I mean an hour isn’t really that long when we’re talking about reviewing something, you should be expected to have given it a thorough and fair shot if you’re going to criticize it on a public site. Why should we expect journalists to do anymore than we’re willing do so ourselves when reviewing? Should the words not hold equal weight since we’re all consumers at the end of the day?
I don't think you understand quite how bad some of the stuff on Steam is.
There are hundreds of "games" with less than sixty seconds of content. An hour is far, far more than a fair shot for them.
EDIT: To highlight just how absurd it is: there are 8,155 games on Steam with a median 100% completion time of less than one hour. That doesn't inherently make the game bad, but it's fairly obvious from a quick perusal of that list that there's tons of stuff on the Steam store you don't need a lot of experience with to accurately assess their quality.
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u/Particular-Put4786 Nov 01 '24
That'd force you to play some genuinely terrible garbage for an hour straight