Professional Reviews vs Independent Reviews

[SqueezyTime]

IGN gave Diablo III a 9.5/10 even, smh. They give the same score to every single Call of Duty that comes out, as well..

[postrook]

independent reviews could just be devs trying to get people to buy their game or to not buy a competitor's game, or pre-*****cent fanboys. so I don't put any stock in them. nor do I put any stock in the overall professional rating because **** metacritic and **** most games review sites.

metacritic is bullshit, and publishers are assholes for putting any stock in it. example A: http://gamepolitics.com/2012/03/15/o...tacritic-score

this is why steam and kickstarter give me hope for the industry. anything to undermine the control of the publishers imo, even if only in a small way, is a good thing.

the only games reviews I pay attention to are on giantbomb and rockpapershotgun. oh, and zero punctuation. and even then, I recognize that a reviewer's opinion may not be the same as my own. rockpapershotgun and zero punctuation don't even give silly numbered scores anyway.

[Arri]

Neither. Why? Because both "professional" and independent reviews are both opinion, and it's never good to just allow one person's opinion to control what you decide to do.

Tell me, if you like RPG games, and you read a "professional" review of an RPG by someone who doesn't like RPGs, and the end score suffers because the reviewer doesn't like RPGs, does that mean the RPG is bad?

Just because tons of independent say that Morrowind is the best video game ever even to this day and Oblivion/Skyrim are terrible, does that make it true?


What you're trying to do with this thread is ask why some reviews don't agree with your opinion of a game, and you have your answer in your question.

[Dot_Hack]

independent reviews could just be devs trying to get people to buy their game or to not buy a competitor's game, or pre-*****cent fanboys. so I don't put any stock in them. nor do I put any stock in the overall professional rating because **** metacritic and **** most games review sites.

metacritic is bullshit, and publishers are assholes for putting any stock in it. example A: http://gamepolitics.com/2012/03/15/o...tacritic-score

this is why steam and kickstarter give me hope for the industry. anything to undermine the control of the publishers imo, even if only in a small way, is a good thing.

the only games reviews I pay attention to are on giantbomb and rockpapershotgun. oh, and zero punctuation. and even then, I recognize that a reviewer's opinion may not be the same as my own. rockpapershotgun and zero punctuation don't even give silly numbered scores anyway.

Zero Punctuation treats everybody like shit and that's why he's amazing.

I like GB, but I've been a little skeptical ever since GameSpot bought them.