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• lostcolony 7y ago
  Thank you. I hear my gamer friends give Kotaku so much grief over what strikes me as comparatively minor things (such as the OP's, over a game review, when there are so many others doing that)...but I've often noticed that they report on things I legitimately was unaware of, or perspectives I never had before, within gaming, that no one else is covering. I don't get the antipathy.
  • Godel_unicode 7y ago
    I'm not questioning whether their gaming-adjacent journalism is good (see all the links in the response, for instance). They do cover lots of topics which are otherwise not well covered about the gross morass which is the business of making games. I'm saying that their gaming journalism, specifically their reviews of games, is generally low quality. They regularly plagiarize Twitter and Reddit without crediting them. They regularly recommend avoiding otherwise excellent games because they don't like optional and avoidable pieces of them. There have been reviews I have read by them where I wonder if they actually played the same game as me. Tl;Dr - Read their editorials if that's your thing, but if you want to know if a game is worth your dollars, you'll need another source. Edit: you referred to your "gamer friends", I think this is where the issue lies. Gamers mostly want to know what game they should spend their free time on, and that's where Kotaku struggles.
    • jrimbault 7y ago
      https://kotaku.com/star-wars-battlefront-ii-the-kotaku-review-1820477183 https://kotaku.com/star-wars-battlefront-ii-the-kotaku-revie... There is an (non agressive) update at the end of the review though ? So they did change it. Kotaku's thing is opinionated reviews, if you understand the reviewer's tastes you should be able to make your own opinion relative to theirs. Also honestly, Kotaku pandering to reddit ? You'll have to more precise than that, reddit is made up of so many different communities, you can say that of just about anyone.
      • Godel_unicode 7y ago
        That "update" doesn't change the multiple paragraphs of text above it about how greedy pay-to-win ruins the game. It deliberately gives the impression that this is a temporary thing, which it wasn't. It's tacked on at the end even though this is a major change to the balance of the game. The most downvoted comment in the history of Reddit, referenced repeatedly by Kotaku not just in that review but in others, is about the pay-to-win mechanic they based their original review around. They have since lifted tons of comments from that thread (although at least in that instance they gave credit?) as Reddit-service in their other writings. All video game reviews are opinionated, that's kinda the point, but it's possible to make a useful opinionated review. Theirs are not. As an example of what I'm talking about, read the section in the BF II review where the author talks about time-to-kill in multiplayer. Realize how useless it is because of the lack of references to other similar games; is the weapon strength closer to Halo, or CoD4 hardcore mode? "Weak" and "unexpected" are totally useless without some frame of reference, which the author could give (just like many other reviews do) but doesn't. As an aside, theirs is definitely a minority opinion if you read other reviews or watch twitch streams.