After reading thread after thread about a couple of recent exclusvies that have received some less-than-flattering review scores and written reviews, I've started to notice a pattern. "X site isn't reliable" or "Y magazine is biased, obviously". Now we could chock this up to fanboyism, but they do put up some arguements and it seems pretty sitewide that a huge chunk of the population believes in reviewer bias (of course there is bias, but this is more about the bias that makes reviewers reliably score a subset of games unfairly). As much as we like to think they don't, scores matter to us, a lot of us. This being said, are there reveiwers or sites that are more or less universally TRUSTED as being unbiased or fair? I would like to know, because I have a relatively small amount of gaming time, and I really like to get a good sense of whether I'll like a game before buying it.
Also, what are your thoughts on having a platform specific magazine/site review other platform's games. Such as having OXM review PS3 exclusives or OPM review 360 exclusives, etc? I would think that they would kind of be forced to be impartial or would lose all cred really fast. If OXM gave a PS3 exclusive a 9.5, I think I would snap that puppy right up. What do you think?
