Opinion on the gaming media in general?

[cheat-master30]

As in, what are your thoughts on those news sites and magazines about gaming?

For me, I think there's way too much pressure to please the complainers and fans among them to be honest. Look at it for example, if a game like Super Smash Bros Brawl, Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time or GTA doesn't get 90% plus, the site or magazine basically gets ripped to pieces just for writing their opinion, and the opposite, if a game that it seems popular to hate gets a good score, they then get flamed just for not going with the in crowd. This is not to mention the rumours of them basically get led to review games between average and great or the advertisers apparently quit advertising on their site/magazine/sending games.

Any opinions on them in question? Anyone else think they should just ignore the fanboys, maybe ban them and make their damn job a whole lot easier?

[WingsMarioDS]

Even if they are rated low, look at other sites and, if you can, rent the game...Some reviewers just don't understand most of it or just played it for 10 minutes. Regular reviewers should play it for I guess 1 hour, and rate it on the 4 things...
Difficulty:Medium
Gameplay:10
Graphics:9
Controls:7
Overall:8

Something like that.

[cheat-master30]

I think to be honest that reviewers should play the games for a long as possible before actually reviewing them, because quite honestly, opinion changes the more you play a game due to either finding hidden depths to the game or more and more flaws and bugs that could lower the score.

[dragonboy]

Some games are unconsistantly fun. Take for instance I played Yoshi's Island on my GBA a few years ago. The first 2 worlds were so fun, but then the third world was repetetive. Too many monkeys! But then it picked back up on the 4th world and was fun again.

[cheat-master30]

^True, all games have good and bad levels. Heck, some games start really poorly, some games end really poorly. Both have tropes for those exact things. Then there are the huge amount of games with one or two average levels.

[dragonboy]

I think the people who designed the bosses in Metal Slug 7, should've designed the levels too. The bosses actually have more creative platforming than the actual levels do.