There's only one problem with this: there aren't ANY credible games journalists.
Youtubers have fully taken over that role and have even developed connections within the industry, Dev got a former Saints Row developer to give the details behind the scenes of that failure and I think Arch has a few anonymous ones too.
Games journalists are viewed as so untrustworthy and just paid shills that whistle-blowers or just those that want to relay information anonymously will go to YouTubers they know as they think the journalists will either paint them to fit THEIR narrative or leak them back to the company if the company is an ESG shill.
When their job is done by trailers and streamers, there's no point rating them, they're all redundant.
There's only one problem with this: there aren't ANY credible games journalists.
Youtubers have fully taken over that role and have even developed connections within the industry, Dev got a former Saints Row developer to give the details behind the scenes of that failure and I think Arch has a few anonymous ones too.
Games journalists are viewed as so untrustworthy and just paid shills that whistle-blowers or just those that want to relay information anonymously will go to YouTubers they know as they think the journalists will either paint them to fit THEIR narrative or leak them back to the company if the company is an ESG shill.
When their job is done by trailers and streamers, there's no point rating them, they're all redundant.
Exactly this. They'd all be rated 3/10 or lower and then spend months campaigning to have any such site taken down for hate speech.
Hey this might actually be a pretty good troll.