Do You Care About Reviews?

I personally have never made my opinion on a game based on a review score. However, I used to respect the general consensus. Now? Not so much. (Bolded text is short version)

This is because in this day & age, a game typically isn't at its best on Day 1. Some might find this to be sad but it's the truth. Between online components, DLC, Patches, and so on, the games aren't all they could be once it launches.

We have seen this recently with Destiny, Halo, Assassins Creed, DriveClub, and now LBP3. Now, I haven't played any of these myself besides for Destiny but I can tell that all these games will improve over time. Heck, even games like Mario Kart don't get a completely accurate representation. MK8 got great reviews on Day one but with the online updated & DLC added, it's probably a 90+ game today.

After reading some LBP3 reviews, it appears to be hampered by 3 things. Bugs, Being too similar to past games, and not being from MM.

The first one can likely be fixed with patches. Should it even need patches? No. The fact that is has bugs is annoying. However, it can be fixed. Back in the day, ( ) bugs couldn't be patched at all. 

The second one might be true. However, what about the people who never played a LBP game before? What about the people who like the way it is? This one at least makes some sense unlike the last one...

The fact that it doesn't say MM on the box shouldn't lower the score. I've seen it before, if a game is given to a different developer, it automatically makes it less good. I'm not sure why but it typically does.

Feel free to rip me apart & share your honest opinions

Back in gen 6 and lower there were no patches, AC:U from wat i seen should of been delayed to get those glitches fixed, but watever, thank god we do have patches.

as for reviews, buy what you like, its still fun to see wat each game gets, my favorite current gen game deserves to be a 90+ but its not close :0

That's what I'm saying. Patches didn't exist. Did Assassins Creed deserve the backlash it got? Certainly. On Day 1, the game had a multitude of issues that deserved to be bashed. However, this won't represent the whole game when all is said & done. 

What is your favorite of the gen tbone?

Very underrated, because of controls, many dismissed this game. Its even created by Sakurai, Kirby/SSB creator. (though it still got a great score 83 meta)

Though many games have a chance to top this (First being SSBU this coming friday), its definitelyprobably be my number 1 handheld game, and maybe of all time :)

Games that could top it are XCX (wiiU) + KH3 + FFXV + Zelda U, but all on Console. Cant wait!

Pretty much. Thats the thing,games have gotten much more complex than what they use to be so updates are inevitable to fix problems. Unfortunately in some cases like Halo, Driveclub, and LittleBigPlanet they all had bigger problems than anticipated. And Halo will likely be much better by the end of this week and Id also imagine LBP3 will have an update within the next week or two to fix its bugs as well so the reviews that are bashing those parts of the games will be outdated relatively soon.  THough still notable to talk about in a review

And that is where its tricky. Do you hold off on your review until the update? Or do you criticize it which is also deserved.

I guess the thing is, the consumers have to be a little more intelligent now knowing that day 1 reviews may not represent the game within a month from release.

Indeed. We saw the same with LBP Vita, which is IMO the best LBP made so far (until 3, which I haven't tried)

Back in the day there weren't patches because games were incredibly simple. Anyone who knows anything about coding will tell you how vastly different things are now. No matter what, something will end up needing patching if the game is ambitious.

But in the cases where there are too many bugs and the game is unplayable, then sure there's no excuse. Ideally I'd want reviews to update their content and score to reflect that because I doubt we will reach a point where they stop having bugs.

LBP3 had a day-1 patch that some reviewers didn't download and try which supposedly fixed most major problems

IGN/Gamespot, not sure which one said the patch was included.

How far we talking here? Back in the day, we had no internet so developers had to make sure their games worked.