Kasz216 said:
ssj12 said:
azrm2k said:
ssj12 said:
I agree with RP that the review system is broken. I think reviews need to become more critical like Yahtzee's reviews. His reviews are truly masterpieces. |
I dunno. I love Yahtzee as much as the next guy but part of what makes him so great is he's a refreshing cynical bastard in a sea of brown-nosing reviewers who aren't critical enough. He even jokes about how people only watch his reviews to see how he tears the games apart. If all reviewers were like that it would just get annoying, not to mention piss of the developers like crazy if a major player spent the entire review tearing apart AAA games like yahtzee does. |
I was generalizing critics there. Look at movie critics, there are about 10 or so well respected critics. There are the other reviews but the real reviews on movies fall to people like Ebert & Roeper. There needs to be more critics that will straight up tell it as they see it. |
In my opinion, it's not so much "Call it as they see it" as it is that good reviewers know that Personal Opinion =/= Review. Reviews SHOULD NOT be the reveiwers opinion.
Film Critics can tell the difference between a good movie, and a movie he likes. He could, if he had time break down every single aspect of the movie down to individual characters worth and compare it to the other movies in it's genre etc.
A food critic may perfer a Big Mac to a Steak. He still isn't going to give Mcdonalds 5 star status. Current game reviewers are just more like regular gamers playing a game and saying "yeah I liked it. It's the best!" The type of person that would grant McDonalds 5 star status as a restruant and give some fancy vegetarian sushi place 1 star because they didn't serve any meat. |
Ahh, except most of the time, a food critic who loves steak is not going to be sent to a fancy vegetarian sushi restaurant. They're going to be sent to a steakhouse.
The same is with reviewers (most of the time). Someone who loves Mario reviews Mario. Same for Metal Gear Solid, or Halo, or any other series. Not everyone is fond of Halo, so they're going to pick a reviewer who likes the series quite a bit. Might he make the score too high? Maybe. But it's better than a supposedly "neutral" reviewer, because it's impossible not to have bias. And it's better than a reviewer who hates the series, for obvious reason.
