Why are reviewers being such hardasses this gen?

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curl-6 said:

BeElite said:

curl-6 said:
Gotta love how reviewers have gone from being the word of God when people agreed with them to biased/irrelevant now that they're harsher on people's favourite games.

What in the hell bs are you spewing, never in two decades of gaming i lived were reviewers ever though of that by anyone really.  Its always been a big preview to most and maybe justification to buy by the ignorant and weak minded.

All last gen reviews were held up as some kind of divine truth by a lot of gamers. Only now is that starting to change.

Me, I've been saying for years that they're just opinions, and that's not going to change if they decide to give my favourite game a 98 Meta.

Hyperbolic crap.

Last gen was the gen most gamers started complaining about reviewers inflating scores. I'd love for you to find examples of where "a lot of gamers" espoused that sort of reverence towards reviewers. Reviews and metacritic are useful for broadly comparative purposes. But no sane person would say one review is proof positive of the quality of a game, nor would a sane person cite just a few points difference in metascore as proof that one game is better than another.

The only time people take a review as gospel is when it's their personal favourite reviewer based on the fact that their gaming tastes closely align with yours. If you can find such a reviewer then they are like gold because they really are an excellent basis for making buying deicisions, for you. But probably not many other people.