Posted June 24, 2019
Hiya,
It's 2019 and we can't have nice things. Most 'professional' gaming websites are even worse than your average sponsored YouTube reviewer/news-repeater because they are either completely bought out by major publishers, absolutely incompetent or pretentious. On the other hand, YouTube personalities are mostly unbearably obnoxious as they often try to be funny by inserting memes, overused images or making funny faces / doing funny voices. If they aren't obnoxious, they are predictable and offer no real insight into the game/news they are talking about but are instead just parroting the common opinion online. And of course they are painfully narcissistic and think a video about a game should be less about the game and more about themselves.
I am looking for someone who talks calmly, doesn't make dumb jokes, doesn't really have a 'style' but is rather dry, and yet still is clearly enthusiastic about video games and not just a mainstream-pleaser. Someone who reviews mainstream games as well as well-produced Indie games. Someone who focuses mostly on PC games and not the billions of metroidvania 8/16-bit inspired platformers.
The closest I've gotten is 'Worth a Buy', since he reviews traditional-style PC games instead of the latest anime console-focused platformer, but he too belongs to the obnoxious joke-y category of YouTubers since he presents his opinions like a cartoon character. Another reference for what I am looking for is older reviews done by the german GameStar team (which fellow Germans may know as the game reviews that were posted in german AOL's gaming section back in the early 2000s).
Phew, I think I got all my criteria written up here. Thanks for trying to help!
It's 2019 and we can't have nice things. Most 'professional' gaming websites are even worse than your average sponsored YouTube reviewer/news-repeater because they are either completely bought out by major publishers, absolutely incompetent or pretentious. On the other hand, YouTube personalities are mostly unbearably obnoxious as they often try to be funny by inserting memes, overused images or making funny faces / doing funny voices. If they aren't obnoxious, they are predictable and offer no real insight into the game/news they are talking about but are instead just parroting the common opinion online. And of course they are painfully narcissistic and think a video about a game should be less about the game and more about themselves.
I am looking for someone who talks calmly, doesn't make dumb jokes, doesn't really have a 'style' but is rather dry, and yet still is clearly enthusiastic about video games and not just a mainstream-pleaser. Someone who reviews mainstream games as well as well-produced Indie games. Someone who focuses mostly on PC games and not the billions of metroidvania 8/16-bit inspired platformers.
The closest I've gotten is 'Worth a Buy', since he reviews traditional-style PC games instead of the latest anime console-focused platformer, but he too belongs to the obnoxious joke-y category of YouTubers since he presents his opinions like a cartoon character. Another reference for what I am looking for is older reviews done by the german GameStar team (which fellow Germans may know as the game reviews that were posted in german AOL's gaming section back in the early 2000s).
Phew, I think I got all my criteria written up here. Thanks for trying to help!
Post edited June 24, 2019 by Karterii1993
