This woman doesn’t know what ludo narrative dissonance is. Basically, game play sections are exaggerated (like the swagger of a black teen) and aren’t wholly canon
Dude probably would rather watch Netflix than play any game. So many journalists only work in games because it's an easier industry get into at the bottom.
He reeks of that smug "I know I'm the smartest person in the room" attitude that may work out for him on Reddit but is so off-putting irl. When he dropped the "Well if you think critically..." line it made it obvious to me that he has no problem discounting anyone he feels is beneath him intellectually. He's basically saying "No no, you see I didn't spoil anything at all. I had assumed incorrectly that my audience would be able to think as critically as I do". Like, ok dude. He's so self absorbed I bet he gets aroused by the smell of his own farts.
It's like all those assholes complaining about games having too many optional side quests and collectables, well guess what you don't have to complete an of those.
Game journalist complain about "gamey things" in video games because they hate their job and only do it because gaming outlets hire anyone that isn't illiterate.
Normally, I don't care if I see a review that I disagree with. There's games out there that are popular that I don't like, so I understand. But I can't help but feel a sort of animosity when I see some of my favorite games like Mad Max, Alien Isolation, and Days Gone get grossly underscored and I feel as though they play a huge role in why we never got/will get sequels to them.
It's the reason why they never got a sequel, before releasing Days Gone the devs already planned for a second game. After the release of Alien Isolation, the devs seeing how the game grow they wanted to make a sequel. But then the Game journalist Nation attacked.
What’s up with the re-upload? Answer: He included the “Cuphead Tutorial Fail Controversy” as a Gamespot incident. In reality it was from Venture/Gamebeat (Dean Takahashi). Thanks for addressing it mate!
I remember how much hate they got giving Cyberpunk 2077 release version a 7. The comment section was mad as hell. But a 7 was really generous for this version.
A lot of JRPG fans have truma from mainstream gaming journalism in the late 2000s being xenophobic at best and racist at worst (X Play's review of Baten Kaitos Orgins litterally opens with Morgan Webb doing white replacement) so when Soul Hackers 2 got average scores, JRPG fans were outraged...and all the reviews made by JRPG channels are calling it mid. Soul Hackers 2 falls into 2 camps the first is "I have no strong feelings one way or the other" and the second are fans of the first game like myself "I'm not mad...I'm just disappointed".
A lot of these bad reviews started happening when these companies started hiring “reviewers” that don’t even play games. Brad at Giantbomb was the first open example of this, that I remember. He stated many times that he didn’t have time to play the games he was supposed to be reviewing.
How the fuck they even find 20-somethings that haven't played videogames through their adolescence, I have no idea. It's such a huge pool to draw from. Well, I guess nowadays you get people that only played mobile shit growing up.
Anyone else remember thier orginal written review for Narnia Prince Caspian for the DS? Where it was just an incoherent rambling about a boss battle and the crafting system. It was quickly taken down and repleaced by an actual review.
I think an issue is maybe there just aren’t enough major female characters that aren’t stereotypes. There is depth to some of the male characters, so it’s a fair criticism. I think GTA 6 having the main char being a female should rectify this
If you add easy mode in Dark Souls, people will use it and it's no longer special. So no, not a logical response. That's the issue I have with Final Fantasy remasters adding cheat codes in
I forgot about that meme, but when I realized what was about to be said I straight up made a POG face. That review will forever live in infamy and it’s hilarious
I don't get it, why it that when IGN and Gamespot give low scores to well-received games they get thousands of dislikes and get meme'd and clowned on... but when Dunkey, Yahtzee and Jim Sterling do that exact same thing (on top of insulting the creators and their fans) they get praised and people celebrate them as "the only reviewers who tell the truth"?
Different fanbases. IGN and Gamespot have also built up a reputation for never giving AAA releases anything lower than an 8 or 9, so when something receives a 7 or lower people treat it like a 0/10
Did guy reviewing Tropical Freeze even play the game? He did not like the game as much as I did that is perfectly fair no game is for everyone. But to claim that the levels weren't inventive just seems flat out wrong to me.
Can we all agree today that 8/10 is perfectly fair for TLOU? The comment about Joel was dumb, no question. But maybe the excellent story made us more forgiving of the gameplay than it deserved in hindsight?
I think the wedding scene in Days Gone is pretty clear given the flashback ; Sarah is indeed dead, enabling Deacon to marry his fuckbuddy Boozer (who allways wanted a biker wedding). But his sick mind give him the appearance of his deceased wife to ease the pain of the loss.
He is gauging the hatred for the review based on dislikes on the youtube video and comment section. I think its harder to get an accurate idea of how fans took the Majora's Mask review in 99 way before something like RUclips was created.
What's crazy is that a lot of the points these reviewers make are actually pretty valid, if they had just conveyed their criticisms better people probably wouldn't get upset. Gamers will get upset no matter what the score. Always worth remembering that these reviews are usually done by one person, and that's as low a sample size you can get - it's down to personal feelings when it's just one person. You shouldn't have to justify your purchase of a game based on what reviewers say anyway.
I think the biggest issue with a lot of these is that we’re so used to hyperinflated scores like 9s and 10s being given out to any AAA release that when a game receives a 7 we think that’s calling it a bad game, when a 7 is supposed to mean a game is still pretty good. But to be fair, you expect high ratings from publications like GameSpot or IGN so it’s confusing for sure. Also in general, people online think everything good is a 9/10, when 9/10 should be like top 3 game of the year
Great video. Tone was perfect to reflect the absurd reviews like alien isolation and mad max, and then tempered and fair with the ones given 9s which still came off poorly for gamespot. Those reaction videos for cyberpunk and mad max are brutal.
relax buddy, this isnt instagram or tiktok, youre not gonna harvest those likes by overexaggerating a reaction to something you realistically dont care about. im black and i thought it was was in bad taste but it didnt "literally make my jaw drop". Just like how if he said "this game lacked rythm just like a white person trying to dance" or "the ingredients just werent there, like a white person trying to season food" i wouldnt care and Im sure you wouldnt either. You either prioritise approval from strangers through virtue signaling or you genuinely see the black race as some vulnerable group of people that need to be spoken for and protected by you and your brave white liberal counterparts. Just stop, its embarrassing and quite frankly insulting.
