The Top 10 Most Disliked IGN Reviews of All Time!
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- čas přidán 17. 10. 2022
- Hold on to your butts! The Tominator took it upon himself to explore the IGN video review catacombs and exhume their most disliked video reviews ever!
Music
Sonic Advance - Casino Paradise Zone
Donkey Kong Country main theme
Katamari - Que Sara Sara
Banjo-Kazooie - Spiral Mountain
Metal Gear Solid - Encounter
Demon's Souls - Tower Knight
ToeJam & Earl - ToeJam Jammin
Viewtiful Joe - Some Like it Red Hot
Professor Layton And the Curious Village - The Curious Village
Halo - Honest Negotiation Suite
Uncharted 2 - Nate's Theme - Hry
My review of this video
Pros:
- good commentary
- captured the spirit of the community
- makes you FEEL like someone who is glad to not be an ign fan
Cons:
- too much numbers in the list
- felt like a top 10 video
9.2
This comment has a little something for everyone
I think you forgot a con - Too much water
You forgot "overwhelmingly British" for the cons
Joking!
Fair point. You give it cons. So it's not 10/10.
Ok but Days Gone is not very good and the love for it is confusing to me. I’m a PS fanboy and love most of their first party games but Days Gone was mediocre at best. Also it’s important to note that IGN has many reviewers and Lucy O’Brien is by far the most fair and honest reviewer I’ve seen from them. I prefer to watch CZcams reviewers these days cause it’s easier to get an understanding of whether or not you’ll like a game if you know the reviewers tastes regardless of whether or not you agree with them.
You know what they say, "you can't spell Ignorant without IGN"
It's been years since I last read that haha
Lol, nice!
Bingo
@@shimaphys EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
You can but it would just be orant
One of my “favorite” IGN reviews was for Windbound. Where in it, the reviewer stated that there was no need to upgrade the raft, then later in the video, complains about getting killed by a hammerhead shark that broke the raft instantly since it was made of *grass*.
Hahaha are you serious??
Yes, it was quite sad to watch.@@Alescandon135
my personal favorite is when they complain that rain world is badly designed for killing them too much when the entire point of rain world is that you are the most pathetic creature in the room at any point.
@@eldritchcupcakes3195 I feel like the game reviewer came into the mindset that "games have to be fun" rather than "games are tools to make you feel a certain way". Rain World is meant to show a cool ecosystem and make you feel sad, weak, alone, and afraid. Its not meant to be a strictly fun and balanced experience. Neither are really bad ways to evaluate it, the latter may just not be his cup of tea.
What a dumbass
The worst reviews are when people complain that a game is what it is meant to be. "Such as there is too much focus on cars and driving fast in this racing game."
The problem is they gave a call of duty guy the call of duty review, and they gave a call of duty guy the doom review. It's like giving someone who specializes in single player RPGs the ffxiv review. It's just not their thing so it won't be very accurate. This is the problem with reviews from big companies like IGN. They are pretty pointless.
maybe hes into COD gameplay and not dooms? ever thought of that
@@panchoooooooo That's the point. His stupid reviews are biased. He literally played the main campaign for just 2 minutes like a sperg.
@@panchoooooooo Then as a friggin REVIEWER he should be familiar with Doom's gameplay before reviewing it? Ever thought of that
@@avatarxs9377 ai should do all reviews then :p. Objectivity can be attempted but reviews are reactionary. That means its a presentation based on an emotional responce.
@@panchoooooooo that's my point... the guy reviewing a doom game who doesn't like doom...ign reviews, and honestly reviews in general, are completely pointless because they completely rely on what the reviewer likes
"This game is hot garbage"
8/10 IGN
"This game is repetitive, boring, bloated and TOO MUCH WATER" 9/10
“This game is incredible, but has a few issues, 6.4/10”
It really makes you FEEL like hot garbage
It has a little hot garbage for everyone
Like IGN itself
I will never let IGN live down removing a point from A Hat in Time for the voice acting being too good
That's not even fair
???
I'll never forgive them for they're Alien Isolation review.
Is there anymore context or is that literally what the review says
their@@windandcloudshadow158
I honestly believe that IGN does an essential work in Videogame reviewing. They are so sold to certain companies, hate so many good games, and love so many souless cash grabs that the true review is the comment section and the dislike bar itself.
Boom
Agreed. I decided to buy Days Gone after seeing their review. You can tell just by listening to these that the reviewer was disinterested.
100%
The fact that they gave Alien Isolation a lower score than they’ve ever given a Madden game is all you need to know. Lol
Alien Isolation: literally makes the most advanced enemy AI put in a horror game, creating a respectable and intense continuation to a beloved series.
IGN: 5.9
Yes this is the most infamous and to this day they defend it. Ruined any chance of a sequel was ruined by them.
For me this is the worst review in gaming history. Basically if you pay IGN, you'll get a 9.2, if you refuse, they'll sabotage the sales of your game.
@@tomisinjapan Yes its literally in their contract if a game doesn't review well you don't get any bonuses etc.
"Games to scary and hard" 5.8
I will never forgive them for ruining alien isolations reputation. Thanks to their dogshit review millions of people didn't buy it thinking the game was bad, and that's the reason we never got a proper sequel
They just recently uploaded a video called: 49 things Final Fantasy 16 copied from Game of Thrones.
First: Both protagonists are young swordmen...
That's stinky
"There's someone at SEGA who really hates that hedgehog"
Satam Robotnik: Interesting
Wouldn’t that be every version of Eggman
The problem with Battle for Bikini bottom rehydrated is that it had too much water.
7.8/10 Too hydrated
Patrick: How can we be a great game if we're underwater?
One hydration was more than enough. Why’d they have to go and RE-hydrate it then?
