Just watched the video. He said nothing offensive and he made some good points. Game critics seem to be awful at actually taking criticism. I think most consumers know at this point that game criticism has some huge flaws. Ignoring them will just get them left behind by new media.
Mnementh said:
No, I watched the video. It was a bit inconsistent, but the main point seems to be, that the reviews are inconsistent. So say, if you follow a reviewer on youtube or in a blog, he may be not liking platformers, but he consistently does so. Review-sites on the other hand have different reviewers and verdicts can change. I for that matter think that stuff like metacritic or opencritic irons out these problems. |
Metacritic does the exact opposite of ironing out these problems. Metacritic makes it even more impersonal and eliminates nuance in opinion. You get literally no context with the review score and no real connection to who the score is from so you may have a game which some people love and some people hate and metacritic will spit out a score of 6. That is useless to a consumer. We need to be told "this is a game that you will love if its in your ballpark, but it will be tough to get into if it isn't", not "it ok".
Then, you have publications like Edge who actually uses the full review scale (usually) stacked up next to critics like IGN who tends to inflate scores (usually) or those trash publications that give ever hyped game a 1.5/10 making the numerical score arbitrary.
Not only does the score provided by Metacritic have no context, but it has no meaning.
