Convince me otherwise

What is this, meaninglesspill?

There's something off about this dose, probably a chinese knockoff. I need the real deal.

Why did they make the music so fucking sad bros? This was the first time I cried playing a video game.

I feel like people are confusing "reductive" with "deconstructive" a lot of the time. You can fuck with every word or concept ad nauseum with no difficulty..

I hate the "faceless Pepe" variant, why are zoomers so fucking bad at memes?

No thanks nerd

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Well,

They already are

Yes, all reviews should be in the same structure as Coop772.

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I want to agree but only under the circumstances that the reviewer isn’t biased towards that genre. Like, my love for light gun games might give me a predisposition towards them, even though I don’t think it’s a very popular or respected genre.

Arigatou gozaimasu, sensei.

Disagree. A score doesn’t take away from the body of a review. It’s helpful to have a score available at a glance to see where the reviewer might stand generally, but the body is always most important. It’s just a shame that most people will take the score as gospel when it’s not that simple.

Think of it like this: if you love light gun games, and you're reviewing a light gun game, you're transmitting your opinion to other light gun game fans. In that context, is the game you're reviewing a GOOD light gun game, or a BAD light gun game? You're the one that plays them a lot, so you should be able to reach a conclusion that other light gun game fans are likely to reach as well if they played it.

How to get reviews from various perspectives:

read more than one review

Nah. While in concept, reviews from multiple perspectives would give the lowdown on whether the game is worthwhile according to your personal situation, such as whether you're an established fan or have thousands of hours to spend, in practice it's just a gay little validation outlet that doubles as a way to shoot down criticism, i.e.
>well that guy reviews for shits so if he likes it it proves your game is shit lole
>well my guy reviews for gods so if you don't like it then you're just shit lole
Reviews and vidya discourse already fall into these pitfalls enough without giving the so-called authorities on the matter deeper positions to stir the pot from and for little shits to appeal to

Agreed.

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Is this a homestuck reference?

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Right, and that should work well for other light gun game fans, but I don’t want the implication that my love for Time Crisis necessarily makes it a must play. I think it is if you’re a big fan of light gun games, but likely won’t be worth it for most people to get a light gun, copy of the game, and a CRT just to play it. I think it helps for the reviewer to look at it from the audience’s perspective as well and they should hold back on praising a game if they can think of situations where it might not be worth getting into.

As an another example, I recently re-played Final Fantasy 7 after many years, mainly loving it as a kid. However, this time, I found the game incredibly easy. It wasn’t even advanced knowledge or grinding; I just explored dungeons a little to get at least most of the treasure and I always found myself overpowered. The story is great, but the gameplay was not engaging because it so rarely asked much from the player. I literally just did auto attacks the vast majority of the time. And yet, FF7 is often seen as this gold standard for RPGs, despite having boring gameplay, while other RPGs while ask the player to use all their tools and resources more effectively, which is much more interesting. This is definitely a case where reviews from other perspectives can help a lot, but I think FF7 has this bandwagon effect where absolutely everyone just seems to love it, and I don’t get it. I love RPGs too, but I don’t think FF7 is super great. Then again, maybe it was the best there was at the time? I don’t know, it seems like people were entranced by the graphics, cutscenes, and story, and they argue that the presentation alone carries the whole game. And maybe it does, but I also think it’s important to demand more.

That’s not the fault of reviews though, that’s the fault of audiences misusing reviews for their own purposes. It’s the same as relying on Metacritic alone to determine a game’s quality. It’s a nice metric to see at a glance, but it doesn’t mean much in the grand scheme of things.

That's why i want the score gone, people are too quickly just looking at the score. Also it's meaningless when trying to compare two games that are very different. But the score makes so that we try to compare a game with an other that are nothing alike.

where are the fishes fins and why does it have metal legs?

Could be a Mega Man reference, too.

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Yes, that's why I said they would be good in concept but get abused by the audience in practice, dingus

That’s not the fault of the score though, that’s the fault of the people misusing it. I still think a score can have its place, such as seeing a reviewer’s whole body of work and seeing what their favorites and least favorites are overall. However, I’ll also say that a score is not necessary by any means and no review needs one. But that’s up to the individual reviewer to decide if they want to use one or not. I wouldn’t dismiss the reviewer just for using a score, I’d only dismiss them if I don’t feel they’ve made a good argument in a review.

Score is retarded because people dont know what numbers are supposed to mean.
5 is supposed to be average because its roughly in the middle of 1 and 10, but they use the letter grading system instead so 7 is average/passable.

Don’t worry about it, take a bite, yum yum.

Alright, my bad. I didn’t want to come off like I was arguing with you.

Let me guess, the perspective you are referring to is a white males tranny?

>Games should be reviewed from various perspectives
What does this actually mean though? That kind of already happens after all, sites like metacritic literally have reviews from different perspectives.
>games should be reviewed on the premise that the reviewer actually likes the genre of the game being reviewed.
I don't necessarily agree with this, though I think there is a grain of truth in what you say. Anyone should be able to review anything, but I see a 1/10 score for a popular game because a guy "doesn't like _____ genre" then yeah that's retarded

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