The Alien Isolation review... Did I play the same game as the reviewer? One of the most effective survival horror games I have ever played! And as a huge fan of the first two films they nailed the vibe perfectly.
IGN gives most games a 7 so I'd say that's average I'd say 5 and below - Bad 6 - below average 7 - average 8 - above average 9 - very good 10 - perfect/masterpiece So no an 8 is not bad by any means that's still good
Or people just like it more than you and that's fine. Not everything is because of "hype" I've certainly never liked something because of hype and simply because I think it's neat. If you ask me, rating systems in general are dumb.
@@yipflaptheexecutioner6519 what i mean is just because you like something and other people online like it too doesnt mean its a 10/10 game. The reviewer took a step back and gave it a fair and seemingly accurate review but because of hype (people loving it and knowing others loved it) they assumed it deserved a 10/10 instead of just a fair score with fair criticisms.
Expect if GTA 6 is gonna be scored 6 or 7 by whatever some dummy's points out some problems. Slow pace. Too much things to do. & The one protagonist where you play as a lady in a GTA game gets some criticisms by gaming journalists & haters
Why does everyone treat a 7 or 8 out of 10 like it's a bad thing? 8/10 for TLoU is fine. People act like anything under a 9 means a game is unplayable dog shit. Dumb.
Days gone has never had any love from reviewers for some reason. Yet anyone who has played it knows what an amazing game it is . The story was one of the best I have seen in a video game and the voice acting is brilliant. For anyone who hasn’t played it.. don’t listen to reviewers, go play the Days Gone you will not be disappointed. Such a shame there will never be a sequel
I do appreciate that you pointed out when you thought they actually gave a pretty fair score based on your own experience, yet also explained why others would’ve been angry about it.
I actually agree with the Cyberpunk 2077 review score. It was very mediocre to me. It felt like mediocre gameplay with wrapped in a pretty bow. Not alot of substance
@@fantoniumnitrous It's pretty good now, but at release it was very buggy and mediocre. it's much better now, but probably still only 8/10 at most. Which, unlike most people think is a really good score, I'm not sure why people complain when something gets an 8, that's very above average. 9 and 10s should be reserved for the stellar and "Perfect" games, which even now I'd say Cyberpunk 2077 isn't.
@@xShadowbane451 I rate games much differently. I base it off of 4 main factors: Story, Character Development, Worldbuilding and Gameplay. A game that gets all of that is what I consider a 9/10. Also, I rate games between a 9 (Amazing), 8 (Great), 7 (Good), 6 (Average) & 5 (Mediocre). I'd never give a game a 4, 3, 2, 1 or 10.
@@fantoniumnitrous Ohhh boy, quick note here after writing the uhh novel here, I got a little carried away so feel free to skimp if needed. oops. That's.. a pretty weird way to rate games ngl. If you are not going to use half of the score system why not just do 1 through 5? That's pretty much what you do now, plus games can be less than mediocre. You would really rate Ride to Hell: Retribution a 5 out of 10? Let's say next to something else not nearly as bad, but actually just personifies mediocre like the new Suicide Squad game. I don't really like the 1 through 5 system because of that and your system is kinda' just the same thing but the numbers "higher" for some reason. I'd personally give RTHR a 1 out of 10 and then Suicide Squad a 4 or 5. If you're rating a game by all that, it should also all be on some kind of spectrum, not just good/bad because a story could be pretty good but held back because of some dumb twits that happens 70% through the game that ruins the rest of the experience. Oh sorry, I actually forgot to mention anything about the actual game in question, my bad. Cyberpunk is a pretty good game now, I've actually had a lot of fun with it. But it wasn't at release, as you could barely play it, yes you should add bugs and glitches to the main factors of the games quality, because they directly effect it. If you can pretty much barely play the game because it keeps crashing or you keep phasing through the environment, that directly effects your enjoyment of the game and said game's score should be lowered. The fact is, a video game shouldn't have the customers/gamers bug tests the games for the developers, games should be released in a playable stable state, as that's what is paid for. Bugs/glitches can be a detriment to your enjoyment of the product you paid for and should be represented in any score given at the time. It of course can be updated later, but it could easily stay because the person didn't go back to something they couldn't play.
Red dead is amazing, but i do agree. The gameplay is much better than tlou, but that's mainly because of freedom of choice. The core mechanics are a little bit outdated, and looting is kind of a joke, but i think a 9 is a big low. For me it's a 9.6
‘Wah, someone doesn’t agree with me about a video game I like. It must be because they are clueless and don’t know what they are doing, rather than video games being subjective’
Days Gone is one of my top five games of all time. It definitely deserves a sequel. It solder really well as well. All and all it’s a great game and that’s what most people say who played it.
The Decan and Sarah wedding scene criticism reminds me of the same that Final Fantasy X forced laughing scene with Yuna and Tidus got. It just goes over peoples heads that like to act like they're the smartest people in the room.
Very noteworthy is that both IGN and Gamespot are based in San Francisco. The woke capital of the world. The reviewers portray this stereotype exactly.
@@michaelmiller4105 because the fiction and all the films revolve around car combat and stunts. U see fury road? Imagine if they could've done something like that. Hand to hand but on a caravan of moving vehicles. Maybe jump from one to another like uncharted 3
Imagine someone gives every gta game a bad review because of it being to "unrealistic" of just pulling any weapon out, from an AK to a Rocket Launcher from your character 😂
I disagree with your angle on Days Gone. I think it's a great game overall but a lot of the characters, including Deacon, are one-dimensional. Your point is that Days Gone is a video game, not an Adam Sandler movie. Fair enough. However, if a game throws so much story bullshit on you, one has the right to critizise it. This game was fun, but there was so much potential they wasted. It's a shame we'll never get a sequel.
