Should a game lose point for adding auxillary content that isn't good?

[Torillian]

AndrewWK said:

Torillian said:

NintendoPie said:
No. If something is indeed optional it should have a separate review.

How do you define optional though?  What's essential in something like Smash Brothers and what should get a separate review?  Can't change the rules for something just because it's a rerelease so you have to come up with a criteria that works for all games and defines what is essential and what is optional.

 I personally think that you have to review the entire game regardless, because what's optional to one person could easily be the only reason someone else is buying the game.  You just can't predict things like that.

There are Multiplayer games like CoD, Counter Strike, Battlefiled, Tekken etc. where MP is essential and those game should have good Multplayer, and they should lose points for crappy MP.

But games like Bioshock, God of War or Assassins creed should because who gives a shit about those Multiplayers?

You don't care, but those games are adding multiplayer to try and broaden their appeal, and you do that broadened audience a disservice if you ignore the thing that is drawing them to the latest iteration of any particular game.