Message from @Xenon
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And I do understand the antipathy toward access "journalism" since they are practically just undisclosed advertisements (because if they review it to low rating, they won't get the next early access free copy. And the free part isn't even the problem but they wouldn't get it early, meaning their future review wouldn't have clicks/views on them. Access journalism is cancer.
(But somehow IGN is now god. Somehow.)
Also, I really cannot understand Jeremy's train of thought... he points out that reviewers who gave Mass Effect Andromeda (a notoriously bad game) perfect scores, are giving Death Stranding substandard scores. So... *are they the best reviewers now?* My brain doesn't do Jeremy logic.
Also, I find it funny that when reviewers bitched about Cuphead being too difficult, the reviewers were incompetent.
Now IGN complains that the game has too difficult gameplay model regarding maintaining balance while rock climbing... **and it's the game's fault**.
Jeremy has been getting on my nerves with the witcher
He keeps framing it as "Hur dur they are making the show more like the books *instead of* the games reee"
News flash, the story of the first game doesn't even begin until after the conclusion of the last book
Jeremy is a political "anti-political" hack.
I've got a pretty sensetive woke detector for trailers and I'm not even sensing much from the witcher trailers
So maybe the show is going to go into the game time period after a few seasons... but Jeremy still complains that it didn't start midway?
It's quite possible the show will be trash, but it doesn't look obvious just from the trailers
I think jeremy needs drama for clicks, which is sad
And I think people are going to make the mistake of judging the show without understanding the source material
For example half the books are told from the perspective of ciri, so if people are going to get up in arms about the show doing that and calling it woke... idk maybe you should blame the books for that
There's plenty of times when the books follow ciri instead of geralt or tell sections of the story about geralt from the perspective of others, or multiple chapters that aren't even about geralt
the show looks like it will be mediocre
and you can kind of tell in the trailers
There's a whole book where ciri runs with a gang of killers and thieves and she has a lesbian relationship with one of them and has to fight off the attempted rape of one of the males... in the book... and I'm betting people will assume it's "wokeness" inserted into the show if they have that scene
but yeah, the games start after the books end
iirc, Geralt is more mature in the games
its from netflix, I doubt it will be anything less than garbage
or more..
I think it's going to be passable, not amazing, but not terrible
Lol. https://stevivor.com/reviews/mass-effect-andromeda-review-already-better-than-shepard/
This gay game reviewer (yes, he makes it a point of relevence, he's reviewing a social justice influenced game after all) gave it 9.5/10
Same SJW gave Death Stranding 3.5
It must be a bad game. SJWs never lie. Especially the homosexual ones.
Critics are retards
It's not that he reviewed Death Stranding low because it's a narrative based game that is not SJW narrative. It was because he's just very easy on ratings and Jeremy is correct in assessing the game to be 0/10 to 3/10 at best (without playing the game).
Remember: Exclusively Games, where we don't let politics affect our reviews.
(Except we hate all storylines. We just want boobs. There's no room for other genres.)
Critic reviews are literally worthless
Audience/player reviews are the only ones that matter
While I think Vee and Raging Golden Eagle have **the worst** personal tastes for games on the net, I at least admire them for being honest that they just want the boobs and aren't interested in condemning other types of games. Or maybe Vee is a bit so and so, he's a little bit of an edgelord who'd find no problem condemning anything he doesn't personally jerk off to in a flippant manner. But Jeremy is the Besserwisser who thinks he's above it. And like said, bashing something popular gives the clicks, I wonder if he's self-aware there.
Critic reviews (especially those who use free copies / advance review copies) are indeed worthless.
According to critics, Batwoman TV series > Joker movie
They fear being critical, and they may also get versions of a game without microtransactions, etc. so that even those who go against their best interest to bump the score, still rate it higher than should.
Andromeda had a shit story but the combat is alright
They took Kingdom of Amalur's class sytem though
A much better review of the reviews of Death Stranding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6CVqDdP8og
It basically comes to YMMV, and ratings are meaningless because it's pretty much a new genre with nothing to compare against.
Also, LOL, apparently some hardcore console peasants are canceling DS orders because it wasn't PS4 exclusive. They are offended that the game will be also available on PC. That's next level peasantry.