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[nkarafo]

It can be something from a magazine or site. Old or new.

I'm going with the original DOOM review from EDGE magazine.

They gave it a 7/10, which isn't completely terrible but the reviewer was literally complaining DOOM isn't a different game. He thought it would be a better game if you could... talk to the monsters?. Basically he wanted an RPG or something so he criticized it for being an action game. That's like taking off points from, dunno, Super Mario Bros because you would prefer if Mario could hop into a car and compete in a rally tournament. Or whatever else you can think off, there are infinite analogies.

This review made me lose all respect i had for the mag.

Could there be a worse one?

 

[Yoboman]

God Hand IGN cannot be topped

 

[TKOFromTokyo]

God Hand IGN cannot be topped

This

 

[nkarafo]

Here's the second worst one for me, it was either that or DOOM

This is from the Turok 2 review in N64 magazine:

Whoever played the N64 version of Turok 2 knows pretty well the game is almost unplayable in high-res mode and even at low-res, the frame rates are atrocious. That reviewer blatantly lied and cost me a lot of money because if i knew about this i wouldn't buy the game.

 

[nush]

It can be something from a magazine or site. Old or new.

I'm going with the original DOOM review from EDGE magazine.

They gave it a 7/10, which isn't completely terrible but the reviewer was literally complaining DOOM isn't a different game. He thought it would be a better game if you could... talk to the monsters?. Basically he wanted an RPG or something so he criticized it for being an action game. That's like taking off points from, dunno, Super Mario Bros because you would prefer if Mario could hop into a car and compete in a rally tournament. Or whatever else you can think off, there are infinite analogies.

This review made me lose all respect i had for the mag.

Could there be a worse one?

That's the Doom II review, OG Doom was released in 1993.

 

[nkarafo]

That's the Doom II review, OG Doom was released in 1993.

Nope, it's the original DOOM. The picture is from the original DOOM, the level that has a map that looks like a pentagram.

It was released very late in 1993, by the time reviews start rolling in it was 1994 already.

DOOM 2 was also released in late 1994 as well, much later than this review was published in April of that year.

 

[FromDuskTillGameOver]

IGN on Alien Isolation

And that hole Dr3ver review conspiracy drama.

 

[Kadayi]

Review: Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men was one of the most notorious games of this generation. Famously bad, the game made...

www.destructoid.com

Dog Days wasn't amazing (I'd give it a 6:10), but a 1:10 was just Jim giving EIDOS (and IO Interactive) the finger on Metacritic to crater its overall score because he bought in wholesale to the conceit that EDIOS pressured Gamespot into Firing Jeff Gerstmann for his Less than stellar review of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

However, turns out that narrative was utter BS. When Gerstmann and Gamespot settled their differences when Giantbomb joined them via merger the legal NDA got lifted as part of the deal and Gerstmann did a lengthy interview with John Davison and cleared the air on what really happened.



Turns out his firing was the result of a newly appointed (inept and short-lived) manager not really understanding the new reviews system they'd implemented a few months before and the usual too and fro between PR etc. The Manager had already been getting antsy about review scores prior to K&L. So everyone pointing the finger at EDIOS were really blaming the wrong people in the equation.

Even Gerstmann himself gave Dog Days a 6/10

I kind of view this as the point where activist reviewing started tbh

Sterling never talked back that score either once it all came out which is why I largely take anything he says with a hefty pinch of salt.

 

[Calverz]

Review: Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men was one of the most notorious games of this generation. Famously bad, the game made...

www.destructoid.com

Dog Days wasn't amazing (I'd give it a 6:10), but a 1:10 was just Jim giving EIDOS (and IO Interactive) the finger on Metacritic to crater it's overall score because he bought in wholesale to the conceit that EDIOS pressured Gamespot into Firing Jeff Gerstmann for his Less than stellar review of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

However, turns out that narrative was utter BS. When Gerstmann and Gamespot settled their differences when Giantbomb joined them via merger the legal NDA got lifted as part of the deal and Gerstmann did a lengthy interview with John Davison and cleared the air on what really happened.



Turns out his firing was the result of a newly appointed (inept and short-lived) manager not really understanding the new reviews system they'd implemented a few months before and the usual too and fro between PR etc. The Manager had already been getting antsy about review scores prior to K&L. So everyone pointing the finger at EDIOS were really blaming the wrong people in the equation.

Even Gerstmann himself gave Dog Days a 6/10

I kind of view this as the point where activist reviewing started tbh

Beaten

 

[Tschumi]

I haven't a very long memory for these things but I'm imagining Duke Nukem Forever (that more recent one?) getting some pretty deep shade cast upon it

 

[nkarafo]

Edge also gave a mediocre review for Super Metroid, of all things.

The authors of the magazine just couldn't detect the game changers in the mid 90's.

