The Critic's Plight

[vlad321]

Runa216 said:

vlad321 said:

And that's my point, why the fuck would you say 70-89 is mediocre when 40-69 exists?

ALso not to mention you then start talking about how you grade like old school (which is a damn lie otherwise there wouldn't be as big a skew) reviewers.

you'd do well to refrain from cursing, it nullifies your argument regardless of how accurate your statements may be.  Just a word of advice.  

I don't recall saying 70-89 was 'mediocre', I said it was average for popular releases. Again with the extrapolating.  and again with the "why does it matter anyway?" 

Explain to me how I don't review like old school reviewers.  I talk about level design, I talk about difficulty curves, I talk about controls, I talk about fun factor and functionality.  I put gameplay first and foremost in my reviews, I always have.  How is that not oldschool?  just because I give a touch more lenience when it comes to inconsequential, infrequent glitches doesn't mean my assertion is suddenly nullified.  it's becoming increasingly clear you have an agenda.  Do us all a favor and take it over there, please. 

 

Sorry, I curse so much IRL that it has literally lost all meaning and sometimes it slips into my written words.

Average IS mediocre... that's the definition of mediocre, average.  As to how you don't grade like old reviewers, I already pointed it out, back in the day scores were far better distributed than they are now. The simple fact you gave a game with glitches an 8.9 attests to that. I will be hardpressed to find a good old school review where a game with bugs got 4.5 stars. Your assertion is very much nullified, because you are essientially bitching about a system that you, and people like you, helped create, and my agenda was to point that out. What you call liniency, I call lack of integrity of a critic.