Jumpin said:
I didn't say reviews needed to be objective, what I said was that review sites with no objectivity don't have a purpose or credibility. In order to have a purpose, review sites do in fact require some degree of objective criteria. Only then does a review publication become a reliable source which a user can put confidence in when selecting which games they should buy. If FF13-2 is better than FF13, then how is that helping anyone when this site says FF13 is a 9.0 game and FF13-2 is a 5.4 game? It's not like the bar of quality has gone up THAT much in the past 22 months. How exactly is this helping anyone? Something is clearly broken with how this website handles its review section. |
This operates off of the assumption that there needs to be consistency between different reviers when reviewing similar games. There does not.
Objective criteria are almost impossible to find in the arts, particularly in the respects that make an RPG decent (story, pacing, construction). Where they are found, they're still weighed subjectively. Different value sets are going to result in completely different scores even under passingly similar criteria.
You never said what the purpose of the review section is.
