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5 min readIGN’s Arc Raiders review becomes a case study in gaming journalism credibility
The IGN preview for Arc Raiders that Asmongold and his co-host react to is not just a bad review—it is a performance that accidentally reveals how much the reviewer struggled with the game. The reviewer, Jared Petty, describes the extraction shooter as “aggressively archetypical” and “the extractionest extraction shooter that ever extracted,” but the real problem is not the prose. It is the gameplay footage that plays alongside the review. Petty is visibly missing shots, walking into walls, failing to spot enemies standing in plain view, and dying to basic AI enemies. At one point he fires a sniper rifle described as “punching like artillery” and misses entirely. Asmongold pauses the video repeatedly to point out what Petty is failing to see: an enemy standing directly in front of him, a spider bot he could have sidestepped, a doorway he could have used for cover. The review is not wrong because it is mean—it is wrong because the reviewer never got good enough at the game to evaluate it fairly.
The review that undermines itself
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What you'll learn
- 1 IGN did it again.. | Asmongold TV
- 2 (00:00) **IGN's Arc Raiders Review Sparks Controversy** - Asmongold opens by reacting to an IGN preview of Arc Raiders that harshly criticizes the game while praising Marathon, immediately flagging the review as unusually bad.
- 3 (02:10) **The "Pickaxe = Fortnite" Argument Debunked** - Asmongold highlights the reviewer's criticism that the game's default melee weapon is a pickaxe, comparing it negatively to Fortnite.
- 4 (03:40) **The Core Gameplay Loop Described** - Asmongold reads the review's description of the basic gameplay: go to the surface, loot, and return alive with better gear.
- 5 (04:42) **The Arachnophobia Mode Controversy** - Asmongold highlights the reviewer's complaint about arachnophobia mode and accessibility features, connecting it to broader cultural trends.
- 6 (06:31) **Reviewer's Master's in Theology Discovered** - Asmongold reads from the reviewer's LinkedIn that he holds a master's degree in theology, adding to the humor of the situation.
- 7 (07:14) **Geolocation and Combat Complaints** - Asmongold reads the reviewer's complaints about getting killed by enemies he couldn't see, then mocks the reviewer's own gameplay footage.
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