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More concerning than Bethesda's decision to withhold early review codes from certain outlets is how heavily some sites are relying on the game to drive their business.

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[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (21 children)

I don't understand the purpose of big company reviewers (for subjective stuff like media at least). If I'm watching a smaller reviewer my goal is figure out their tastes so I can ignore the criticisms that I know don't bother me, and pay very close attention to where their tastes align with mine. Like if dunky calls a game buggy or slow paced, that's probably more a positive than a negative, but if he says the controls are clunky, I'll probably agree. ACG tends to like games that are less mechanically adventious and easy compared to what I like, and we have evry different tastes in storylines, but he's a really good barometer for sound and graphics.

If kotaku or whatever releases a review it's really hard for me to understand whose voice I'm getting, so the review is pretty useless, how do I know if the guy calling the game a challenge is that infamous cuphead reviewer or a guy that has been beating dark souls since he was 4.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I have a hard time when people complain about loading screens. I've been gaming since the 70s guys, let me tell you about load times:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starpath_Supercharger

You'd start loading a game from tape and then you might as well go have dinner with your family because it would be 30 to 60 minutes before you could play.

Or, it could hit a loading error 5 minutes after you walked away and now you have to start all over again...

[–] Tutunkommon@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, the Commodore 1541 floppy drive had a serial transfer rate of 2 bytes per second. Nothing loaded quickly in the 80's either.

[–] Davel23@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cool dudes had fastload cartridges.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

But it was soooo much faster than tape! ;)

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