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The only reviewer I really trust is Yahtzee, because his cynical style of review contains a lot of grains of truth behind the various metaphors, and his show is a COMEDY.
When an online review that makes comedy reviews outclasses almost every single reviewer in gaming today, you need to SERIOUSLY rethink your profession. Not everyone can objectively review a game. Maybe you should stick to just giving a quick synopsis without a score if you can't review games.
Also, Total Biscuit gave a fantastic analysis of Duke Nukem Forever, for instance. He pointed out that the two weapon restriction and regenerating health don't complement the fast paced action and care-free style of the game. This is the sort of objective analysis that needs to be done more.
I've given up on reviewers really. If the situation improves, then great. If it doesn't, I'm still not going to read your reviews.
(No offense to any reviewer, I'm sure you're all very nice people, but a great proportion of you do not know how to review games and do not know how to attach a score to them)
While i agree to 90% of what you said before that this bit i can not agree with.
While I enjoy Yahtzee and TB, they are not reviewers, they are first and foremost entertainers.
I've never seen Yahtzee review anything and TB's "WTF is..." series often goes past reviewing into personal opinion territory. Hell he specifically said that "WTF is..." is an first impressions series and NOT a review.
I don't know if you had the chance to watch his Dungeon Siege III review before it got taken down recently (because of drama) but he did a horrible job in it. He failed to read the tutorial pop-ups later claiming that the game "doesn't tell you anything", he started skipping the dialogue-choices selecting random answers because he "didnt care for the story in Hack and Slash games" even though the story choices actually have great impact on the gameplay later on, etc.
Please, just because someone is cynical and uses the word FUCK a lot doesn't mean hes a good reviewer or a better one because hes "tough" on the games, by that standard Angry Video-Game Nerd is the best reviewer ever...
You should discount all people that are trying to entertain with their reviews, yes you can throw Angry Joe, Spoony, and pretty much every "reviewer" on Blistered Thumbs out the window, together with Giant Bomb and ZAM.
Personally i didn't see ONE review done right EVER, there were reviews i agreed with yeah, but they still weren't any good.
Sadly there is no Roger Ebert in the gaming industry.