| Kowan said: user scores are not a reliable source for reviews. Many put on negative reviews just to pull down the scores of games, at the same time many also put glowing reviews just to pull the scores up. And most of them haven't even played the game/or are just trolling. |
In my experience, they are more reliable than pro reviewers based roughly on the games I have played.
Anyway, do you think 29 scores is reliable? Don't you prefer 387 users, even if 10% are trolls, they are trolls of both sides. And anyway I haven't seen a real genuine personnal review on Internet less than 7/10.
For instance the guy from USgamer who gave a shitty article on "you don't need a PS4" or something on Eurogamer said on the comments that he would have score KZSF a 7/10. When his then co-worker on USgamer scored the game 4/10. You see, a pro-reviewer give 4/10 when a guy who wrote a wholly negative article on PS4 on Eurogamer admitted that he would have score 7/10. Maybe that's why USgamer didn't ask him to review the game.
Or when Polygon ask specifically Arthur Gies to review a game from the serie everybody in the world knows he hate. Were they supposing that he would give a fair review when he hates FPS and particularly Killzone? But then Knack is reviewed by another reviewer and scored higher than KZ?
I could go on and go on but I am starting to really lose confidence on pro-reviewers. It was the same sort of stuff with ZombiU with the bad gamespot score and it finally reach 77 on metacritic, then a good/great game. But the first reviews were really mixed, too much mixed.
