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My biggest problem with the industry of games journalism is its parasitic relationship with the games industry itself, which in a lot of instances has the journos serve as glorified mouthpieces.

Each site wants to have their review up first and most visible.
They each want review copies.
The industry doles out review copies at their discretion, and they've been known to delay or refuse review copies to sites they don't believe will review their product favorably.
Thus the system of every AAA game gets no less than an 8.

Also numerical reviews are a garbage concept. I stopped writing reviews for GameFAQs ages ago because there was no intent to allow for not using numbers.

I have far more respect for the individual journos who try to push against that system, even if it means a game I like gets panned.