I disagree with you saying characters in Days Gone is one dimensional. Unfortunately, I can't explain why since it's been years since I played it (but I know they arent one dimensional). Also, can you tell me what bs the story throws to you? But you're right, it deserve a sequel
I understand that it was just an opportunity to clown on the guy at 6:20, but I assume he was leading up to a point? Seems like the clip ended abruptly. Edit: I thought their take on The Last of Us was pretty fair. An 8/10 is a pretty damn good score (other outlet scores shouldn't matter to an individual's take) and the criticisms mentioned seemed valid, even if I find them to be minor issues. For what it's worth, I love both games.
The Red Dead 2 reviewer is forgivable. The game does have shortcomings (Aiming can feel clunky to the point where auto-aim is essentially necessary and some of the side missions are flat out terrible.) Fantastic game overall, but it’s not perfect.
The invisible walls thing is insane. Maybe I got used to them as a PS2 kid, but playing Nier Automata for the first time today has blocked me off from several attempts at where i thought they wanted to go, that isn't stifling my creative attempts it just means that's not where the game wants you to go and that's fine 💀
Uggggghhhhh... The Mad Max reviewer exudes "I think I'm the smartest guy in the room wherever I go". "Well if you think critically 🤓☝️..." Sneakily implying that everyone annoyed at him spoiling one of the final boss fights is an idiot. All he had to say was "sorry, I dropped the ball on that one. While I don't think it was as egregious as some may say, I still acknowledge how disrespectful it may come across to potential players watching our review." See... Easy-peasy. God I usually try to not be openly negative towards people online but this guy is the absolute worst kind of person.
Speaking of Alien Isolation. While it is not Gamespot another alien game Alien Resurrection that was critzied way too harshly, the gave it a bad review as it was the first game to use the dualshock system a system that became a stable for gaming to this day. Like can you believe it?
i feel like that review is only funny in hindsight, at the time that control setup was very uncommon and would be standard for quite awhile, even after Halo released. i give that review some slack considering when the game came out.
Cyberpunk review was on point that poor girl was harassed by morons for speaking the truth before patches that game was just exactly how she mentioned and kudos to her for having balls so say that game was 7 at best
But the core game itself behind the bugs is a definite 9/10 as it's an amazing game. A 7/10 is still pretty ridiculous plus she even admitted to not upgrading or doing some of the sidequests most of the time.
@fantoniumnitrous cyberpunk was fucked on release and completely broken. You can't just hand wave it all and say "well look past the bugs" when the game was nothing but bugs. A 7/10 is a tremendous score for what was released. The game was totally broke
@@StEvEn420BrUlE But what if the game gets patched out which it eventually did but you still gave it a 7/10 because of said bugs? It would make your review looked dated.
@@fantoniumnitrous you are being so obtuse. The game wasn't patched and truly fixed until the DLC came at. Should game reviews just not review games at release at this point? It's not like Cyberpunk had a day 1 patch that fixed all its issues that the build that GameSpot played was lacking. THE GAME WAS BROKEN FOR MONTHS AFTER RELEASE. It honestly didn't deserve a 7/10, it deserved something like a 4
@@StEvEn420BrUlE so now you're being even more dishonest. A buggy game doesn't make it unplayable. They would've still been able to finish the game in its entirety but Kallie Plagge didn't even do a lot of the side missions, let alone upgraded some of her weapons. A 4/10 would just be plain ridiculous.
I get that the low scores hurt MadMax and Alien, but people need to chill when it comes to some of these. RDR2 is a 10, TLoU is really a 8, Cyberpunk is really a 7. You have to take these reviews way too seriously to be offended by a deduction of 1 point out of 10.
Hypothesis : People might consider that those bad reviews are there as punishment because the company refused to follow ESG demands. I'd like to hear if there's truth in that.
@@goldenfiberwheat238 Environmental, Social and Governance - It is a set of criterias parading as "good" , to force inclusivity, diversity, pseudo ecological policies , imposed by investment funds as a mean to blackmail companies into accepting their set of rules, their power ultimately. Basically if a company doesn't accept their set of ideologies, they almost won't have anyone willing to invest money in them . It's not even financial, is truly a slow global power grab to lead to some one global "government" crazyness This is a rabbit hole subject . Truly cannot be explained in a single RUclips comment. Please go and find New Discourses and the videos about ESG and stakeholder capitalism. You will understand what's hidden behind the sheep's clothing. In very short: it's from the people who push wokism and globalism everywhere, constantly.
I'm just gonna say it: the Batman: Arkham combat sucks and it IS repetitive and dumbed-down. That would probably be my biggest turnoff from giving Mad Max a shot. I also think the idea of having fast travel in a game centered around cars is pretty dumb.
Oh dear Lord, that "black teen" sentence. It is like the guy had some kind of corporate mandate to praise representation in the game, but his racism just couldn't fully contain itself.
Man I used to watch/read Gamespot everyday back with gertsmann and when Danny O'Dwyer showed up. Peter Brown, the guy who was voicing over mad Max was incredibly smart on technical video game things but I just can't get past him being an idiot about mad Max. Gives up a big spoiler and just made SO MANY moronic statements about basic video game tropes.
I appreciate the effort you put into your videos. You definitely do not have 'small channel mentality'. If only you put out videos on a more regular basis, the algorithm might be kinder to you.
“If the regular levels were as inventive as the boss battles...” *DK kicking bells to summon vines to slide down. …wha? Oh yeah, that old, tired trope! 😂
I remember I used to watch their review until a Zelda one came out, maybe it was Skyward Sword? I was so offended by it that I never watched a GameSpot review ever again
This video is terrible. Youre bouncing back and forth between objective and subjective like an emotional adolescent. Sure some the reviewers have an agenda sometimes, but they also have opinions; just like you do, as stated at @11:28. So at this point this video should exist. Its okay to make statements, but like I said, once you say "in my opinion" after doing so yourself and tearing down other peoples statements its turns into bigotry.
