A disterbing thing iv seen out of game reviews

[Zenkem]

Fun fact: A finnish gaming magazine Pelit has turned down chances to preview games before public release because of contracts telling what the preview must say about them. The public statement "We can't make a preview like that, that would be an advertisement" was unheard of in american magazines, nowadays even further highlighted by sweet-talking being an outright job description for previewres.

Never forget the Gamespot employee who got fired for disappointing a game company advertising on the site.

 

[OriginalLadders]

So this is a bit of a rant on what I've noticed about some game reviewers and their fans.

One thing is that viewers of game reviews, and I don't notice this much in movie reviews, but the fans of the reviewers tend to believe the review or score is a judgement of it, if this is a 5 point system then a game getting a 3 or sometimes a 4 out of 5 means the game is god-awful and the reviewer is telling people to avoid it. Another thing is that game reviewers' fans seem to think that the reviewer saying "This is a good game" means the person who bought it gets a pat on the head for making a good purchase, I don't see it as that and I believe they don't want you to see it like that. Game reviews are for people who haven't picked up a game and are more on the fence about picking it up.

Another thing I've noticed is that fans will wildly and blindly follow a reviews views (ie. not the game or bad things inside the gaming world). As some people know I'm somewhat a fan of TB's videos and Jessy Cox at OMFG, but with more of TB he points out things that are wrong with PC games and with their console counterparts, and his fan are extremely hating of console players who watch his videos. I know some games were made with consoles in mind, but I simply hate it when PC players blame the console players for something the developers should have fixed. A example of this is Skyrim: with getting to Items, Magic, Map and Skills you have to deal with an interface that was more easy on consoles or gamepads in general. This tool was clearly meant for Xbox and PS3 but most PC players seem to want to burn them for something Bethesda should have fixed.

Well, I've rambled on long enough and seeing as how I'm donating this wall of text to the forums I'll take my leave now. Please leave a comment and your 2 cents.

I'm sorry, I had to. I just wouldn't have been able to sleep otherwise.

As for what you have said; yes, a lot of people are stupid dicks and loud about it. This stretches back to the advent of humanity.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

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What reviewer gives a game 3 or 4 out of 5 and says it's God awful and the reviewer is telling people to avoid it.?

Link please.

...everyone? someone on the site even made a joke about it once. unless a game is billed as 4-5 star, 85-100%, etc. people assume its terrible. review inflation is a thing.

as for OP, well, I cant comment on anythign he said because he is clearly too smart for me. I read and reread his post and his astounding grasp and finesse of the english language leaves me confounded.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

Fun fact: A finnish gaming magazine Pelit has turned down chances to preview games before public release because of contracts telling what the preview must say about them. The public statement "We can't make a preview like that, that would be an advertisement" was unheard of in american magazines, nowadays even further highlighted by sweet-talking being an outright job description for previewres.

Never forget the Gamespot employee who got fired for disappointing a game company advertising on the site.

he didnt get fired for giving the game a bad review, he got fired for giving the game a bad review and being a complete dick about it.

 

[BNguyen]

I would give my 2 cents, but I donated them to fund spelling classes.

har har do you have anything to talk about or will you just be trolling?

trolling? I could barely read a word of what you wrote, but on topic, yes it does seem as though people will blindly follow whatever a critic says without thinking at all - just because one person, no matter how acclaimed, told you something was bad does not always mean that it is bad. Every game should be judged fairly and not based off of previous installments or against other games but rather by their own merits - not everything has to have the same style or story to be good.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

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What reviewer gives a game 3 or 4 out of 5 and says it's God awful and the reviewer is telling people to avoid it.?

Link please.

...everyone? someone on the site even made a joke about it once. unless a game is billed as 4-5 star, 85-100%, etc. people assume its terrible. review inflation is a thing.

as for OP, well, I cant comment on anythign he said because he is clearly too smart for me. I read and reread his post and his astounding grasp and finesse of the english language leaves me confounded.

Uhm, did you read my post? What reviewer gives a game that high of a score, then (the reviewer) says not to play it? I am astounded you didn't grasp the finesse of my language when you quoted me, and now I'm confounded.

