As the subject suggests, what was your go to reviewer growing up: maybe IGN, Gamepro, some random on gamefaqs message boards? Are there any reviewers in the YouTube age you enjoy that even if or especially if they do current stuff they also do retro reviews? Any suggestions on critical reviewers in a way we get w cinema now going over new but also retro movies like Critical Drinker or the guys from EFAP? Feel free to discuss
>>12117781I never concerned myself with reviews, if I thought the game looked cool I would get it.
>>12117798I’m thinking more of like critical breakdowns specifically but reviews in general was how I framed it for broader discussion. Like someone who deep dives the new Superman movie and explains why it’s shit or maybe a better example would be a retro reviewer going over alien and why it’s so great a critique of it showing all its positives, especially in light of modern failings to even recreate said retro thing again… like alien Romulus or the tv show. That kind of critical deep dive I guess (to be more specific).
As a kid I'd use Nintendo Power, not for reviews but for information about what games even existed. Then I'd go rent them and evaluate them myself. Later I'd rely on personal recommendations in online forums. At no point have I ever taken professional reviews seriously.
>>12117781Before steam: GamePro magazineAfter steam reviews: steam.Fuck everything else.
>>12117798/threadThe rule of cool is unsurpassed.When did folks stop being able to work things out for themself?
>>12117781Back in the day - British mags mostly. I read US mags too but their reviews were always uninformative and felt more like they were just reading off a list of selling points that the publisher gave them.These days, metro game central are about the only place doing decent reviews.They'll often give out 6's and 7's to games that are getting 9's and 10's everywhere else.
>>12117781What an utterly schizophrenic way to sort your games. Absolutely no rhyme or reason. I'm sure the rest of your house looks just as shitty and unorganized.
>>12118174You don't know if it's unorganized. For all you know he organized it by progress or completion of the game. I bet you assume a lot of stuff in life and are wrong about things often.
>>12117781For me it was Gamespot, particulary Greg Kasavin dude as he seemed competent.Ended up making his own game studio that did Bastion and Hades.Would also watch on tv game reviews we had on local channels.We also had a "video game" channel that just aired game trailers whenever it didn't have any program on.
>>12117781rental, my friends, box artin that orderOcarina of Time was the first "critical darling" I only knew was supposed to be good through games journalism and I was old enough to have been an NES kid. It just didn't work that way.
>>12117781Old computer mags from the 8u0s and 90s. Xrash, Sinclair user, your computer,ZZAP64,C&VG,Amiga Power old TV shows like thumbbandits, BITS etc, classic game room and cgr untertowMost of the old mags used review arcade cabinets as well.I don't like the new wave of retarded fuckees on youtube who were not even alive at the time with b8 shit like' this 8 bit game was crap because I am trolling for engagement ' crap or the entire grifter culture of 'professional' youtubers now. Just by the fact they are trying to make their lving on it they are all scrabbling vermin and the same with other hobbies most are enormous fakes who clearly were iether not alive for the stuff they are taling about, just use wikipedia and read it out or are complete fakes who were never into gaming and just see it as a job on youtube to bullshit about it, Its the internets home of grifter and bullshit artists now playing aglryth games as soon as they have any large subscriber base. Also the whole shouting excitedly shit and being an inane clown persona that started with that pweedie pie prick because their viewers have an attention span like a housefly. Youtube is dying and has been for a long time. Assholes pushed out the good content along with googles incompetence
>>12117798FPBP and soulpilled.That's how it was back in the day, you'd look at screenshots in magazines, not read the useless journo words.
>>12118678>Ocarina of Time was the first "critical darling"look at nintedo marketing, look at it go.No one gave a fuck about it who was not into tendism It was a N64 exclusive and the N64 was a backward ass cunt of a machine with shitty 64 MB carts that meant shit textures and audio coasting on kid friendly. Yet you are impressed by how marketing companies managed to start the whole pay review crap that ruined games journalism, which was DEAD by the late 90s. NAck in the 80s and early 90s games mags quite often gave very honest and informed games reviews unless you were buying pure marketing crap like 'nintendo power' which was written and published by...nintendo
>>12118947Untrue, you'd read the reviews because they would say who wrote it and you knew the names who did good stuff. I'd never have heard of things like fairlight except for the reviews. They also quite often called stuff out for being mediore or just bad or buggy that stopped in the mid 90s though as it became about marketing companies paying to either get good reviews ot stopping a bad review from happening along with writers who did not give a fuck about the suject and probably did not like games much to begin with and were just house writers who might be moved to writing about cars or kitchen appliances next
>>12118174>the chronicles of riddick-ulous sorting
>>12117781videogames.com (GameSpot) and various magazines for reviews or a release date on something. Usenet posts and later on gamefaqs posts if I wanted a rough first impression of stuff from random people.
Before I had internet I watched Electric Playground or just rented stuff and got lucky or unlucky if it was a shitty game.
>>12117781youtube thumbnails.
Frens and internet forums. Youtube was always more of an spectacle than a place to get reviews, and it only has gotten worse with time