Yeah i get so annoyed when a dragon in skyrim can burn me and i survive while on full health, but die to a guard in one hit when I'm low on health. So dumb right?
Not even a TLOA fans but the part about doors made me groan. So tired of the fixation with immersion. It's like complaining about the half-second cutscene for a door closing behind you in a 3D Zelda.
There are definitely problems in the way Gamespot does reviews but this is almost entirely people who are insecure that someone else has a different opinion than theirs. Like people are mad at a game not getting a 10 of 10, they need to get real and realize that people have different views. These people just want to be told the thing they like is good and nothing else.
While it's clear the point of the video is to poke fun at game journalists, you end up doing a little bit too much simping for mediocre games. The reality is that most of these games do deserve these scores, but only in a world where 5 is the actual average game score, and not 7-8.
I feel sorry for people that played CyberPunk on console or weak machines, & I admit that some of the promises/expectations weren't met, but what was delivered (to PC users) was still incredible.
Visual perhaps, but many of the bugs still existed on the PC, such as coming out of the all foods building before Jackie in the pickup mission, and the game refusing to progress any further.
I’m not into MMO games so if I gave you my opinion about one I tried my opinion would not be reliable to someone who loves MMOs. So why do these companies who review video games often have people who hate the genre of game doing a review?
The Mad Max reviewer was infuriating.
He has no chin, no jaw, and no brain.
"He kills a Ton of People & never reflects on it" she must absolutely hate Uncharted then 😏
Still one of my all-time favorite game franchises.
This woman doesn’t know what ludo narrative dissonance is. Basically, game play sections are exaggerated (like the swagger of a black teen) and aren’t wholly canon
That dude that reviewed Mad Max doesn't have a clue what he was talking about, he made no sense.. its a GAME!
Dude probably would rather watch Netflix than play any game. So many journalists only work in games because it's an easier industry get into at the bottom.
lol I was just going to comment same thing about the mad max reviewer.. what a joke
He reeks of that smug "I know I'm the smartest person in the room" attitude that may work out for him on Reddit but is so off-putting irl. When he dropped the "Well if you think critically..." line it made it obvious to me that he has no problem discounting anyone he feels is beneath him intellectually. He's basically saying "No no, you see I didn't spoil anything at all. I had assumed incorrectly that my audience would be able to think as critically as I do". Like, ok dude.
He's so self absorbed I bet he gets aroused by the smell of his own farts.
Woah, it is!?!?
Wait it's a game?!
It's so funny how that guy didn't like the fast travel when it's always just an option you can avoid entirely...
Having options changes the game though.
It literally doesn’t if you don’t, wait for it… exercise that option!
It's like all those assholes complaining about games having too many optional side quests and collectables, well guess what you don't have to complete an of those.
@@user-oj7co5wm8g By that logic let's add the autowin button for every combat in the game. But you don't have to press it!
@@stravvman literally wouldn't matter because again.... you don't have to press it. So stop complaining
Game journalist complain about "gamey things" in video games because they hate their job and only do it because gaming outlets hire anyone that isn't illiterate.
When you realize gaming corporate would manipulate reviews…
I wonder how Team Ninja handled it.
A lot of gaming journalists nowadays looks like someone who would prefer be writing to VICE. Not the old VICE, the modern one that is now dead.
@@theLikou1 What do you mean its dead...!?
@@fernie-fernandez They fired a lot of people and announced a reestruturation. And they just announced that they will stop posting on their site.
@@theLikou1 I didn't think Vice had a blog, other than a TV channel...
If you didn't know, the girl who reviewed Days Gone is the "too much water" reviewer when she was at IGN.
Normally, I don't care if I see a review that I disagree with. There's games out there that are popular that I don't like, so I understand. But I can't help but feel a sort of animosity when I see some of my favorite games like Mad Max, Alien Isolation, and Days Gone get grossly underscored and I feel as though they play a huge role in why we never got/will get sequels to them.
It's the reason why they never got a sequel, before releasing Days Gone the devs already planned for a second game. After the release of Alien Isolation, the devs seeing how the game grow they wanted to make a sequel. But then the Game journalist Nation attacked.
Great video. This is really full of the exaggerated sarcasm of a british man. It gives me goosebumps.
Cheers, JJ mate!
What’s up with the re-upload? Answer: He included the “Cuphead Tutorial Fail Controversy” as a Gamespot incident. In reality it was from Venture/Gamebeat (Dean Takahashi). Thanks for addressing it mate!
Thanks for letting me know, mate. I think it was you that pointed it out? No idea why I thought it was. Mandela effect?
@@tominator4468 Yep, I’m the culprit for giving you some extra work :) Having “Games” in the name for both sites definitely doesn’t help.
@@tominator4468dude i could’ve sworn it was too!
You should see Dean's doom eternal review
I remember how much hate they got giving Cyberpunk 2077 release version a 7. The comment section was mad as hell. But a 7 was really generous for this version.
Its still generous
Hell, I would probably give Cyberpunk 1.0 a 6 or 7, 2.0 (without PL) an 8, and Phantom Liberty by itself a 9.
A lot of JRPG fans have truma from mainstream gaming journalism in the late 2000s being xenophobic at best and racist at worst (X Play's review of Baten Kaitos Orgins litterally opens with Morgan Webb doing white replacement) so when Soul Hackers 2 got average scores, JRPG fans were outraged...and all the reviews made by JRPG channels are calling it mid. Soul Hackers 2 falls into 2 camps the first is "I have no strong feelings one way or the other" and the second are fans of the first game like myself "I'm not mad...I'm just disappointed".
A lot of these bad reviews started happening when these companies started hiring “reviewers” that don’t even play games.
Brad at Giantbomb was the first open example of this, that I remember. He stated many times that he didn’t have time to play the games he was supposed to be reviewing.
