Gaming Journalism is a funny thing. You got neutral journalists, who will tell their opinion but may or may not be influenced by an outside party saying "give this a good/bad review for <insert reason here>", you have journalists who are obviously being paid off to give just one or two game series nearly perfect scores, and then there are the journalists who give their 100% honest opinion without being influenced by anything other than themselves and their own past experiences. And I am talking about every game journalist out there, not just the big known ones.

Generally the well known ones are paid off, and the lesser known ones stick to either popular opinion or their own. To be honest, game journalism is stupid, it seems now these days you have to read 100 different articles on the same subject to at lest get more than 1 or 2 biased views on said subject and even then, you never get the whole story until you look into it yourself unless you find one of the few who have a passion for it. If you're a gaming journalist, you need to have some sort of passion of gaming in order to provide good feedback to other gamers out there.

I've seen a lot of that with these so called journalists these days. People who cover games and write articles where they come across as hating the fact that they cover games. I'm not a massive fan of music games either, they are fun at a party, but not a massive fan of them overall. However if I'm tasked with writing a preview of a game, I would. The "gaming journalists" that work at these websites don't even seem to give a shit about video games at all. they don't play video games, and most of them don't even like video games. that would be like if you were a sports newscaster, but didn't even watch sports, and instead of talking about actual sports just talked about "oppression" and about how "misogynistic" sports are. nobody would watch that sports newscaster, but take the same thing with video games, and everybody eats that shit up.