If you were trying to convey that trusted reviewers actually cost you money instead, I completely misunderstood you, because it still reads like the opposite. I'm disagreeing explicitly with the 'save time and money' bit (particularly the money bit, though playing games would also lose them time, though in theory they should enjoy time spent that way) How many people went to a movie theater because Siskel and Ebert gave the film "two thumbs up", never minding actual quality of the film? You basically repeated my point, while trying to disagree with it. I particularly see it on Grand Strategy games, where the comments will have people who freely admit they don't even understand the game in question, but because their favorite youtuber is playing it, they still bought it. Some people just latch on and mimic behavior. I very often see comments in youtube videos that people have bought the game because said youtuber is playing it, regardless of its quality. Which is to say, we could largely simply do without them entirely, but at the same time, if you found a "trusted" source, those same reviewers can save you a lot of time and money. IMHO, video game reviews were born out of the same world/cloth that film/movie review is. Its far more useful than game criticism or its degenerate review offspring ever was. Its easy to find videos of the actual gameplay experiences and find out if its something that appeals to you (or not). Now, game coverage, on the other hand, is important and probably better than its ever been. (And I can usually see enough of the UI to form my own impression. Fun, level design, UI and story coherence are basically the only things I want to hear about. Both things you've listed I can see for myself in a video, so if its in a review, they're wasting my time. Now, as for your objective elements- personally I couldn't care less. What's left of criticism has been swallowed by reviews (the degenerate offspring of criticism), and most 'mainstream' gaming sites don't even bother to pretend to do criticism anymore. I mean, specifically game criticism, or game coverage?Ĭriticism is basically a dead genre that very few people know how to do anymore, so you get either squealing fools or bitter complaining, and neither have much to do with the actual product, but the marketing hype they did or didn't swallow.
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