What Do You Think Of SHOCK Reviews?

what do you think of reviews that exaggerate how bad something is and docks points just to get more clicks? a good example would be that polygon review of dragon's crown. they purposely handed it over to a hardcore feminist to review..

gamespots been doing this a lot lately. their lost planet 3 and RE6 reviews were just terrible. i'm not saying theyre amazing games but they didn't deserve those scores. they did a similar thing with TLOU, purposely going against the grain and giving it a lower score than anyone else. it just seemed like gamespot tries to be harsh and edgy sometimes to stir up the fanboys so it'll translate into more clicks. they're definietly not the only ones that do this though

Don't care about reviews.

Mc Shea is the very definition of this and it's poor journalism.Ghost120x

 they did a similar thing with TLOU, purposely going against the grain and giving it a lower score than anyone else.

black_chamber99

tom wasn't the only reviewer to score it below AAA level and his score wasn't the lowest the game received.

They're shocking.

When I see a review posting, I guess the score in my head right before I click. For example, when I saw TLOU review, I said in my head "9.5 in the bag", and then I saw the 8.0 and I was :shock:SHOCKED:shock:!. I then spent the next 6 hours of my life raging and damage controlling a game that I still haven't even played.

Good times

A review is just one persons opinion, and different people have different opinions so not everyone will agree!

I dont take much stock in any reviews.wolverine4262

I don't care about them. Reviewers are people like anyone else, their opinion on sexism is still just opinion. I don't have to agree.LustForSoul

Game reviewers have imo delved too far into just giving their subjective opinions of games, so much so that I feel most people don't really pay attention to them anymore (much like movie reviews).

It'd be nice if there was a more balanced approach of subjective opinion and an objective measurement of the competency of a game.

[QUOTE="LustForSoul"]I don't care about them. Reviewers are people like anyone else, their opinion on sexism is still just opinion. I don't have to agree.topgunmv

Game reviewers have imo delved too far into just giving their subjective opinions of games, so much so that I feel most people don't really pay attention to them anymore (much like movie reviews).

It'd be nice if there was a more balanced approach of subjective opinion and an objective measurement of the competency of a game.

Been asking for this for a while.. they need a certain guideline to judge a game... not just pull a number up your ass and make excuses for it.

[QUOTE="black_chamber99"]

 they did a similar thing with TLOU, purposely going against the grain and giving it a lower score than anyone else.

CaseyWegner

tom wasn't the only reviewer to score it below AAA level and his score wasn't the lowest the game received.

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[QUOTE="black_chamber99"]

 they did a similar thing with TLOU, purposely going against the grain and giving it a lower score than anyone else.

black_chamber99

tom wasn't the only reviewer to score it below AAA level and his score wasn't the lowest the game received.

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[QUOTE="black_chamber99"][QUOTE="CaseyWegner"]

tom wasn't the only reviewer to score it below AAA level and his score wasn't the lowest the game received.

CaseyWegner

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It's shameful journalism. It's the reviewers job to give a fair review of the game, not to give to it a shock score for lulz and hits. Every time I read a poorly written review of a major release, riddled with poor excuses just to give it a lower score (Screen being black-and-white too much in inFamous 2, Simpsons Arcade staying true to the original like a rerelease is supposed to, pretty much every control-related "issue" brought up in the Skyward Sword "review", etc.), than what the game averages from a Web site, I lose a lot of respect for the reviewer, and to a lesser extent, the Web site entirely.

Shock reviews are the norm here. That's how poor the reviews are.

Simpsons Arcade staying true to the original like a rerelease is supposed to

ITT: A bunch of pathetic crybabies who can't get over a reviewer having opinions.darkspineslayer

It's not a bad thing to point out the faults. Why is it necessary to give out 9s and 10s left and right?percech

For those of you who don't care about critic reviews, I have a feeling you will if they were written better. I reckon reviews now a days are too subjective and in some cases, does not reflect what gamers feel about a title at all. Reviews need to be more comprehensive and develop a system to qualitatively judges the different qualities of the title.hoplayletsplay

[QUOTE="hoplayletsplay"]For those of you who don't care about critic reviews, I have a feeling you will if they were written better. I reckon reviews now a days are too subjective and in some cases, does not reflect what gamers feel about a title at all. Reviews need to be more comprehensive and develop a system to qualitatively judges the different qualities of the title.darkspineslayer

Gamespot already had such a system.

"All games were judged on five different categories: Gameplay, Graphics, Sound, Value, and Reviewer's Tilt. Each category is assigned an integer score from one to ten, and these five integers are combined using a weighted average to arrive at an overall score."

Via wikipedia.

Tilt was the part where a reviewer was allowed to inject their personal taste into the equation.

[QUOTE="darkspineslayer"][QUOTE="hoplayletsplay"]For those of you who don't care about critic reviews, I have a feeling you will if they were written better. I reckon reviews now a days are too subjective and in some cases, does not reflect what gamers feel about a title at all. Reviews need to be more comprehensive and develop a system to qualitatively judges the different qualities of the title.topgunmv

Gamespot already had such a system.

"All games were judged on five different categories: Gameplay, Graphics, Sound, Value, and Reviewer's Tilt. Each category is assigned an integer score from one to ten, and these five integers are combined using a weighted average to arrive at an overall score."

Via wikipedia.

Tilt was the part where a reviewer was allowed to inject their personal taste into the equation.

Are you really saying that with that scale if a person just hated everything about the game personally that they would still be able to give it a score in every category and that the decided upon score would likely be the mean of what the entire gaming world thinks?

Then, didn't tilt and gameplay make up more of the score then anything else. So if someone gave the game a low tilt score the review wouldn't be very different it would still be about 1.5 points lower just from that alone ignoring the possiblity of giving Gameplay 1 less then somewhere else which would make the game score 2 points lower.

[QUOTE="topgunmv"]

[QUOTE="darkspineslayer"] If you can come up with a objective system of rating something that is by nature, subjective, you will be a very rich man. I shail consider investing if you take up the challenge. Legolas_Katarn

Gamespot already had such a system.

"All games were judged on five different categories: Gameplay, Graphics, Sound, Value, and Reviewer's Tilt. Each category is assigned an integer score from one to ten, and these five integers are combined using a weighted average to arrive at an overall score."

Via wikipedia.

Tilt was the part where a reviewer was allowed to inject their personal taste into the equation.

Are you really saying that with that scale if a person just hated everything about the game personally that they would still be able to give it a score in every category and that the decided upon score would likely be the mean of what the entire gaming world thinks?

Then, didn't tilt and gameplay make up more of the score then anything else. So if someone gave the game a low tilt score the review wouldn't be very different it would still be about 1.5 points lower just from that alone ignoring the possiblity of giving Gameplay 1 less then somewhere else which would make the game score 2 points lower.

Everything except tilt was based on a comparison with similar games in the genre, not the reviewers personal opinion of the game/genre. If the reviewer is ass at first person shooters for example, but the controls are at least as competant as other games in the genre, then they can't just give gameplay a 1 because they're terrible a fps games.

With the exception of extreme art styles like Wind Waker, or extreme control styles like the wii, it's a fairly straightforward system