 

[GreyHorace]

Not a published review but I always thought Adam Sessler's review of Grand Theft Auto 5 for Rev3 games was completely pretentious bollocks.

"In the end Grand Theft Auto 5 is a monument to early 21st century popular culture popular thought and popular values, all wrapped up in a noxious cavalcade of miscreants sick of fans and narcissists everybody wants everything and only privilege and subterfuge can get you there.

I can imagine 200 years from now like our reading of Dickens the game will be regarded as a catalogue of our contemporary travails and accelerated reality bearing more truth than just gazing at our own reflection."

 

[Ogbert]

Not a published review but I always thought Adam Sessler's review of Grand Theft Auto 5 for Rev3 games was completely pretentious bollocks.

How’s the coke going Adam?

 

[Inviusx]

Pretty much every review from a mainstream organisation in the last 5 years. Instead of a product review we get the reviewers personal "hot take" on everything else surrounding the product as well.

 

[Nickolaidas]

First Samurai for the Amiga by the Greek magazine called 'User'. It only had one word.

'Amazing'.

No mention on gameplay, story, music and any sort of info in an age there was no internet and magazines were the only source of info for whether or not you should spend your pocket money / cash on the damn thing.

 

[drganon]

EGM's review of yakuza 0.

 

[Lux R7]

There is the kotaku review of greedfall

 

[Birdo]

Eurogamer reviews.

All of them.

 

[GreyHorace]

How’s the coke going Adam?

 

[Bragr]

Eurogamer Days Gone review where it was bashed for having a white male protagonist.

There are also tons of batshit insane kingdom hearts 3 reviews where super fanboys review the game and praise like its gods gift to man.

Just IGN in general.

 

[Kadayi]

Albeit ZP did (according to legend) coin the phrase 'PC Master Race™' in this Video he also lazily threw 'Misogynist' into the mix to describe Geralt for no good reason and heralded in the trend of reviewers bandying around that term (hatred of women) for any game that had the temerity to show a pair of digital tits. Not his best moment tbh.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

IGN on Alien Isolation

And that hole Dr3ver review conspiracy drama.

Yep. And to think these retards get paid for this shit. It's insulting.

 

[SirTerry-T]

Couple of oldies...
Edge's Gunstar Heroes review. This has come back to bite them on the arse a few times.

...and Gamefan's "infamous" Street fighter Alpha review for the Saturn and PlayStation.

Why the hell is it called "Blue Shadows" anyway?

 

[synchronicity]

Of course it's already been mentioned, but never forget:

 

[GreyHorace]

Albeit ZP did (according to legend) coin the phrase 'PC Master Race™' in this Video he also lazily threw 'Misogynist' into the mix to describe Geralt for no good reason and heralded in the trend of reviewers bandying around that term (hatred of women) for any game that had the temerity to show a pair of digital tits. Not his best moment tbh.

I generally like Yahtzee's reviews, but I really do not care for some his hot takes regarding certain games. Particularly The Witcher series, though he did acknowledge somewhat how good the third game was.

 

[Kadayi]

Edge also gave a mediocre review for Super Metroid, of all things.

The authors of the magazine just couldn't detect the game changers in the mid 90's.

EDGE is good for articles, but a Game Journo friend of mine said one should take any reviews they do with a hefty pinch of salt because basically, they're all written by paid by the word freelancers, and the anonymity means there's no direct blowback if they do a bad job. This is especially true for long games because you're not getting paid more for putting in 100 hours into the game versus breezing it for 30 and then coming to a conclusion.

 

[Neff]

Couple of oldies...
Edge's Gunstar Heroes review. This has come back to bite them on the arse a few times.

Was just about to post this. Never let them forget.

 

[MrS]

That Sackboy one where the reviewer complained about not being able to play as "sackgirl" or "an ungendered character".

edit: found it https://www.thesixthaxis.com/2020/11/11/sackboy-a-big-adventure-review/

 

[diffusionx]

Some good IGN postings in this thread but they all miss this one:

IGN Misses the Point With Football Manager 2009 Review, Removes It – Unigamesity

The reviewer of a soccer management game gave it a low score because they couldn’t play a game of soccer with it like FIFA. In other words, he had no idea what a soccer management game was. It was so bad they had to pull the review.

 

[nkarafo]

Couple of oldies...
Edge's Gunstar Heroes review. This has come back to bite them on the arse a few times.

Edge were on a roll in the mid 90's it seems.

 

[Carton]

8.8
I never played the game

 

[MastaKiiLA]

Couple of oldies...
Edge's Gunstar Heroes review. This has come back to bite them on the arse a few times.

...and Gamefan's "infamous" Street fighter Alpha review for the Saturn and PlayStation.

Why the hell is it called "Blue Shadows" anyway?

