Worst Game Reviewers?

[Mirroga]

To me there's another way to think what are the good reviewers and the really, really bad ones. You just have to filter them if they're subjective or outright nostalgia-blind and considers the games they played in their childhood to be flawless. Even Yahtzee considered Deus Ex to be really hard to play again during this era and he's not even considered as a reviewer.

 

[The Scotsman72]

You can't spell ignorant without IGN. All the scores they throw out don't seem to have anything holding them up. You're saying every game in the COD series was perfect IGN? Bah.

 

[cjspyres]

I am more familiar with not giving a shit about an organization's opinion rather than an individual reviewer. Gamespot and IGN come to mind.

Their whole site (IGN) is bad, not just their reviews. You can generate all their articles with this little piece of awesome

Lol, first one was, "Why space exploration could boost Tomb Raider's popularity". Well, I posted it, now it's going to happen.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

I don't really like IGN, and the Gamesweasel's guy's voice annoys me

 

[bigfatcarp93]

Metacritic. Good in theory, has turned into Hell in practice. I think we all know how.

Also, this guy [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view]. Yeah, this guy. Dunderhead.

How come when I click on the "this guy" link, it takes me to my account? I didn't think I was THAT important enough to be included with the worst game reviewers.

It's true though. Most game critics are very, very weird in their perceptions of the latest, and the oldest, games. They tend to nitpick on things that aren't worth nitpicking, or don't go into the flaws which really hinder a game. Even the best critics have these flaws, but at least their opinions are intelligent and thorough.

Sadly, most game companies are not fearless or bold enough to create a game that's impressive enough that can stand on its own merits. Bribing critic sites for high reviews is a sign of insecurity.

It does that to everyone. When I clicked it, it took me to mine. That's the joke.

Freaked me out for a moment. 0.o

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I was looking for opinions on the secret world and I came across this site where this guy was pretending to be Yahtzee it was really pathetic.

I'm not even going to link him here because he doesn't deserve it.

Oh and IGN they are totally paid off.

I wrote a professional review of Crusader Kings 2 that I hated because I didn't like the game personally but I thought it was well made and deserved a fair shake. It was really hard to write and I wasn't happy with it in the end. My boss seemed please though.

 

[xPixelatedx]

Any reviewer that gives ALL "AAA" games 8-10 out of 10's. ...So pretty much all of them!
To always and blatantly avoid true negative criticism doesn't help anyone except the people who pay you through adds. Way too much bias to the point it's pointless to read most game reviews. Thank god we have a few people like Yahtzee, but most are like IGN. =/ I can't blame them though. It's not a matter of, "are they being paid?" it's more a matter of "how scared are they of upsetting the people who pay them?".

Very educational and depressing video on the subject

 

[Carlos Storm]

"overwhelming opinion otherwise" doesn't invalidate someone's thoughts just because they're contrary.

When someone has no information to base that opinion on? having admitted to not played the segment people take issue with? yeah, yeah it does. Everyone's entitled to an opinion, but if you know nothing about the topic you're forming an opinion about, everyone else is entitled to call you out on your BS.

No what really itches me the wrong way with Bob is his completely unapologetic attitude towards addressing any mistakes he's made/fan criticism. In short, his arrogance.

 

[PrinceOfShapeir]

Kotaku is an awful site in almost every way. The articles are pretty badly written, they're kinda shady, and god -damn- is their site hideous.

That said, giving a reviewer shit for having an opinion that doesn't run with the mainstream is pathetic and sad, and anyone who does it needs to be kicked in the gonads.

 

[sethisjimmy]

Any reviewer that is too focused on their own opinion. I want to know about the game, how it plays, how the features work, etc. I do NOT need your personal experience with the game, because I don't know or care about your taste.

This is why I actually prefer IGN. Yeah, really. Most people hate IGN's reviews because they can't get over how scores for different games might differ. Personally, I don't pay attention to the scores whatsoever, just the main review. A score is an arbitrary subjective ranking, honestly who cares?

 

[Jazoni89]

Irate Gamer is the worst, mooching off James Rolfe's success and blocking everyone that calls him out for it. What a loser.

God dammit, Ninja'd.

Yeah, Chris Bores is just a talentless hack mooching off everyone's success, and if there was any justice in this world, he wouldn't even have a single subscriber to his name.

 

[Promethax]

Angry Joe. He's vague, uninteresting, and he's not even angry.

If you're going to call yourself "Angry Joe", at least make your videos angry.

 

[Andrewtheeviscerator]

The only game reviews I don't like tend to be the Youtube personalities. To be more specific, that Razorfist guy, he is just a giant flaming douche who should be banned from using a recording device ever again.

The only site I really use for reviews is IGN personally. Usually I just read through the review seeing what's good or bad. Then after that I'll go check metacritic to see what other websites gave it and read through those as well.

 

[Zeckt]

I second Angry Joe, I almost never agree with his nutjob scoring but I find him interesting enough to watch.

 

[Windcaler]

However Ill name one that I think is pretty bad. Angry Joe who does his stuff on Youtube. It goes back to his Alpha protocol review where it was so incompetant he couldnt even be bothered to learn the mechanics of the game before blasting them. Ive seen this with a few more of his reviews so I think hes at best a lazy reviewer

To be fair I don't learn every nuance of a game I think is shit before declaring that it's shit either, christ knows how he got on TGWTG though.

The issue there is I wasnt expecting him to learn every nuance of the game. I as expecting him to learn how the basic mechanics of a pistol works in the game. I dont think its to much to ask to learn the mechanics in the tutorial before you review a game. By not doing that he just showed how incompetant he is (along with everyone else who said the same thing)

 

[babinro]

Don't have one.

Reviewers are gamers and have biases. I don't believe they are bought out to give great scores or anything like that.

Reviewers are also meant to review games in a genre they already enjoy and are informed about. Which is why you don't constantly see huge differences in review scores.

I also understand that reviewers are under time restraints. They can't be expected to fully explore all endings in a game or master Diablo 3's inferno mode prior to a review.

Ultimately, there are only reviewers who I don't agree with or don't meet my taste in games.

 

[togutas]

I know it's cliche but I'm suprised no one has said Navgtr yet


no matter what you think of his opinion he is just such a bad writer, narrator who focuses on the most pointless aspects of a game etc. He is so bad that it just becomes incredibly funny.

And this was on TV...

"no one buys game specifically for multiplayer" oh how wrong you were Navgtr.