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naruball on 14 March 2017
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Mnementh said:
naruball said:

Just a thought but out of those playing Zelda at the moment, what percentage do you think is non-hardcore nintendo fans?

We have a console that just launched so those buying it day one are probably huge fans, and those who bought it on wiiu, a console that flopped hard and was bought mostly by the most loyal nintendo fans.

Had it been on 3ds which has a userbase consisting of all sorts of people, I, personally, would trust those reviews just a bit more.

What do you think? Is it possible/likely that the people who are currently playing it are bound to like it being such huge fans of nintendo or perhaps of Zelda?

You always have people bickering. Think about Skyward Sword. Played also by the hardcore Nintendo fans, but they bickered about the game. But this time it's mostly from people who haven't played the game.

And again: do you really think the reviewers are all Nintendo-fans? I have linked before the list Metacritics highest scored WiiU and PS4-games. That list says me, that reviewers don't treat Nintendo especially better. But seemingly BotW got to them. This post you answer on was my answer to the conspiracy that Nintendo gets treated better by reviewers. I really doubt that.

Wait a second. Didn't Skyward Sword launch in the middle (or towards the end) of wii's generation? When a lot of people had wii's, including non hardcore fans? And that one had advanced motion controls that a lot of people hated anyway? I don't think it's a very good example.

As for the reviewers, I do believe they're too lenient on the game, just like they weren't strict enough with The Last of Us. Especially the latter has too many problems to have gotten so many 10s yet it got insanely high scores by too many reviewers (imo). I didn't agree with them then, I don't agree with them now with Zelda. I think they get too caught up in the hype and with Zelda they gave higher points because it tried new things for the franchise. I don't think it would have gotten such high scores if it were made by EA/Ubisoft/MS even Ninty under a different name of a non established franchise. I do realize that I could be wrong, of course. That's just the impression I got. I also don't think that any game ever made can be something that every single reviewer/gamer/etc can absolutely love and award with a perfect score. Same with music, movies and every other type of entertainment. So for a game to get almost only 10's I think it's a case of bias.