More concerning than Bethesda’s decision to withhold early review codes from certain outlets is how heavily some sites are relying on the game to drive their business.

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      2 years ago

      yeah but now he’s just a guy in a spare bedroom with 4.5k patrons and under 40k youtube subscribers (of which I am one)

      it’s not that hard to blame game studios for not really thinking he’s worth it anymore

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        More likely that they know he’s probably not going to give it a glowing review, especially after Fallout 4, so he didn’t get one. This is something many publishers have historically done. It keeps reviews higher at launch so that people looking at reviews or metacritic scores see more positive information than after the dust settles.

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      I’ve never even heard of Kane and Lunch so sounds like he was probably right.

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        i heard the first one was actually pretty good, but the second one had issues including the length of FOUR HOURS