Ajescent said:
ishiki said:
Ajescent said:
ishiki said:
well this case.
It is a critisism if you want to play the game on easy. It's not a fulfilling to that particular person it should get dinged. If they don't want people to play it in easy. DONT PUT AN EASY MODE IN.
However stated. I know review in formats are not that good. But videogame reviews everywhere in general are so awful essentially everywhere including this site. Yes there might be a few reviews. But videogame reviewers have.
But look at the meta average everywhere. The review scale should not be 90% in the 6-10 range. That's omitting 6 whole points on the scale. |
Oh it could be argued that hiding the endings from easy mode adds replayability?
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yes, but from that revieweres perspective it didn't. That's why there are more than 1 review on the internet. From that persons perspective the review was completely valid imo.
if you don't like the game that much to begin with you're not going to want to replay it again. It can add replay value for certain people, and I'm sure it's reflected in those reviewers scores. Or it can negatively take away from the experience like it did in this case. The perspectives should even out.
Obviously the best review would incorporate both perspectives but then assigning it a numerical score doesn't really work.
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But...it's his job, it's what he gets paid to do...played the game from start to finish and test the game as best he can.
Everybody knows that Easy mode is when the game doesn't try too hard. Think about it, if Dark Souls had an "easy mode" for example and the reviewer played that and then said the game was really easy and didn't live up to the expectation. That's being unfair to the game, it's the exact opposite of people moaning that game X didn't get 10/10 without playing it.
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My thoughts exactly. There are various sites who get their reviews out late, since they actually require their reviewers to have played the whole game. However, a lot of the bigger sites are more worried about releasing exactly on the day the embargo lifts, therefore getting the most hits. They take shortcuts and don't explore all aspects of the game. And on some occasions, don't even read the button layout. 
Then you have the ballooned scores of late. Anything below a 9 is viewed as not being good, even though an 8 means exactly that, it's good.