I’d like to thank IGN personally, for somehow uniting the western action and shooter fans with JRPG fans, which is just about the biggest polar opposite in fan base personalities
Wtf I belong to both fanbases
@@gonggonglive i should clarify im not saying you cant be a part of both. But the overall personality of the respective groups is differing. If you had a poll saying CoD or final fantasy, you certainly expect very different opinions, backgrounds, experiences and arguments to appear under it. You’re just a chad all genres enjoyer what can i say
@@gonggonglive You're not remotely alone, but there are people out there who are more isolated fans who are like "I really only play JRPGs" or "I really only play FPS games" and those two personality types tend to be very specific.
most of them like that. people who see jrpg as weeb shit and never gonna touch it and vice versa who only play jrpgs and anything anime ish and stay away from western games. good thing i enjoy both
@@kieranbennett7453Comrade If I Were To List All The Fanbases I'm A Part Of That Are Either Polar Opposites Or Straight Up Hate Eachother The List Would Be Long And I'm Sure I'm Not The Only One.
FPS,RTS,TTS,Turn Strategy,TTW,X4,RPG,Grand Strategy, Platformers, Horror Games, Fighting Games, God Forbid Open World Survival And More That I'm Forgetting About.
Not Only Am I In Almost Every Tipe Of This Generes (All The Different RTS Types, All The Different FPS Types Ecc) I'm Heavily Invested In The Lore To The Point Where I Could Make A Story That Would Easily Rival Endgame As The Greatest Crossover In History Without Major Lore Breaks And Could Take Mechanics From So Many Different Games That Gaming Heaven Would Be Brought Back To Us Just Like In The Good Ol' Days From 2000 - 2012.
The List Of Games I Enjoy And Their Respective Fandoms In Wich I'm Invested In And The Colossal Amount Of Deep Lore I Know About A Ton Of Em Is Frightening To The Point Where I'm Surprised That I Can At The Same Time Be Touching Grass.
Ok So Ever Heard Of:
Company Of Heroes, Codename Panzers, Men Of War, Men Of War Assault Squad, Battlefleet Gothic Armada, Medieval Total War, Happy Wars, Hawken, Titanfall, Team Fortess, Five Nights At Freddy's, Halo, Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic, Dawn Of War, Order Of War, Battlefield, Star Wars Battlefront, Quantum Break, War Thunder, Final Fantasy, Super Mario Bros, Tactile Wars, Undertale, Bionicle, Call Of Duty, Metal Gear, Sekiro, Demon Souls, Bloodborne, Lost Planet, Grand Theft Auto, Subnautica, Minecraft Battle For Middle Earth, Arma, Counter Strike, The Witcher, Fallout, Hearts Of Iron, Europa Universalis , Victoria, Stellaris, Endless Space, Sins Of A Solar Empire, March Of The Eagles, Star Wars Empire At War, Crusader Kings, Knights Of Honor, Yakuza, God Of War, Bayonetta, Borderlands And I GOTTA STOP F*CKING HELL THERE ARE TO MANY AND THEY JUST WON'T STO-
Portals, Splitgate, Tactile Wars And I Should Go To F*cking Sleep So I'll Stop This Line Right He- Oblivion, Skyrim, Cities Skylines, Surviving Mars?
I Thought So, It's Not A Story The Jedi Would Tell You.
This List Is But A Fraction Of The Amount Of Games I Know And Know Intimately Together With All/Most Of Their Memes And A F*ck Ton/A Ton/Meh Of Lore.
My Bad Memory Keeps Me From Going Insane So I'll Avoid A Full List.
F*ck I Can't Leave A Metroidvania Out.
Hollow Knight.
And That's It Just Know That I'm Literally In Almost Every Fanbase In Existence And It's Not Even Intentional I Don't Even Know How This Happened.
I Forgot Half Life- *Oh No* The Memories Mason What Do They Mean?
I'll Just Stop Before-
Injustice, Doom, Zelda, Redcon, Smash Bros...
...
...
Sonic The Hedgehog.
Ok I Gotta Find A Way To- Command And Conquer, Red Alert, Generals.
This Is The End.
OR IS IT?
You See There Is Still A Long Way Till We Reach The Bottom Comrades But I'd Like To Preserve My Sanity So I'll List One More And Then List The Producers Which Should Shorten Things Up.
Supreme Commander.
EA, Activision, Sega, Gas Powered Games, Bioware,THQ, Creative Assembly, Bungie, 343, Capcom, Games Workshop And The List Is Too Long Already And I'm Losing My Sanity Again.
Anyway I Forgot Starcraft.
THE F*CKING END
“IGN being the poster-child for bad video game journalist”
*Kotaku has joined the chat*
Kotaku isn’t a reviewing site it’s just where imcofident journalists whine about stupid stuff
While bad reviews can't be defended, it SHOULD be noted that every reviewer has their own likes & dislikes. IGN just needs to let reviewers who love horror games play them & not anyone who even remotely doesn't.
This is why gaming reviewers should have 3 players who each like different things play the game. And one of them should actually like the genre of the game they’re reviewing.
The problem is IGN fans don't seem to realize that different critics review different games. This is IGN's fault sort of because they are a company and the critics within represent that company, though fans get confused and thin the reviews are representative of everybody at IGN, but in reality the opinions are only those of the reviewer. The fans complaints at IGN reviews are mostly idiotic I think too, yeah they can disagree with them sure, but they put way too much stock on IGN's opinions-that's why they're so powerful. IGN are the EA of videogame journalism.
And they were dead on with Death Stranding AND Days Gone. People can totally like and enjoy those games! Those people just have bad taste.
Why not just review not on their personal preferences but on games mechanics? So you will like say "this might not be good for category of people who don't like grinding"
I agree. I have very specific types of games I like. I have no time for (for example) football games or fighting games like Tekken or platformers (the new ratchet & crank was free on the PS now thing and after 2 hours, I thought it absolutely dreadful, but people love it!) So I would instantly rate any of those type of games 5/10 because I don't enjoy those types of games.
