Lazy Gamers Jungle Adventures Review Is Up

"ebuchala;c-16357186" wrote:

"MidnightAura;c-16356994" wrote:

LGR is purely objective as he's not gaining anything from EA in the process nor does he hope too. I will always trust a review from someone not getting showered with free things from the company in question with anything over someone who is and that goes for anything.

No one is purely objective. We each like what we like and no matter how hard you try to be "purely" objective, it's still going to be colored by your opinions (for instance "the cockroaches of games" is about as unobjective as you can get).

If you think LGR isn't catering to someone, take into consideration the fact that he has fans and a Patreon page. I think @Melpomena has it right. Whether you want to acknowledge it or not, he's an internet personality with fans and he's going to play to what appeals to his fans. Just to be clear, I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with what he's doing at all--more power to him for monetizing something he enjoys without relying on companies to provide the products to review. But that doesn't make him any less human than anyone else, as much as some fans like to put him on a pedestal for it.

Reviewers are more than capable of giving an honest review about something that they've been provided for free, though I do get where he's coming from by refusing that option since the opportunity to be bought by swag is greater once you open that door, I imagine. Doesn't mean everyone who gets the products for review are biased, though, anymore than it means that LGR is unbiased simply because he doesn't receive free products for review.

Personally, I don't watch a lot of reviews and the ones I do watch are purely for entertainment value so the more snark and humor, the more I'm going to enjoy it, which makes LGR views generally very enjoyable even if I don't agree with them.

He’s not catering to the people who make the game, he does not have to abide by their rules and can say whatever he likes good or bad.

His Patreon has nothing to do with this? He has an audience but his audience is not giving him free things in exchange for a review. His audience isn’t flying him to headquarters for sims camp and his audience isn’t giving him swag.

That’s my point. From that perspective he is more objective. I don’t know why that is even debatable. He isn’t gaining in any way personally from the company. That can not be said for game changers.

Of course not everyone that receives a copy is 100% biased but when your in a position of getting the above I think it would have an impact and from watching many reviews where things have been omitted or ignored altogether like say the lack of pet beds whilst there is much squealing over outfits and hair swatches I think there is a lot of biased opinions.