| AngryLittleAlchemist said: (I know this discussion is about Jim Sterling and other publications like that one that gave BOTW a 5/10, but I extended this comment to bigger sites like IGN as well) Lol, all these people acting like review publications can only give a game a lower score than the norm for the sake of controversy ... Wow. People want outlets like IGN to have actual criticism for games like Call of Duty but then don't want unique opinions to be shared or criticism to be given to games that "deserve" the high score people expect. The definition of confirmation bias. As bad as IGN, other outlets and at times Jim Sterling can be, to expect game reviews to fundamentally echo similar opinions is asking nothing but for your ideals to be reverberated over and over again. The first step to expecting more out of shitty publications is giving them some liberty and allowing them to exercise their potential by tackling games that are harder to critique. If controversial shithead reviewer #2307 gives Mario a 7/10, I'm going to hear him out and say if his arguments are valid or not. Perhaps the best example is IGN's surprisingly great review for Uncharted : The Lost Legacy, in which the response was basically "but but butttttttttt Call of Duty!" - nevermind the fact that people have biases, objectivity doesn't exist, and a majority of commentors probably don't even know if the reviewer ever reviewed a Call of Duty game(He didn't, he never has. yeah yeah Dunkey's video). Sorry but I like my reviews to be unique and not just chamber pop. |
At the time Jim Sterling gave his BOTW review no one else had even given a review lower than 90. The only reason he thought it was ok to give an outlier score of 70(a whole 20 points less than anyone), is because his ego is out of control. Seeing the rest of the scores should have at least given him pause for thought, and maybe a chance to re-evaluate how objective he was actually being.
Whether he conciously believed he was giving the game a score he felt it deserved based on his opinion or not, there is no standard of professionalism to his work. It's all just about him.
No one can be perfectly objective, that's obvious, but it is their job to try and be as close as possible. For Jim to be that far off the mark from everyone else, it should be pretty obvious what he's doing.
