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vivster said:

JEMC said:
^It always baffles me when a review points a lot of negatives of a game, yet the final score is good. Either the negatives aren't really that bad, or the review/reviewer sucks.

It's about priorities. A reviewer is allowed to have them. There are a lot of things to focus in a game. I for example couldn't give a shit about graphics or story or even combat in open world games. It's all about the journey and the freedom.

So while Elex might suck in those things the most important aspect for me, the world and freedom, are perfect. So other drawbacks won't count for much. And really, world building of Piranha Bytes is as great as it can get.

Now look at trash like BOTW. It's very polished but absolutely hates freedom and only delivers an extremely bland and boring world. Most of the reviewers prioritised being annoyed and bored to death, so it got great scores. Which is fine.

While I understand your point, the truth is that a game score should reflect the quality of a game as a whole. It's the function of the actual review to let you know what is what a game does right and wrong. So, if a game does wrong things like battle mechanics or animations, the game score should note that it's not a very good game, even if it excels in one.

Of course, that brings us to the old debate of using the whole range of scores, not only from 5/6 to 10, and that we all should read the actual reviews, not just the scores, but I'm affraid that that's lots cause.

Also, I enjoyed BoTW .

WoodenPints said:

JEMC said:
^It always baffles me when a review points a lot of negatives of a game, yet the final score is good. Either the negatives aren't really that bad, or the review/reviewer sucks.

I always find it more baffling when a reviewer gives a game 100 and then lists negative points, For me at least if your going to slap a perfect 100 score on a game it should be absolutely perfect and if you have even a single negative they should drop at least 1 point to reflect it.

In my opinion, no game deserves a 10 because there's always room for improvement, even for the best games. And let's be honest, many of the games that got perfect scores in the past didn't deserve them, even back then (*cough*GTA IV*cough*).