You can just give me a name, and a title, and I'll look it up myself if you don't want to link it....

your syntax was awkward

game informer's review of Science of Evil.

Unfortunately, the full review (where the reviewer does, indeed, say to skip it unless you are desperate for a hellboy game) is no longer on the website

 

[Aprilgold]

Blame fans, blame the reviewers, but its honestly the hype thats the major issue, movies do not get as much hype as do games, and thus the hype the fans will go rabid on anyone that tries to give the game they haven't played yet a perfect score.

Reviewers also have some shallow integrity, they will never ever point out a flaw in any Triple A title that has been hyped, the problems will always be just a minor paper scratch to the game, they may hint at true feelings, but overall are forced into a corner of fanboys and their hate mail.

The industry and the fans really don't know what a quality product is anymore, and use any justification to defend a game they love. Hell, I've done it, and plenty of times over, have I been critical on games to such a high degree? Yes, and thats really where it lies, the number scale is bullshit, and mainly just in the form now, any repercussion aren't repercussions. It just needs a small amount of tweaking, thats all.

 

[JET1971]

Everyone that commented on his spelling should start apoligizing, he has dyslexia. and yes dyslexia can affect the ability to spell things correctly and use proper grammar. spelling nazis should get the same treatment from mods as people who call out trolls, its rude and is trolling.

I have dyslexia as well, you wouldn't want to glance at my handwriting, it would eternally scar you. It does not however prevent me from using a spellcheck to fix my errors and present my posts in a legible fashion. Dyslexia is not an excuse for laziness. (btw, English isn't even my native language)

I have pretty severe dyslexia. Don't use it as a crutch/excuse for poor spelling grammar. This is why people constantly make jokes that dyslexics can't read. We represent each other in fighting stereotypes. Thanks.

Yup, like this person right here, he seems pretty coherent and legible as well, more proof laziness is not something we should coddle.


In fact, I think you should apologize for patronizing us dyslexic folk with your inequitably applied niceness!

spelling nazi = troll

enough said.

 

[ExileNZ]

Maybe this makes me old, but I still haven't forgiven Bungie for Halo:CE's "Press Start Button" on the PC. There's just no excuse, especially with a high-profile dev who now only deals in AAA games.

Totally off-topic here, like your own post, but Halo:CE was ported to the PC by Gearbox, so if any developer deserves your ire over that, it's Gearbox instead of Bungie.

OT: I took nothing from the OP's post that wasn't already said by the Jimquisition. But for what it's worth, I don't care about numbers, I care about what's said in the review. And I'll use multiple reviews to gauge whether I should buy something or not if I'm on the fence about it or haven't heard of it before.

Remember way back in the day, in the days of the Amiga (before framerates were anything less than perfect all the time), when you could get a game that got a review of 3%?

It wouldn't be brilliant, sure, but it would still be at least, vaguely, kinda playable.

75% was still a good score back then. 80% meant "Wow, this is really f'n good!" and anything in the 90s was considered nearly flawless.

Sometime in the early 2000's people were making jokes about what's happening right now.

How the mighty have fallen...

 

[MarsProbe]

*attempt to use pretentious sarcasm as a way to disprove someone's point*

Thanks for taking my point and totally corrupt it with your inane views on my opinions. I apologize for not spelling out for you what was not so obviously implied.


And I have owned and still own a lot of consoles. I know I am not responsible for the "sell same game every year" business tactic, and I did not accuse you of being at fault. I blame console gaming as a whole because it has been going downhill, no matter the shiny games people throw at each other in these forums.

This coming from a former Sony fanboy.

Oooh, big words from a big man. In future, kindly refrain from assuming you actually know the meaning of somebody elses post. You're more than likely to fail, sadly.

Yeh, I'm done here. Time to move on to more pertinent matters....

 

[ElPatron]

Oooh, big words from a big man.

The fact that you keep patronizing me just because we are having trouble understanding each other makes your advice not convincing enough.

Before the whatever it is our current console generation the hype was not as global as it is now. Before this generation games did not have a 6-10 scale. During this generation we had more games with very high scores than ever.

It either means that we are making the best games ever, or just that the standards have dropped.
And no, I am not making a post about how I disagree with numerical scores, I honestly like them.