GameSpy inflating review scores

[Revoltor]

You tricky bastard.


I can still use "delusionx" and "yiffusionx"

[RoleTroll]

I'm shocked and disgusted. Next thing you know, they'll be saying professional wrestling is fixed.

[g0zen]

Just STFU. Having spoken with multiple military personnel who have been in Iraq, they will tell you that the way the news portrays the war is biased, but it's not the way you pinkos think.

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

[bbobb]

Just STFU. Having spoken with multiple military personnel who have been in Iraq, they will tell you that the way the news portrays the war is biased, but it's not the way you pinkos think.

Funny, because the people I have talked to who have been their seem to say the opposite.

[g0zen]

Yeah, well Yoshi is either lying (possible) or only talking to soldiers who agree with his politics (probable).

[Master]

Honestly, I think game journalism was a lot better... 8 or 10 years ago. Yea, everyone knows I have a hardon for Next Gen, but that was when they were at their peak. IGN was just getting started off, and their main core sites - PSXPower, Saturnworld, and N64.com - were all fairly solid, and the main core of IGN was the affiliate sites which were all fan run and were varying degrees of excellent. GameSpy was a loose conglomerate of "Planets" like PlanetQuake and what not. But over time, IGN and GameSpy both grew into this humongous, ugly monster that started writing softball interviews, horrible reviews and dull previews with multi-page articles designed to increase click through rates. All the good magazines started to die off (NG, PCXL, GameFan if that was your thing) and EGM/GamePro got shittier with every issue. And then you get crap like this, the playola shit, etc. Its so obvious that these sites are just shills for the game publishers yet very few people care.

Its really bad nowadays, every IGN review looks like Jeremy wrote it. I would like to see a return to smaller sites and more independent ones and hope that IGN withers on the vine. I get most of my game info from TNL because I know that for the most part you guys arent shills the way the big sites are.

The only game journalism I have ever seen was fatbabies.com, which was a glorified insider rumor mill. The rest has always been hype and reviews, hype and reviews. It serves its purpose to get info across and sell games, but it has never been hard hitting IMO.

[recon_zero]

Never...buy...games....just...for...game...sites...reviews......dorks.......*faints*

[johnk_]

sure, gaming journalism sucks, but I think the whole review-score inflation thing (or the question of its actual existence) has been blown way out of proportion by aspiring internet conspiracy theorists.

[g0zen]

Never...buy...games....just...for...game...sites...reviews......dorks.......*faints*

For game sites reviews? You mean because of them, right? Yeah, you shouldn't call people dorks if you can't even form a sentence (we have enough of that around here already). Also, we don't need ellipses mania, we've had that before too and we all thought it was really ghey.

[K3V]

For game sites reviews? You mean because of them, right? Yeah, you shouldn't call people dorks if you can't even form a sentence (we have enough of that around here already). Also, we don't need ellipses mania, we've had that before too and we all thought it was really ghey.

You're just upset because Kim > You.