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  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Kexruct said:

    Cream said:

    If your review is fair then you are giving the same information regardless of your own bias.

    What I was saying is that it's hard to give a fair review with bias.

    Crappy opinion, 2/10 and that's generous.
  • ~*tasteless*~
    大學的年同性戀毛皮

    aaaaa
    Awesome opinion, 11/10, and that's modest. :)
  • around the world, around the wey-orld
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Kexruct said:

    I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but the bottom two reviews of Skyward Sword on Metacritic have "it's too similar" and "it's too different" as their main argument.

    Maybe it's too similar in bad respects and too different from the parts people enjoyed previously?

    It isn't, mind, it's a great game.
  • I think it has more to do with the fact that Zelda's fandom is way too fickle.
  • edited 2013-01-14 22:43:23
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Sometimes I want to start a video game site in the ABC Inc world

    But I hardly follow the gaming press anyway and I worry that avid tech and gaming news consumers would stay away from any tech and gaming sites owned by large corporations
  • edited 2013-01-14 22:43:47
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  • ~*tasteless*~
    大學的年同性戀毛皮

    aaaaa
    Aren't the only game franchises with loyal, non-fickle fans the ones that died out in the 90s / early 2000s?
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    many a fickle makes a fuckle
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  • edited 2013-01-14 22:45:29
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  • Cream said:

    What I was saying is that it's hard to give a fair review with bias.
    No it isn't. :D What is hard is what professional critics do: trying to express the opinion that their boss commands them to express, which the publisher in turn demanded to the boss to be expressed by the boss's employee. Even if a game is just un-fun schlock, if the boss says they must give it an 8.0, then they must write their review such that it convinces the readers that their game is worthy of this ten-scale rating (btw I think 10-scale ratings are stupid).

    Writing a fair review is easy. We all probably do it all the time! You play the game and then describe it! :) Even if you hate the gameplay this does not deter readers from liking it.
    You seem to be kind of missing the point. If you open up a review of, say, Final Fantasy X by saying something like "I hate all JRPGs" and your criticisms of the game are:
    *It's linear
    *The cutscenes are different from the gameplay
    *Random battles are annoying

    then while your criticisms are technically valid they have different values for different people reading the review. A fan of JRPGs will accept those flaws and love it anyway.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    FANDOMS!

    They should be abolished. Things don't need fans
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  • Or if you criticized Contra for being too short, Oblivion for being buggy, Animal Crossing for being repetitive, really the examples go on and on.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    But being a fan can be fun
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  • Yahoo! News: once again proving what a reputable source of information it is.

    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/couple-sharing-same-name-split-170951408.html
  • Well that isn't a review, that's a list of features. It's the difference between "Final Fantasy X is a linear game wherein the cutscenes are completely segregated from the gameplay, and there are random encounters" and "Final Fantasy X sucks because it's too linear; you only move from point A to point B, the cutscenes are awesome but all you do in game is take turns whacking each other with stupid looking weapons, and for some reason you can only battle enemies by walking around like an idiot until the screen cracks and you're teleported to a random dimension where you fight monsters. I'm not kidding. Seriously, this game blows."
  • edited 2013-01-14 22:54:51
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  • Cream said:

    "Final Fantasy X sucks because it's too linear; you only move from point
    A to point B, the cutscenes are awesome but all you do in game is take
    turns whacking each other with stupid looking weapons, and for some
    reason you can only battle enemies by walking around like an idiot until
    the screen cracks and you're teleported to a random dimension where you
    fight monsters. I'm not kidding. Seriously, this game blows."
    This would not. It is too full of your opinions that I do not care about.
    My point exactly. This is the way a lot of the reviewers I dislike describe games like this.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    "blond good looks"

    Why does blonde hair have to be in the cookie-cutter idea of beauty
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    because white people
  • AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    WHITE PEOPLE
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    BLONDE PRIVILEGE
  • edited 2013-01-14 22:58:24
    ~*tasteless*~
    大學的年同性戀毛皮

    aaaaa
    Because unattractive blonde ppl don't exist and attractive non-blonde ppl also don't exist like duh.

    And also western standards of beauty blah blah white people blah blah nuke Europe.
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  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I would have said something about Eurocentrism bothering me but I was worried about opening a can of worms

    I wonder what it would be like if someone who wasn't a white man became the CEO of some big media enterprise
  • ~*tasteless*~
    大學的年同性戀毛皮

    aaaaa
    They'd probably be bought out or shut down.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    nuke Europe.

    image

    You were saying, Anonus?
  • Cream said:

    You can say you hate a game or genre and have a bias but you should focus on saying what contributes to this, rather than focusing on your opinions and biases. That is what I mean about reviews. :) A positive review that only gushes about stuff is just as bad!

    I'm agreeing with you on this. Biased reviews aren't inherently bad (okay, I'm directly contradicting myself from before but whatever), but what I was saying is that fans of a genre will usually overlook its inherent flaws that biased reviewers won't be able to look over. I'm mainly talking about reviews that have number scores.
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  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    We shouldn't nuke the rest of the world

    After all if the US economy never recovers we won't have any international territories to fall back on for income here at ABC Inc

    ...you know, if ABC Inc were real, I'm fairly sure that I'd be the only biracial bisexual teenage CEO of any of the big media companies.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    That seems rather probable.

  • I love The Seatbelts.
  • ~*tasteless*~
    大學的年同性戀毛皮

    aaaaa
    Both CA and AU are biracial? I never knew that.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Me too
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  • The sadness will last forever.
    irut gamuh striks bak
  • ~*tasteless*~
    大學的年同性戀毛皮

    aaaaa
    Oh, I get it, so now EVERYONE'S biracial. This is just another way to exclude me, isn't it? Well fine, I don't even need you guys. :,C
  • The sadness will last forever.
    i'm actually biracial too
  • The sadness will last forever.
    irube geima's yootoobe channull
  • Two Face said:

    irut gamuh striks bak

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
  • ~*tasteless*~
    大學的年同性戀毛皮

    aaaaa
    *runs off crying, apparently forgetting that she's also biracial*
  • i am whiter than printer paper
  • Naney said:

    i am whiter than printer paper


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  • The sadness will last forever.
    i have red hair from my grandma

    she's white...sorta
  • ~*tasteless*~
    大學的年同性戀毛皮

    aaaaa
    ...Sorta? :P
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