LogFAQs > #959373125

How many reviewers were paid off by Disney or are sucking up because they're afraid to be blacklisted for future review copies/codes?

I'm at the point where I don't trust reviews at all until actual release, when real people with real opinions are allowed to play a game and give honest opinions. Everything before that is just part of the advertising machine.

It's probably worst for longer games (mainly RPGs) where the reviewer will play the first 5 hours or so and base their entire review on that, and thus miss any/every problem that only becomes obvious in later parts of the game (like the narrative ending being terrible *cough*Mass Effect 3*cough*). But even for shorter games bias has become so endemic that review scores are almost meaningless, and even in-depth reviews are suspicious.
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