| BTFeather55 said:
Yes, but if one had some kind of ulterior motive either for or against Wii Music, then couldn't it be said that their ulterior motive was responsible or compelling them to feel the way that they do about the game? Couldn't it be an uncontrolled variable that was responsible for their feelings of favor towards or negative feelings against Wii Music? Naturally the people that have a strong liking for the Wii and its games are going to feel more favorable towards Wii Music than fans of other consoles that don't say they particularly enjoy the game. From what I've read from the favorable crowd for Wii Music. It is a game that you can enjoy if you want to learn to make music and that you must have some musical talent to really get the most from it. I would expect a gaming site that was reviewing such a game for a general public that might not want to put that much effort into such a game that quite a few people in that mass audience wouldn't have the talent to find much enjoyment from to begin with and that they wouldn't want to invest the time to develop dormant music talents in, wouldn't rate such a game as a must purchase item for most people. It's like if a company made an accounting software program that would teach you how to be an accountant. Well, if you're reveiwing the program for a mainstream audience and knew that many of them didn't want to be CPA's, then would you review the program as something that everybody in that audience needs to rush out and enjoy? |
Indeed, but it is explained by other ideas. Confirmation bias (as suggested earlier by noname) is a much more likely factor. They either really wanted to like or hate the game and found the faults or lack there of as a consequence. This isn't really the same as tricking yourself into enjoying it though, so much as tricking yourself into not caring about the bad spots or good spots depending. So really it detracts from the validity of both sides fairly equally.
I would review it based on how fun it seems to be, and how well it was made. I wouldn't go into the review hating it though as that would almost certainly skew the results. IGN as a whole clearly hated the game from longbefore they reviewed it. This is made crystal clear by at least one article written in the wake of the games release. As such their review can be discredited rather easily. Given this is a strong trend in gaming review sites it would be safe to say the Metacritic/Gameranking score is not the best reflection of the games over-all quality. I would say the same of a lot of games though so take that for what it is worth.
