It is really painful to see the most emotional and heartfelt moments of Silmarillion's canon and the Second Age's lore being raped and perverted in the Rings of Power. I don't see how that is ralated to elves or dwarves of color or beard or no-beard (neither which have never been even a slightest shade of a problem to me).
@Mishyana I didn't say any of that and I certainly did not flip out. I never owned any GTA game, my last console was Super Nintendo and there is not much chance I can play major titles on my 2011 MacBook Pro. So you might see, nothing personal here about GTA itself. I am really glad that GameSpot raised the issue of how seriously we should treat games and what should be the approach to reviewing them.
This is where I tried to communicate my message to GameSpot. Gamers are often so angry at the reviewers here because the reviewes are not consistent from one to another. They are highly subjective and there is no established criteria that help gamers understand why this or that particular game got this or that particular score. If there are such criteria please do show them to me. After this GTA review I started having some rather dumb, but relatively logical questions. Like do Bioshock Infinite or Skyrim have just the same scores as GTA because they are not "Politically muddled and profoundly misogynistic"? Would the score be lower if they were? So every game on GS will now be estimated in terms of being political muddled and misogynistic? Has any other game been judged based on this criteria?
Again, this is not about GTA. It is about GS's reviewing policies which now seem to be very strange and covered in mystery. Say what if one of GS's reviewers was an alien? Would he criticise Halo or Gears of War for the unilateral way in which it portrays the aliens? Again, coming back to this particular review. The author does not say a word about the crime and the theft and the violence which are the key elements of storyline and gameplay. But all of the sudden feminine issues are a big deal in this game. To me that's just odd and narrowminded.
That is one ow the reasons why so many gamers flipped put about this review. Because we don't understand why, oh God why, and how this or that game got this or that score. Or why some games score better than the others. Some of us deeply care about those games, some of us just want to see how the industry develops, because we believe that games are a truly great entertainment and creative medium. But after such reviews we might feel quiet baffled...
Dear GameSpot, please do realise, it's not the score itself that bugs us. It's the INCONSISTENCY of the score and total lack of understanding why you give them, how you give them etc. I have no Idea why one game gets 9.0 while the other is 9.5. I have no idea and no understanding. And you guys give us nothing here. THAT IS WHY WE ARE SO DAMN FRUSTRATED.
As for GTA5, sorry, but one of the reasons why the game got lower score - Politically muddled and profoundly misogynistic - seems totally irrelevant. THIS IS NOT WHAT THE GAME IS ABOUT. This is not the game about women, this is not the game about feminist or sexist issues. It's a gangsta crime simulator, it's GTA5 for crying out loud. Of course it is "Politically muddled and profoundly misogynistic". It's like blaming Diablo for being blasphemous. It is Diablo, but It is not about Jesus. And GTA is not about feminism.
So please... This was the most unoppropriate place to play this sexist-feninst game. This is the reasion why we actually have this caricature image of the angry feminist... So please, future reviewers, take it easy and try to show just a little more of sense of humour...
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