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 Member 28 Level 31.10 Mar 2006 
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It's really hard to take any review site seriously when they also advertise the same product they review.
I can take a review of a book in the New Yorker more or less at face value because their ads are all about watches and suits (or something). But what if you read a review of Harry Potter and then the next page was a 2-page spread saying "buy Harry Potter, cause it's Goddamn awesome", and then the review continues? That's what game reviews are like. How can anyone take that fucking seriously? And what about those "field trip" articles you read about reviewers going to publishers and developers and hanging out, don't you think that influences the score? You don't want to give a bad score to a company you like, it's just that simple. That's what those trips are for, in fact, that's why the marketing department pays for them. "Marketing" is little more than a buzzword for "lies", so if the marketing department pays for something involving reviews, it's absolutely intended to influence the reviewers to give a better score. That's all marketing does, make the game look better than it is. Anyway, what this sounds like is that these three companies will stop trying to influence EGM. Obviously this implies that they are successfully influencing other reviewing agencies, but it's not like they're being covert about it. I don't see what's so shocking here. Hell, I wish more publishers would stop it. Anyway, the best reviews are right here and everywhere among people you know. You know their bias, you know what they like, and you know they're PROBABLY not being bribed by the company that published the fucking game. Incidentally, Incognito isn't THAT underrated. They made what every sane person considers to be the best PS3 game of 2007. Jam it back in, in the dark.   |
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