| psrock said:
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. |
I think we’re talking about two entirely different things here ...
There has been a massive bias in the industry against simple, arcade style, videogames; and most reviewers see these games as outdated throwbacks to a more primitive time in videogame development. Many people do not share this view, and a lot of people would prefer a simple game done well (like Bejewelled) to a much more complicated gaming experience. While there are the occasional game like this that reviews well, most of these games aren’t reviewed and the reviews they do get seem to be marked lower because they do not meet the reviewers idea of what a videogame should be.
As a result of this, there are many of these games that are highly addictive fun games that (with the variety of game-play modes) have a ton of replay value that get low scores. At the same time, there are a lot of similar games that are dull, uninspired and repetitive with limited replay value that get similar scores. By not considering what a game is when reviewing it, the review scores become meaningless.
The best analogy I can think of is imagine if the aggregate review scores of Killzone 2 and Haze were similar because there were only a handful of reviewers who played the game and most of them thought that First Person Shooters were the lowest form of videogame and gave them a low score on principle.
