| Baddman said: I look forward to the cries of reviewer bias against Sony when last of us part 2 scores well and wins most goty awards..you guys take these things way too seriously |
Biggest problem are bad journalists, and most of them are from US. Most of them do not know how to play certain games (tutorial level for Cuphead), they are almost always included in controversies (Resident Evil 2 Remake score - they didn't know about second campaing and later raised score for 0.2 lol) etc.
Conclusion: gaming journalists are not gamers and are not journalists. There are always exceptions, this might be rude generalisation, but that's the current state.
As a journalist, you get your month pay. Your duty is to play and FINISH a video game. Most of them did not finished Crash Bandicoot N'sane Trilogy, and it is not a long game, so they cannot have excuse. For god's sake, they should finish their games for two times at least before review, they for sure have time for that. I would kill for that opportunity, to play games before everyone else and review it OBJECTIVELY from my perspective. For example, f I don't like stealth games, I would not rate Thief 2 as a 5/10 game, or Battlefield 3 as a 6/10 because I don't like shooters or multiplayer gaming. This is getting ridicoulous.
If someone does not like a game because of boring open-world, fetch quest - it's perfectly fine - but provide us a decent review. You should not give 35/100 and lose every credibility you might have before, or whine on twitter and make fool of yourself because you can't finish game, cause it's boring for you.
There is lack of consistency for reviewing games. Decimal scoring, changing of criteria throughout generations, ignoring scores below seven for few years - and now we have mess like this, when a 80% game is bad, but should be very good, or great. Hell, 70% game for me is good. Remember Me, Binary Domain had that scores, and I fucking loved that games.
