We’ve officially entered the era of industrial gaslighting in video game reviews. These AC Shadows reviewers are openly describing a 6/10 game and then giving it 9s and 10s. And it’s not about payola or access. This is purely ideological. These journos are compelled to inflate scores in order to combat the chuds. The audience score is no longer simply detached from the critics. Now the people’s disdain inversely determines the legacy media consensus. The wrong people disliking AC Shadows is reason enough for journos to boost their scores. Not even gamergate ever predicted it would get this bad. The entire game journo industry has lit its credibility on fire to protect a 6/10 ubislop game, and all Ubisoft had to do was put a gay black dude in a setting where he didn’t remotely belong.
We’ve officially entered the era of industrial gaslighting in video game reviews. These AC Shadows reviewers are openly describing a 6/10 game and then giving it 9s and 10s. And it’s not about payola or access. This is purely ideological. These journos are compelled to inflate scores in order to combat the chuds. The audience score is no longer simply detached from the critics. Now the people’s disdain inversely determines the legacy media consensus. The wrong people disliking AC Shadows is reason enough for journos to boost their scores. Not even gamergate ever predicted it would get this bad. The entire game journo industry has lit its credibility on fire to protect a 6/10 ubislop game, and all Ubisoft had to do was put a gay black dude in a setting where he didn’t remotely belong.
6/10 is being pretty generous given the Avowed-tier town guard AI behavior lmao