Honorable mention: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky.
They gave it a 4.9/10, claiming it's a bad game and even hardcore Pokémon fans should skip it.
Yet I have never witnessed a more passionate playerbase than the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon one. Not a single soul who played through the game said they regretted it. This is a game that can make even grown ups tear up.
So how did IGN manage to completely overlook how brilliant this game actually is? They got stuck at Apple Forest, one of the earliest dungeons in the game, then called it a day.
Yep, in my opinion it's the best Pokémon game ever made.
I didn’t play Explorers of the Sky but I did play gates of infinity. The story was great and gameplay was really fun. However like the other game it got a bad rating this really upset me when I found out the review :(
@@justcj6708 reviewers tend to shit on the entire spinoff series, since they basically only test out the gameplay and then never touch it again. While I do admit that the gameplay isn't for everyone, it can still be quite enjoyable and the atmosphere of the game definitely makes up for it.
Gates to infinity is considered the worst of the series. I get why it is, but it's still pretty good. It also does some things the other games don't that I enjoyed. See if you can't get your hands on a rom of sky if you can, though. It's considered the best of them and I'll say it's the best pokémon game to date, old or not.
Lmao, just IGN having a skill issue for the 50000th time
"Shin Megami Tensei V is like the edgy younger brother of Persona 5"
This still pisses me off to this day
In reality, Persona is the dramatic younger brother to SMT
Im not even huge into SMT even though ive played it, but that quote even pisses me off
I’m a Persona fan but calling smt more edgy than persona 5 is insane
@@no_opinion1065 I guess having a bleaker, post world ending environment is edgy these days.
@@mistersomaru For that matter why not rename the literary genre of 'Speculative Fiction ' as 'Edgy' instead
Stop reading reviews, most of them are paid for anyway. Although who am I kidding, the average mouthbreather doesn't even read them, y'all just look at the number.
I cant believe they gave "The last of us part 2" a 10, I mean its nothing like persona 5.
9:00 No way, Team Aqua uses a lot of water types!? That's insane! Why would Team Aqua favor water type Pokémon? It's beyond unreasonable that Team Aqua uses a lot of water types.
“unreasonable that Team Aqua uses a lot of water types” true, easily the worst villains in any Pokémon game
"Oh god, I think I am close to fighting team Aqua, what Pokemon should I choose? I think I will deploy my Charizard first" - inside the mind of an average IGN journalist.
And here I thought Team Aqua used Fire types…
They should have removed all the water! Who cares about the plot, I hate water!
Even though IGN terrible reviewers the "Too much water" complaint is something I agree with combine with the number of HMs you need to progress exploring hoenn becomes a chore.
Well, you can't spell Ignorant without IGN 😀
Nearly fell off me chair! Thanks, Larry, for all the brilliant content you've made over years. Even before CZcams. You're a legend!
@@tominator4468 Aw, bless you Sir, thank you! But you're work in most impressive too, really enjoyed the video!!!
Say, if you're ever up for it, maybe we can do something together in the near future? :)
@@Larry Oh, in a heartbeat, mate. I don't know how obvious it is, but I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to youtube lol. Deer in the headlights at the minute.
But yeah, any time, Larry. Really happy you enjoyed the video!
@@tominator4468 Ah thanks, are you on Twitter at all? Send me a DM there! :)
I'll try and give a few tips too!
Well this is wholesome
"Persona without the heart"
Persona is the spin-off series, so the mainline games literally cannot be like "persona without the heart", because they came first. And they have ALWAYS been very different with just some similarities. And that's how us fans want it, both series' offering something different and you can stick to one if you don't like the other.
For Spongebob BFBB Re:Hydrated, you forgot the best part. IGN reviewer expected to be able to switch between Spongebob, Patrick, and Sand at any times. And complained for not able to do so.
Even when the level design in each stage clearly visualize it. Sandy couldn't do a Slam move for button on ground like Spongebob or Patrick, Spongebob couldn't throw stuff like Patrick, and Patrick himself couldn't do Glide move like Sandy.
Have you seen Gamespot, that is even worse
As someone born in England this man is so blatantly British he makes me feel French 😂
Hahaha. As hard as I try, I cannot hide my cockney accent! Hope you enjoyed the video, mate!
@@tominator4468 I definitely did! Hope you have a good one and I’ll definitely keep an eye out for more of your stuff 🤙
As an American, he makes me feel severely uneducated by voice alone lmao
@@tominator4468 as a briton myself, I love your accent! i don't really like my own as i am from the north.
@@CodedHumor nah dw brits can be nonces as well haha
For those who don’t know, IGN’s Pokemon ORAS review became so infamous that Game Freak themselves referenced it in Pokémon Sun and Moon.
Where?
With the Roto-Camera feature, you can take pictures at certain spots, and one of the reviews of your photos can be “7.8 out of 10 Too much water”.
Only in the English translation not in the original Japanese versions
@@trapez77 eh good enough
@@karenbonds264 pathetic. If Cyberpunk was that cocky people would get upset about it. But the laziest gane developer ever gets to do that.
I laughed so hard when IGN compared Shin Megami to Persona. Just because they share some of the universum (monsters/personas mostly), doesn't mean that those are the same (or similar) games.
And I admit that I listened to IGN when they reviewed Alien Isolation all those years ago and skipped playing it. I am sooooo glad that I gave this game a chance at some point. One of the best.
