I've concocted a little experiment for you to focus on the quality of the bulk of the game journalism you're subjecting yourself to in reviews, without an often-inaccurate, uninformative, potentially-dorito-flavoured TL;DR at the end tempting you to bypass the rest. Since I can't create topics, being NeoGaf's account equivalent of a Hollow, this seems like a relevant place to put it.
You don't have to tap cubes, crush servers or make game designers break down in tears, just install this user stylesheet with the Stylish extension for Firefox or Chrome the next time you're about to read a game review. This stylesheet attempts to hide review scores and in-site references to review scores (i.e. comments) on a bunch of gaming sites. If one of your go-to site isn't covered, let me know (or add it yourself and submit a pull request if you're au fait with CSS) - it usually only takes a few minutes to add a new site.
Did you get a good feel for it?
Did it actually inform you in useful ways?
Did you find yourself wanting to know the score?
Was it any better than a long forum post, which tends not to have a score at the end either?
Did you get an unbidden urge for fizzy drinks or fried snacks?
You don't have to tap cubes, crush servers or make game designers break down in tears, just install this user stylesheet with the Stylish extension for Firefox or Chrome the next time you're about to read a game review. This stylesheet attempts to hide review scores and in-site references to review scores (i.e. comments) on a bunch of gaming sites. If one of your go-to site isn't covered, let me know (or add it yourself and submit a pull request if you're au fait with CSS) - it usually only takes a few minutes to add a new site.
Did you get a good feel for it?
Did it actually inform you in useful ways?
Did you find yourself wanting to know the score?
Was it any better than a long forum post, which tends not to have a score at the end either?
Did you get an unbidden urge for fizzy drinks or fried snacks?