Article: How to help stop broken games (ign)

[ArchangelMadzz]

Ostro said:

ArchangelMadzz said:

Depends on your definition of 'review'. Is it 'How good is this game?' or 'How well does this game run?'

A review is an evaluation, hence it should not be influenced by personal taste or opinion (or pay checks from publishers). But that's not how (popular) business (games industry) works. All those opinions, arguments and emotions just help marketing a game so why should other businesses (publications) do proper reviews when they can cash in on debatable articles and headlines.

Personal taste I'll give you (I'm not going to review a RTS game as I dislike them), but opinion? You can't objectively review how good the controls feel, or how good the art style looks or if the story is good.

A review os 'I like this, this, this, this could've used some work and this'. If a review was objective and objectively measured every (real) score would be the same. You can't just benchmark a game and come up with a number of how good it is. All reviews are opinion.