I love watching game reviews on YouTube, but I find many reviewers sharing these annoyances:
- Loud background music making it difficult to listen to the actual review
- Spending way too much time talking about the story. I only want to know the theme of the story, not the entire plot
- Making it a game tutorial. It is helpful to briefly describe the game mechanics so I can find out whether the game is for me. But it becomes excessive when you explain it in detail.
What I want to hear more:
- Whether the game is good
- How it compares with other games in the genre
- How is the music in the game?
Game channels I like/recommend:
TheKisekiNut, JohnRiggs, MortismalGaming, davidvinc, gameranx, ircha
Can someone recommend other good gaming channels? I especially like retro games.
Call me a dinosaur, but I actually prefer written reviews. Like, I don’t need 20 minutes+ of talking about something to know if I should buy it or not.
One channel I will shout out though is Graeldon because I think the gimmick of reviewing every Steam game in alphabetical order is quite funny.
Noisy Pixel reviews are usually less than 10 minutes long. Some channels are more like video essays instead of just reviews.
Thanks for the suggestion on Graeldon. It really is unique.