It’s more devious than you’re alluding to.
for them is more important to hire someone who can write well
That’s just a fucking lie lol
How the fuck they even find 20-somethings that haven't played videogames through their adolescence, I have no idea. It's such a huge pool to draw from. Well, I guess nowadays you get people that only played mobile shit growing up.
That Mad Max Reviewer wanted to be “too clever” & couldn’t back up any of his points/critiques ..
Maybe he didn't enjoy Alien: Isolation because he only was walking and opening doors and nothing else.
Anyone else remember thier orginal written review for Narnia Prince Caspian for the DS? Where it was just an incoherent rambling about a boss battle and the crafting system. It was quickly taken down and repleaced by an actual review.
No, but you got me curious.
@@theLikou1 Sadly there seems to be no trace of it, not even on the Wayback machine. The only mention of it is an editor's note on the revised review.
I never heard about this
...Nobody comes off good in GTA games, male or female.
Kind of the point. In those games, most people suck.
yeah, no one is safe in gta
I think an issue is maybe there just aren’t enough major female characters that aren’t stereotypes. There is depth to some of the male characters, so it’s a fair criticism. I think GTA 6 having the main char being a female should rectify this
More proof "professional" critics are not always better than average and ordinary people who review things.
In the Mad Max game, what is wrong with fast travel?? Just don’t use it if you’re against it 🤷♂️
Good video btw 👍
If you add easy mode in Dark Souls, people will use it and it's no longer special. So no, not a logical response. That's the issue I have with Final Fantasy remasters adding cheat codes in
I forgot about that meme, but when I realized what was about to be said I straight up made a POG face. That review will forever live in infamy and it’s hilarious
I don't get it, why it that when IGN and Gamespot give low scores to well-received games they get thousands of dislikes and get meme'd and clowned on... but when Dunkey, Yahtzee and Jim Sterling do that exact same thing (on top of insulting the creators and their fans) they get praised and people celebrate them as "the only reviewers who tell the truth"?
IGN and Gamespot's audience is comprised of very stupid people.
Different fanbases. IGN and Gamespot have also built up a reputation for never giving AAA releases anything lower than an 8 or 9, so when something receives a 7 or lower people treat it like a 0/10
Jim Sterling and Yahtzee are laugh out loud funny.
Gamespot really wanting that 15 min unskippable cutscene where your MC cries over having killed someone, every time you kill someone
Did guy reviewing Tropical Freeze even play the game? He did not like the game as much as I did that is perfectly fair no game is for everyone. But to claim that the levels weren't inventive just seems flat out wrong to me.
Wow, did he really say the exaggerated swagger of a black teen!?!?!
If people didn't know what he was talking about they wouldn't have known to be offended.
@@johnhein2539you don’t have to be racist to recognise a racist trope when you hear one
Black tient.
Apparently so and that doesn't soubd racist at all..
Oh wait it does.
I’m pretty sure the Miles Morales reviewer was balck himself.
The actual reason the comment got meme’d is because of how absurd and funny it is.
Can we all agree today that 8/10 is perfectly fair for TLOU? The comment about Joel was dumb, no question. But maybe the excellent story made us more forgiving of the gameplay than it deserved in hindsight?
Yeah I agree. I didn't beat it, but the story is a 9.5, gameplay is probably a 7. I think 8 is fair for the game
I think the wedding scene in Days Gone is pretty clear given the flashback ; Sarah is indeed dead, enabling Deacon to marry his fuckbuddy Boozer (who allways wanted a biker wedding). But his sick mind give him the appearance of his deceased wife to ease the pain of the loss.
I’m really surprised Gerstmann’s Majora’s Mask review isn’t on here. He got a ton of heat for that one.
He is gauging the hatred for the review based on dislikes on the youtube video and comment section. I think its harder to get an accurate idea of how fans took the Majora's Mask review in 99 way before something like RUclips was created.
What's crazy is that a lot of the points these reviewers make are actually pretty valid, if they had just conveyed their criticisms better people probably wouldn't get upset. Gamers will get upset no matter what the score.
Always worth remembering that these reviews are usually done by one person, and that's as low a sample size you can get - it's down to personal feelings when it's just one person. You shouldn't have to justify your purchase of a game based on what reviewers say anyway.
Biggest example is what the mad max guy said about spoiling the boss fight. He’s completely right, but he should’ve at least apologized for it
Great to see you back mate. Awesome video as usual. Any chance you'll be doing any more retro vids in the future? Love your back again anyway mate
Ah, thanks Toejam mate! Yeah, the next video I have in mind is based around the NES. Haven't started on it yet, but I think it'll make a cool video.
One thing i absolutely fucking hate is when gamers complain about an option or a game mechanic THAT IS COMPLETELY OPTIONAL
I think the biggest issue with a lot of these is that we’re so used to hyperinflated scores like 9s and 10s being given out to any AAA release that when a game receives a 7 we think that’s calling it a bad game, when a 7 is supposed to mean a game is still pretty good. But to be fair, you expect high ratings from publications like GameSpot or IGN so it’s confusing for sure. Also in general, people online think everything good is a 9/10, when 9/10 should be like top 3 game of the year
In addition, the reviewers themselves sometimes acting like 5-7 or even 8 is bad
Great video. Tone was perfect to reflect the absurd reviews like alien isolation and mad max, and then tempered and fair with the ones given 9s which still came off poorly for gamespot. Those reaction videos for cyberpunk and mad max are brutal.
"Is just full of the exaggerated swagger of a black teen." First time hearing this and it literally made my jaw drop. What the hell!?
relax buddy, this isnt instagram or tiktok, youre not gonna harvest those likes by overexaggerating a reaction to something you realistically dont care about. im black and i thought it was was in bad taste but it didnt "literally make my jaw drop". Just like how if he said "this game lacked rythm just like a white person trying to dance" or "the ingredients just werent there, like a white person trying to season food" i wouldnt care and Im sure you wouldnt either. You either prioritise approval from strangers through virtue signaling or you genuinely see the black race as some vulnerable group of people that need to be spoken for and protected by you and your brave white liberal counterparts. Just stop, its embarrassing and quite frankly insulting.
