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Ssenkahdavic said:
KingofTrolls said:
Ssenkahdavic said:

I would welcome harsher reviews moving forward (No one will EVER convince me that GTA IV deserved 10s.....)  One of the reviews I read was literally "We love the game, but it is not what we wanted so we are going to score it poorly"  Really not sure which one it was, but I hope that is NOT the trend of reviews moving forward. 

Exactly it is. Reviev is nothing more than opinion.

I have no problem with reviews being opinions, as of course they are, but in that exact type of review.  Its dishonest to say you love something then bash it because you wanted it to be different. 

That is the other side of the internet, unfortunately. (Good) journalism is on the way out. Everyboy with a facebook/Twitter account thinks s/he is now a "journalist". Reviews have come down to subjectivity and, let's say, lack of "knowledge of the greater picture".

In the good old days of journals, you could to a good degree almost tell how a bad review comes about in a particular journal by simply counting the number of ads the producer would have in that journal. In the Internet, that is more difficult to figure out (except with a certain P**n site).