Something all game reviewers should remember.

[Trentonater]

Immortal said:

Trentonater said:

You don't have to play a certain game. If the game is not suited towards the general audience that is no reason to lowers its score. A game shouldn't have to appeal to anyone but its target audience. If you weren't able to enjoy the game because it is not your type of game then you shouldn't be the one reviewing it. You don't see movies being critiscized for not trying to get the general audience. In fact they are often praised for it.

This is just about the silliest thing ever. Every game has some target audience or another that will love the game more than anything else. That doesn't mean all games should get perfect scores. It's completely justified to criticize a game if it only makes you press the button A over and over with nothing actually happening, even if there's some lunatic target audience for it somewhere.

In fact, I'd say things need to move more towards reviews being based on appeal to the general audience and not on one gamer's personal opinion because that is far closer to objective.

A games score should never be lowere because you aren't the type of person to play it. It doesn't excuse bad games.