Ratings/Reviews Significance

[SvennoJ]

I don't care about the score, but I do like reviews to tell me what the game is. Currently with psvr it's very hard to find reviews and the psn store sometimes doesn't even bother to put up a description. Here's 5 screenshots to decided what the hell the game is about...

I do like metacritic as a easy place to find multiple reviews for games. The score doesn't matter, however since most reviews don't really bother with an objective breakdown, the easiest is to read a positive review next to a negative one and use that to get an idea what the game could be like.

Anyway my top 5 for last year
Rez Infinite, meta 89
The last guardian, meta 83
DC VR, meta 67
The way, meta 64
No man's sky, meta 71

No point in basing my decisions on meta score.


Most review sites are sponsored by the industry next to being add driven, so big games get 20 or more articles written about them while smaller games never get mentioned. I wish this would change and we would see more reviews again instead of clickbait titles, rumors and sponsored previews. But that's what generates the clicks. The amount of comments and views wild speculation of Neo, Switch and Scorpio drums up, together with outrage at censorship and other nonsense in big games and publishers, drowns out any actual review of a non AAA game.

That's the society we live in today. Content is all 'free', no more buying magazines etc, at the cost that journalism is now entirely driven by popularity. I find myself turning more to user reviews nowadays to get information than 'professional' sites.