I'd rather trust a hippo not kill me if I walk by it's swimming hole.

It's nice to see that the comments to the article aren't having it. The "profession" of gaming journalism (if not journalism in general) has no clothes, and the children are all laughing at their micro-dicks.

To do what? Review games? 😂

Pissing directly into the wind lol

No.

Chad no.

They literally can't be trusted to even tell me if they're a man or a woman.

It's time to stop using titles that start with "it's time to".

oh but I do trust them. them shitting on a game is a reliable sign that the game is good.

When they start outperforming a pigeon and prove they can use both analog sticks at once I'll start considering it.

Propagandists who worked for years to undermine game journalism credibility are mad they get no credibility once they wormed their way into game journalism. More at 11

This headline was written in yellow paint

'You can trust me.' - Source, myself.

I barely trusted them when they were in magazines that I willingly paid for with my own money. Which meant it came from an organization that was making things I was willing to buy and thereby had some quality to it (usually walkthroughs for games I had like Brave Fencer Mushashi).

Now I know these companies don't have a damn thing worth paying for, the IGN walkthroughs are barely passable and only get used because they top every search engine, so why would their words mean anything?

That's without even getting into the political angle.

Video games 'journalism' can't die fast enough

I trust my fever hallucinations and prozac dreams more than those "reviews"

I'll concede that the only point the guy has is that because of the landscape, they have to rush through a game, enjoy none of it, make a quick post about it, and move on to the next game since there's not enough time to really put in the work like there used to be to make a better quality post about [game] since there's thousands released daily now and they have to do too many at once.

But that's indicative of the corporate landscape going to shit. I can't fix what I didn't fuck up in the first place.

On the flip side of this, people who do it for free, without corporate shackles and time constraints are actually doing it better, the way it used to be. At least until they get bought.

Basically the opposite of the posted title.

It's time to trust the devil.

I trust individuals, not titles, especially titles which are basically interchangeable with "Journalism Drop Out".

Let’s ignore the fact that games journalists regularly beat entire games in a far shorter timespan than regular people who don’t have deadlines to meet.

This is pretty much exactly why people hate games journalists. They just try and rush through games as fast as humanly possible, as though seeing the credits means you've actually experienced the game. Would you trust a movie reviewer who watched all their movies at maximum speed to save time? How about a travel writer who just drove past all the tourist spots? No? Then maybe you can understand how gamers feel about hacks like this.

nah

Sure. And Concord is a good 7/10 game.

I would rather trust the crazy homeless guy on the corner.

The only thing I can trust game journalists to do is indulge in their pedophiliac urges.

😆😂🤣

No archive huh?

Isn't this a satire site?