23rd July 2003, 7:08 PM
Wow.
You don't actually read reviews, you just look at the scores?
That explains everything about why you hate Gamespot (and PC Gamer) and why I like it... because I like it because their reviews are BY FAR better written and more professional than IGN's reviews. Not about the scores. Its really about the quality of the written reviews. Which is much higher at Gamespot than it is at IGN.
It also explains liking 3 or 4 short reviews over one.
It is also very, very stupid.
As for that PA... slightly funny, but not that great.
Sure, but what I was saying is that they don't have the space to really explain the game, which is what you should be basing your analysis of the review on -- not on the score. The score is just that person's arbitrary decision of quality which you will almost inevitably disagree with, one way or the other.
And PC Gamer gave Postal 2 a 7.9. But not having read those reviews I will not judge them at all... because you CANNOT and SHOULD NOT ever judge a review by its score. That is just stupid!
http://www.gamespot.com/n64/driving/fzero10/review.html
Oh, I certainly agree that "it doesn't have a soul" is bad reasoning. But if you read the review you'd see that it says that people like me would love it.
If that was a 2-paragraph review there wouldn't be room for that kind of detail and I'd go off annoyed at the stupid reviewer. But because of the fact that they do go into more depth that is not the case.
You don't actually read reviews, you just look at the scores?
That explains everything about why you hate Gamespot (and PC Gamer) and why I like it... because I like it because their reviews are BY FAR better written and more professional than IGN's reviews. Not about the scores. Its really about the quality of the written reviews. Which is much higher at Gamespot than it is at IGN.
It also explains liking 3 or 4 short reviews over one.
It is also very, very stupid.
As for that PA... slightly funny, but not that great.
Quote:Maybe not to explain it in insanely huge detail, but they have plenty of room to explain why they gave the game the score they gave it.
Sure, but what I was saying is that they don't have the space to really explain the game, which is what you should be basing your analysis of the review on -- not on the score. The score is just that person's arbitrary decision of quality which you will almost inevitably disagree with, one way or the other.
Quote:They gave the ultra-crappy Enter the Matrix game a 7.something. That's way too high.
And PC Gamer gave Postal 2 a 7.9. But not having read those reviews I will not judge them at all... because you CANNOT and SHOULD NOT ever judge a review by its score. That is just stupid!
Quote:Yeah their reasoning was great. "The game doesn't have soul".
http://www.gamespot.com/n64/driving/fzero10/review.html
Oh, I certainly agree that "it doesn't have a soul" is bad reasoning. But if you read the review you'd see that it says that people like me would love it.
If that was a 2-paragraph review there wouldn't be room for that kind of detail and I'd go off annoyed at the stupid reviewer. But because of the fact that they do go into more depth that is not the case.
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