One of my biggest takeaways from the Dragon Age Veilguard review controversy was that video game “journalism” in 2024 is mostly just a bunch of no-name leftist websites with no readership. I hadn’t heard of even half the “professional review” sites included in the metacritic average, yet their retarded opinions are valued higher than YouTubers with massively larger audiences (many of whom didn’t even get review codes). The entire metacritic system is astroturfed nonsense at this point. The big boys (ign, euro gamer, Pcgamer, and gamespot) dish out their usual 7-8s, and then the fringe ideologues mop up with 9s and 10s for all the “good games”.
You mean the guy who worked for Kotaku for 17 years and doesn't disclose that anywhere in this article?
One of my biggest takeaways from the Dragon Age Veilguard review controversy was that video game “journalism” in 2024 is mostly just a bunch of no-name leftist websites with no readership. I hadn’t heard of even half the “professional review” sites included in the metacritic average, yet their retarded opinions are valued higher than YouTubers with massively larger audiences (many of whom didn’t even get review codes). The entire metacritic system is astroturfed nonsense at this point. The big boys (ign, euro gamer, Pcgamer, and gamespot) dish out their usual 7-8s, and then the fringe ideologues mop up with 9s and 10s for all the “good games”.
That's the guy.
In fact a lot of the writing team for Aftermath have similar backgrounds to him.