The gaming review scene can go f--- itself

It's all about page views, people want their views reinforced so they will go read reviews to support this. So a popular franchise will obviously have a lot of people who 'know' the game is going to be great before they even touch it and all they want is for people to tell them how great the game is.

Sure some places are worse than others when it comes to this pandering but it's largely the reason why review scores in general have risen over the last 10 years. It used to be a mediocre game would get a 4-6, and a good/great game would get and 8 or 9. Now mediocre is 7-8 with good, great being 9-10.

Just look at the whole Uncharted 3 story where people went ape shit because someone gave the game an 8, instead of 9 or 10. It boggles the mind.

tldr; scores are stupid.

Zero Punctuation is amateur, immature bullshit, as bad as these 'reviewers' who get told to give certain games high scores. I miss the days when an actual review (written in more detail than the shit these days) meant something. These days you will get by better in the gaming life if you rely on word of mouth and demo's rather than entertain the stupids.

The media generally has a way of completely destroying the true appearance of things though. Even if a fair reviewer or review system comes along, the moment it becomes accepted or popular the sooner it will implode on itself and become unfair... So in other words, believing any game review is a bad idea... Recommendations ftw

http://www.youtube.com/user/ZeitgeistReview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C43R...7&feature=plcp

Thats Why I don't read commens anymore way too many spoilers in them I would rather if I am unsure check out what my friends say here on mygaming/steam and these 2 reviewers. So far I have found there opionion on games more or less the same as mine.

On the other side of the spectrum, have you guys seen the movie review scene yet? It's like a minefield. Some consider it to be overly harsh at times. Movies I often consider good might get a 7, maybe an 8 in seldom cases. A stark contrast to the gaming review scene which sees how high they can score everything.

And Zero Punctuation on The Escapist?.. wow.. his reviews made me question games i have been playing for years :/ Waaay too overly harsh

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On the other side of the spectrum, have you guys seen the movie review scene yet? It's like a minefield. Some consider it to be overly harsh at times. Movies I often consider good might get a 7, maybe an 8 in seldom cases. A stark contrast to the gaming review scene which sees how high they can score everything.

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Aye that is one hella weird scene too, now that you mention it. The problem lies with the caliber of reviewer that exists, the kind that is only interested in 1 type of movie and therefore rates everything else outside of that, utter shit. I'm glad I have never taken a movie reviewers view into account because if I had, I would have missed out on a lot by now.

Anyone who takes Zero Punctuation seriously needs to have their head examined as their brains may be missing.

Its a satire/parody review. Its purpose is to be entertaining, not informative.

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Originally Posted by Graal

Are you fucking kidding me? 10/10? 98/100, meaning it's 2% away from being perfect? Fuck off.

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Hahaha, awesome rant brother :D

I agree, you can't just give everything almost perfect scores all the time, its ridiculous. How is a person meant to get anything out of the review if its always perfect. They've lost their credibility, and now they're cocked, they've set the "standard". If they put their foot down and give a game a proper review and give it 75% or something, then it would be detrimental for the game.

Edge gave ME3 - 8/10 (http://www.edge-online.com/features/...ffect-3-review)

Please be aware I didn't read the review for fear of Spoilers only checked the score.