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| I disagree! by Mischief Maker 10/29/2014, 6:13pm PDT | ||||
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Lurker 15954 wrote: Maybe it's just that I'm snobby about the games I like, but joe schmoe reviews only go so far, and a lot of them are knee-jerk reactions by folks who don't get the genre of the game they're playing. Raptor: Call of Shadows is drenched in positive player reviews at gog and it's a shitty shmup. There is a need for expert reviews. People who know a genre inside and out who can judge a game beyond its visuals and tutorials. This is a great example of a DmC review by a Devil May Cry expert player: This is a fair review, giving the game a thumbs up for casuals, but also giving very detailed criticisms on its shortcomings for experienced players, helping them decide to save their money. A similarly detailed review of Aces Wild is the reason I ended up buying that game, despite its boring visuals. But these are isolated reviews by enthusiasts for free and they show up all too rarely. If videogame experts of this caliber could make these reviews regularly, I'd gladly pay a fee for their writing, so as to save money I'd otherwise waste on overhyped crap. Instead the paid reviewers clearly suck at games and have no idea what they're talking about and make idiotic statements like "Devil May Cry for the rest of us!" It's a crying shame. On the flipside, player reviews on Steam are the reason I set fire to $20 last week buying Kromaia because everyone just repeated the "fast paced action!" blurb from the game's website. Also, there are a lot of fantastic games that do not have broad appeal that would be ill-served by steam reviews sorted by popularity. Gaming Journalism is a terrible state at the moment, but don't throw out the baby with the bathwater! |
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Metacritic reviews are all gone from steam game pages by 09/25/2014, 2:15am PDT  Plugs are gone, too by 10/25/2014, 10:14am PDT I disagree! by 10/29/2014, 6:13pm PDT You never go by positive user reviews by 10/29/2014, 7:07pm PDT |
