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@Zim

Your wrong pure and simple. A reviewer is providing customer service. They are getting paid to service the needs of their users. That should be foremost in their minds. That they need to know what their audience likes, and provide a review that would reflect how the customer would rate the game. There job is basically to tell you if you will like a particular game. Not whether they personally like that game.

Most good reviewers understand what their job is about. Even if they do like something niche or not mainstream. They place those views in the text, but not in the overall score. It is called representing the pro and the cons. The job of the reviewer isn't to sell the game to people. If someone wants to look beyond a general representation. They can always dive into the body of the review.

Your also wrong about there not being dolts. The reality is we are all dolts some of the time. Are you going to tell me that you never just take someones word for something. Who has time to parse every little thing out. Hell who wants to be in a perpetual state of paranoia. Yes there are people that are just going to run with the review score whether you like that or not. Last time I checked trusting someone wasn't a justification for getting fucked over. We don't say the victims of con artists deserve what they got do we.

Lastly you do realize that your comments about Bayonetta are making my case for me. Doesn't it irk you at all that there are reviewers giving this game the same score as Bayonetta. Why do you feel my comments degrade that game, but don't feel the same about reviewers giving these two games the same score. I mean if they are giving both games the same score it means they are equally good right.

I think you know that I have a valid point. Snuff films shouldn't be getting the same score as cinema masterpieces. Would you give the Faces of Death the same score as Citizen Kane, the Wizard of OZ, or Gone with the Wind. No I seriously doubt that you would. You would know there was something called discretion, and you would know that if you want to give a fair assessment to a lay person. You would recommend the classic well above a bunch of people shooting themselves in the head.

I am not expecting perfection. I just expect some common sense and professionalism. They are getting paid to be informed. So that the consumer doesn't have to play and judge for themselves.