But what's wrong with someone who doesn't like open-world games reviewing it? There are consumers who also don't like open-world games, and want the opinion of someone who doesn't to see if it'd be something that they may enjoy or not.

I was talking about the score, not the game.

I hate shooters, but i wouldn't tear into a game on that premise alone. I think critiquing anything requires a tad more critical deduction to judge it properly. Like technical accolades for one, performance should be important. I ask "what is this game's objective and how well it accomplishs that for anyone playing it?"

Your 6th grade teacher graded your paper on the merit of completing tye objective, not whether she enjoyed the topic or not. That teacher probably sees 100s of the same subject paper, but u didn't get an F for not reinventing the wheel.

Thats why i can't take a game that isn't an absolute broken mess being rated below what is considered average. Whether that benchmark is 5 or 7/10, a 4 is too low for this game. It is at minimum, functional.

I think most see scoring this way, but in the heat of a game release reviewers are subconsciously trying to offset what they suspect the metascore to be.

Ah, I see.

There's a huge difference between a 6th-grade teacher and a game reviewer, a teacher generally has to follow an established set of guidelines that were determined by the educational board of that jurisdiction, whereas there is no standardized system for how a game has to be reviewed. Also, if it's entirely based on the merit of completing the objective, should a game that is released and is intentionally poor receive a high score because it completed its objective of being a poor game?

There was a game on X1 that a female reviewer gave some negatives on the review and scored lower (probably 80) than some fanboys wanted.

They persecuted the girl demanding her gamescore to see how much she played and to see if she wasn't a Sony fangirl.

One point is that most reviewers use the company login instead of their own, because those games are review material for the company not them.

@thread: I love how many people says that if you don't give large value on the grades why are we commenting and also complaining about we disagreeing with trolling reviews... but then they are here also saying it doesn't matter but keep pestering.

And I laugh at people saying about it is good to have people that hate the genre do reviews with that hate in mind so people that doesn't like the genre read it before deciding to buy.
Do you guys have so much free time and money that you buy lot of games from genres you absolutely hate and need the help of reviewers that also hate it to stop you from making a dumb purchase?
And here I thought that the box of the game already gave the genre, quick youtube or google search would also show it without a need of hateful review to tell you that you will won't like a game on a genre you hate.

I actually like seeing videos of people shitting on things that I enjoy, for example Spoony's review of Final Fantasy X or videos of people saying that death metal is horrible.

I guess I am a bit masochistic, it's probably also why I always call myself worthless and intentionally cause pain and uncomfortability to myself.

I'm not too sensitive to that kind of stuff so no need to apologize. :) That is: no problem!