Oh thank you.
And damn... you worded everything I was thinking in a far better way than I ever could have without spending hours and hours on it.
I guess I agree with your overall point, reviewers and the fans alike are both at fault when it comes to the state of the medium and where it's viewed by the general population.
As an example, I don't know if you have played Metro 2033, but it is funny how by our system gets a very deserving score if we take 5 as an average, yet if it had ditched all the new things and swapped them for the same old it would have gotten even higher. I am not saying that the game deserves a better score, but that it is sad that by getting worse it would have had a better one.
I was talking about the PC reviews, since after reading some 360 reviews it seems that very few of the 360 reviewers even understood the most basic mechanics in the game, for instance the stealth illumination system and other such things. I hate to say it, but the 360 reviewers really reinforced the stereotype of the stupid Halo/CoD fanboy players of the 360 and I wasn't too happy with the representation the platform got.
I guess this is also a heavy recommendation to you to play Metro 2033 since it is a fresh breath of air in the green gaseous blob that is the FPS genre. Think of a cross between Half-Life 2 and STALKER, and I mean the cross of the good parts, in the narrative, and a large amount of new mechanics which could have been just labelled and used as gimmicks but are in fact very well developed. It looks amazing too to boot. The story is also nice, it doesn't try to be anything pretentions, like fixing the whole world, or even the small ecosystem where human live. It's just a story about a guy who wants to save home from threat and that's it. Yet it is an amazing journey. Would love to read a review about it from you actually. I also suggest you play it on the PC since, bar some really annoying console mechanics when it comes to the Options, it feels liek it was made for it.
I am sorry I talked so much about a game, but that game is great representation of the rating system and how it is broken.
