The role reviews play in the video game industry today cannot be understated. Whether you’re talking about the writer, who gets to voice his/her opinion, the outlet, which gains traffic, readership and develops relationships, or the audience, which gets valuable purchasing advice, video game reviews serve many different purposes for many different people.
A psychological survival horror game that takes place in 1990s Poland where you play as Tomasz who is searching for his missing friend in the town Jeziorne-Kolonia. A strange substance has taken over the town and is transforming its inhabitants into grotesque monsters.
Game Pressure met with the one and only Josh Sawyer at Digital Dragons and chatted about RPGs, Pentiment, Pillars of Eternity, the state of the industry, and the genre.
Phantom Squad is an intense 1-4 player tactical top-down shooter that blends fast-paced combat with strategic planning, drawing inspiration from games like Hotline Miami and Rainbow Six. Set to release in 2025 on Steam, players take on the role of disavowed operatives who must carefully plan their assault before breaching rooms.
The past while I've learned that reviews, truly don't mean a thing, may as well ask a friend for his opinion on a game, which is what these people do, opinions, Aliens got slaughtered by the big three, yet people adore the game?
Aye, just make sure the game you want isn't tore to shreds with glitches and work it from there on out.
This is a serious problem.
so called "game journalism" review scoring REALLY IS BULLS#$% from the standpoint that these are normally just fanboy/haters with a blog site. Plus the fact that we seen these site give a low score, just to come back and either change it (as in the case with Dualshockers and Evil Withing) or give a low score and then slobber all over it like it's the greatest thing ever (Polygon and Destiny).. These are waayyy to subjective and waaayyy to influenced by the whiny gaming community as a whole.
Ironic that this is an IGN article.
its really a numbers/bias and preference game, which is why one review isn't enough, numbers don't matter and everyone has biases and personal preferences. There was a time, when reviews came from a group of people of different ages backgrounds and interests, these reviews are the ones i respect the most, sadly I no longer see those type of reviews.