Hiku said:
I see. Says there that what they changed since then was to not allow people to review a movie before it releases in theaters, to weed out comments from people who are unlikely to have seen it yet. Speaking of "professional "Critics, user scores tend to get most of the flack (for good reason), but I don't think how unprofessional some of these critics are gets enough attention. Here's a recent example. |
To be fair, I believe both series dropped at once and long or ongoing games suffer from the same issue, since a lot of these reviewers are pressured to release their evaluation as quickly as possible without really reviewing the work as a whole. And some, of course, genuinely won't care after the first impression: I'd say that particularly the first episode of the Witcher has been fairly criticized in terms of pacing and acting, and that should reflect in the final score, but to take it for the entirety of the season? That's streching too far.
But that's straying a bit too much from the topic now.
