“I am giving two stars as I do think there is some can be some entertainment found and certain people are worth listening to. Not bad to have on background I guess.
Most of what you’ll find here is either annoying or plain bad. Greg is especially guilty of the annoying aspect with yelling and just being outright hard to repeatedly hear in this podcast. Stop yelling and be more refined in your approach. Your listeners will appreciate it.
There is also a question of objective vs. subjective. This is a fuzzy line and all reviews are inherently subjective at least to some degree. What pains me here is that the reviewers seem to either avoid objective aspects entirely, or they get buried. I listened to the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet review and it took them forever to mention the performance issues and one reviewer even downplayed it by saying “eventually I just got used to it”. This is unacceptable and gives people an unrealistic impression of a game that should be much better. Honestly, I hope Game Freak is pressured to do better with the release of Palworld. Their games are stale and I’m honestly shocked that Nintendo allowed it to be released in that state.
Also, Greg is especially guilty here with giving 2023 GOTY to Starfield. I’m sorry, but that game is objectively worse than other games this year by a long shot. Baldurs Gate 3, which didn’t even get a full review, unless it’s behind a paywall, was rated much lower and that game is objectively better in almost every area. Starfield was lacking quality content, polish, and quality of life pieces and felt like a game that was made in 2010. I played for about 10 hours and couldn’t bring myself to finish it. Just utterly boring and so many loading screens. And this is coming from someone who beat Fallout 3 & 4 and Skyrim with 100’s of hours of playtime.
Also, Sonic Frontiers got a 4/5. I mean…just yikes! Oh, and I listened to some of their Redfall impressions and just…no.
It took me awhile to put my finger on what made me decide against this podcast, but that is it. If you are looking for a review that will truly tell you if a game is worth your time, don’t look here.”
Dave the Bard via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/15/24