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jesus kung fu magic on 21 September 2009
rendo said:
Of course reviews have bias, everything has a bias. There isn't a single opinion in the world that doesn't hold some form of bias. That's what it all comes down to in the end. A review is a specific persons opinion on something, generalized as much as possible for a general audience. An RPG fan won't be likely to care about an FPS and vice versa.

Yes but would that bias hamper the score of its opposition such as a star wars fan reviewing a star trek game?



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The_vagabond7 on 21 September 2009

I think what we need is reviewing affirmative action. Every site is required to give out so many 9s a certain number of 8s and a couple of 10s to games on each platform per year. That way we can make sure that no bias's affect the reviewing pool.

 

Edit: I feel the need to point out that this is a joke. I am saddened by this, but I realize that some would actually consider this a fair and valid solution...some, not all.



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Maelstrome on 21 September 2009

reviewers need to remember what the numbers mean. same goes for the people that look at the numbers on reviews.

on a 1-10 scale 1 means no redeemable qualities,5 means the average gaming experience. and 10 means perfect no "valid"complaints or flaws.

it burns people up to see a game they love get the same score or lower to a game they see as worse.



Words Of Wisdom on 22 September 2009
dsister44 said:
jesus kung fu magic said:
dsister44 said:
Obviously the J man is biased towards the 360, and he is trying to to trick people into thinking that all reviewers are not. But I saw through your plan.

Dont make me jam this donut where the sun dont shine on you...lol


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SnakeEyez on 22 September 2009

Well, it could be that they do so to get more people to visit their site. Honestly now, we all know what happens if you rate a high profile PS3 exclusive bad. PS fanboys WILL visit the site and comment in said site and will post about it in other forums and the PS fanboys from that site will visit said site and so on. Then, PS haters will go to that site to talk smack to the PS fanboys that are there.

Also, it could be based off of the advertising money that they get. For example, if a site gets ALOT of advertising money from Sony (oxymoron eh?), they may feel that they have to rate their games high so they could keep their business with Sony. Just a few thoughts.



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themanwithnoname on 22 September 2009

Well, for example, I'd much rather have someone reviewing JRPGs who actually likes them and enjoys them as opposed to someone who loathes them and what they normally bring to the table. I think it's a good thing to have people reviewing their favorite genre of games, but that's just me.



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scottie on 22 September 2009

Reviewers also poo diamonds and their farts smell like flowers.

Grow up, reviewers are human being, full of flaws. All of them have biases. Some will act on these consciously and are thus bad reviewers. Others will only act on them subconsciously and are thus good reviewers. But they are still going to rate a game lower if it doesn't meet their bias condition



FinalEvangelion on 22 September 2009
themanwithnoname said:
Well, for example, I'd much rather have someone reviewing JRPGs who actually likes them and enjoys them as opposed to someone who loathes them and what they normally bring to the table. I think it's a good thing to have people reviewing their favorite genre of games, but that's just me.

This.  It seems alot of reviewers reviewing jRPGs these days rather just be playing Halo on Xbox Live.  When ever I see something in reviews like, "Typical Japanese game," "typical jRPG cliche," "Turn-based is boring," I usually stop reading. 

 

I don't see so much console bias, but I do imagine reviewers want to appease their sponsors time to time.



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theRepublic on 22 September 2009
Maelstrome said:

reviewers need to remember what the numbers mean. same goes for the people that look at the numbers on reviews.

on a 1-10 scale 1 means no redeemable qualities,5 means the average gaming experience. and 10 means perfect no "valid"complaints or flaws.

it burns people up to see a game they love get the same score or lower to a game they see as worse.

Actually, most video game reviewers use 7 as average.  Don't ask me why though, because I don't know.



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Maelstrome on 22 September 2009
theRepublic said:
Maelstrome said:

reviewers need to remember what the numbers mean. same goes for the people that look at the numbers on reviews.

on a 1-10 scale 1 means no redeemable qualities,5 means the average gaming experience. and 10 means perfect no "valid"complaints or flaws.

it burns people up to see a game they love get the same score or lower to a game they see as worse.

Actually, most video game reviewers use 7 as average.  Don't ask me why though, because I don't know.

see what that leads to though? with 7 being average you can be potentially graded worse than you can be better.