I think the first game is quite similar to Shin Megami Tensei, but I could be wrong
I just think its weird that the review boiled down to "I don't like this SMT game; it doesn't feel like Persona". Like, holy shit, play Persona instead of SMT 5 if that's the case.
as a massive persona fan also, the only place you should be going to play persona 5 is persona 5
@@pointyorbthe first persona game was called “Shin Megami Tensei: Persona
IGN: “Spongebob should not be kid-friendly. He needs to smoke cigars, drink alcohol and blow fishes’ heads up with a double-barrel shotgun.”
They were talking about the game's difficulty
@@Fluffy6555 It's called a joke
@@zaneheaston8254 it's not a very funny joke considering it's strawmanning what it's making fun of
@@Fluffy6555 No, it was funny. Sorry to break it to you.
@@yipflaptheexecutioner6519 your response in a nutshell "Nuh uh"
I think IGN highlights the problem with having a "company" that reviews games instead of a single person. Unless everyone is fully on the same page in terms of quality, (a good example being someone like Easy Allies) then you're going to end up with a huge mess of contradictions that reflect on the entirety of the company.
Also journalists are usually more qualified as writers than…video games players.
It’s a rather backwards system really.
@@emblemblade9245 Yeah it's a lot better when you get someone who is actually competent at playing video games and journalism. My personal favorite would be Joseph Anderson as while there are quite a few videos that I disagree with for the most part they are well argued, and he always plays a game through and completes everything to be as accurate as possible even if he hates the game
IGN did nothing wrong 😤
Yeah, a few of these reviews are clear duds, but a lot of them are actually pretty fair. The trouble is somebody will *always* flip out if you give something under an 8. Anything below that is seen as abject failure and that's sort of absurd.
Like... Days Gone? I've never heard anyone call it anything but mediocre, just too generic for it's own good. Some of the AssCreed games should me up there with it. Death Stranding? Good game, but not for everyone by a longshot, it's kinda like dropping a low score on Pathologic.
Either need no score or multiple. It's all too subjective.
This was what I really liked about Electronic Gaming Monthly back in the good ol' days - they'd assign three people to review a game. Usually they'd be mostly on the same page, but there were times when someone would enjoy/hate a game more than the other two.
No one can convince me they weren't purposefully playing Sonic Unleashed badly.
you ever watched the doom 2016 gameplay video from polygon?
@@Buttersaemmel No, but I'm afraid to now.
@@ThatSneakman let me put it this way: my mom is a pro-gamer compared to that.
@@Buttersaemmel But is it worse than their Cuphead review
@@evdestroy5304 Nothing could be worst than that
"Too much water"
HE SAID THE THING
Oh lord the Sonic Unleashed review was my first realisation that IGN is a joke. Imagine clearly jumping over a ramp and claiming that the controls dont work.
He did have a point though, every time you would jump it’s like delayed for a second, and what idiot would have you either do two separate moves on ONE BUTTON?
Imagine MASHING the boost button instead of holding it and call game slow
If IGN hates a game for having too much water, imagine the steam coming out of their ears when they discover wind waker, that bad boy gonna be a 0.5/10!
Too much sailing is a completely accurate complaint about that game. Way too much sailing in that game and way too little dungeons 6/10
@@glungusgongus And too much water is a fair complaint in pokemon imo, since the terrain allows for random encounters which slows down the pace of progress to a crawl
@@strangething7379 fact
@@strangething7379 Not really no. Repels can easily fix the wild encounters if you want to avoid them. I for one enjoyed Hoenn and its design. I loved being able to dive underwater, and the ride up the waterfall to the elite four blew my mind as a child. Ultimately "to much water" sounds like a childish idiotic nitpick than an actual reason to hate on the game.
What about Subnautica
To put further amusement to their Sonic Unleashed review, IGN went on to put it in their top 10 best sonic games list not too long ago.
It has a real cult following, especially as those who played it as a kid as they grew older
Yup I remember playing the ps2 version in 2010, good old days
I consider the day stages some of the best Sonic stages.
It's almost like two different people reviewed it and then put it on the best list.
Yea thats the thing with reviews. Is the reviewer interested in that type of game?
I was one of the few who enjoyed the werehog sections, I'd easily rate it as my favorite sonic game.
This is the first time I’ve actually heard the reasoning behind the ‘too much water’ critique and you know what? It actually makes a lot of sense… that one got blown way out of proportion imo
Yeah Pokemon fans are on such a hugh horse. Its an easy to understand complaint. It is literally easy to see how that could affect the 60+ hour game
Team aqua using water type pokemon NOOOO imposible
@@merunask.9640 the complaint was not about team aqua using water pokemon, but that they are everywhere, though.
I fully agree. It's a very valid and criticism. Water routes are okay to amazing when there's a few of them (the ones in Unova are godlike) but when like half the map is just blank water it's boring.
@thefirstcurse3123 I've always thought it was an issue with the phrasing. Like had it said "There is an excessive amount of water routes and water types," as opposed to "too much water," maybe it wouldn't have been as controversial?
IGN when they see a rare bug that doesn't affect gameplay: 1/10
"We want the publisher to invite us back and keep giving us early access" 9/10 IGN
"The indie publisher's check bounced" 2/10 IGN
In a nutshell, yes.
Why’d they name Hades game of the year then?
@@trev.7598 Their check didn't bounce.
@@dragonskinner7109 The idea that companies pay critics to give positive reviews is ridiculous.
I remember the Alien: Isolation review...By far one of the greatest Survival Horror games I've played, and bar none the best Alien game out there. Nails the atmosphere, tone, feeling of being hunted and....5.9. Good lord.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers got a *4.9* . Y’know, one of the greatest DS games ever made
Hahahah that shit made me so sad back in the day, that game was properly respected, but very underrated lol
The only way AI deserved the 5.9 rating was for it's utterly garbage ending. But the reviewing 'journo' shat all of his pants simultaneously before quitting the game in 'frustration' so in their mind this game must have been REALLY bad.
game legit got me scared than any horror game i ever played till today. nothing ever gonna get remotely close as alien isolation ai. you can even die at save station thinking youre safe lmao.
