Why Yahtzee and/or The Escapist would wait a full two years to do this(technically more than that considering the asset under review) I'm clueless. But today, the latest episode of Judging By The Cover is none other than Destiny. For those who don't know, Judging by the Cover is literally just that: dissecting a game's box cover art and picking fun at it, while pretending they know nothing about it and didn't review it a year and a half ago.

;-)

So take an interesting, slightly amusing, utterly confusing look at Yahtzee's take on the Destiny box art.

I'm also not at all keen. Smacks of the escapist realising they don't have many big names left now that MovieBob and Jim F**king Sterling are gone and begging them to make whatever content they can.

Yup.

I'm enjoying Croshaw's stuff less and less, and Sterling's more and more as time goes on.

Same goes for the axis of Cinema Sins and Moviebob.

I'm enjoying Croshaw's stuff less and less, and Sterling's more and more as time goes on.

I'm torn on Sterling. I like his style and personality--I find him pretty funny. And I appreciate him being critical of things and companies, but it often feels like he's just being overly-critical because that's what is expected of him now and he's just playing to his fanbase.

He's said on a couple of occassions that he sometimes feels he's expected to be the Internet's attack dog, especially when it comes to reviews. I think subjects like (F**)Konami and Quantic Dream are probably ones he goes back to because they're popular, rather than because there's anything left to be said about them.

Largely though (imo) I think he sticks to consumer advocacy and the topics he really cares about - Industry bloat, pre-orders, microtransactions, that sort of thing. Also Boglins for some reason. He also (somehow) managed to steer largely clear of the whole GamerGate thing, which I think is quite impressive for someone who is mostly known for pseudo-angry rants.

His smaller stuff like Squirty Plays don't really do it for me (Im not really one for Let's Plays), but they do at least show internal consistency in his opinions when he gets talking, and he's always more than willing to highlight a great game when he finds one. He's largely credited with bringing at least ome Greenlight/Kickstarter game from the brink with his more positive coverage.