IGN's (Seemingly positive article)

[yoshikwalla]

I'm pleasantly surprised. My hate for IGN's journalistic debauchery is still neverending, however.

[Velhart]

I'm pleasantly surprised. My hate for IGN's journalistic debauchery is still neverending, however.

I feel like I could list any review site here and someone will step up and lash at them. Am I suppose to hate all video game journalist sites?

[Keres]

I feel like I could list any review site here and someone will step up and lash at them. Am I suppose to hate all video game journalist sites?

Clearly. All of their review scores are based on bribes, don't you know? (That is, unless your favorite game gets reviewed highly, then it's because the game is just that good.)

[Velhart]

Clearly. All of their review scores are based on bribes, don't you know? (That is, unless your favorite game gets reviewed highly, then it's because the game is just that good.)

I don't think that is the case. I won't ever buy a game based off a review. I will look at Amazon feedback to see if there are game breaking bugs, if not, I just buy it. It is really hard to listen to reviews because everyone has different taste. A lot of reviewers didn't like the Drop System in Kingdom Hearts 3DS, I however found it very innovative.

At this point I know what I want and I don't need to rely on others feedback to make my decision to buy a game. Everyone lashed out at Ninja Gaiden 3, and I thought it was a decent game. It didn't feel much like a NG, but I still enjoyed the game.

I am also against a scoring system in most review sites. A lot of people don't even bother reading why it got the score. They see a 7 or 8 and believe it is a bad game. I don't recall 7 or 8 being bad numbers. Why must people's standards be set so high today? Back then, anything 6+, people still thought it was a game with potential and one they would play. Even at 5, people questioned it, but tried it anyways. Today, if a game gets 7, a lot of people don't even want to look at it, or cause an uproar on the internet (See the Gamespot Skyward Sword Review if you need a good idea.).

As for FFXIV: ARR, I hope reviewers do review it fairly and not attempt to bash it because it is a revamp of a previous game. It seems to be the case with a lot of reviewers today in general. As much as I don't like reviews, it is a tool that is needed to get this game it's high player base. I don't want to see it get a low score because they didn't like the grass.

[Bharata_Senka]

I feel like I could list any review site here and someone will step up and lash at them. Am I suppose to hate all video game journalist sites?

Let's be clear. People treat gaming review sites as organizations that should maintain "journalistic integrity". Yet, most of the sites they complain about are more akin to blogs and click-generators than a true "news" site. Once people start to realize that, they will begin to take less stock in what they say.

Since it's popular to pile sh*t on all things Final Fantasy these days, they know that they will get more hits with a negative story than a positive one. That's the nature of their business; not reporting unbiased news. We shouldn't be mad at them.