I feel like this list started off strong but then just turned into fair reviews that prove that capital-g Gamers are babies.
The Alien Isolation review... Did I play the same game as the reviewer? One of the most effective survival horror games I have ever played! And as a huge fan of the first two films they nailed the vibe perfectly.
Wait 8 is a bad score now? I mean I enjoyed TLOU but it’s not perfect
It's a combination of the PS fanboys and the way he phrases things he didn't like.
im curious to know what you dont like abt it, feel free to write a paragraph
IGN gives most games a 7 so I'd say that's average
I'd say
5 and below - Bad
6 - below average
7 - average
8 - above average
9 - very good
10 - perfect/masterpiece
So no an 8 is not bad by any means that's still good
@@handheldnintendofan An 8 in IGN means ok. They are really bad at scores.
Imagine being upset because your favorite game got a 9/10
That last of us review actually seems really fair. I think people just believed the hype too much.
Agreed 8 is about right honestly, definitely not 10/10
I completed TLOU 1 in 2020. The story is good, the gameplay is okay. It's just a quality good game. So, 8/10 is fair enough
Or people just like it more than you and that's fine. Not everything is because of "hype"
I've certainly never liked something because of hype and simply because I think it's neat. If you ask me, rating systems in general are dumb.
@@yipflaptheexecutioner6519 what i mean is just because you like something and other people online like it too doesnt mean its a 10/10 game. The reviewer took a step back and gave it a fair and seemingly accurate review but because of hype (people loving it and knowing others loved it) they assumed it deserved a 10/10 instead of just a fair score with fair criticisms.
Expect if GTA 6 is gonna be scored 6 or 7 by whatever some dummy's points out some problems. Slow pace. Too much things to do. & The one protagonist where you play as a lady in a GTA game gets some criticisms by gaming journalists & haters
Why does everyone treat a 7 or 8 out of 10 like it's a bad thing? 8/10 for TLoU is fine. People act like anything under a 9 means a game is unplayable dog shit. Dumb.
Days gone has never had any love from reviewers for some reason. Yet anyone who has played it knows what an amazing game it is .
The story was one of the best I have seen in a video game and the voice acting is brilliant.
For anyone who hasn’t played it.. don’t listen to reviewers, go play the Days Gone you will not be disappointed.
Such a shame there will never be a sequel
I do appreciate that you pointed out when you thought they actually gave a pretty fair score based on your own experience, yet also explained why others would’ve been angry about it.
I actually agree with the Cyberpunk 2077 review score. It was very mediocre to me. It felt like mediocre gameplay with wrapped in a pretty bow. Not alot of substance
That game deserved a 9/10. It's still an amazing game besides it's extremely buggy release
@@fantoniumnitrous It's pretty good now, but at release it was very buggy and mediocre. it's much better now, but probably still only 8/10 at most. Which, unlike most people think is a really good score, I'm not sure why people complain when something gets an 8, that's very above average. 9 and 10s should be reserved for the stellar and "Perfect" games, which even now I'd say Cyberpunk 2077 isn't.
@@xShadowbane451 I rate games much differently. I base it off of 4 main factors: Story, Character Development, Worldbuilding and Gameplay. A game that gets all of that is what I consider a 9/10. Also, I rate games between a 9 (Amazing), 8 (Great), 7 (Good), 6 (Average) & 5 (Mediocre). I'd never give a game a 4, 3, 2, 1 or 10.
@@xShadowbane451 never add bugs and glitches as the main factors of a game's quality. IGN learnt that the hard way with their Prey (2017) review.
@@fantoniumnitrous Ohhh boy, quick note here after writing the uhh novel here, I got a little carried away so feel free to skimp if needed. oops.
That's.. a pretty weird way to rate games ngl. If you are not going to use half of the score system why not just do 1 through 5? That's pretty much what you do now, plus games can be less than mediocre. You would really rate Ride to Hell: Retribution a 5 out of 10? Let's say next to something else not nearly as bad, but actually just personifies mediocre like the new Suicide Squad game. I don't really like the 1 through 5 system because of that and your system is kinda' just the same thing but the numbers "higher" for some reason. I'd personally give RTHR a 1 out of 10 and then Suicide Squad a 4 or 5.
If you're rating a game by all that, it should also all be on some kind of spectrum, not just good/bad because a story could be pretty good but held back because of some dumb twits that happens 70% through the game that ruins the rest of the experience.
Oh sorry, I actually forgot to mention anything about the actual game in question, my bad. Cyberpunk is a pretty good game now, I've actually had a lot of fun with it. But it wasn't at release, as you could barely play it, yes you should add bugs and glitches to the main factors of the games quality, because they directly effect it. If you can pretty much barely play the game because it keeps crashing or you keep phasing through the environment, that directly effects your enjoyment of the game and said game's score should be lowered. The fact is, a video game shouldn't have the customers/gamers bug tests the games for the developers, games should be released in a playable stable state, as that's what is paid for. Bugs/glitches can be a detriment to your enjoyment of the product you paid for and should be represented in any score given at the time. It of course can be updated later, but it could easily stay because the person didn't go back to something they couldn't play.
The spider man review had me absolutely dying with laughter. How did I miss that 😂😂😂
A 7/10 is a bad score? It's literally above average. Way higher than I would've given Cyberpunk.
Even though some of the reviews were unfairly disliked. We can all agree that the first one lives up as one of the worst game reviews all the time.
Red dead is amazing, but i do agree. The gameplay is much better than tlou, but that's mainly because of freedom of choice. The core mechanics are a little bit outdated, and looting is kind of a joke, but i think a 9 is a big low. For me it's a 9.6
10:07 "The art direction insists upon itself, Lois. It *insists* upon itself"
‘Wah, someone doesn’t agree with me about a video game I like. It must be because they are clueless and don’t know what they are doing, rather than video games being subjective’
Days Gone is one of my top five games of all time. It definitely deserves a sequel. It solder really well as well. All and all it’s a great game and that’s what most people say who played it.
