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Machiavellian on 09 March 2018
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DonFerrari said:
Machiavellian said:

LOL, if anything most people always do this.  From reading the article it reads as his opinion so you can either take it or leave it.  All reviews are an opinion and what bothers one person is nothing to another.  When all is said and done, you either share the same taste and opinion of a reviewer or you do not.  I find it funny when I read comments from a review how people will single out parts and make a big case either good or bad and depending on a person  perspective at any given moment where they sit on the subject.  Its' all objective.

At this moment, the reviewer thought they should be more people of color, developer says one thing, reviewer got information that its another.  If you were thinking this is a historic piece and you saw something missing you might have a different perspective depending on where you sit on the issue.  Maybe you are black or asian and know the time period.  History is a funny thing because there are many version depending on who was in power when it was written.

Most people aren't reviewer or are stating their opinion as facts professionally.

Half his review is based on the alleged lack of diversity and prejudice of the game creator. So it isn't so much a case of singling out, even more when the OP said the first half was a good "objective" analysis of the game, while the second part was SJW shenanigan.

When he goes and say he consulted an expert and them put developer can't prove that was totally impossible to have a black person there and that the expert gave him a very flimsy "can't prove or disprove" what if scenario and he used that to bash the lack of diversity that was trying to make it a fact.

I'm 3/4 black slave descendant and married to a Japanese descendant woman and developer study seems much more substantiated on its 3 year research than the quick tackle of the "unnamed specialist" that say perhaps a black person could be there since you can't prove it was totally impossible... you also can't prove it was impossible for a Chinese, yet he isn't pointing that. He is trying to push an agenda.

I consider that interpretation.  In other words when you read something, what makes you believe someone is stating something as a fact or as their opinion.  All reviews are opinion pieces.  People disagree with reviewers opinion all the time and for every person that sees that opinion as justified, another sees it differently.  The reviewer mention the allege prejudice of the developer.  Some will find this important some will not.  Just like some people have issues with companies, studios and publishers who policies they like or do not.  To just blindly throw what he stated out because you placed it in your SJW bucket shows a prejudice in yourself.

This particular reviewer stated what he thought.  He stated he consulted someone who is verse in that time period.  Its up to the reader to either care or not care if his opinion is worth merit.  Usually I would say it comes down to knowing the work of the reviewer and understanding if their opinion is of any merit.