It's because video games don't have a difference between entertaining, but not good, and truly good video games. This is perfectly represented this generation with games like CoD, Uncharted, GoW3, etc. getting ridiculously high scores despite them being very mediocre games. Entertaining and fun yes, but they are also very mediocre as far as games go. They are basically the equivalent of 300, the movie, yet gamers are too immature, naive, ignorant, and in some cases just plain old stupid to realize the differences. Then they try to push the whole "oh it's only your opinion" type of argument if you somehow insult their game of choice. That is laughable because I cannot name other entertainment mediums where such a pisspoor argument is actually considered valid in any way, shape, or form when talking about quality.
Reviewers are jsut an extension of gamers and so reviews suffer from the same thing.
Tag(thx fkusumot) - "Yet again I completely fail to see your point..."
HD vs Wii, PC vs HD: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=93374
Why Regenerating Health is a crap game mechanic: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3986420
gamrReview's broken review scores: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4170835
