Did good Gaming Reviews die with TotalBiscuit?
good reviews =/= totalbiscuit.
i had 3 main issues with the guy; first, he takes 45 minutes to say nothing, and will happily say tons of nothing over common commercial titles. God forbit he actually has a point, after which he's repeat the same things in different phrasings for over an hour.
second, he constantly claims to be a game journalist. If you don't have an editor who is liable to libel laws lawsuits, for your work, if you don't have to abide to anti-bribery laws, if there is no external body that checks whether what you say is fact or bullshit, you are not a journalist, you are, as david mitchell puts it, JUST SOME GUY.
third, he's not a particularly insightful gamer.
On the last bit i have to explain that i get my game reviews from many different reviewers who have different opinions but who have integrity, for whatever that is worth, so i know if X guy likes a game, i won't, and if Y guy loves it, i may find it interesting, and so forth.
So, there's the guy who reviews only strategy titles, Hearts of Iron, Civilization, Europa Universalis, and i don't play 90% of his titles because they are not my style, but i can get his subjective view which is consistent over the reviews.
Then you got the shooter guy who likes to pwn noobs, there's the arcadey platform guy who loves a game for the artstyle, and so on. Each one of the is good at something, and none would probably like the next guy, as different as they are, but i'd rather get the advice of someone who is deeply involved into one particular style of game, than someone like TB that only reviews mainstream shovelware. And by god, he did review constantly the buzz game of the week.
I always make an exception to watch Jim Sterling, even though his reviews are 0% relevant to me as i never ever ever play the games he plays, but i respect him - far more than i could have ever respected totalbiscuit twonames thecynicalbrit.
I really, really did not like TB.
Aside from how much i didn't like him as a game reviewer, he's one of those who spearheaded the "create content for money" movement that turned youtube from a social platform into 2020's version of television. I have zero respect for someone who went into YT for the money and not for the passion.
i think this video truly emcompasses what TB is, when compared to an actual game journalist:
i'll be happy to explain to those who don't get it.