Recommendations are far from seals for approval though. I'd like to see this done by a 3rd party but then get listed in retailers like Steam. Sort of like the ESRB, but not lame.
The minimum system requirements are supposed to take care of that. A rating that says "this game has FOV settings" and the like is performance agnostic.
That's the point. His existence in this work, depends on trust of the userbase he have. No trust of users, no money, no living. I can tell you for sure. One miss step from TB, like being not honest about some shady deal, and he is done as game critic. Unlike some big organizations, where everything tends to dissolve over…
New Steam advisors' (or how was it called?) pages are somewhat like that. You can expect, for example, totalbiscuit to recommend good PC ports. Because glorious 60 fps revolution!
I imagine it shouldn't be too hard to organize something like that. PC version's quality is objective, it just needs to be tested on a variety of rigs for performance and it needs to have all needed features there and working fine.
I think you can kinda do that with the Steam Curator system. You just need good rep and initial fanbase to make it a thing... Kinda like what Extra Credit did, I guess.
Site the law because AFAIK there are no laws enforcing ethics that I can find, it's a just a method of self policing, or really just upholding a tradition of journalistic integrity. Much like there is no law specifically enforcing the Hippocratic Oath for medical professionals.
Hey guys. Since there are many developers here, I thought it'd be cool to have a thread about this article. It's from a great guy Durante who made fixes for bad pc ports like Dark Souls and Deadly Premonition. The article is located here:…