The Last of Us Part II - Review Thread (MC: 93 / OC: 93)

[DonFerrari]

Bonzinga said:

DonFerrari said:

I asked about the review scores on these game not in general. A 4 could be a serious review depending on the game.

You are discussing something else.

I already told you what those reviewers touched, but you aren`t looking at they. Plus seems like you don`t get that the real point of a troll is not be perceived as one. Or perhaps you do but act as if you don`t.

A game that averages in the 80s, a 60 score could very well be reasonable. A game that averages 60 a 30 could be ok. It isn`t about the number in absolute but how it diverges of the average and the reasons for so

I actually agree with you in a way, I do believe reviewers need to base a game off its technical merits. Someone that hates JRPGs shouldn't just give a game a 2/10 just because they don't like the genre.. to an extent. I believe a reviewer should discuss a percentage of the game based off its merits and a small percentage off there own opinion if they personally like it or not as well. Giving a game a 7 is far from a bad score and maybe lower than the average for this game however the 7 is obviously giving the game credit in the fields it does right as well, they just fall a little harder on things they didn't like about the game compared to others and that's okay.

If all reviewers base their reviews only on the technical aspects of the games and how well they are engineered without having a personal taste or opinion added to there own scores than it defeats the purpose of having 100 reviewers as the scores will all be the same. Regardless, this game scored incredibly well, I don't know many people who would complain about a 90+ score.

Well even on the technical front and objective you'll find some different balance. Not all reviewers will be able to do (or care) for the same aspects of Digital Foundry or Anandtech.

And certainly a well written review giving a 70 for a 96 could be valid. And that is why I didn't asked about generic score but about the 3 reviewers that had given that score. When that reviewer say the game is better than the previous in every aspect but the story and then give it 26 points less than the average (and over 20 points below the previous game) that is were is the problem in this case. Since you also agree that 70 is an average score on metacritic, a game that is very much above average (and one may dislike the game but see that it is above) then 70 would also be to low for this specific game.

But sure I can concede that a 70 would be harder to be a clickbait review, for those the reviewers would preffer to be really obscene with 4s and the like. To show on the red side.

On the other hand I had a problem with some reviewers on BoTW, they pointed plenty of defects and weakness but still gave a 100. Those should give like 95 if they found that many problems on the game. But in the end giving a number is hard and it is much better to read the critic than to look at the score.