Ixalmaris wrote...
As I have shown, professional reviewers are financially dependant on the publishers. The publishers know this
and use this pressure to force good scores (Kane&Lynch and the Gothic 3 tests in Germany for example).
And user reviewers are often the work whiny people who will abuse whatever little power they have to degrade what they don't like.
Example: all the people who go to Amazon and 1-star things they don't like even if they never bought it or even tried it.
Ixalmaris wrote...User
reviews are more subjective than professional reviews, but the large
number of them means that in the end the rage raviews get drowned out by
honest ones. It is also much harder for publishers anf haters to
manipulate the large number of user reviews.
You mean, like all the people who
keep giving 0s and 1s to DA2 on MetaCritic?
I'm
sorry, I understand that you might be upset and not like the game, but
the moment you give a game like this a score that low just because you
don't like it, then you're just telling me that the whole user score system is broken and shouldn't be trusted.
epiccrabs wrote...
We're not stating scientific facts here. You fail to undestand what I was implying so I'll have to reexplain it once more.
You're not reexplaining it if you're just now starting to say what the hell you were on about.
epiccrabs wrote...
Things that are generally good are generally praised by people and then joined to a single group or in this case we'll call "Excellent games". Naturally successors of this "excellent games" are supposed to improve not the other way around which happened here in this case. Dragon Age 2 though a good game fails to improve over it's predecessor hence the reason for it's infamity. When making a sequel you're not supposed to make a step back. Which are you supposed to believe? A guy who thinks the game is the bestest ever (professional reviews) or those who actually played the game and think it's a step back. Do note, don't blame this on raids etc...
Sorry, that's not going to float. Do note that
I'm not saying wheter or not DA2 is better than Origins, but I've learned not to trust all those that "actually played the game and think it's a step back" because
they're on freaking every single game that's not Madden. Fallout 3, Morrowind, Oblivion, Civilization 4 and 5, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Grand Theft Auto 4... or even games that have just changed over the years like WoW or Team Fortress 2.
Fanboys
hate change. And when there's something they hate, they'll make sure the rest of the Internet knows about it. That's why I trust them even less than professional reviewers (and that's saying something).
epiccrabs wrote...
Please do remember that ONLY Dragon Age 2 in the long list of bioware games received this much negativity.
Again, if you don't know what you're talking about, just shut up. Mass Effect 2 was also flooded with "Bioware sold out" threads left and right and last I heard it was one of the most beloved titles of 2010 by both professional reviewers and gamers in general.
Not to mention that you haven't seen a bad Bioware game until you've played Sonic Chronicles.
epiccrabs wrote...This is a sign that the game is indeed crap because of its popularity decided by the masses not the reviewers.
No it isn't. The masses never were a way to judge the quality of
anything and they're not going to start now. Especially not the angry side of the masses, who is a lot more active on forums than those that are content.
epiccrabs wrote...A chair is called a chair because a lot of people call it a chair, a single so called "professional" won't change its name.
And again... that's got nothing to do with what's being discussed here. That's a
definition, not a testament to the chair's quality.
Modifié par Lusitanum, 12 mars 2011 - 12:32 .
Retour en haut
. It's got everything that makes me tick and so it becomes really easy for me to overlook its shortcomings. 
