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fillet on 14 June 2012
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Khuutra said:
Dodece said:
@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. 

Sorry, this assumes that there is an objective standard of quality when it comes to this particular craft, and that isn't the case. A reviewer's job isn't to tell me what I like, it's to give a fair assessment of what she likes, and by viewing the body of her work I can see whether or not we have the same values. If a reviewer doesn't show their own values in the review, the review is less than worthless, and might as well be boiled down to bullet points about framerate and the number of levels.


So basically you're saying reviews are worthless and we'd be better off without them. You're creative utopia where everyone can discern a person's opinion (the reviewer) and transfer that information into useful personal information (what that exactly is, would be a mystery to me) all the while treating that information as being simply one persons's view and using it successfully to make a decision on a purchase, does not exist.

Quite honestly, I'm sick and tired of reading people's points of view that sound like yours. In the "old days" when we bought magazines like "Sega Power" in the 90s we read a review and bought a game based on the review, 9 times out of 10 the review was spot on. It gave a clear buy this or don't buy this.

Your view basically makes reviews next to useless.

I'll pin you on this and ask what exactly is a review for then?

I realise my tone's a little aggresive but hey this needs resolving, your someone who has been on vgchartz a fair old while, you have a very neutral fair post histroy and you're definately not an insane fanboy so I'm very curious to hear your view on "the old days" of reviews, vs the reviews of today, which I appreciate are a load of rubbish.

But that's MY point, they are rubbish because they have become "subjective opinion", instead of a damn good indicator on a if a game is worth buying. Something that you seem to support!?

dodece makes a very clear and correct argument imo. I fully agree and always have done with that opinion. People these days keep seeing games as some kind of subjective art form. Absolute rubbish, games have artistic content but their overall purpose isn't to tantalise the senses, it's to provide entertainment. Entertainment as in FUN or not FUN.

There's nothing subjective there, except it you don't like a particular type of fun, i.e - GENRE, in which case that would be clear from the review and a prospective purchaser would be well aware if the review they were reading was for a J-RPG or an FPS.