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UltimateUnknown on 07 October 2012
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JazzB1987 said:
UltimateUnknown said:
JazzB1987 said:

Well BW2 is a different game but I know what you want to say and in case of Fifa 12 vs 13 it should just be DLC.  But then again not everyone owns Fifa 12 so why  should they not be able to play 13? It cannot just be DLC. It could be both a retail game and a cheap addon for people who own the previous game.

The review system is faulty and sites like gamerankings or metacritic are also stupid because they distort the value of games and individual review scores.

Unless we have  different scores ( for Singleplayer, Muktiplayer, compared to all games, compared to previous games of the same series and whatnot) and drop the  OVERALL SCORE thing   the whole system is faulty. 

I mean just look at gametrailers.  The have story gampley etc.  and after the review you see the games end -score but it is not as easy as  10+9+9+10 /4 = 9.5 . it sometimes is a 9 and sometimes a 10.Under every review you see people saying  "GT FAILS AT MATHS" because people dont know whats going on. Sure most people undertand that its not just ++++/=  but noone knows how it exactly works and I even doubt the reviewers know it lol.

And every site with similar terms (story gameplay etc.) has another standard of how to come up with the end score.  Some just do the 10+10+10+10=4. Some use more complicated methods. etc.

I mean lets say I dont care about multiplayer and a game has awesome multiplayer and  good singleplayer  how does the OVERALL 9.5 tell me how good the single player is? The end score is useless for me.
Why do we differentiate when it comes to gameplay story visuals sound but stuff like MP/SP is irrelevant? And reviewers forgetting that not everyone played the first game and therefore giving it a lower score even if its better dont help at all.

And sites where reviewer A lowers the score because the game is to similar to the previous one   and then reviwere B judges another game on its own and just mentions the small differences as a small side note make all scores of the whole side useless because they have different ways to rate a game at the same site....

Every single site needs to completely overhould their review system and we need a global standard. But that wont happen...

What you state is not a problem with the reviewers, but rather a problem with the consumer. Instead of skipping to the end of a review and just looking at the final score, the consumer should be listening carefully as to why the reviewer gave the game the said score in the first place. That is the reason why review video last 5-10 minutes before awarding the final score, in which time the reviewer explains what is good and bad with the game.

In the case of the gamespot and gt reviews, both the reviewers stated that BW2 use the same tried and tested formula from the previous iteration and if you liked that then you are likely to enjoy this as well, but the game does very little to advance the formula forward, and there is too much in terms of assets, gameplay, storyline, etc that was copied off the previous game. So it gets the low review score. A good consumer who didn't play the previous game would take this statement and go back to their review of the original BW and see what exactly they said about that game which the sequels copy from. If then the consumer likes what the first game has to offer, then they should buy the sequel as the sequel contains most of the material from the first game and more.

Plus I don't understand the arguement with the Fifa game you made about some people not having Fifa 12 and so they can't get 13. I don't see why this is a problem. When BW came out originally it cost something like £35 where I live, but now BW2 costs the same. But if I wanted to buy the original BW it would probably cost me about £15-20 to buy now since the price has obviously dropped. So if they did release an expansion, newer consumers could buy the original game for the lower price and buy the expansion pack for pretty much the same price as the full game.