTS) to those games. So the Polygon Doom fiasco doesn't happen. Noticed that they're also quite fair.

I never go for websites anymore, though. They're all garbage.
 
I used to read older mags for the strategies they'd give. I think it was MegaFan that had a pretty accurate guide on how to recruit the heroes in Suikoden 1, so I gotta give 'em credit for that.

As for reviews, I never trusted them. Most of my fave games got low scores, and games I couldn't care less about got high scores. It was neat seeing screens from the games though.
 
Nintendo Power, EGM and Tips & Tricks were pretty essential reading when I was a kid. I never could have found my way through some of the more complex games of the 8-bit and 16-bit era without their aid.

Game Informer really is a farce. Aside from shit-infused game criticisms, they also like to inject political stuff into their articles, which, as history has shown, is never a good idea when it comes to writing about video games.
 
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