| Aura7541 said: Again with making hasty assumptions. This is less of an issue of whether LBP3 scores well and whether its sales are affected by the reviews. This is a matter of integrity in journalists. What you have also missed is that points weren't docked just for bugs (which were immediately fixed, mind you), sites took points off for lacking content. Some of them only went through the campaign and judged the game based on that. However, the LBP franchise is known for user-generated content. Heck, levels from previous games are compatable with LBP3, so "lacking content", as some sites have claimed, is far, far away from the truth. As for the bugs, IGN isn't being consistent. Assassin's Creed: Unity suffered from even worse and more frequent bugs and yet, it scored a full point higher. There are several (hilarious) GIFs that show how bad AC: U's bugs are and not all of them are fixed yet! In contrast, LBP3's problems were fixed Day One with no hassle. And back to the IGN review, it doesn't take that long to put an update on their review. All they gotta do is download the patch, see if the issues are solved, update their review with a few sentences or a small paragraph, and let readers know. It's that simple and doesn't take "hundreds of dollars" to do. |
Can you really review a game on content that hasn't been made yet, or content that wasn't included with the game? Seems like a slippery slope that...