I was going to mention the SFA review. It caused so much controversy. It was a bit silly too, as the Saturn version arguably looked and played better. But despite his faults, Nick Rox was one of my favorite gaming journalists, because he had a legit enthusiasm for the hobby. KLee was also awesome, but Rox's fanboy oozed out of every word he wrote. Gamefan was a great magazine. I preferred it to EGM. NextGen and Edge were pretty good too, but they skimped pretty heavily on the screenshots in their articles, whereas GF would plaster images all over the page.

 

[Hudo]

It's probably easier to ask which is the best review ever published. Most of reviews are shit, tbh.

 

[Ogbert]

To be honest, I don’t mind an unfair review. It’s all the undeserved 10s that get on my tits. That no one ever points out that Rockstar games play like shit. Likewise Naughty Dog. And the Nintendo bump.

I’ve been gaming for nearly 30 years and there’s only a handful of games that I would give ten to.

Ultima Underworld 2, Half Life 2, Bioshock, Dark Souls, OoT and Mario 3.

 

[waquzy]

I can’t remember the publication, but they gave 9/10(90%)or something like that to Driv3r. Years later they admitted they were wrong and they were persuaded by the publisher to give it a high score. Yikes!!!!!

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Meristation the thread.... Support by Salva Fernandez Ros And Aaron Rodriguez

Viaje entre las sombras

Square Enix nos lleva de nuevo a un mundo fantástico donde tomamos el rol de NieR, un padre que busca una cura para su hija infectada por una terrible enfermedad causada por el virus del Garabato Negro. Misterios, magia, giros argumentales e intensos combates nos esperan en este action RPG con...

as.com

NieR: 7

Gravity rush 2: 9.... WTF?!!!!!

Análisis de Gravity Rush 2

Así es la secuela de un título diferente y único que Sony quiere ver crecer en un formato como el de PS4.

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I argued with the video analyst, arguing that his opinions are stupid on the negative points and their video in general and it was funny because he won the argument and he was upset with me by the way xD.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

You Know when there is a Worst review When.....

-You see a video game analyst with a Streamer look.

- When you notice that the Score of the game are the same with the same negative points

- You observe that their reviews are copy-paste of IGN or Kotaku, some other low quality website

- When they say that the next Zelda game is the perfection never created and they don't have the game or a console

- When they see only YouTube videos and there they draw conclusions.

 

[Little_Donkey]

Death stranding review from videogamedunkey if that counts as a review. It's ok to not like a game, but telling so much lies about it?

 

[Krappadizzle]

Review: Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men was one of the most notorious games of this generation. Famously bad, the game made...

www.destructoid.com

Dog Days wasn't amazing (I'd give it a 6:10), but a 1:10 was just Jim giving EIDOS (and IO Interactive) the finger on Metacritic to crater its overall score because he bought in wholesale to the conceit that EDIOS pressured Gamespot into Firing Jeff Gerstmann for his Less than stellar review of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

However, turns out that narrative was utter BS. When Gerstmann and Gamespot settled their differences when Giantbomb joined them via merger the legal NDA got lifted as part of the deal and Gerstmann did a lengthy interview with John Davison and cleared the air on what really happened.



Turns out his firing was the result of a newly appointed (inept and short-lived) manager not really understanding the new reviews system they'd implemented a few months before and the usual too and fro between PR etc. The Manager had already been getting antsy about review scores prior to K&L. So everyone pointing the finger at EDIOS were really blaming the wrong people in the equation.

Even Gerstmann himself gave Dog Days a 6/10

I kind of view this as the point where activist reviewing started tbh

Sterling never talked back that score either once it all came out which is why I largely take anything he says with a hefty pinch of salt.

Thanks for writing this out. I was about to do it. So glad that Gerstmann and co. said fuck ya'll and just went and did their own thing.

 

[01011001]

GodHand 3/10 IGN

/thread

 

[IoCaster]

System Shock 2 review...

Everyone you know tells you that this is one of the greatest games ever made. Everyone you know is a goddamn whore.

 

[Black_Stride]

Just kidding I know the story behind it.

 

[brian0057]

Games journalism is dead.

 

[TintoConCasera]

I remember watching an SMT IV review that thought that all the game was the first dungeon. Sad.

 

[Kadayi]

Thanks for writing this out. I was about to do it. So glad that Gerstmann and co. said fuck ya'll and just went and did their own thing.

You know I'm on about Sterlings Shit Tier Activist Review of the sequel right?

 

[vito_don_corleone_]

"Too much water"

 

[ProgenitorCastle]

God Hand IGN cannot be topped

First post BEST post

 

[Black_Stride]

Games journalism is dead.

You what love?

5.9 Alien Isolation?

Mate.
Sometimes the games media is nonsense.

 

[Woggleman]

One of the reviews for Days Gone where they trash it for reasons that have nothing to do with anything that matters.

 

[Bankai]

Dead Cells original IGN review comes to mind