| MrWayne said: I absolutely agree with you, Metacritic/opencritic is not a good way to determine if you would like a game or not, find reviewer you can trust but why are you only criticising traditional games media? I don't trust most traditional games magazines because their reviews are often intransparent, clickbaity, over hyping and badly written but suprise, suprise so are most youtube videos the difference is that YouTube videos where you see the reviewer often create this false authenticity that a written text can not produce. I personally have roughly two handful of reviewers I trust because I follow them for a long time and know what their preferences are and if they match mine. Among them are traditional gaming magazines, youtubers and podcasts. |
Well, i was referring to a reviewer you trust, yes, but also friends that you value their opinion that could have played the game. I was not referring to youtubers either because they can be as unreliable. When i said you should watch videos of gameplays, is that if you watch a gameplay of 20, 30, 60 mins of the game, you can have a better impression than the one from the gaming press. Most of most famous gaming press reviews are too short, too vague, and recently too biased for some things. For example, if i could have saw gameplays of RDR 2 of 1-2h of the game i would had notice all the problems i experienced when i played for myself.
The problem, for my part, is the importance we give to a number shown in metacritic. I understand is the easiest way to try to undestand if a game is good or not, but we end being victims of that, and probably end giving too much attention to games we don't like and passing games that maybe are perfect for you. Gran Turismo Sport was a 75 on metacritic and Tetris Effect had a 89 on metacritic and i will NEVER, EVER, NEVER prefer a Tetris game over a Gran Turismo game. Gran Turismo Sport was critizised by people that not understand sim competitive racing and did not understand that the game was not meant for them, but they didn't care, but i do. And every year reviews gave NBA 2k games a great score, and as a fan of NBA and basketball, i can't understand how they don't see all the problems the gameplay still has each year...and it's probably because they don't care as much as me.
When a game like Days Gone is obviously rated down because doen't fit the interest of the reviewer, that's unprofessional (like it seems happened to that Gamespot reviewer). You can't rate down a game because you consider it "generic" or is not the game you wanted to be. Reviews have to be more than personal opinion or bias. You have to explain in detail why a game is good or not, or what a game does well and what not. You have to be consistent so your opinion have weight and respect, and most gaming site reviewers just doesn't have it for me.
Last edited by colafitte - on 28 April 2019
