Jim Sterling changes his Rating on Hellblade

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Darashiva said:

Cerebralbore101 said:
Destructoid is a much better site without Jim doing the reviews. Jim is one of those reviewers that will review a game solely on his own opinion of it without considering what others might think. Yes, Jim we know you don't like turn based combat. No, Jim that doesn't make this game a 6/10. It's only a 6/10 for you. There's a whole group of gamers that love turn based combat, and would find this to be an 8/10.

But that's what a review is, a single person's subjective view of a specific game, or at least should be. A review that does not reflect the opinion of its writer seems like a complete waste of time to me.

Yeah, it's important that reviewers give their own opinions instead of trying (and failing) to be "objective". What one reviewer likes another might hate; what some reviewers write off as minor annoyances at worst might be dealbreakers for others. And it's obviously the same with gamers.

I feel like a lot of people have become so obsessed with metacritc scores that they don't (want to) understand the value in personal, subjective reviews.