Zombie fad is dead. Go back to 2012
The Decan and Sarah wedding scene criticism reminds me of the same that Final Fantasy X forced laughing scene with Yuna and Tidus got. It just goes over peoples heads that like to act like they're the smartest people in the room.
lol nah FFX was cringe af.
@@Brahaja Yeah outta context without knowing or acknowledgint scenes before that. You'd sound like a perfect fit at GameSpot or IGN.
The dude that reviewed MadMax either never played a video game or had something personal against the studio lol.
Very noteworthy is that both IGN and Gamespot are based in San Francisco. The woke capital of the world. The reviewers portray this stereotype exactly.
As dumb as that Mad Max review was, you would think the final boss fight would be vehicular
Why?
@@michaelmiller4105 because the fiction and all the films revolve around car combat and stunts. U see fury road? Imagine if they could've done something like that. Hand to hand but on a caravan of moving vehicles. Maybe jump from one to another like uncharted 3
@@mgiebus1869 fury road isn’t the only mad max movie. He fights hand to hand plenty in the other 3 educate yourself
@@michaelmiller4105 I had a feeling you were just a fool looking for a fight. I own all the mad max movies dummy. The cars are what it's all about
@@michaelmiller4105 I own all the Mad Max films. It's about the cars dummy
Imagine someone gives every gta game a bad review because of it being to "unrealistic" of just pulling any weapon out, from an AK to a Rocket Launcher from your character 😂
I disagree with your angle on Days Gone. I think it's a great game overall but a lot of the characters, including Deacon, are one-dimensional. Your point is that Days Gone is a video game, not an Adam Sandler movie. Fair enough. However, if a game throws so much story bullshit on you, one has the right to critizise it. This game was fun, but there was so much potential they wasted. It's a shame we'll never get a sequel.
I disagree with you saying characters in Days Gone is one dimensional. Unfortunately, I can't explain why since it's been years since I played it (but I know they arent one dimensional). Also, can you tell me what bs the story throws to you? But you're right, it deserve a sequel
I understand that it was just an opportunity to clown on the guy at 6:20, but I assume he was leading up to a point? Seems like the clip ended abruptly.
Edit: I thought their take on The Last of Us was pretty fair. An 8/10 is a pretty damn good score (other outlet scores shouldn't matter to an individual's take) and the criticisms mentioned seemed valid, even if I find them to be minor issues. For what it's worth, I love both games.
That DKCTF review was horrid
The Red Dead 2 reviewer is forgivable. The game does have shortcomings (Aiming can feel clunky to the point where auto-aim is essentially necessary and some of the side missions are flat out terrible.)
Fantastic game overall, but it’s not perfect.
The invisible walls thing is insane. Maybe I got used to them as a PS2 kid, but playing Nier Automata for the first time today has blocked me off from several attempts at where i thought they wanted to go, that isn't stifling my creative attempts it just means that's not where the game wants you to go and that's fine 💀
Uggggghhhhh... The Mad Max reviewer exudes "I think I'm the smartest guy in the room wherever I go".
"Well if you think critically 🤓☝️..."
Sneakily implying that everyone annoyed at him spoiling one of the final boss fights is an idiot. All he had to say was "sorry, I dropped the ball on that one. While I don't think it was as egregious as some may say, I still acknowledge how disrespectful it may come across to potential players watching our review." See... Easy-peasy. God I usually try to not be openly negative towards people online but this guy is the absolute worst kind of person.
Speaking of Alien Isolation. While it is not Gamespot another alien game Alien Resurrection that was critzied way too harshly, the gave it a bad review as it was the first game to use the dualshock system a system that became a stable for gaming to this day. Like can you believe it?
i feel like that review is only funny in hindsight, at the time that control setup was very uncommon and would be standard for quite awhile, even after Halo released. i give that review some slack considering when the game came out.
Cyberpunk review was on point that poor girl was harassed by morons for speaking the truth before patches that game was just exactly how she mentioned and kudos to her for having balls so say that game was 7 at best
But the core game itself behind the bugs is a definite 9/10 as it's an amazing game. A 7/10 is still pretty ridiculous plus she even admitted to not upgrading or doing some of the sidequests most of the time.
@fantoniumnitrous cyberpunk was fucked on release and completely broken. You can't just hand wave it all and say "well look past the bugs" when the game was nothing but bugs. A 7/10 is a tremendous score for what was released. The game was totally broke
@@StEvEn420BrUlE But what if the game gets patched out which it eventually did but you still gave it a 7/10 because of said bugs? It would make your review looked dated.
@@fantoniumnitrous you are being so obtuse. The game wasn't patched and truly fixed until the DLC came at. Should game reviews just not review games at release at this point? It's not like Cyberpunk had a day 1 patch that fixed all its issues that the build that GameSpot played was lacking. THE GAME WAS BROKEN FOR MONTHS AFTER RELEASE. It honestly didn't deserve a 7/10, it deserved something like a 4
@@StEvEn420BrUlE so now you're being even more dishonest. A buggy game doesn't make it unplayable. They would've still been able to finish the game in its entirety but Kallie Plagge didn't even do a lot of the side missions, let alone upgraded some of her weapons. A 4/10 would just be plain ridiculous.
20:45 referring to Sisyphus, the Greek guy forced to roll a boulder up a mountain for eternity
We should have the courage to say when the massive dislikes were unfair. RDR2 getting disliked like that was unfair imo.
Days gone is the most underrated game ever
I get that the low scores hurt MadMax and Alien, but people need to chill when it comes to some of these. RDR2 is a 10, TLoU is really a 8, Cyberpunk is really a 7. You have to take these reviews way too seriously to be offended by a deduction of 1 point out of 10.
"Super Mario Bros Wii is a tough game"
It's literally like one of the easiest 2d mario games.
