| John2290 said: You're putting your entertainment in the hands of inept journalists. Aggregate sites would be fine and dandy if journalists were too but many of them either inflate a games score or bring it down because of politics or for the sake of their writing among many other things. It's a good way to gauge interest but it's not a good way to jusge every game that comes out, I used to go full on by MC's score when I had less than adequate funds but now I am so glad I do not go by these scores as I woulf ended up having missed out on so many games the past three years and have had bought a load of stinkers too, like AC oddessy which I bought on sale and that game deserves nothing over a 65 max, or other examples being Dirt 4, The Forest, Dark souls 2, all games to name a few that seem to be reviews by mass incompetence or reviewers sucking publisher dick which leads to less than mediocre games like Ass creed Odessy being rated so highly. I almost missed out on Days Gone because of the fuck wads and so glad I did not because I've had dozens of hours of fun with it and is so much better than the Ubisoft games that get mid yo high 80's every reskinned release. |
There are quite a few inept journalists out there. Trust me I know. A lot of the worst ones like Kotaku, and Polygon have stopped giving out scores though. So that problem fixes itself to a degree. Opencritic used to let you blacklist certain reviewers, keeping them from being added to your own average. And believe me, I blacklisted a ton of publications. At the end of the day though, the difference between my personal scores, and the non-blacklisted average score was just two or three points on a 100 point scale. One day Opencritic got rid of the ability to blacklist, so I decided that I would give that two to three point leeway for games that I was really interested in. Hence why 78 is my true cutoff point these days.
Assassin's Creed has had a new game almost every year since 2007. Of course I'm going to skip that. Assassin's Creed III is on my shelf and that's it. I think. I might also have Black Flag. I forget. Anyway, I agree that some games should be avoided regardless of what reviews say. I guess I've developed a nose for those types of games. Anything GaaS related, looter shooters, loot boxes, or sequelitis. Also FPS games are always overrated. ALWAYS!
P.S. Never buy anything made by Paradox at launch. They always launch with a good game, and then add enough DLC later on to make it awesome.
I loved Dark Souls II. Sorry. :(
Days Gone has one of the weirdest review pages ever. Half the reviewers gave it an 80-90, and the other half gave it a 50-70. Reviewers usually don't disagree this much on it. One half has got to be dead wrong about the game though. At this point I'm just waiting until a stable patch comes out and/or a sale, and I'll get Days Gone. I've decided that it is just a game that I'll have to make up my own mind on, since reviewers disagree on it so much. But anyway, I definitely notice when weird shit goes on in review sections of games.
