| carlos710 said: Mostly I believe review scores tend to be super inflated.. from all the games I have played I think I would count with one hand the ones that I would grant a 95+, let alone throw around 10's like these companies do. Also, most major publications like IGN seems super corrupted to me, and the smaller ones always seems to be scared of looking "not cool" by not giving high scores to hyped games ( or maybe they are scared of not getting review copies anymore ) From the Bethesda games I have played the best ones were Skyrim (would have been an 85 - 90 at most for me) and Fallout 4 (around 80 for me). Additionally the first couple months always seems to be a bugfest for most games, and yet for some weird reason reviewers tend to ignore that. Not sure if that's the case with starfield, just talking in general about game releases nowadays None of this is really xbox / bethesda / starfield specific btw. |
Thanks for clarifying a bit :)
Those 10 are effectively out of place imo. (I mean IGN gave Death Loop 10/10 for instance and so many other weird 10s while the majority will not even go close to 7 or 8 on average) and while it is very subjective; I never understood it.
My guess is that they give a 10 because of hype, fanboyism, money, or even hate/dislike. So I never take those scores very seriously and personally, I do not care whatsoever about the score to make a decision about buying or playing a game.
One sure thing is that; based on what people were saying about Starfield (before the embargo); I def. did not expect a 7 from IGN :D
And reading it; I cannot understand how he came up with that score (esp. when you match it to his verdict text)
