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More concerning than Bethesda’s decision to withhold early review codes from certain outlets is how heavily some sites are relying on the game to drive their business.

  • rich@feddit.uk
    29·
    10 months ago

    I miss the days of N64 Magazine and C&VG in the 90s. Those were reviews you could trust.

    If a game was shit, they literally called it shit and gave it a review and score to match.

    For example: https://gaminghell.co.uk/images/n64tribute-carmageddon64b.jpg

    Review summary: “If you see Carmageddon 64 in the shops, take it off the shelves, rip up the box and throw the cart repeatedly against the wall until it breaks”.

    Classic

    Edit: fuck me, fourty fucking quid for that game back then. That’s £70 with inflation!!!

    Edit edit: I’m looking at the prices of the games I got in the 90s…fucking hell, we have it good nowadays. Of course literally everything else is more expensive but eh

    • mihnt@kbin.social
      12·
      10 months ago

      I still look to Yahtzee when I’m curious about a game that’s either new or I’m too broke to buy at the time.

      Fuck a * out of * score. Tell me what annoyed you about the game, or what you enjoyed. So much more worth my time than seeing numbers and not looking into why those numbers exist.

      Too many reviews just go through talking points from the publisher/dev anyway so they’re useless.

      At least Yahtzee gets to the fucking point of it all and in short time.