It takes far too long to get going and the last couple hours are a slog
Can't believe the Black Ops 3 slander. smh my head
IGN almost singlehandedly made it so no sequel, to Days Gone will ever be released. Unless Sony opens their eyes and actually see the amount of people craving the game. They are making a Movie for some reason ?
Calling Shin Megami Tensei a "younger brother" of Persona clearly show what IGN is all about
IGN, more like IGNorants
@Simon Riley but at the same time it got more popular than the mainline series which I don’t think any other franchise has done that
Makes me remember the scene from Regular Show with Rigby going "and everything thinks Your the older brother, I'm the older brother! Me!"
@@edgelessspace7180 xena
@@edgelessspace7180 Nier
One big issue with game review sites is you have 30 different people reviewing games. they aren't comparing their review scores, it's all subjective to each reviewer but it's all under one banner. you may tend to agree with one reviewer there, but not another. it's easier to rely now on creator driven channels whose opinions we know how we generally feel about.
Video game dunkey touched up on this subject well. Everyone who knows his channel knows he despises rpgs so if he finishes one you know its at least decent
@@snuggie1849
Except Dunkey not only falls into the exact traps big companies like IGN do (constant contradictions and inconsistent opinions), but he actively LIES in most of his videos. Not only are his videos a worthless source of criticism, they're legitimately worse than IGN in every way. At least IGN is merely incompetent, Dunkey is flat out malicious.
Yep, you never know if you are going to get a reviewer who has never touched said game series before and/or potentially doesn't even like it, or a reviewer who is a die hard fan of the series and knows what the fans want, or just someone who doesn't care either way.
It's why I find points like the one at 5:24 a bit dumb, cause those scores were all given by different people with different opinions, what the guy said was true for himself, it's not true to people he's probably never even talked to.
also not to mention the sites can force people to rush on their reviews just to get it out around release, which can also lead to them not enjoying the game as much or making a bad review.
@@snuggie1849 And if he doesn’t finish one you know it’s amazing
I’ll never forget the Xenoblade debacle, dunkey.
@@emblemblade9245 tbf, he did finish XC3. He was just an asshole about it.
This is basically why I don't read reviews for games I want to play. I have to be in a pretty specific situation to feel like I need professional reviews to decide if I want to play a game or not
I think a big problem is that all of these reviewers are different people. Just because one IGN reviewer gave a game a 9.2 doesn't mean all IGN reviewers would do the same, so comparing scores across games, especially by different reviewers is fundamentally flawed.
Shhh don’t try to make sense just let them be manbabies
That's what a senior editor is for. I don't necessarily blame the writers themselves for it all, but the editors don't care to look at it, or are tone deaf to the people who read/watch their reviews.
It really depends on what your website is trying to do. I used to read EGM in the early 2000s and I liked how they had different panelists reviewing the same game, who had different tastes and would give very different scores. But IGN is trying to be the common denominator for everybody and basically "predict" what scores will please advertisers and viewers the most. So you see a lot of reviews that read like 6s given 8s or higher, because some editor intervened, and you rarely see substantial top-down criticism of a big series because even something as basic as noting that water types dominate a Pokemon game and throw off the rock paper scissors mechanic becomes a meme for years.
The doom review is a great example of why it might be nice to split reviews into a part about single player, and a part about multiplayer.
Also the fact that gaming journalism doesn't have 3 people play the game and average their scores is crazy to me. It'd stop these dumb outliers.
Maybe you already know, but thats what Famitsu (importante japanese gaming magazine) does. Four reviewers rate the game from 1 to 10, then they add the four scores for the final score.
You want your game to have the perfect score of 40? You need to be the perfect game to four different reviewers
@@CalebCrazyVampire that's so sick, I didn't know that!
Alternatively, use the same reviewers so the audience already knows the biases coming from the reviewer. If I watch IGN, it's a random reviewer that I have no history with. If I watch Zero Punctuation, I know exactly what to expect from Yahtzee, so his entire review is minor nitpicks about insignificant things, you know that the game is going to be a goty candidate.
@RobinClower very true, also good reviewer choice
Ah, but that would mean that IGN would have to hire more journalists, and that means the CEO won't be able to afford his 17th Ferrari! What a travesty, have some sympathy for the poor CEOs my man 😢
I love when IGN reviews a new game, it makes me feel better about my skills as a writer.
IGN dawned a new beginning for braindead Game Journalists.
Holy shit bro that was an amazing laugh
Thatd be like a cripple looking at a fish and saying "well atleast i can survive on land"
Only problem I have with this video is comparing reviews.
It's honestly unfair to compare two different games and two different reviewers just because they are from same company.
That Alien: Isolation is criminal. It is legitimately one of the best games i've ever played, a horror game that is actually terrifying, with the best A.I i've ever seen.
I genuinely believe ign just hates sega.
"Someday someone is gonna make an incredible Alien game that checks every box, unfortunetly, Isolation is not it". I not only felt that, It almost killed me to hear that, Isolation is absolutely perfect from both an Alien franchise perspective and horror game perspective, how can they be so blind!!!
