Your least favorite gaming site, and why.

Thanks to Giant Bomb, I can't look at other game websites the same anymore. I'm a lot more critical on Gamespot and IGN than I used to be, because there are just so damn many things that Giant Bomb does right. I'm sure I'm not the only one, so thanks to Giant Bomb, what bothers you about other game sites?

I'll go with a lesser known website for mine. Lately, I started noticing this site called Wonderwallweb.com being counted in gamerankings, and I randomly decided to check it out. Holy god, their reviews are so unfucking believably bad, I don't even know how to describe them. Maybe it's just because I'm an English major, but I find their most of their stuff to be absolutely unreadable. Take this Bionic Commando review for example. It's laughably bad, really.

If there's one thing Jeff and co. are great at, it's putting out awesome, well written reviews.

I had trouble reading that review the flow was so bad.

gamespot its been going down hill for a while now not much  news gets reported on  and the best part of it now is the podcast  wich i only lissen to when all other podcasts are gone through lol (giant bombcast gets lissened to asap of course)

Well, GameSpot has been shit for years, even before Jeff & Co left. IGN never really did it for me, their layout is ugly and cluttered imo. I like GameTrailers because it's video only, simple and elegant, but no site has that authentic trustworthyness that GiantBomb supplies. It just shows that it's by gamers, for gamers.

My least favourite site would be GameSpot. Their reviews are like long ads now.

Well the only gaming sites I regularly visit besides this one are gamespot and gamefaqs. Others like IGN I only visit  once in a blue moon. I dont really have a least favorite I go to different sites for different reasons.

I guess you could narrow it down to Giantbomb > All else.

I feel sorry for that site (Wonderwallweb.com)- they're clearly trying but its just a mess, I can't see a single comment on any of the stories, the site is a mess, too many adds that probably don't make them any money either and that review was just a breakdown of what happens in the game! And then...and then...and then.. Just makes you love GiantBomb that little bit more!


Oh and fallen out of favour with Gamespot....like everyone

IGN and Gamespot. I've always disliked IGN's tacky advertising (it just looks out of place, at least gamespots looked nice half the time) and the layout made it impossible to find anything.

Gamespot, while it was sad Rich Gallup was gone, was perfect until Gerstmann left, now that they've redesigned again honestly i'd say it's worse than IGN.

I stick to gamasutra, giantbomb, and begrudgingly, kotaku for my info.

yeah i agree

the excellence of giant bomb really shuns my interest in other websites. IGN is still occasionally, pretty good, but Gamespot is just going downhill now.

also what the hell is wrong with that review hahahah

Probably IGN. That site seems so ad heavy, and the navigational layout is so confusing. Gamespot is a shadow of it's former self, but Gamespot UK still rules, so it's no-where near my least favourite gaming site.

My feelings on Gamespot is they have far to many people doing the reviews, at least with GB you know the type of person doing it and if they're into that sort of game if that makes sense. I.e. Snider normally does RTS based games, so you know that's effectively his specialty and can review a game based on the others he's played.

I can't stand IGN or 1up. Both their forums are horrible.

I can't stand Destructoid. It's just too internet kidz for me. I listened to one of their podcasts once and it really was just a horriffic nonsense. About 10 needless F-Bombs and rape jokes in the first 15 minutes.

I am also quite surprised that somone got paid in actual money and not Haribo to write that review.

IGN is, in my opinion the worst.

The sites layout looks like a mishmash of chaos spattered with a healthy serving of dogshit.

They might have decent reviews, but their front page is an affront to my eyes, so I just never go.

"The detail is around for everyone to see"

That review is gold. I take it back.

The ones I never go to.

IGN and Gamespot are the two I avoid at all costs. Way too ad-heavy and not enough really good content.

My heart belongs to Giant Bomb.
Giant Bomb > All else
My least favorites would be, IGN and Gamespot.

I really like IGN, oh well.  My least favorite is probably 1up, since that whole closing of EGM that site just never felt the same.

