OsirisBlack
Banned
So I'm sitting here at my computer watching videos of upcoming games being played by the people who write the reviews. These are the people who give their opinions and want them to be taken into serious consideration when you decide which games you will or will not support.This is something I never really noticed before this generation but for some reason it stands out a lot more to me now than it ever did.
I first noticed it while watching a walk-through of the neon powers in Infamous Second Son. The reviewer/host was running around button mashing and made everything from the combat to the traversal look boring and uninspired. Figuring maybe it was just this one guy I decided to watch another video demonstration and sure enough the same thing again.
Fast forward a few months I pick up my copy of second son and am immediately able to fire off head shots incinerating enemies where they stand while simultaneously running circles around enemies scaling walls diving down with comet punches sending others off into the air and trapping the remaining enemies in stasis bubbles to be picked off at my leisure. Where was this gameplay in the review videos?
Recently watching a video of Forza Horizon 2 on a major gaming site the reviewer is constantly crashing into the walls and other cars not purposely, it was pretty hard to watch. After a spin out and a head on collision the guy just resets the track.
Watching some of the gameplay videos coming out of TGS there is one on the Order 1886 where the guy literally sprays himself with thermite. After figuring out that spraying the wall directly in front of him is probably not the best idea he proceeds to show the viewer that he does not even possess basic fundamental third person shooter knowledge.
This does not seem to just happen in one genre of game it seems to be pretty bad across the board. So it leads me to this question shouldn't the people who are getting paid to write reviews and give their opinions on games at least be pretty good at playing games? If not then why should anything they say or write matter?
Edited for Mod Assistance: Can a mod change the word Journalists to reviewer. Thanks
I first noticed it while watching a walk-through of the neon powers in Infamous Second Son. The reviewer/host was running around button mashing and made everything from the combat to the traversal look boring and uninspired. Figuring maybe it was just this one guy I decided to watch another video demonstration and sure enough the same thing again.
Fast forward a few months I pick up my copy of second son and am immediately able to fire off head shots incinerating enemies where they stand while simultaneously running circles around enemies scaling walls diving down with comet punches sending others off into the air and trapping the remaining enemies in stasis bubbles to be picked off at my leisure. Where was this gameplay in the review videos?
Recently watching a video of Forza Horizon 2 on a major gaming site the reviewer is constantly crashing into the walls and other cars not purposely, it was pretty hard to watch. After a spin out and a head on collision the guy just resets the track.
Watching some of the gameplay videos coming out of TGS there is one on the Order 1886 where the guy literally sprays himself with thermite. After figuring out that spraying the wall directly in front of him is probably not the best idea he proceeds to show the viewer that he does not even possess basic fundamental third person shooter knowledge.
This does not seem to just happen in one genre of game it seems to be pretty bad across the board. So it leads me to this question shouldn't the people who are getting paid to write reviews and give their opinions on games at least be pretty good at playing games? If not then why should anything they say or write matter?
Edited for Mod Assistance: Can a mod change the word Journalists to reviewer. Thanks