The gaming media is unprofessional and inconsistent and I'm sick of it.

[brundlefly]

Mad55 said:

brundlefly said:

Mad55 said:

idk what yall are talking about i usually find that when i read some article informing me about something happening in the gaming world its usually well done. There sure have been alot of complainers on this site lately. i usually read gameinformer and ign reviews and i find that they are well written and formatted. I also look at vgchartz feed alot and most of the time im cool with what their doing i just think alot of people want to complain because the world aint perfect lol. alot of these writers graduate college for jourlnalism and such and it shows to me but eh alot of you would complain about oxygen if it didnt keep you alive.

IGN's reviews and articles are always filled with typos and seem to a bias against PS3. There's also the extreme inconsistencies that the OP brought up (KZ3 losing points for lack of story whereas MW2 they said it doesn't matter because nobody buys it for the story) and their entire rating system in general. Their reviews will praise a game and it'll end up with an 8 (when the review is just glowing) or vice versa, or the final score being higher than all the different parts (presentation, graphics, etc). It's just a really unprofessional site in general.

i never really feel that way about their reviews except for shooters. and killzone got a great score regardless it doesnt need a 90 to validate itself as awesome. And i dont buy that ps3 bias stuff at all.

I can't remember which review it was that really demonstrated exactly how inconsistent the number at the end is, but it was a review just loving everything about it and very minor, nitpicking, complaints and it got like an 8.5. Now I know what's coming next about an 8.5 being a great score, which it is, but the way the gaming review standards are set up, that's only like pretty good. I know people who will avoid games less than a 9 (who are idiots by the way) but it's just a product of the system. I totally agree though about not needing over a 9 to be awesome because for one, I loved the Force Unleashed for instance, but a lot of the sheep that follow reviews would just avoid an 8 or 8.5. As for the bias, I'm not a fanboy even though I only have a PS3/Wii but I just generally tend to notice things slanted more towards the 360's favour (again going off of memory so I can't think of specific examples...I guess like when something runs better on 360, Bayonetta for instance, it gains extra points over the PS3 version, when something like FFXIII is the exact same even though they say there's problems). 

 

 

On a related note, might as well post this here:

 http://movies.ign.com/articles/114/1148788p1.html