Article: How to help stop broken games (ign)

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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.

Lots of things are determined by personal taste and opinion. Objective reviews are rare, those that do exist read more as descriptions then actual ''reviews'' and they certainly shouldn't be scored. Many qualities of games and ''entertainment'' needs the reception of a bias individual (essentially a human being) to gauge how effective they are (specific for that person). You can't judge music objectively, nor can you aesthetics (not graphics), nor can you fun or reward.

The Paragnm shift in FFXIII allowed for less micro-management and more emphasis on wider tactics. This is a statement on what it does, whether its a progressive gameplay innovation or not required requires an opinion. Oblivion was glitchy as F*** but It wouldn't stop me from saying it is one of the best RPGs ever created (in my opinion :p)