Does a player base know quality?

[NJ5]

Dodece said:


@NJ5

Actually the sway in ratings proves that reviewers as a group can maintain their objectivity in the face of public pressure. We have to trust in the fact that they care about how they perform their jobs. In fact it probably causes a negative flow. In that they will be more critical in compensating for their own biases. At the end of the day that should cancel much of the hype out of the equation, and that the averaging will do the rest.

I disagree, and I point to games like GTA4 which prove that hype certainly doesn't decrease a game's score, and very likely has increased it.

Another problem with this is list is that titles like Bioshock (PS3), Resident Evil 4 (Wii), Okami (Wii) are not the original versions of the games, which artificially decreases their sales. Not because of their perceived quality among the userbases.