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Sep 28, 2012
- by RabidChihuahua
- posted in Siliconera Bounce
While I'm cyncial of all reviewing websites, my victim of choice now is IGN. To me, they're kinda like the Roger Ebert of reviewing videogames, as I sometimes agree with what they laud, but sometimes I disagree like mad with them. They even admit to being biased-as-fuck with the following.
"And yes, sometimes people are eager to play games that turn out to be really bad. No one wants to review just the AAA titles. It gets boring after a while to write high praise for everything."
As you can see by this quote, they don't have any interest in giving games from lesser-known developers much of a chance, as they only seem interested in showering praise to the "blockbusters" from big studios. I didn't pull that quote out of my ass, you can find it here (under the "How do you decide who gets to review what games?" header).
Between them slamming brilliant games like Metro 2033 (brilliant) for the stupidest of reasons while mindlessly fellating underwhelming "blockbuster" games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for "cookie cutter" reasons, I never take their critiques seriously.
I still hate IGN, though I think Gamespot deserves much more venemous hatred for them actually firing their editorial director for publishing a lukewarm review for Kane & Lynch.
"And yes, sometimes people are eager to play games that turn out to be really bad. No one wants to review just the AAA titles. It gets boring after a while to write high praise for everything."
As you can see by this quote, they don't have any interest in giving games from lesser-known developers much of a chance, as they only seem interested in showering praise to the "blockbusters" from big studios. I didn't pull that quote out of my ass, you can find it here (under the "How do you decide who gets to review what games?" header).
Between them slamming brilliant games like Metro 2033 (brilliant) for the stupidest of reasons while mindlessly fellating underwhelming "blockbuster" games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for "cookie cutter" reasons, I never take their critiques seriously.
I still hate IGN, though I think Gamespot deserves much more venemous hatred for them actually firing their editorial director for publishing a lukewarm review for Kane & Lynch.
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David Kozak (RabidChihuahua)
I'm a morbid cynic who thinks very, very differently from most other people. Chances are, if the majority says X is the greatest in its category, I'll disagree with that notion, because I tend … more
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And I don't see anything wrong with not wanting to praise everything. If it was up to the average fanboy, that's exactly how reviews would be. Look at the 5 star reviews on MIndjack dude, which is a completely broken game. I seen plenty of discussions where Lollipop Chainsaw was handed perfect 10's and 5's by people admitting the huge flaws and slamming IGN for pointing those things out. Personally, I will trust IGN long before many other magazines and other review sites.
True, there were a lot of die hard Duke Nukem fans that didn't like Duke Nukem forever, but there were a good deal of die hard DN fans that liked DNF. I know they've also showered praise to games that I deeply cherish, but something tells me that if the Dead Space games came from an indie game studio, IGN wouldn't have given it much praise.
But in some ways, I think I can sympathize where RabidChihuahua is coming from with his frustration. For example, GOD HAND, I know, was praised by a lot of publications as being an excellent budget title that could have revived the beat-em-up genre. IGN however, totally panned it. Iirc, prior to the advent of Bennett the Sage, IGN's review of DOOMED MEGALOPOLIS was one of the most frustrating negative reviews of the anime I had ever encountered on the internet. It also seemed to me that back in the early days, their positive reviews of high profile titles would go on and on and on for pages while their negative reviews of lesser known titles would stop under a page, creating an unbalanced approach. I think they've improved in recent years though.