>game review
>"it redefines the genre"
What are some other journalist buzzwords/terms that you hate?
Game review
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souls-like
souls-esque
The Dark Souls of x
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ludonarrative
>masterpiece
>it's a good game, but it's not a good [series] game
>it's a love letter to [game]
>makes me feel [x]
before anyone mentions it, "makes you feel like (x)" is a perfectly fine critical term. I don't want to play a batman game where it feels like I'm playing a platforming mortal kombat, for example.
oh fuck you
>2019
>reading game reviews
>after they were proven to be totally untrustworthy over and over
just watch unedited gameplay or pirate to try it out if there's no demo. dunno why you still read what they say. it was obvious they weren't honest or reliable even back in like 2005.
>i wanted to like x, i really did
>it's a good game, just not a good x game
>fans of x will love this game
>if you're over 25 and own a computer this game is a must play
>what x can learn from x
>the shocking and problematic statement of x's game dev
Sales and emotion-starved zoomers
game reviews are trustworthy as long as they like [exclusive for my console]. if they like [exclusive for another system] then they are paid shills
While the word is pretentious the concept is valuable. Games where you lose in a cutscene after stomping on the game are bullshit.
>game review
>"it redefines the genre"
I hate this, especially since most of the time, the game being praised doesn't actually redefine anything, much less an entire genre.
I can't imagine being autistic enough to care and I never saw this amount of whining over it until Cuckey made his XB2 video pointing it out.
Why's John's video shown for Metroid Prime?
>t.Journie
Have to remember Thief was a PC exclusive. Consoles and PC were pretty much treated as entirely different platforms especially when it came to FPS. That's why games like Goldeneye and Halo received so much more praise than they probably deserved despite PC having better shooters available. They were great by console FPS standards.
>jack of all trades master of none PC game
not an argument
>reading reviews written by people who don't even like games
>redefines the genre!!!1111!!!!1
is a common one.
>TLOU redefined the genre...
>BOTW redefined the genre...
>Dark Souls redefined the genre...
It's fucking pretentious.