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Magazines Faking Game Reviews?
lunchlady doris writes: "With videogames becoming a huge business and magazines having large lead times, something has got to give if they want to compete with web sites. Planet GameCube has a story where it seems that some magazines have decided that eschewing actual journalism is the way to go, with both Extreme Gamer and Request Magazine having reviews for Nintendo's Eternal Darkness, a game that is currently incomplete and is only expected to arrive in stores at the end of June."
Why not? Publishers have been faking good games for years now...
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It's obvious that Eternal Darkness skated much better than Half Life2 and that tripple Lutz was obviously a mess. I blame the judges they made their mind up way before the competition. Blame the French.
Dont be so hard on these magazines, guys.
Maybe the editor's keyboard got messed up, and the key "p" stopped functioning.
"Oh god. Oh god. Daikatana is great. The game is incredible. Please keep it coming. Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, keep on fragging. Boring medival Japanese plotline, oh god. More, more, more!!!
Good Salad."
See, it's quite easy to fake a good game review.
Jeez! I can flip to CNN for that!
The only difference between these guys and every second person on the web is that they're getting paid to do it.
Except, weirdly enough, in this case, I can't actually blame them.
--Game titles offer few surprises these days. Plus, the description and declared subject matter offered by the publishers to the reviewers sounds both sick and lame.
The only thing these reviewers did wrong is to not say up front that they were only looking at demos and press kit material. The fact of the matter is that they've told me all I want to know:
"Newsflash: Another cookie cutter over-violent FPS released by some company run either by (a)Sick juvenile twit programmers, or (b)Unimaginative corporate executives trying to make a buck by designing what their market analysts tell them is 'hip with the kids'."
Yep. Now that's reporting!
-Fantastic Lad
I should use this approach on my thesis...to think of the time I've wasted waiting for data!
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Could be worse, I guess. They could post duplicates of the same articles and reviews over and over without even checking for copies....
FreeBSD for the impatient.
duke nukem forever got 10 from 10 points.
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2 years ago.
But.. But... If they're not, then why are they being sold? You aren't implying that the government would allow something dangerous to be sold to the public are you?
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