Final Fantasy XIII-2 gets 5.4 on Gamrreview - how is that possible?

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theprof00 said:

Scoobes said:

mantlepiecek said:
I think it's unfair that the person who hated FF XIII so much was asked to review its sequel.

 I think a lot of the potential and undecided purchasers of FFXIII-2 are those that hated the original but are Final Fantasy fans. People that loved FFXIII will buy it regardless and people who don't play Final Fantasy are unlikely to use a direct sequel as a starting point. Sounds like he's probably the best person to review the game.

No it doesn't. When everyone is doing it one way, doing it a different way is really just there to seem unique. It upsets metascores, and makes us look unprofessional.

You just described everything that's wrong with the reviewing culture in the video games industry. Look at film reviews, no one complains about the variety of reviews, scores and opinions. The games industry press is still seen as enthusiast press and generally unprofessional especially due to the fact that they all follow the same crowd and scoreline (among other reasons). Metacritic is seen as some holy grail of ratings and reviewers are seemingly under pressure to score in the range of 7-10. Over inflated review scores are far more unprofessional then actual critique.