Re:Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath
by 542458 on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @09:34AM
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> ideological reviews are what is mainstream. It's not about how the game is, it's how inclusive they are to minorities
This seems like a ridiculous strawman to me. I just spotchecked several reviews on IGN, PCGamer, and GamesRadar (top 3 sites I get when googling "games reviews"), and found nothing of the sort. I'm sure if you go digging you could find that content somewhere on the site, but to claim it's the crux of their review model is just false.
For example, MW3 is a game where there's lots you could criticize, in terms of how media portrayals of the war on terror gloss over the real world impacts on people in other nations... but not one of the mainstream reviews I can see spends time on it.
This seems like a ridiculous strawman to me. I just spotchecked several reviews on IGN, PCGamer, and GamesRadar (top 3 sites I get when googling "games reviews"), and found nothing of the sort. I'm sure if you go digging you could find that content somewhere on the site, but to claim it's the crux of their review model is just false.
For example, MW3 is a game where there's lots you could criticize, in terms of how media portrayals of the war on terror gloss over the real world impacts on people in other nations... but not one of the mainstream reviews I can see spends time on it.