Hiku said:
Azzanation said:
If those Xbox sites gave SoTs 10s i will agree but they havnt and those scores are quite justifiable.
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If I'm a reviewer and I want to jack up the score by 20 or so above the average, you'd never question it as long as I'm not conspicuous (dumb) enough to give it a perfect 100?
I'm not suggesting that's necessarily what happened here, but I wouldn't expect any reviewer who wants to be taken at least somewhat seriously to adopt user review tactics of giving things 0's or 10's, unless it's very obvious why.
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Iv been seeing this type of stuff all though the PS2 era. Its a common thing. Even is they weren't exclusive console review sites, you will still get bias opinions based on what the reviewer prefers. Honestly the gaming industry review system sucks anyways. 7s and 8s are considered bad to average games while gamers will only want 9s and 10s to be happy.
Nothing like the movie industry unfortunately.
One of the best reviewers I love watching is Angry Joe, his honest and he bashes even my favourite games however he gives good explanations to why they got that score and to him a 5 is an average game not an 8. That's how it should be. This day and age if a game isn't a 90meta its not considered worthy.
Also most times they don't make much of a difference to the final score, you might see a couple points higher or lower than usual once all the reviews are in.