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disolitude on 16 September 2013
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Slimebeast said:
disolitude said:

Perfect example of the gaming media industry giving handjobs to a high profile title so the industry keeps doing business as always. If something that cost 200 million isn't a 10/10 and maybe it flops, they may spend less money on gaming next time, and website advertising revenue won't be as high and we can't have that...too many nerds reviewing videogames on their sites depend on that revenue.

Not saying its not a great game, but nothing out there deserves a 10/10 across the board.

Spot on. I agree 100%.

It's funny when you think about it. I am very hyped for GTA5 and it's in my top 5 most anticipated games, so one would think I would become happy when I see all these great scores, right? Well I'm not. Those high scores don't make me happy at all. All I can think of is those points in your post, the corruption and unprofessionalism of reviews.

All I can think of is "they did the GTA4 review scandal again??!"

Yeah it is funny but sad at the same time. Its a mix of corruption, fear of financial repercussions and fanboyism that pretty much guarantees that 90+ is given to games like this. 

Movie and music entertainment medium reviewers have somehow managed to establish themselves as an independent and relevant source that provides critical analasys of each medium, but in the current state this just isn't possible for gaming. 

People should just think about how rediculous a movie review would sound if it had a summary of:

"Audio 10/10...Graphics 10/10...Gameplay 10/10...Overall 10/10!!!"