I really empathise with games reviewers, particularly the good ones with a keen, critical eye. Gamers are quite happy to get on board the hype train at the very first stop, and woe betide the reviewer who wants to drive his car onto the tracks and say "hey, this game might not be everything we . You can blame the anemic, non-committal nature of previews, but we feed this beast in a way that differs from other media, be it music or cinema. Gamers become emotionally invested from following these games over a period of typically 2-3 years that they develop some kind of Stockholm Syndrome. It's only sometime after the fact that we can then have a measured and informed discussion about the fact that, say, Twilight Princess might not be the greatest Zelda game ever made, and that Jeff Gertsmann may have had some valid concerns with the game. However, in the immediate aftermath, it's more "fuck that guy, what does he know about that game, when I've been following it for three years."