For me its probably Kotaku. It has nothing to do with the quality of the writing or presentation but more of an information overload. After a while of constantly checking the site several times a day, I realized I really didn't want to know EVERYTHING about a particular game. Just enough to know whether or not I'd play it.The constant posting of rumors with misleading titles, rumors proved to be false minutes later, and a scarcity of the fleshing out of ideas and stories led to me only receiving enjoyment from reading comments of the week at one point. Instead, I've narrowed down my visited sites to 1up, Giant Bomb, and Gametrailers.

Kotaku was always sensationalistic. Then Gawker became big and they were sensationalistic and corporatist. Worst of both worlds!

IGN is probably my least favorite due to their tendency to give nothing but praise, only to blast the game when it comes out for review.

before the 2007 Gamespot fiasco I would visit it every day. Now, whilst it's still a perfectly good site, it isn't what it was so I never go there any more.

IGN is just too annoying to navigate.  It's cluttered and so ad heavy to the point of being slow.  I never go there unless I am specifically looking for something only referenced there.

Probably IGN, just because it takes so long to load for me, content-wise it's OK.

Wow, I write better than that and I'm only a freshman in high school.

I really dislike IGN. THeir tone, their site layout, their ethics...Do not like them at all.

I've only been on two major game sites (not counting GT, which I only go to for ScrewAttack), and of the two, I'd say GameSpot. Giant Bomb is just better for what I want (and more).

I generally only look at GiantBomb and Kotaku for news and reviews of current stuff. GameSpot is my go to for my game collection list and older reviews.

I think 1up is laid out poorly and I generally don't check other sites besides GB and Kotaku regularly.

IGN, because of the huge amount of advertising an the whole all this content is only for those who pay this much money to us!

I must agree with a few posters, on how annoying IGN is to navigate through. I myself have known about Giant Bomb since Jeff left, but have been visiting this site daily for only a couple weeks now. I do visit gamespot a lot just to read up on news and reviews, but I have come to enjoy readying the reviews on this site more.  

Giant Bomb is really the only gaming site I go to. I used to live off of GameFAQs, but Giant Bomb made me realized how stupid that site is. It has no news or game coverage whatsoever. The reviews are mostly poorly written because they are created by the users, the forums are an absolute mess with trolls and spam topics everywhere, and the mods are fucking retarded dipshits.

K, I'm done.

Metacritic is my least favorite 

Eurogamer for hating every game that has ever came out... ever.

Gamepro.

Jesus, it really seems like they try, but it's just awful. Inaccurate information (lol, they said Metroid Prime 3 was gonna come out in December instead of August in 2007....), really dumb articles (and I mean dumb. Anyone remember that fortune telling one? Smash Bros Brawl was a gamble? The fuck? Their main reasoning was that they didn't know if the Wii could handle four player action....well, shit, the N64 did so I think it's pretty damn obvious the Wii could. And Devil May Cry was a poor rehash....until they played it and gave it a high score. Consistency, damn it), "meh" reviews (most of the time....to me), and one of the worst goddamn forums I have ever seen cement it's place.

Sad thing for me is, I used to love that mag/site back in the 90s and early 2000s. They were great-informative previews, objective reviews, cool layout and 200 page mag issues. The days have long passed, unfortunately.

Gamespot is tottaly crap since 2007

I still don't mind IGN, actually, even if the ads can be extremely excessive. Still, it is a fine site, at least on my opinion.

I don't like Gamespot any more, especially after the exodus of all the great staff members it had. The reviews try too hard to be critical and the user base is getting more stupid every waking moment. Besides the Bonus Round, I don't really like Gametrailers that much either. The community is among the worst on the net, and I have never liked their video reviews. There is something about them....the flow perhaps, that annoys me. Still, to each his/her own and I can see why people like that site.

Wow, that Bionic Commando review is atrocious. I can write far better for that. In fact, I really should.

I am in the "used to go to Gamespot until Jeff got fired" boat, except I actually only stopped going when Vinny left. I dislike the way they review now, and the community is shared with GameFaqs, so its full of morons.