Who is your favourite game reviewer?

MalicE

MalicE

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Excluding MyGaming of course which is naturally on top of everybody's list, who is your go-to game reviewer(s) when doing pre-purchase research?

Now this can be on any platform of course. Web, print, youtube, whatever.

I've narrowed it down to 2... kind

First off is Fortress of Solitude. solid reviews without getting too technical and focusing on the important things like fun factor and replayability.

Then there's Zero Punctuation... this is more for entertainment value really as I tend to disagree with most of his reviews. So when he eventually does give a game a "good" review you know it's gonna be gold.
 
For me it's Rock Paper Shotgun's "Wot I Think" reviews. They just review games so well and do so without a score.

Then I also always watch Zero Punctuation but only because I enjoy them. I've loved some of the games that he's hated.
 
TotalBiscuit for sure, though not a conventional reviewer. I've given up with reviews per se and rather opt for something along these lines as it's a more in depth "thoughts on" type of video.

Honorable mentions:
FrankieonPC
Kinda Funny Games
Game Informer
Euro Gamer (I enjoy reading their reviews)
 
I used to love Kieron Gillen back when he was reviewing for PC Zone in the UK. Later he became Reviews Editor. Clearly he was pretty good as he now works for Marvel writing classic comics like Uncanny X-Men.

These days I trust no reviews. I prefer to play games on their own merit, rather than what someone else thinks of them. That being said though, many of my mates like the same type of games and thus we end up reviewing games for each other.
 
TotalBiscuit and AngryJoe.
First impressions and in-depth covers all bases - far as I care.
 
Jim Sterling he is the only trust worthy games journalist everyone else are useless.Eurogamer are decent.Honestly I dont need someone to tell me something is good I have 30+ years of gaming under my belt.I just watch some youtube and make my own decision.I watched some Until Dawn videos and can see I will enjoy it.
 
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I stopped watching IGN and Gamespot almost entirely; TB and AJS is all I need. AJS will tell me in detail what IGN and Gamespot will summise in 6 (or so) minutes.
 
8sh said:
I stopped watching IGN and Gamespot almost entirely; TB and AJS is all I need. AJS will tell me in detail what IGN and Gamespot will summise in 6 (or so) minutes.
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Yeah, I unsubbed from IGN cos they just fsking spam videos. I still sub to Gamespot purely for their news and The Lobby. Danny O'Dwyer is really really good.
 
My list:

Jim Sterling - I generally prefer him for his superb industry analysis pieces that he does in the Jimquistion, but his reviews are good too.
Rock Paper Shotgun's Wot I think - They don't give a mark out of ten but these are always detailed and interesting reviews.
Kotaku reviews - Say what you will about Kotaku and how it's the Tumblr of gaming sites, but they write excellent reviews, I have rarely read one of their (extensive) reviews and thought: "That's not accurate".
MyGaming - Duh. ;)
And yes, sigh, even Lazygamer
 
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