Video games that are "GOTY baits."

[the_dengle]

OttoniBastos said:

the_dengle said:

Gaming is a bit different. The critics have pretty much the same taste as the audience. Basically because most video game critics are just regular people who play a lot of games, rather than experts on game design who can really analyze what they're playing.

Adding to that, each publication assigns one person out of dozens to review a game, usually someone who actually wants to play the game and generally has a default positive opinion of it before even starting. Whereas major publications typically seem to have only a few film critics, who see every film released in the year whether they want to or not. You get a lot more instances of film critics reviewing a film that is obviously not made with them in mind as an audience than you get of game critics doing that. This is natural, since it takes much longer that the normal 2-3 hour movie length to play most games, but it's still a problem.

Imo most of the time,critics just give a score based on what they believe people will think about the game.

Aye, I covered that bit.