And also the criticism against the AI and complaining how the alien found him while hiding and making noise with the tracker, should be a Pro for how amazing the AI is, genuienly the best AI I've seen in a game ever
Dude what the fuck?? I’m over here tripping reading all these comments about alien isolation! I have no real connection to that game but I legit just assumed that game was terrible for some reason. I think maybe I heard the ign review?? But wow I had no idea it was that good. I actually wanted to play it at one point but skipped because I remembered I heard it sucked. Lol
@@Armando1313s Alien isolation is a masterpiece in terms of horror games, is one of the best horror games I've ever played. I think you are confusing it with another Alien game called Aliens Colonial Marines, that came out just a year before Isolation and it is widely considered one of the worst games in a long time and the worst of the Alien franchise. I recommend you try out Isolation
Need a sequel asap
@@Armando1313s It was a horror masterpiece dude. The AI is the most advanced you'll ever see in a horror game and there will be a constant feeling of dread while you play. I was never into horror games but I loved the alien franchise. So I decided to play it. One of the best decisions I ever made. I had to clap my hands after finishing it. Felt like a huge achievement getting through the game. I've only played it twice until now but I'm definitely gonna play it again. Play it, you'll love it.
Edit: I recommend playing at at least normal/medium difficulty and if you're a hardcore, just play on the hard diff.
I haven’t played it before but Alien Isolation’s AI is absolutely perfect if you ask me!
The fact that some random, smaller review channel can make a better review than an ign “journalist” is hilarious, also subbed
Thank you, milord!
@@tominator4468 You are quite welcome good sir
I swear I've seen your pfp before
@@Nai_101 I started a subreddit a few years ago called r/retrogamingmagazines. I use the same pfp over there, it's the only other place you could've seen it.
@@Nai_101 This just some random image I saved from discord
8:05 you made me laugh out loud haha. Great job on this video
..THEY DID "DAYS GONE" DIRTY EVEN WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT'S THE PROTAGONIST'S NAME....
I expected "Too much water" to be ranked here and I was not disappointed. An iconic earth-shattering gaming culture moment.
"It has a little something for everybody"
More like "water-shattering", amirite?
Pokemom fans are lucky to even get a 7 for a 4/10 game.
Funny considering it’s a valid criticism taken out of context by Gamers™️ to fulfill their melodramatic journo criticisms.
The game does have too many water type Pokèmon, and the game suffers because of this. The game is actually rated higher by IGN than what it deserves.
@Problem. nah thats 100% true for modern pokemon games.
This video feels so nostalgic to me. 10 years ago video game themed top 10 videos were my favorite kind of content, creators like Game Trailers, AVN, Angry Joe etc. The tone, style and humor in this video are amazing and I would love to see more content from you. Congrats!!
Cheers Tonatiuh, mate! really appreciate it!
Agreed. It actually brought me ALL the way back to early-Internet era G4 shows.
You can really tell when someone slagging a Cod game never actually played it, Cod games may have always had a reputation of being the same game every year but it was simply untrue. Black Ops 3 not only had one of the best multiplayer experiences, casually and competitively in the entire franchise, but it also had the peak of the Zombies mode which they have been chasing ever since. I wouldn’t exactly say zero cons, but to just slag it and call it unoriginal when you are literally showing Shadows of Evil, one of the most unique and original experiences in gaming, on screen is simply ignorant.
Yes, exactly. Of all CoD games to shit on, why Black Ops 3?
I will never forget the time at how fumed I was for the score they gave Doom.
another thing the alien isolation reviewer didn't know is that the xenomorph LEARNS how you act and play, if you go in lockers a lot it will check lockers more etc
That's not even all that was wrong in the Xenoblade review: he also mispronounced Reyn's name (though that was fixed too), mispronounced the word "nopon", says the new extra story can be played completely separately from the main game while the very first cutscene it shows is the final boss getting killed and it contains other massive story spoilers,...
Does ANYONE know what that first clip is from It feels so familiar and I can't find anything about it online. The guy shaking his ass I need to see the original
All video game enjoyment is subjective, but IGN really did consistently force reviewers to play games that they couldn't appreciate. No judgement there, we all have those genres. But is it really that hard to match reviewers to games they WANT to play?
“Persona without the heart” still gives me nightmares
seriously what a stupid thing to say what does IGN know about having a heart anyway they are a heartless corporate machine
I saw the review for “Alien Isolation” on their channel at the time when I was just a pre-teen looking for some good horror games to play. I actually took their word for it and avoided it for nearly 10 BLOODY years. 2022 I finally bought the game out of curiosity and holy moly this game is the embodiment of what EVERY ALIEN FAN has always wanted for in a game and especially to those who love the horror genre in general. Still haven’t finished it yet though, the atmosphere is so damn real I’m constantly moving very slowly: the A.I in this game is smarter than the player itself it’s GENUIS! It’ll force players to come up with new tactics to survive. IGN you’re on a whole level of stupid
Oof. That really sucks for ya. I suppose this was back when IGN was maybe respected so I could see why you would believe them back then. Now? No one with their right mind would trust them without checking out either themselves or someone they actually know would be more truthful.
@@georgemeyers7172 i used them as a trusted source for gaming, that right there was a mistake. Their structure for reviews are so all over the place it honestly baffles me.
@@andresmolina4879 And the fact that youtube now hides dislike. Yikes, it covers bad apple such as this one
@@ajidanang9508 I know man the things that CZcams has done to it’s creators is mind blowing! I miss the old catch phrase “broadcast yourself” no ads at all. However CZcams now is planning to do some very beneficial features for the youtubers
@@andresmolina4879 I get ya.
What a great video. I'm so glad I stumbled upon this. My day is made. Thank you.
I was recommended this video and honestly this is what I will say:
1. I loved this video and I really want to see more of the other ones that had bad reviews. One of which I would think would be on there is Pokemon mystery dungeon: explorers of sky and/or cuphead.
2. IGN is absolutely ridiculous for getting someone who never played the original spongebob games on the ps2. I loved battle for bikini bottom and the movie game, hell I still have both for the ps2 that I got when I was little and will still play them sometimes. I really enjoyed the remake and cannot wait until the new spongebob game comes out this month.
3. When it comes to game reviews it seems like they really do not actively look at the type of game and figure out who would be the best at the game review. The only one I would not choose would be someone who is a diehard fan of call of duty to do that review and just have the one person who plays all different types of FPS games to play it.
