No it doesn’t. As a long time gamer, the games media hasn’t been relevant since the early 2000s.
Players can find one or two streamers or youtube personalities in aligmnent with their taste in games and get pretty good recommendations along with 10-30 minutes pf gameplay footage to decide of a game is worth trying.
Do I need some absolute nobody working sub-poverty wages at Giant Nutaku telling me what they think of a game? The problem with sub-poverty writers is that they’re reliant on game publisher advertising revenue, they will always take the industries side over that of gamers.
Reliant on pre-release access, but pre-release access is granted by the entities they are reviewing. And we can see the results: all games journalism is a joke.
Reviewing controllers or other peripherals? Better jam that affiliate revenue in there. Everything gets scored up to increase a buy.
No it doesn’t. As a long time gamer, the games media hasn’t been relevant since the early 2000s.
Players can find one or two streamers or youtube personalities in aligmnent with their taste in games and get pretty good recommendations along with 10-30 minutes pf gameplay footage to decide of a game is worth trying.
Do I need some absolute nobody working sub-poverty wages at Giant Nutaku telling me what they think of a game? The problem with sub-poverty writers is that they’re reliant on game publisher advertising revenue, they will always take the industries side over that of gamers.
Reliant on pre-release access, but pre-release access is granted by the entities they are reviewing. And we can see the results: all games journalism is a joke.
Reviewing controllers or other peripherals? Better jam that affiliate revenue in there. Everything gets scored up to increase a buy.