Journalists that cover almost any topic are awful. Almost every word they publish is either bullshit filler or a lie that makes them money.
Video games are unique in that it's extremely easy and inexpensive to buy the products they shill and see they are full of shit when they say it's good. Nobody is buying a bunch of cars to see if automotive journalists are full of shit (they all are). Nobody can afford to buy every piece of hobby related equipment to see that the reviews are all bullshit. As long as a journalist doesn't shill for a product that doesn't work at all, you probably won't notice that the expensive gear you are buying based on reviews is actually extremely average and overpriced.
But it's pretty easy to drop $60 on a 9/10, game of the year - IGN title and see that it's some generic shooter with four hours of single player and $200 worth of dlc. And it's pretty noticable that somehow all the good games you own made by smaller developers that can't afford to bribe the reviewers get low scores despite everyone who plays them saying they are awesome.
. And it’s pretty noticable that somehow all the good games you own made by smaller developers that can’t afford to bribe the reviewers get low scores despite everyone who plays them saying they are awesome.
What are the good games that are getting low scores?
Journalists that cover almost any topic are awful. Almost every word they publish is either bullshit filler or a lie that makes them money.
Video games are unique in that it's extremely easy and inexpensive to buy the products they shill and see they are full of shit when they say it's good. Nobody is buying a bunch of cars to see if automotive journalists are full of shit (they all are). Nobody can afford to buy every piece of hobby related equipment to see that the reviews are all bullshit. As long as a journalist doesn't shill for a product that doesn't work at all, you probably won't notice that the expensive gear you are buying based on reviews is actually extremely average and overpriced.
But it's pretty easy to drop $60 on a 9/10, game of the year - IGN title and see that it's some generic shooter with four hours of single player and $200 worth of dlc. And it's pretty noticable that somehow all the good games you own made by smaller developers that can't afford to bribe the reviewers get low scores despite everyone who plays them saying they are awesome.
What are the good games that are getting low scores?
Idk, but go on metacritic and you can find a ton of games were the journalist and user reviews are very different.