Hypothesis : People might consider that those bad reviews are there as punishment because the company refused to follow ESG demands.
I'd like to hear if there's truth in that.
What’s esg
@@goldenfiberwheat238
Environmental, Social and Governance -
It is a set of criterias parading as "good" , to force inclusivity, diversity, pseudo ecological policies , imposed by investment funds as a mean to blackmail companies into accepting their set of rules, their power ultimately. Basically if a company doesn't accept their set of ideologies, they almost won't have anyone willing to invest money in them . It's not even financial, is truly a slow global power grab to lead to some one global "government" crazyness
This is a rabbit hole subject . Truly cannot be explained in a single RUclips comment.
Please go and find New Discourses and the videos about ESG and stakeholder capitalism. You will understand what's hidden behind the sheep's clothing.
In very short: it's from the people who push wokism and globalism everywhere, constantly.
"Feminism in gaming" 😮😂😂
I'm just gonna say it: the Batman: Arkham combat sucks and it IS repetitive and dumbed-down. That would probably be my biggest turnoff from giving Mad Max a shot. I also think the idea of having fast travel in a game centered around cars is pretty dumb.
Oh dear Lord, that "black teen" sentence. It is like the guy had some kind of corporate mandate to praise representation in the game, but his racism just couldn't fully contain itself.
Is there a The Top Ten Most Disliked Kotaku Reviews of All Time video?
I got mad Max for 5$ and absolutely loved it. It is kinda janky but it's so worth it.
Great video and great to see you again!
Cheers, Alex mate! thanks for watching!
mad max and ghosts of tshuima are way better than donkey kong lmao shouldve been higher
Donkey Kong eats both of those games for breakfast.
Mad Max is a fantastic game. This is why I miss Gametrailers.
They are still around! Look for Easy Allies. They are the same GameTrailers people.
Man I used to watch/read Gamespot everyday back with gertsmann and when Danny O'Dwyer showed up. Peter Brown, the guy who was voicing over mad Max was incredibly smart on technical video game things but I just can't get past him being an idiot about mad Max. Gives up a big spoiler and just made SO MANY moronic statements about basic video game tropes.
Till the end of time, I’ll never forgive either IGN or GameSpot for trashing Alien Isolation.
I appreciate the effort you put into your videos. You definitely do not have 'small channel mentality'. If only you put out videos on a more regular basis, the algorithm might be kinder to you.
I love the Battle for Bikini Bottom review so much. The fact that it’s so blatantly clear that the reviewer just sucks at the game is so magical.
21:32, tbf, just because they were "the done thing" at the time doesn't make the design decision any worse and it's actually fair criticism.
7:28 idk man that sounds reasonable to me. However the guys kinda a jerk about it. He still should’ve apologized
omg that ending sent me 😂 great vid man cheers
Glad you enjoyed it, hotdog mate. Thanks for watching!
“If the regular levels were as inventive as the boss battles...”
*DK kicking bells to summon vines to slide down.
…wha? Oh yeah, that old, tired trope! 😂
I remember I used to watch their review until a Zelda one came out, maybe it was Skyward Sword? I was so offended by it that I never watched a GameSpot review ever again
This video is terrible. Youre bouncing back and forth between objective and subjective like an emotional adolescent. Sure some the reviewers have an agenda sometimes, but they also have opinions; just like you do, as stated at @11:28. So at this point this video should exist. Its okay to make statements, but like I said, once you say "in my opinion" after doing so yourself and tearing down other peoples statements its turns into bigotry.
Saying that Days Gone is a bad game is simply NOT an opinion! It's Bad Caratism!
This video gave me a great idea. Whenever I need a new game to play I’ll just go on gamespot or ign and find their most disliked reviews lol
Yeah i get so annoyed when a dragon in skyrim can burn me and i survive while on full health, but die to a guard in one hit when I'm low on health. So dumb right?
Not even a TLOA fans but the part about doors made me groan. So tired of the fixation with immersion. It's like complaining about the half-second cutscene for a door closing behind you in a 3D Zelda.
Well, it seems to me that Gamespot only hire people who can't/don't like to play videogames for fun...
There are definitely problems in the way Gamespot does reviews but this is almost entirely people who are insecure that someone else has a different opinion than theirs. Like people are mad at a game not getting a 10 of 10, they need to get real and realize that people have different views. These people just want to be told the thing they like is good and nothing else.
Imagine if they made the mad max reviewer play eldin ring …
you know i am surprised that the Kain and Lynch review isn't on here which is probably the most notorious review that was done....list wise
The review wasn't disliked, the firing of the reviewer was.
Literally mentioned at the beginning of the video. And the review wasn't hated. It was the fallout of the review that was remembered.
While it's clear the point of the video is to poke fun at game journalists, you end up doing a little bit too much simping for mediocre games. The reality is that most of these games do deserve these scores, but only in a world where 5 is the actual average game score, and not 7-8.
How?
Is this the latest episode of Eastenders?
Subtitles to the rescue lol
I feel sorry for people that played CyberPunk on console or weak machines, & I admit that some of the promises/expectations weren't met, but what was delivered (to PC users) was still incredible.
Visual perhaps, but many of the bugs still existed on the PC, such as coming out of the all foods building before Jackie in the pickup mission, and the game refusing to progress any further.
amazing job! thank you for some wonderful 26 minutes!
Cheers, rks! Glad you liked it, mate!
Since when were there “zombies” in Days Gone? Are they corpses who have risen from the grave?
Lol, owned!
I’m not into MMO games so if I gave you my opinion about one I tried my opinion would not be reliable to someone who loves MMOs. So why do these companies who review video games often have people who hate the genre of game doing a review?
How come you didn't mention their review of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess?
But the AI is The Last of Us is absolutely terrible. An 8 in this instance is completely justified IMO.
Bad AI doesn't equal a bad game
@@fantoniumnitrouswhen a major part of the game is combat that depends on AI yes it does