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She (?) has a point, the point is "reviews are written by people that clearly did not play the game to a meaningful extent", not "we need vods".
The person answering is not engaging with the issue, maybe he's stupid, maybe he's unwilling to engage with the matter at hand.
It's so wild how gaming journos became the enemy for a lot of gamers. Not that there aren't problems with the industry that arise from them needing to stay in publisher's good graces, but that's not what 90% of critiques of industry journalism focus on.
This has to be the one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. Streaming a playthrough of an entire game online misses the whole point of a review. Nevermind spoiling the entire story and gameplay, no publisher on earth is going to let a reviewer with early access put the final boss battle in a review for instance. As someone else said, this is like saying the only way to review movies is to watch a stream of the reviewer reacting to the whole movie.
We're still mad about ethics in gaming journalism?
gaters won't stop until games journalism is great again, like it was in the 90s when Rise of the Robots got game of the year awards before anyone could even play it... and it was utter and complete trash. Oh and "booth babes" were everywhere and advertisements sometimes forgot to show the fucking game because a centerfold of a le naked feeemale is all that the hogs required to buy in (if you don't believe me, look up "Forsaken's" centerfold ad. It was in magazines I owned back then).
if you don't believe me, look up "Forsaken's" centerfold ad. It was in magazines I owned back then
No need, fellow old. I was there 
I remember renting that game and thinking... Wtf is this? Lol
I remember renting that game and thinking... Wtf is this? Lol
I didn't know either because the game wasn't advertised as anything but 
and saying "Descent but not as smooth or polished with a lot more colored lighting" wouldn't have attracted the hogs, I guess.
Yeah. Here we are worrying about ethics in war correspondence, but then there are these titans of truth.
In addition to the other nonsense, she says "authentic reactions" as though acting isn't a thing and hasn't been used on TV, both pre-recorded and even live, to shill for various products for decades now
Screaming into a microphone to get credulous kids to pay up has been a successful grift for decades now. 
HEY GUYS
I AM YOUR FAKE FRIEND LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE AND RING THE BELL ALSO THERE'S THIS OTHER STREAMER THAT I DONT LIKE SO GET READY TO GO TO E-WAR ON MY BEHALF AGAINST THEM AND THEIR FANDOM I LOVE YOU ALL 
True. There are so many trash reaction channels that exaggerate or “get in character” to fake expressions
For more information, watch any Ubisoft E3 conference (actually don't do this to yourself)
I refuse to read any movie critic reviews unless I can watch them react to the entire movie MST3K-style
Plus, it has to be done entirely live lmao
I don't think gamers/tourists know how much of anything works to be honest
I often hear gamers talk about paid reviews, but from having communicated with countless publishers and their reps for review codes over a few years, I've never come across even a single attempt at influencing the upcoming review. You get an embargo and a press kit sometimes containing the known bugs that are expected to be fixed by the global release. Occasionally the press kit also contains a guide to the game.
There's a lot you can do to influence the review that's not literally paying for it. You can do everything paid trips to your studio for a preview, you can review embargo it until the release date, you can dictate what screenshots and videos they can use and at the worst you can just not send a review code to a publication that didn't cooperate last time.
Or maybe you just have a rabid fanbase that thinks everything you shit out is gold so they harass reviewers that give a "low" score.
How do the screenshots and videos influence the score or impression from playing the actual game? How does the embargo affect anything about the review content? At worst, the players would just see the same review on the release day.
Even if everybody pre-orders, platforms like Steam do not count the pre-order period towards their two weeks policy, so you still get two weeks or two gameplay hours to decide.
It's a half-remembered half-truth. The problem has always been that major gaming mags were seemingly afraid to mark down major games from major studios because they didn't want to be denied review codes in the future, not that publishers were just up and buying good review scores.
Nowadays I'm not sure that that logic holds up in any case, since so much reviewing is done by small outlets and crowdsourcing, but it did seem like a legitimate concern in the days when a half dozen magazines were all the average person got.
major gaming mags were seemingly afraid to mark down major games from major studios because they didn't want to be denied review codes in the future
Wasn't it more/also they were worried about ongoing advertising deals? Like it wasn't even necessarily the review staff themselves being in on it so much as the execs leaning on them to not threaten the revenue stream.
Yeah, I remember Kane and Lynch 2, a huge stinker, had a full banner ad on IGN that caused a lot of controversy with it's review
Wasn't it Jeff Gerstmann's review on GameSpot which led to him being fired and creating Giant Bomb
I recognise this lady's mug from YT recommendations, she's right-wing nerd outrage merchant #45213
LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME IM THE GOOD ONE 
Imagine thinking that games journalists have time to completely finish every game they review
I must see you cry in the 80th hour of Kingdom Hearts: 2/7rd Reverie of Pig Poop Balls when a 10 year old's anime OC sacrifices himself to save one of Donald Duck's nephews from an energy beam summoned by the racist crows from Dumbo or else your review isn't valid
Dumb tourist.
Is it too late for me to ask what's this about calling dipshits tourists?
It's a nerd insult that originated with reactionary right-wing nerds. They think that if you're a fan of video games, anime, WH40k or whatever and want more diversity or oppose lolicon you're not a real fan but a mere tourist that's appropriating nerd culture
Oh look another good one that's jangling the keys of requiring k/d ratio/gearscore/receipt-of-Fortnite-skin-purchases to even be allowed an opinion about the bideo bames. 