Mate, I'm going to be direct here and it's not (at least solely) to dunk on game journos: Most of you are not experts. And I only use most because I'm sure there are a tiny fucking handful of independents out there that have some handle of what they're talking about, but they're few and fucking far between.

And this shit gets shown time and again. From Dean Takahashi and his infamous Cuphead bullshit, to Polygon with Doom 2016, to just recently with IGN playing Redfall, game journalists have a prolonged history of being absolutely inept when it comes to gameplay.

You're not experts. And the funny thing is that nobody expects everyone to be experts at gaming. Yeah, yeah, git gud and all that other meme-y shit, but you're not even fucking proficient half the time. "Expert" is not a word I would EVER describe a game journalist as.

Maybe you should have made yourself have a bit more skill and rep and you wouldn't have gone the way of the fucking dodo if you didn't have some sort of industry connection to get exclusive bullshit from. Maybe if you weren't the most abrasive and egotistical subhumans on the planet, general audiences might want to still give you some attention.

But that would require being principled human beings and not consumerist shills hoping they get some cushy publisher job they can leech off of.