Game reviews need to mature more. They are getting less and less relevant.

[The_vagabond7]

That's exactly what I'm saying. Gamers sitting around complaining about reviews deserve the kind of reviews that they are getting. Score inflation is a direct result of people complaining about low scores. It doesn't mean they don't say what they think, it means they grade on a 7-10 scale so as not to anger their audience. It can't be both ways. Either everybody complains that they are stupid money hats because they give games low scores or they are stupid money hats because they give high scores.

 

Also, there is no moneyhat conspiracy. Activision is not bribing Giant Bomb for better reviews. That doesn't even make sense. Publishers use metacritic to gauge any number of factors ranging from sequels, to funding for teams, why would they pay to screw up their own metric that they are using? It doesn't even make sense.

 

And your argument now comes down to "Yeah, well amatuer reviews are stupid and biased too, but you can ignore those and read the ones that are good, you know just like with professional ones...but those all suck...all of them" Which isn't even a sensical argument, it's a crass generalization of a vast broad and varied group accompanied by special pleading for a group so massive no consistency can even be hoped for.

I don't give a shit about reviews, professional or otherwise. I'm 26 and I know what games I like by now. I don't even read reviews, I don't know what GT5 is averaging on metacritic, I don't know how black ops did critically. Stupidity just drives me nuts, and when I see people say dumb shit like "professional reviews are becoming irrelevant" and "Amatuers write better reviews", I feel the need to interject. The first statement is blatantly untrue, proffesional reviews are incredibly relevant, go ask any publisher. The second one doesn't even make sense on account of it's tens of thousands of people compared to a few hundred, and you have to shuffle through mounds of amatuer crap to get to something halfway readable and informative. If you want to go read ten reader reviews for a game, knock yourself out. But the statement that they do a better job doesn't even make sense.