Where are all the reviews? • Gaming • General Gaming • Eurogamer.net

Dizzy 26 Jul 2015 00:16:27 3,716 posts
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Zillions of games are being released every month and I barely see any reviews on EG. Instead we get never ending faceoffs and interviews. Come on guys... Try to keep up with the games, surely most readers are here for that?

SteJones 26 Jul 2015 00:45:43 432 posts
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Yep, completely agree. A lot of the bigger sites have been slacking with this. Gamespot, IGN, The Escapist all have a fairly bad output with reviews given how many people they have on the payroll.

Edited by SteJones at 00:47:07 26-07-2015

Deleted user 26 July 2015 00:49:53

Examples?

Mola_Ram 26 Jul 2015 00:51:04 26,196 posts
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Maybe sites got turned off by all the people moaning about reviews and review scores.

Deleted user 26 July 2015 00:51:32

It's probably too depressing writing reviews without hammering the 8 key

ibenam 26 Jul 2015 06:02:42 3,508 posts
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Agreed - where was the Don Bradman cricket review?

Edited by ibenam at 06:03:16 26-07-2015

jonsaan 26 Jul 2015 06:51:30 27,052 posts
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Sadly reviews seem to have little to do with explaining what a game is and what it plays like anymore. They tend to be a deep dive into the morality of the idea, an analysis of sexism in gaming and speculation on upcoming DLC and missing content. Subsequently they take eons to put together and nobody reads them. In short, reviews have disappeared up their own arseholes.

Gaming journalists should go and read back copies of Crash and have a rethink.

barrylyndon 26 Jul 2015 07:43:47 163 posts
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Eurogamer went shit a year ago. Now its just a ghost ship, all the talent fled long ago.

Deleted user 26 July 2015 07:48:58

jonsaan wrote:
Sadly reviews seem to have little to do with explaining what a game is and what it plays like anymore. They tend to be a deep dive into the morality of the idea, an analysis of sexism in gaming and speculation on upcoming DLC and missing content. Subsequently they take eons to put together and nobody reads them. In short, reviews have disappeared up their own arseholes.

Gaming journalists should go and read back copies of Crash and have a rethink.

Erm, this. 100%

Or essential. Whatever.

Deleted user 26 July 2015 08:10:53

Don't forget the opening paragraph that usually has nothing to do with the game at all and has only wasted a few seconds of your life.

Deleted user 26 July 2015 08:21:06

Don't have time to write reviews, there is a new gun on Destiny that everyone needs to know about

nickthegun 26 Jul 2015 08:22:46 87,711 posts
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Yeah, games reviews? All I want is a cold rewrite of the PR blurb and a number at the end.

Fucking high falutin' English dropouts getting ideas above their stations...

Mola_Ram 26 Jul 2015 08:28:11 26,196 posts
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I'd prefer to have no words at all. Just like my film reviews, divided into separate scores for soundtrack, plot, graphics, and acting.

mothercruncher 26 Jul 2015 08:37:44 19,475 posts
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Physically_Insane wrote:
Don't forget the opening paragraph that usually has nothing to do with the game at all and has only wasted a few seconds of your life.

Yup- I start at the second paragraph every time, yo.

nickthegun 26 Jul 2015 08:45:32 87,711 posts
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It does make me laugh that videogamers are one of the few (only?) consumers of media who get mad when they arent treated like morons.

Trowel 26 Jul 2015 08:59:11 24,512 posts
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I think what people are overlooking is that these guys are serious journalists who have already made it, as they have their name written on a website on the Internet. They don't have time to do the menial tasks associated with keeping us updated on videogames - people seriously underestimate the time it takes to make hilarious ironic videos and grow straggly ginger beards.

beastmaster 26 Jul 2015 08:59:37 22,373 posts
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Summer drought?

Edit: but yeah, I'm going to other sites now for reviews.

Edited by beastmaster at 09:00:24 26-07-2015

AwesomeWells 26 Jul 2015 09:20:58 1,119 posts
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Pinky_Floyd wrote:
Examples?

Lego Jurassic is the only recent release that seems to standout as lacking a review.

RyanDS 26 Jul 2015 09:22:25 14,074 posts
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AwesomeWells wrote:

Pinky_Floyd wrote:
Examples?
Lego Jurassic is the only recent release that seems to standout as lacking a review.

Don Bradman Cricket, Rugby 2015 are the two that spring to mind for me.

MrTomFTW Moderator 26 Jul 2015 09:50:30 47,501 posts
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nickthegun wrote:
It does make me laugh that videogamers are one of the few (only?) consumers of media who get mad when they arent treated like morons.

The "are games art?"conversation made hilarious when critical and academic thinking is applied like any other art form and you get these responses.

nickthegun 26 Jul 2015 09:54:04 87,711 posts
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AwesomeWells wrote:

Pinky_Floyd wrote:
Examples?
Lego Jurassic is the only recent release that seems to standout as lacking a review.

Genuinely one of the few games ever made that doesnt actually need a review.

Mola_Ram 26 Jul 2015 09:55:32 26,196 posts
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MrTomFTW wrote:

nickthegun wrote:
It does make me laugh that videogamers are one of the few (only?) consumers of media who get mad when they arent treated like morons.
The "are games art?"conversation made hilarious when critical and academic thinking is applied like any other art form and you get these responses.

I don't know, I think Moff's Law anti-intellectualism applies to other mediums. Maybe not as much as gaming, though.

Edited by Mola_Ram at 09:57:54 26-07-2015

Deleted user 26 July 2015 10:02:26

Never heard of Moff's Law but I'm glad that now I do.

Deleted user 26 July 2015 10:05:06

RyanDS wrote:

AwesomeWells wrote:

Pinky_Floyd wrote:
Examples?
Lego Jurassic is the only recent release that seems to standout as lacking a review.
Don Bradman Cricket, Rugby 2015 are the two that spring to mind for me.

No one plays those games though!

I agree with previous comments about wanky journos with shit beards trying to make out they are in anything but the games industry.

Mola_Ram 26 Jul 2015 10:06:14 26,196 posts
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I think it should be enshrined in the rules of every movie/gaming/TV/pop culture forum everywhere.

MrTomFTW Moderator 26 Jul 2015 10:20:33 47,501 posts
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Lego Jurassic World review:

Traveller's Tales have made another one of their Lego games, this time using the Jurassic World licence.