Death Stranding Review Thread - MC: 82 / OC: 83 / GR: 83.17%

[DonFerrari]

Hiku said:

Jpcc86 said:

I wasnt refering to him at all, I meant to say that while I understand your criteria (your personal ejoyment) for rating games, reviewers (in general) need to take all aspects into consideration, we are on the same boat on that point, Im just saying I kinda understand where DonFerrari is coming from, because - to put it in a certain way - if you give a 6 to a film that has 9-10 in every aspect, except one, and said one is a 4-5, then you need to have a good case to ignore all the 9-10 and give it a 6 overall. 

I was briefly talking about this subject recently. When I said that I would, based on how much I enjoyed it, rate a certain game 4 or 5 out of 10.

I'll leave out what game that was, because it received nothing but 10's and 9's, so people would probably have something to say about it.

But I also added that if I were to rate the game from the perspective of a critic, I would have to give it a significantly higher rating.
Because I can't ignore how well executed certain aspects of the game were, even if some of them either weren't for me, or didn't do enough to boost my overall enjoyment.

Let's say it is fair to take 1 or 2 points from a game that is perfect in every single aspect but bored you, but makes no sense to defend a reviewer that gave 3,5-6 on a game that is a 85+