Amazon...seriously read the reviews on some games they seem to work well

Yeah, well a lot of people also play online, so I would say it's an alright indicator, it's not perfect but it works.

I agree, but even when looking at all the different opinions there are some voices that weigh a little bit more than others, at least for me. I will trust PC Gamer over IGN etc. Of course if PC Gamer say a game is awesome and everyone else says it's amazing, well I would assume it's a pretty good game.

About the only person I read or watch videos from is a guy on Kotaku named Leo Wichtowski, and that's mainly because I find him very funny and entertaining. Beyond that I really don't pay attention to reviews. I look closely into games I'm interested in and if I think they are going to appeal to me, I buy them, regardless of the reviews on them. I've steered myself wrong a few times but it's rare and I mostly end up enjoying what I play.

I always put Steam into Offline Mode when playing Skyrim because the syncing takes so long.

I play in offline mode too. In fact there are six of us who use Steam in my household (myself, plus a Mom and her four daughters) and all of us play offline.

Never heard of it before.

You could just turn off cloud saving if that's your only issue.

Journalism itself is a sham, at least in the US here. Ethics has gone out the window as far as I am concerned. I would say the only person I 1/2 have a "bit" of respect in is Totalbiscuit on youtube in terms of gaming.

I see no reason to pay attention to any written reporting on video games, aside from when they are writing about their experiences with journalistic early access to a game that is not yet released. other wise i'll just watch a youtube video to actually see what the game is like rather than reading some one elses biased opinion of why they like or dislike a game. That, and the obvious click bait witch hunts between the journalists and consumers who are looking for some one to crucify because they said something trivially offensive.

Well there is a big Brazilian youtuber named Zangado. He is very honest with the reviews. Giving attention to the good things and bad things of a game. So I trust his judgment.

I thought this thread was about journalism. Some guy who records a video in his living room in his spare time and uploads it to YouTube is not journalism.

Well he put "Journalism" so... Well if it will please you milady, there is the Uol Jogos that does a pretty damn good review and always try to bring news as fast as possible.

PS: I didn't mean to be an ass with the of it pleases you or the milady. was just a play with the Lady on your username.

If he's unpaid and unbiased, surely it's better 'journalism' than a site that takes backhanders for good reviews?

Myself, I get any info on games I want from tech sites, not gaming sites, or just ask here.

Yahtzee and Jim Sterling.

Journalism

noun

1. the occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news

The key word there is occupation. So yes someone who does such in their spare time is not a journalist but anyone that does it for a living IS.

Journalism is a lost art; we'll never get real journalists ever again.

A lost art? Art is an individual expression based on one's own perceptions and beliefs. News should be strictly the facts without any single perspective. If so called "journalists" are elevating the act of bringing us news to an art form then they are doing it wrong and they are merely performers, like the entirety of Fox News

That is not the only meaning of Art.

Honestly I think the definition of Art is not the meat here but rather the definition of Journalist. Under my definition there are indeed many "real" journalists that share the unbiased facts so that we the individual can decide for ourselves how it makes us feel. I guess however if your definition is that of something else then it's not inconceivable for you to perceive that there are no "real' journalists left.

Art can also mean skill; but what I meant was that the environment has changed. It's not so much that the skill is lost, but rather the will to use it; and the many incentives not to.

Total Biscuit, Jim Sterling and Angry Joe etc, in fact i respect the Youtube reviewer's far more than the online sites like IGN and Gamespot, sometimes i wonder how honest their reviews are, or whether they just do click bait pieces to get more traffic, ie, IGN's Alien Isolation review comes to mind, where the reviewer marked the game down due to the whole point of the game really! imo.

Angry Joe was OK for a while, but with the Copyright claims left and right because he calls out the truth make his more recent content confined to "Watch me Play" videos and his rants. As such, his overall content has gone downhill.

TotalBiscuit has some good points, but he only takes the side of PC gamers, and demands things be tailored to that audience.

Adam Sessler is hit-and-miss at best. I can't tell if he is honest with some of his reviews, or just refuses to touch on the bad points, unless it's not a game from the Top Two (EA and Activision)

Unfortunately that's just the norm now a days. I'd say any of the alphabet news media (ABC, CNN, MSNBC, etc) are just as bad, if not worse than Fox News. The only reason Fox news gets so much heat from everyone is because they are the only of the organizations on the Right Wing, whereas all the rest are varying degrees of left wing, so it's in their best interest to dog pile on fox to distract from their own shortcomings.

Yeah I think that fox is shoddy journalism, but i also think that every other big media chain in north america is equally as bad (or worse in some cases, especially here in Canada).

There are very, very few good journalists now a days. Gone are the days of Journalists like Ernest Hemingway, the whole industry has been taken over by Marxists for the most part. (though this is getting into politics so i'll just leave it at that).

He still reviewed all of this years biggest releases and his E3 coverage was extensive to say the least.

I disagree. Like Trey and Matt pointed out in the last episode of South Park, we are living in the digital age now and out of it is now born individuals that are making themselves rather than being marketed to us by producers. Amidst that group are some genuine people that are making it in journalism because of that quality and not despite it. The internet now provides a medium for people to rise without sacrificing their integrity so really, gone are the days when all of our entertainers and journalists are hand picked for us. In such an atmosphere I can't see the cream NOT rising to the top and one a day the modern day Hemingway will be born out of it all.