| dorbin2009 said: It's not the reviewing system that needs to change. It's the gamers. Why does it matter what score a game gets? Should it really alter your opinion? All Game Reviews are , are well thought out opinions from people that play a lot of video games. The problem with attacking video game reviews is it revolves so heavily around personal bias. Review scores have become fanboy vitriol. The game scores too high ,and all of a sudden the reviewers are paid off fanboys. The game scores too low, and all of a sudden the reviewers don't know what they are talking about. The game scores a 80 metacritic rating, and people are labeling it as "terrible". Nobody is telling you, the consumer, to hang on Hilary Goldstein's from IGN's words as he talks about a certain game. You should be intelligent enough as a human being to decipher your own opinion from another's. We as gamers need to treat video game reviews the same way movie goers treat film reviews. Yes, they are insightful. No, they are not the end all to what we do with our money. The only reason why this is even a discussion, is the release of ODST and Uncharted 2. And I think that nails the problem more than anything I can say. |
I don't think that the score matters, but reviews themselves do matter. I'm a consumer, I have limited ammount of money, and I have bunch of choices. The smart thing for me to do would for me to get as much information as I can. Reviews are a huge source of that.
Unfortunately (and this again, isn't against the SCORES, but the reviews themselves) some reviewers do just skim over stuff, like in Farcry 2, and don't say the most common sense thing, the big problems and flaws of the game we would notice at once.
The reviewers didn't mention or at least EMPATHIZE the woncky aiming. They didn't EMPATHIZE how fucking tedious and annoying the travel system is (which completely kills the game).
If reviewers don't just cut to the chase and stop thinking about how great Farcry 2 is for its freedom, its multiple ways of completing situations, and anyother bullshit like that one Farcry 2 gamer said on Youtube, and talk about stuff that's relevant to us gamers. I can give a shit about how there's an ecosystem and animals and shit in the game. If I can't even shoot properly, in a fucking FPS, then the game's severely handicapped.
