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monocle_layton on 26 July 2017
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AngryLittleAlchemist said:
monocle_layton said:

I always treated reviews as an objective thing. If people want fan reviews to be taken seriously, then I think we should place priority over a proper evaluation instead of their feelings.

 

For instance, I really dislike Overwatch. It doesn't fit my tastes, and I'd personally give it a 3/10 out of how much I enjoyed it. However, an actual review wouldn't be like that. It'd examine the gameplay, graphics, optimization, content, and so forth. In an actual review, I'd give Overwatch around 78

That's stupid, though. 

Even proffesionall reviewers are, in the end of the day, just giving an opinion. Now, I would prefer a proffessional reviewer to try to find some kind of common ground, but objectivity as a whole is kind of dumb. You can define objectivity, but you can't define the merit of objectivity in which games are held to. 

If your honest opinion on OV was that it's a 3/10 and then you gave it a 78, you wouldn't be a trusted reviewer, you're not giving your honest opinion. If there's a game you don't enjoy at all but you can see how others enjoy it and you actually see merit in the game, either find a common ground or just don't review it. Make a seperate critique just about why you dislike it. Every review is opinion and even though trying to be objective is admirable, going so far as to change your score for it is dumb.

The thing is, my opinion would honestly make certain games be lower than they are just because of their genre. I hate shooters, so it isn't necessarily fair to give it a bad score simply because I hated it. I chose to look at the entire game and thought it's about a mid-to-high 70's game.