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Burek said:

mornelithe said:

Hyperbole doesn't help your argument.  No one has said if a reviewer doesn't like Infamous, they shouldn't be reviewing games.  However, multiple folks have stated that allowing someone who clearly doesn't like a certain Genre, to review/preview that genre, is stupid.  Give it to someone who actually likes TPS games, that way, you avoid having biases you know already exist, to effect the review process.

And this is a big problem in the industry.  It's not just Sunset Overdrive.

Surely it works both ways: A person that likes TPS is biased more toward scoring an average or poor TPS better than it deserves. There is no clear cut answer, but everyone is welcome to pick and choise to listen to their version of truth...

Not sure I'd agree with that, honestly.  I think someone who truly enjoys a certain genre, will have played a larger variety of those games, than someone who doesn't.  Therefore, they should have a much larger body of work to evaluate a certain game, against.  At least, that's my take.  But, I don't discount the possibility of your argument.