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Darashiva on 13 August 2017
mysteryman said:
Darashiva said:
So, Jim admits to a mistake he made with his original review, and changes his score to reflect the fact that he did make a mistake, and now people get on his case for that? Honestly, if anything that makes me respect him more, since he's actually willing to owe up to his mistakes. I think people still don't get the fact that reviews are subjective views of the person writing them.

He's willing to admit to a mistake that was so obviously incorrect that there was no plausible way for him to maintain integrity had he left it alone. It's purely damage control.

I think our view of integrity is quite different. If he had left the score as it was originally and tried to hide the fact that it was a mistake, that would have meant his integrity was in question, but the way he handled the situation is to me the mark of someone who has a lot of integrity.



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Dyllyo on 13 August 2017

Good. 7/10 seems way more reasonable. At least he admitted he was wrong.



Darashiva on 13 August 2017
Cerebralbore101 said:
Destructoid is a much better site without Jim doing the reviews. Jim is one of those reviewers that will review a game solely on his own opinion of it without considering what others might think. Yes, Jim we know you don't like turn based combat. No, Jim that doesn't make this game a 6/10. It's only a 6/10 for you. There's a whole group of gamers that love turn based combat, and would find this to be an 8/10.

But that's what a review is, a single person's subjective view of a specific game, or at least should be. A review that does not reflect the opinion of its writer seems like a complete waste of time to me.



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OTBWY on 13 August 2017
Peh said:
That's why this guy has no credibility for me. He is not a professional reviewer. He is a bad mouthed crying baby.

Exactly this.



Xen on 13 August 2017
Darashiva said:
Cerebralbore101 said:
Destructoid is a much better site without Jim doing the reviews. Jim is one of those reviewers that will review a game solely on his own opinion of it without considering what others might think. Yes, Jim we know you don't like turn based combat. No, Jim that doesn't make this game a 6/10. It's only a 6/10 for you. There's a whole group of gamers that love turn based combat, and would find this to be an 8/10.

But that's what a review is, a single person's subjective view of a specific game, or at least should be. A review that does not reflect the opinion of its writer seems like a complete waste of time to me.

You are not wrong, but there needs to be an overpowering element of objectivity to a review: otherwise, give a person that only plays FPS a turn-based JRPG, and it might get an unfairly low score, and vice versa... one needs to evaluate objectively, noting their own experiences. While that is not the way JS does it, that IMO is the only fair way.



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Barkley on 13 August 2017

He needs to stop giving scores. He can write entertaining reviews but he's terrible at giving numerical values.

2/10 for Yooka-Laylee?
1/10 for Homefront: The Revolution?
2/10 for Starfox Zero?

These are scores that should be given to truly broken games that are unplayable and have absolutely no potential for fun.




brute on 13 August 2017
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
mysteryman said:

It's hard to understand how one could consider themselves professional yet act like this in the first place. It brings into question other reviews he may have acted similarly with.

I still enjoy Jim's commentary on the industry and his persona, but I now have zero respect for his review scores.

Who cares about his review SCORE? His REVIEW made it clear he recommended the game, why would you need a score to justify the quality of the review?

So now it is okay for scores of reviews to not properly reflect content of said review?



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Darashiva on 13 August 2017
Xen said:
Darashiva said:

But that's what a review is, a single person's subjective view of a specific game, or at least should be. A review that does not reflect the opinion of its writer seems like a complete waste of time to me.

You are not wrong, but there needs to be an overpowering element of objectivity to a review: otherwise, give a person that only plays FPS a turn-based JRPG, and it might get an unfairly low score, and vice versa... one needs to evaluate objectively, noting their own experiences. While that is not the way JS does it, that IMO is the only fair way.

I've never gotten the feeling that Jim's reviews are unfairly subjective. There's also the fact that since he is essentially an independet critic now, he only reviews the game's he wants to review. So if he has no interest in a particular genre, he most likely won't review game's belonging to it.



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Robert_Downey_Jr. on 13 August 2017

Is there a way to save your game to a flash drive or something? I really wouldn't want to start all over again



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OTBWY on 13 August 2017
Barkley said:
He needs to stop giving scores. He can write entertaining reviews but he's terrible at giving numerical values.

2/10 for Yooka-Laylee?
1/10 for Homefront: The Revolution?
2/10 for Starfox Zero?

These are scores that should be given to truly broken games that are unplayable and have absolutely no potential for fun.

No he won't. He has to draw attention to himself by behaving like a child.