Bungie and Activision are looking deep for good review scores

[sundin13]

DucksUnlimited said:

sundin13 said:

If you are using reviews as a way of saying "my product is worth buying" and you have to resort to a bunch of sites no one has ever heard of in order to make that case, you shouldn't be using reviews as evidence that said product is worth buying. If this was a random sampling of reviews, then sure, I could let something like this slide, but it isn't. This is just a misrepresentation of critical opinion, and that is why using mostly no name sites is laughable...

Do you not see my point?

I'm still waiting for you to explain how the popularity of a website directly correlates to the quality of their review. Without that, your entire point is moot.

Well...no it isn't at all. I'll quote "Never" here:

"I'd say it's relevant only as a sign of how far they have to look for the positive reviews. 

I don't rate these opinons less than of an IGN or Gamspot reviewer; however, if they had to scoure the more obscoure sites on the web to find the positive reviews it highlights the many less flattering reviews which they decided not to advertise. 

On seeing that ad, I wouldn't have to go to IGN or gamespot to know it didn't score highly."

This is misrepresentive of the critical reception. Any game can find obscure sources to say that a game is good, even absolutely garbage games could if they looked deep enough...using big name reviewers only typically indicates that what the are showing is indicative of the average reception. These opinions are all acceptable as "opinions of people", but as an advertisement for the game, they are as good as worthless.