CyberRazorCut said:
Reasonable said:
themanwithnoname said:
So what if Edge likes 360 FPS's more than the PS3's. Everyone calls the 360 the shooterbox anyway, because it is indeed generally accepted that it has a greater abundance of awesome shooters. For everyone who's made the statement "for some reason, Edge likes so and so of a game better," go read the reviews and they will tell you exactly why they like X game and they don't like Y game. I find this bickering about it to be pointless when the answer is simply, in their opinion, the 360 games are better than the PS3 ones. Some of you need to stop being so shocked that someone might actually have a different opinion than you. |
Technically if you're a professional critic you're not supposed to let personal preferece to intrude to that level. I agree with you (as you can see from my posts) however I do think that if you want to retain the correct level of professional consistency you must be able to put aside preference to judge the game on its merits vs your preference.
Of course, with videogames the notion of what reviews/criticsm is for is even more mixed and unclear than, say, films, so it's not a surprise.
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That's a tricky one, because if you put aside personal preference, you're reviewing a game on its supposed merits, rather than presenting an honest opinion. If I were to review Modern Warfare 2, I wouldn't give it a high mark just because I can see why other people might like the things I don't. Admittedly, some people would consider that bad reviewing. I can see where the personal preference argument would apply to preference of actual consoles, but I find it difficult to understand how grown men/women with access to all machines would have a 'favourite' system anyway, rather than just favourite games. I might be able to choose the best system when asked for a recommendation, on the basis of how many exclusives I personally like, but once I'm playing a great game I couldn't care less what machine it's on, and I'd imagine any decent videogame journalist is the same. I'm pretty sure the Edge staff don't go to bed in their Marcus Phoenix/Sackboy/Yoshi jim-jams, under a Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo duvet cuddling a Master Chief/Kratos/Kirby plush - the problem is, a lot of people who read their scores do, and you can't please the internet.
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It is tricky. And you're right, half (more?) of the problem is how the reviews are recieved due to the whole 'console wars' mentality. One apparently low score of a console exclusive and you've got an army of people losing their rag over the score.
Personally, I don't really care, and accept that for various reasons there will sometimes be inconsistentcy in review standards between similar titles, or that some games simply won't happen to resonate with the reviewer as they did with me - and vice versa. There's plenty of titles with low scores I don't get and plenty with high scores I equally don't get.
But, as in this case, there's clearly a lot of people who are sure EDGE is flat out knowingly biased rather than seeing that, due to their preference in a couple of key cases, mainly around FPS titles, the averages of their scores seem to skew towards 360.
I just don't see how they could have given the low scores they have to certain 360 titles (Gears and ME1 spring to mind - both scores I'd agree with really) and high scores to certain PS3 titles (LBP for example) and really be biased.
