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naznatips on 09 January 2010
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Zucas said:
naznatips said:
Zucas said:
Haha of course not. I wish so called "professional" reviewers would change scores if they thought something was done improperly. The most important thing about a review is to inform the consumer about the product as accurately as possible. If that's not being done then it needs to be fixed to make sure the right message is being sent out.

I really do think that people who think others lose credibility because they are willing to admit they are wrong need a reality check. Those who are willing to admit they are wrong and didn't get it right the first time and willing to change for the sake of being more accurate are people who should be held to the highest respect. Maybe if politicians in my country could do something like that we'd live in a better world. Maybe if people in general could do it haha.

That makes no sense. Adjusting scores isn't the same as admitting you're wrong. We have editing for that. Reviews cannot possibly please everyone who reads them, so they just need to be accurate and well-justified. If there is inaccurate information in a review I will absolutely make sure that it's corrected, but it matching your opinion does not make it right or wrong. What makes it right or wrong is if it's well-justified for the score it does give the game, complete, and accurate. 

But, if anything by telling people they are "wrong" anytime you don't agree with their score of a game you are showing your own arrogance, not theirs. 

Oh that's a cop out.  If you are doing your job correctly a written review and the score it represents are one in the same thing.  Therefore if you admit you were wrong in a review you wrote, then your score is wrong too.  Reviews aren't technical papers, they are personal opinion.  Justification, while based off the features, is still personal in the conclusion you come to (why some people like certain genres or not).  So no having the "ballz" to admit you are wrong and change it thereof isn't a sign of arrogance.  Thinking that what you are writing is technical and the word of the almighty lord is the biggest load of arrogance ever.  Reviewers, therefore, should have absolutely no issue changing a review score if they felt they reviewed improperly BASED on their own opinions because that is all it ever was to begin with.

 

Where did anyone say they were wrong in a review they wrote? All Tor said was he feels differently about a game later. That's not the same as the review being wrong, it's just someone's opinion of a game changing.

Reviews are analysis. They are personal analysis but they are analysis nonetheless, and there are aspects of those analyses that are undeniable fact. That's not the same thing as opinion. You need to find yourself a dictionary. An analysis is not, by default, an absolute truth it's a breaking down of and description of the concepts of the whole. Absolutely people disagree with analysis, but just like literary analysis, it's not a random opinion statement (like you seem to have way too much of), but an actual determination based on visceral factors. 

We have editing to try and make sure games get reviewed fairly. It's absolutely true that every person is different, and their analysis of a game is effected by personal factors, but you cannot call it the same thing as just a stated opinion. There are clearly definable factors that lead to the conclusions established in a review, whether you agree with the conclusion itself or not is immaterial.

What's important is that the game was reviewed fairly, completely, gives all pertinent information about the game to the reader, and makes a well-justified conclusion about the general quality of the game. There are multiple correct analyses of any work of literature, media, or entertainment in general. There are no absolutes in analysis, but there are fair and traceable factors into determining and our reviews absolutely use them. 

Changing such a thing because some whiny forum member who happened to feel differently of the game than the conclusion of the review suggested thinks xxxx should have been scored higher or lower and yelled it out in all caps and 4 words is ludicrous.