Teletext : Heavy Rain Review (Abysmal)

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kowenicki said:

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okr said:
Ah, another "praise/kill the review site depending on score" thread. This time it's pitchfork time.

Of all the many hypes we already saw this gen on all consoles, the one which emerged around Heavy Rain during the last few weeks feels like the strangest and most faked one to me. Quick time hype, so to speak.

emporers new clothes...?

I'm getting Heavy Rain and will play it through... but I think there is a strange elite attitude surrounding the game

It is almost as though it is impossible to criticise the game because Heavy Rain is somehow arty and high brow and that means it shouldnt be criticised because the developers have been brave.

It's ok to criticize it, but with fair and honest critic. I can take EDGE score, but I can't take this teletext crap. Have you read the review? If it's fair by you, why the hell would you want to get that game? Are you masochist?

Because I formulate my own opinions... ONE bad written review doesnt shape my opinion.   Why cant people just ignore it as an oddity... this constant bleating about the odd low review is just childish.

Childish, huh? Review scores are EXTREMELY important to developers! Dead Space got an 89 on metacritic, and that alone kept it from being"AAA." Don't you think that people have a reason to be angry or annoyed by something like that?

No I dont. 

I could equally say that the dead space average was artificially high because of the five perfect 100's it received... dont you see that?

Its just opinions.

Professional reviews are NOT meant to be opinions by the author. They are unbiased measurements of the quality of the game.

If what you say is true, I could be a reviewer myself and give every game I like a 10 and every game I don't like a 0. That's not how it works.