Personally, if I wasn't such a positive ray of sunshine I'd find that a little suspicious. Professional reviewers are so uniform that not even a single one of them didn't find Bioshock to their fancy? What are the odds? (I mean, if the internet is any indication, even if the game was picture perfect someone would invariably hate it just to be contraire.)
The job of a professional reviewer is to digest a game and then review it in such a way that their target audience finds that review useful. One of the most important differences between a professional reviewer and an amateur is that a professional reviewer is capable of looking at a game and saying, "While I might not like this particular feature, I know that my readers will generally appreciate it, and therefore I shouldn't let my personal aversion to that one feature affect my review score, because that would make this review less useful to my audience."
It's not suspicious. It's professionalism.
And yeah - showing up and spouting off such nonsense as "elitist", "entitled", "whining", etc just makes you an a&*@+%&. Stop.
As opposed to what showing up and crapping on a company for daring to release a new game on a platform you don't like makes you.
It got a metacritic score of 80. What are you talking about?
That's the point. Deus Ex 2 was widely and loudly criticized at its release for its change in direction from the original. Despite being a good game, fans of the series hated it (in fact, they hated it in much the same way that people hate Star Wars I-III - in the ugliest way possible). And yet the series survived just fine, it went on to produce Human Revolution (which was every bit as excellent a game as the first), and everything was fine.
As opposed to what showing up and crapping on a company for daring to release a new game on a platform you don't like makes you.
Yes, absolutely "as opposed to". Glad you're on board.
As opposed to what showing up and crapping on a company for daring to release a new game on a platform you don't like makes you.Yes, absolutely "as opposed to". Glad you're on board.
Oh, sorry. Perhaps I was unclear!
You see, I was implying that going out of your way to crap on a company for daring to release a mobile title in a traditionally non-mobile franchise makes you kind of an a%@!@*@.
And, beyond that, going out of your way to moralize at others for calling those people entitled makes you a hypocritical a$&%!%&.
Don't worry, next time I'll be much more straightforward!
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Just look at thisYou mean professional reviewers tend to give reasonable scores for games while internet nerds with hilariously inflamed opinions flood an online user review site with literally over 1,000 reviews with a score of [b]0[ /b]
I'd say that 0 is a perfectly legit score, seeing that most people couldn't even get the game to work.
I'd say that 0 is a perfectly legit score, seeing that most people couldn't even get the game to work.Just look at thisYou mean professional reviewers tend to give reasonable scores for games while internet nerds with hilariously inflamed opinions flood an online user review site with literally over 1,000 reviews with a score of [b]0[ /b]
Fair enough, but I think it's safe to say that many (most?) of those 0 scores were from people who got the game running and still decided to b@%!% about it. Many more were probably from people who hadn't even bought the game to begin with.
