| yo_john117 said: It's going the way of every release since last year. Reviews are way harsher now than they were a year or two ago. Pretty much grab any big game and tack on 2-6 points for meta and you have a more just score. |
Personally, I see this as a positive change. Game reviews have always seem to be very generous. In a perfect world, a 5-6 would be an average game, but for games even an 8 is considered poor.
If video game reviews were to be taken seriously (I would encourage no one to take them as such) one would believe that 15-20 genre defining masterpieces are produced each year, and that is simply not the case.
The fact that so many games get 80+ meta scores makes the entire rating system rather pointless. Isn't the value of game reviews suppose to lie in their ability to single out great or horrible games? If everything gets the same 8-10 review score with very few exceptions, then don't these reviewers kind of lose their raison detre since, apparently, every sgame is spectacular which means we don't need a reviewer to tell us this anymore.