Overall you have gained a new sub today :3
I remember the DOOM review, and I was livid.
For a game bringing back carnage that the originals brought was a huge deal. The campaign being too DOOM was a huge head twist for me, cause how could DOOM, be too DOOM? The best parts of the older generation games were given refreshing mechanics and it was an incredible revival.
The Alien Isolation review also made me pissy. It's the best Alien game that I always come back to.
It's not a good game
I love how they disliked everything the DOOM and Alien fans actually love about those games
@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts Objectively its a good game
@@ThyBigCheddar objectively it's fucking garbage.
@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts It has good models, excellent gunplay, great environmental design, good writing, great music and good UI. It doesn't matter how you think of it, it is objectively a good game.
See what's crazy is...
The Wii Version of Sonic Unleashed had no Open World just a Monopoly Board
You've got a talent for this, Great video!
Keep making vids like these and ill keep watching em 👍
Where is the beginning clip from (curious).
I also need to know
Their Godhand review is unforgiveble. Even TotalBiscuit went wild on it
Rest in peace ass cancer guy 😔
I also came here to be mad about God Hand.
Glad to see people are still talking about the game. Titles like that are few and far between, especially nowadays. If only we got a basic remaster for current gen...
@@filipz8234 AHHHHHHHH WE NEED TO REKINDLE THE DREAM
Yup, what an unjustified review it was for God Hand!
With the SpongeBob SquarePants game mentioned around 19:15, the remake actually did add some features to improve the user experience, such as a pause menu map to let the player fast-travel between unlocked levels, as well as see at a glance how many collectables are left in each level.
Sure, the fast travel menu had a Day-One glitch which speedrunners used to beat the remake in under 2 minutes when it usually takes over 30 minutes to beat the original, but it's still a solid remake that does a great job remastering a fun PS2 game...
They didn’t patch out the glitch day 1. They just prevented the 2 powers you unlock from 2 bosses from automatically being unlocked when you warped to final boss.
@@The_Spectre_Gamer so it instead becomes a boss rush?
Yas
Honestly, even with that speedrunning trick, that’s not something most casual players would find on accident anyway.
It’s a remake, not tryna be that guy but you know
0:35 Ah that chip tune 😃I can remember this! Anyone know what it is please ? 🤔
My favorite IGN "review" was the one for Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition. Couldn't even spell Reyn and Dunban's names right, was autocorrect enabled when editing their video or even viewing their script?
Ign 4.5/10
+ Excellent Gameplay - It's not a mario game
+ Incredible Graphics
+ Lots of content
+ Really fun levels
+ Very Replayable
- Didn't pay us
- It's not a call of duty
- It wasn’t made by Sony
@@maux9175SONY GOD
You know they fucked up at that Sonic Unleashed review when in their review gameplay they spam the boost button 💀💀
even worse: the jumping isn't responsive enough...but you don't show a situation where it caused you to fail because it didn't respond but instead include a scene where you're just to stupid to jump at the right moment..wtf?!
I'm new to the channel. Loved the narrative style, specially the *"What did. IGN. Do. Now?"* and the *_"TOO MUCH WOTAAAHHH!!!"_* . Definitely subscribed.
i haven't watched the video yet, how much Sonic games are there on this list getting a lower rating than what they deserve?
I always loved the 'Ace Combat 7' where Mike Epstein said the game is "too difficult for new players" while playing both on east mode and with the novice control setup, so that you can't even roll aircraft upside down. Even one of the developers gave them shit for it. Plus complained about the story being convoluted and hard to follow. While skipping the cutscenes. They gave it a 7
I mean, 7 is a pretty ok score for the game.
I would put it at 7.5 though, mostly for a still messy story even without skipping cutscenes.
Still, 7.5 for a game that essentially was in development hell and yet brought life back to Ace Combat. The impact it has may bring it to an 8, but for me, I would only consider the story and gameplay.
The DLC is definitely an 8 though.
That review pissed me off. After seeing the reviewer skip briefings on what to do, and using novice controls, and "OMG I DUNNO WHAT TO DO", I had to give it a dislike.
And the salt is well deserved for not even bothering to properly review it.
And their review for "Red Dead 2"would be "too many horses, not enough cars"or something, lol.
This is the reason CZcams took away the dislikes. Us plebs are no longer allowed to be upset. We must consume next product, and be excited for next product. That is all.
8 years later and I'm still pissed off with the Alien Isolation review
Subbed. Great video!
Alien Isolation is fantastic and manipulated my feelings to such a degree where I never want to feel that level of anxiety in a video game. Finished it in 2014, always tempted to return to it but I never want to hit that med-lab ever again.
IGN gave god hand a 3 out 10. That review still boils my blood to this day.
It’s nearly as bad as the DOOM (2016) review of 6.3/10 from IGN and the 7/10 from Edge (UK Magazine) for the original Doom!
Not just the 3 out of 10, but that they released a response to the review's poor reception that boils down to "this game sucks and no one here wanted to review it"
Then someone responded to that response with a video of him playing the first level, showing the reviewer didn't bother figuring out how to play the game and have fun with it.
Came here for this. That review was an abomination. God Hand was incredible.
The God Hand review was the worst thing IGN ever did, and I will never forgive them for it.
The meme with it next to some shovelware baby game getting a much much higher score always made me shake my head... the check cleared.
Plz someone give me the song when the number 10 drops down. 00:36
one more sick vid like this and i'll sub - good work
"Taking marks off one game because it's not like the other"
*U N D E R T H E M A Y O*
Ah god, not that guy…..
Swear that’s the guy that circlejerks doom eternal like his life depends on it🤣🤣🤣
Mayo haters seem to be fixated with the fact that he likes Eternal and not acknowledge the fact that he usually likes the games he talks about. In one ear out the other.
