More on GTA

It has been a long time since I posted and I will have to keep this brief because I have a pile of University work I need to get done.

But an article over at Gamasutra has really enforced my view that the people that we (the consumers) trust to critically review games aren't even able to do that anymore. And for what? To be the first person out the door screaming "GTA is super"? I don't know when it happened, nor do I really care after having disregarded review scores for a long time now, but something happened to change reviewers. Really change them. From being top notch journalists with the ability to be objective and critical, to something out of a current affairs program.

Funny to think that Yahtzee, of Zero Punctuation fame, might be the only honest voice out there at the moment. As over the top as he might be, he is also more than willing to point out all the faults of a game (and sometimes its strengths), and never pigeonholes any game into a particular rating slot.

Now I've got to get back to work, but I will be back harder, stronger, faster, whatever, in about 2 weeks time when my semester is done, with impressions games that I've had in depth play sessions of.

Cheers.

side note: My attempt at submitting a news article to PALGN was a failed one D: