Reviews are irrelevant,

[psrock]

HappySqurriel said:

psrock said:

Mr Khan said:

psrock said:
A casual reviewer?

What would be the point?

Reviews for the masses.

 

If a gaming website leveraged it right, it could be huge for them. Of course it would run the risk of alienating whatever audience the major sites still have...

My mom is never going to IGN, VGCHARTZ, EDGE to get reviews of games. She will go to walmart, look for the most fun looking game to her and buy it.

What should happen is hardcore site should just do a preview of these games, no scores, just an idea since they can't tell if it's good or not.

You'd probably be surprised who reads these sites ...

Even though my sister has been playing videogames since we got the Colecovision in the early 80s, since she primarily played handheld games after the SNES because she didn’t like the kinds of games that were mostly on consoles (with the exception of social games like Mario Kart and what not) she would be considered a "Casual" gamer by today’s standards. While she couldn’t care less about Grand Theft Auto, Halo or God of War, she is very well versed in the games she is interested in; and she does read many of the popular websites to find out information about games she is interested in.

There has been evidence since the Gameboy Color was in its prime that women gamers was a growing demographic that was becoming more and more important, but rather than trying to understand them most developers and reviewers treated them as second class citizens. The unfortunate side effect of this is that many of them have become so accustomed to low scores that they mostly ignore them and read the review instead; which does make the score meaningless for them.

Low scores are not due to being casual, this is getting annoying, it's due to being crappy. Tons of core and hardcore games get bad scores too. The PSP got 2 games over 90 IN FIVE YEARS, not because it's casual focus but the games are either bad or subpar. Reviews are not created to please demographics, they are give an idea of quality, gameplay and value. While casual games might be fun, fun is not equal to good. People have fun drinking, but it's not always a good thing.

And the minute, companies invest into these games and create good games that are still fun, then they will get a good score. I have enjoyed many bad movies, that doesnt mean they should have been rated higher.