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Shaunodon on 13 October 2017
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Nuvendil said:
Shaunodon said:

With the amount of attention you can garner on the internet with controversy I'd say we'll never see a 98 in this day and age.

Also wouldn't rule out Jim Sterling walking back his 'over reviews' skit just to swoop in with a 5/10 after a few days.

And I honestly don't put as much blame on the certain reviewers as I do on Metacritic, who don't do a good enough job vetting the publications they allow to have official scores on their site. There needs to be a universal standard, considering how much importance people place on Metacritic nowadays.

At the very least, the reviewer should be capable of getting past the tutorial.

You know, as much as I disliked Jim's Zelda review, this idea he critic bombs popular games is just dumb so drop that narrative.  There's just no basis for it.  He didn't enjoy Zelda as much, he wrote a poorly written review, move on.  He gave Mario Kart 8 Deluxe a 9, Hyrule Warriors a 9 (and Legends a 9.5), Xenoblade Chronicles X a 9, Smash Bros 9.5.  And I'm only focusing on Nintdndo cause that's where people seem to think he fixates. His exit was distasteful and unprofessional but this vendetta/clickbait/reviewbomb narrative is bogus. 

Few sites just lie, the day's traffic isn't worth the damage.  Some do though, I've seen it.

And when they do, by all means put all the blame on them.  Metacritic should filter, but dishonest publications should fold.

My main problem with Jim and why I think he shouldn't have an official score on Metacritic, is because he holds to the ideal that reviews should be based around people's personal opinion, whereas I feel it is the job of a reviewer to give as close to an objective view as possible.

When people are dropping the scores of certain games just cause they had a personal grievance of a particular mechanic, it doesn't give an objective view of the game because most people are unlikely to share that opinion. So when reviewers are just allowed to base everything around their own personal ideals of what they want in the title, the majority or readers probably aren't going to get an objective perspective of what the game will actually offer them. And so what the hell is the point of even having the reviews?

If they want to write their own opinion articles over which games they personally favour, then they can do that in a different and space and I would have no problem with it. But when it comes to reviews there should be a certain standard of professionalism.