The_vagabond7 said:
You pretty much made my point for me here, reviewers give the game what people expect more then what they think the game deserves Gamer reviews fail because they are by far and large merely a fanboy war of people giving 9s and 10s vs those giving 3s and 4s, and they are definitely not better written. They are littered with incomprehensible english, terrible spelling and grammar, and are just as filled with factual errors if not more so than "professional" reviewers. Plus for anyone that took any classes or just like to read there is a very noticeable difference between professional writing and some guy writing his opinions down. Gamer Reviews only work in the sense that you get a feel of the games popularity by the number of people that hate it, the people that would have given it a 9 or 10 regardless of what the game was like, and the tiny tiny handful of people that are trying to be objective (and the content of those reviews are not somehow gauranteed to be of a high quality just because they gave out a 7). "Official" reviews have factual errors in them all the time and rarely have good spelling/grammar, player reviews fluctuate from person to person, as for your other points I don't think you've read any player reviews, there are far less stupid fanboys then on forums, because people that stupid usually are too lazy to write a review Who do you think actually takes time to write most of the fan reviews? Do you think these people who own one or two systems and buy a few games a year are somehow more immune to media hype, marketing, and other outside influences than people that literally have to play videogames as a fulltime job, and are so bombarded by PR representatives they are annoyed and jaded by them, that have to play all the crappy games along side the good ones? Take any of the people just on this website alone that would defend and of their systems big hype train games to the death against their own mother if she so much as uttered a negative word against it. Now Imagine the ones that are just chomping at the bit for some negative press against Halo, or Killzone even though they don't even own the respective system. Now imagine hundreds of them all writing reviews. Why am I trusting them for objective analyzation again? Immune of course not, but the games advertisement budget isn't paying their checks either, not to mention my previous point on official reviews giving games what people expect where the average joe will just write what he thinks as for who writes reviews generally it's just normal people and they are usually more objective then reviewers and not afraid to say they hated the game and thought it was crap and give reasons why, and if you start reading a review and see factual errors bad spelling or bias you can stop and ignore it, you can with official ones too but they all seem to have it and it is less obvious because well the reviewers are actual writers and can word it better and since you seem to swear by official reviews I'm guessing you haven't noticed it The fan review scene does not operate at all like the professional review scene. Fan reviews are a tug of war between fanboys that know what score they are going to give before they even play the game, and by reading ten of them you may get an idea of what the game entails and if you are cool with that. The proffesional review scene is people paid to appease the aforementioned audience. Gamers get the reviewers they deserve. Again most real fanboys don't bother to write a review and as for the professionals they checks are paid by advertisement from a game and they want to appease gamers so they give a game the score people expect not their honest opinion and the fact that they leave out whole gameplay elements in a game negates any argument you might have of the reviews being what people deserve (unless you want to argue that they deserve crap) |
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