@@Auvisome like ultra kill? Like elden ring? His criticism of those games is pure autism
@@Octurnal he never criticised ER, he just said he wasn’t into it. His critique of UK is a lot more reasonable when you consider his intentions, to make the game's systems immediately apparent to the player and to hold them accountable via difficulty.
I can't tell you the last time I clicked on a "Top 10" video, let alone the last time I really enjoyed one!
I really enjoyed your commentary on this list! There's a great balance of showing examples vs talking about their context and relevancy. It's clear you put like, actual effort into researching this video! Also, for some reason, this video has a nostalgic quality to it, like it was a quality video from a few years ago.
Hope to see more from you!
Ah, thanks mate. I guess I'm just trying to make the same types of videos I enjoyed a few years ago, probably why my new videos seem old lol. Cheers for watching, Bear mate!
Agreed, great work
What an entertaining video. Good job man.
never will forgive them for giving God hand a bad review, because the guy just kept mashing buttons instead of, you know, playing the game
I remember their Fire Emblem: Shadows of Valentina review where they complained it didn’t have a romance feature and gave it lower points because of that, despite the fact it was a remake of a game from 1992 that didn’t have the mechanic in the first place!
Don’t remind me
Some people are giving Fire Emblem Engage lower reviews because it stripped away most of that. No romance options, and less things to do between fights. I found that side very tiring with Three Houses and just wanted to get into the next battle.
They also rated it lower because it didn’t have an avatar, which is one of the best things about Echoes. Alm is actually a great protagonist
@@TwistyMcFisty Sir, it really doesn't matter if YOU find it tiring when the majority likes it.
@@AzureRoxe To each their own, but neither one of us can speak about what the majority likes.
I think the “too much water” is a valid point, but it should have said it was “unbalanced” and “poorly paced”. As someone whose played that gen religiously as a kid, I vividly recall getting angry having to surf around and find a ton of tentacools
If they said "too many caves" it would make just as much sense.
@@glungusgongus but water and caves are basically the same. the stereotulype from caves comes from the earliest tames where there were 3 in the space of 1 or 2 gyms and the only water section was one route to cinnabar.
yhe only thing water has over caves is sometimes toure forced to use flash in caves
@@willbaker6532 Why are you saying but. I know caves and water are the same
For real though. Anyone who’s played a Pokémon game knows water routes are annoying because you’re gonna be swarmed with encounters, and they’re all gonna be water Pokémon. They just turn into spamming grass / electric moves which is completely mindless.
It’s a completely valid criticism that got memed only because it sounds really stupid on first glance.
@@nashburt6635 it got memed cause pokemon fans thougjt their games were so good that a 7 is CRIMINAL
Let’s not forget their terrible Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky review, especially the written version that gets a lot of things wrong including the amount of new starters, only saying two new starters, Riolu and Phanpy, when there’s also Shinx and Vulpix and Eevee returns from the last game.
Is the numbering for this video a reference to the album Songs In The Attic by Billy Joel?
I don't understand why they don't have multiple people review the same game. Famitsu does it well. Four reviewers each give their individual score, and there is also one combined score out of 40. Having only one person review a game and having that review represent all of IGN, is ludicrous. Especially because they often outsource reviews, as is the case with the "Too Much Water" review.
The issue here is that IGN and other gaming outlets has postured their reviews to be reflective of the company. Think about film reviews. If you're reading a film review on forbes magazine or even on Rotten Tomatoes, they highlight the journalist/reviewer and put the focus on them. Companies like IGN and Gamespot don't do that, and instead allow their reviews to be the face of the company and, as a result, the consumer opinion.
laziness
Alien Isolation was such a great game. We could have gotten a Sequel. Instead we got Aliens Fireteam lol. Another Shooter, instead of a really good horror game without lazy scripted jumpscares.
I think fireteam works well for the Aliens sequel movie vibe, but yeah isolation 100% needs a sequel on next gen.
Be careful on the hate for Fireteam elite. We don’t get many aliens games to begin and it wasn’t a bad entry for the franchise. Yes we all want isolation 2 but that doesn’t mean we don’t want other games in different genres. The tactics game coming is perfect for something like aliens and not the same thing that just came out. I applaud them for trying different things.
Not just IGN I felt like other gaming reviews at the time of Alien Isolation release made it out to be bad, but when I got it for free from Epic I was blown away.
I was pissed when i saw their doom eternal review saying the marauder is invincible no he isnt just shoot when his eyes turn green
I still remember their ratings for MVC3 & MK9. Despite giving both great scores, the fact that they criticized the former for having too few unlockables & mode variety yet not giving any points to the latter for fulfilling such categories (even scoring lower) always stuck w/ me.
Was it reviewed by the same person?
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Nope. You'd think they'd at least have the same reviewer for a specific genre for consistency's sake.
Had so much fun playing MK9 with my fam
I've never been the biggest fan of Nether Realm fighting games (they just feel way too clunky for me), but they've always had way more content than other fighting games by a long shot. I might not like them as much as just fighting games, but as video games as a whole, they have a lot more to offer for sure (they also tend to be the only ones with an okay-ish story mode). The fact that MK9 got a lower score than MvC3 is just weird.
@@ooffordays566 Funny thing is I recall many MvC3 fans' posts under such reviews insisting that any additional content and modes are just unnecessary and a waste of space in fighting games. Of course, that was before MK9 was released and changed expectations.
The good ole days where we could actually see the like/dislike ratio
I never thought I’d see someone mention Veautiful Joe in 2022
I remember ign said about modern warfare remake that it was too realistic and violent; and why couldn't the developers have the soldiers use more non lethal weapons
They clearly got the call of duty and spongebob reviewers mixed up