Comment on have positive reviews destroyed games?
alyaza@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
no, obviously not; is this a serious question? because i have no idea how you could possibly sustain it
Comment on have positive reviews destroyed games?
alyaza@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
no, obviously not; is this a serious question? because i have no idea how you could possibly sustain it
edvardgm@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
What you mean? Have you seen all those articles publisher website just giving out 8-9 on every damn game they get early access to?
If they give worse, they proboly just lose theyre early access and ye, they get less income.
Same with negative reviews, Dragon age 2 isnt the perfect game, but an alright game, but since it has no binary person in it, millions just hate reviewed it. Proboly the same happening with favorite games company publish a game they just love, so they automatically review good about it.
Alot of people looking for a good game, and no one knows anymore who you can trust, and then its just comes down to marketing, who can just randomly takes customers without making a good game.
alyaza@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
this has been an issue people have complained about in gaming journalism for–and i cannot stress this sufficiently–longer than i’ve been alive, and i’ve been alive for 25 years. so if we’re going by this metric video gaming has been “ruined” since at least the days of GTA2, Pokemon Gold & Silver, and Silent Hill. obviously, i don’t find that a very compelling argument.
if anything, the median game has gotten better and that explains the majority of review score inflation–most “bad” gaming experiences at this point are just " i didn’t enjoy my time with this game" rather than “this game is outright technically incompetent, broken, or incapable of being played to completion”.