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Looks like Valve is introducing a new review system to filter out "unhelpful" reviews (www.eurogamer.net)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is a side effect of YouTube content creation practices where a video will have an overview of the plot or story to pad out the run time or article. Often, because game journalism is basically long distance abusive relationships between the writer and the game publisher, the review is too mild to contain actual opinions and will draw on comparisons to other games instead of forming genuine critiques and admiration.

The end result is a generation of games and movies where the review is unable to provide enough genuine content to fill 10 minutes or 3 pages, so they instead spoil the game while riffing on very specific foibles. They don't know how to talk critically about mechanics or story or design.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I pretty much stopped watching videos like that. "$Game story EXPLAINED" but actually it's just a 30 minute rehash of the story without anything added to it or explained by the content "creator".