What if it was law that you couldn't review the game

>>389663469
Then Nier Automata would get horrible reviews and you know why.

>>389663469
Game journalism will be dead

>>389663567
good

>>389663469
>If you didn't like it why did you play it :^)

Number of reviews would them become a greater indicator of quality

>>389663710
Conversely, number of reviews would then become indicator of game length. These guys only have so long to play a game, and if it's a shitty company like Bethesda that doesn't give out press copies, it could be weeks before we see anything.

How would you review multiplayer games?

>>389663509
wait, how would the hypothetical law define "beating a game"? would it be at least one playthrough or getting a 100% on it, because in both cases there'd be some game that needs the other and it would get shitty reviews because of it.

>>389664119
Probably seeing the credits once.

>>389663931
This desu, it's impossible to quantify beating something like a multiplayer-only game, and if it's something like Persona where you're basically required to dedicate time to it it'd be a fucking month before anyone had something up.

>>389663469

there would be article by gaming journalist about how trump is an elitist crybaby

so basicaly nothing would change

>>389664119
It'd be getting to the credits and that's it, since that would be the standard for any game. If we lived in a world where reviewers needed to finish games before reviewing, would they really waste time going through all the endings when there'd be a huge stockpile of other games to beat and review, too?

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>>389664237
>Go to options menu
>Watch credits
>Guess I beat it lul

If that were really all the law required then nothing would change

Then "game journalism" would be an actual job.

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>>389664458
How many games still let you see credits from the menu?

>>389663469
You would have a hell of a time enforcing it and a lot of games would have drastically different scores, mostly lower

I'd imagine then the quality of the reviews would be better and publications would probably have to hire more writers due to the amount of video games coming out.

>there are people who didn't catch all pokemon and reviewed it

>>389663469
Would be stupid. Laws like that don't need to exist, people will only then create loopholes around them.
If we lived in a perfect world any review that doesn't provide proof it had completed the game at least once would be mocked by the entire gaming scene and that reviewer would become a punching bag for a while by the general public and other media outlets. It's like writing a professional movie critique that has not finished the movie.

>>389663469
then I'd actually be more interested in reading game reviews

Why are reviews 0-100 when majority of the time it's always in the 60-99 range?

5 stars system would be better wouldn't it?

>>389663469
I'd still want to hug that soap bottle

The biggest repercussion would be that most game reviewers would probably not pay attention to any cutscenes or story and, instead, mash through the game as fast as possible. Being the first review matters, so why bother actually reading dialogue and understanding the plot when you can set the difficulty to easy and breeze through it?

>>389665561
What if games made it where on your first save file you can't skip cutscenes.

>>389666032
Are we going to have to make a law about that, too?

Who is making these ridiculous laws?

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>Can't review modern PC games because they're all early access

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>>389663469
games would become super short and super easy so gaming """""journalists"""" could beat them and give publicity

>>389666290
my ass

>>389666598
if anything games would become longer so that reviewers couldn't offer day one reviews thus no one will be able to tell if the game is shitty or not and people will buy it on hype alone (see destiny 1's review embargo, lasted about 2 weeks and the game sold about a million copies just as the mediocre reviews dropped)

>>389663469
When I was a young lad I thought this was the case.

Whats the penalty for breaking that law?
>death penalty
>game journalism is saved since only the most daring of people would risk their lives to review a fucking video game under the death penalty

>>389667331
losing their job.

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>>389663469
great idea OP
HOWEVER

>>389663469
Devs would just make insanely long games and only give review copies to people who have professionals who play it all the way through and leave a positive review.

>>389664539
Well, there's the 3DS Kirby games (DDD Drum Dash Deluxe aside, since you unlock them after beating it), and Sonic Mania, but that's all I know about it.