bad reviewers

[MaeVar]

you know people need to stop with the bad reviews for good games. like wind waker. some people gave it a bad score just because it was cel shaded. and some people give sucky games good scores like bmxxxx. just because there is some naked chik on a bike. it gets annoying after awile

[Fragmastar]

Exactly. More and more morons are reviewing games these days. Why?

I read a review from an idiot who wrote that Wind Waker sucked because Zelda was the name of the game but Link was the hero's name. He complained that Zelda games should have been called 'Link' games.

[Wheat, Bob]

That's probably why I rarely put any weight on reader's reviews. There are either guys who give dumb reasons for scoring a game low, or some fanboys who give the game a high score just because it's on their game system.

[stevedperkins]

you know people need to stop with the bad reviews for good games. like wind waker. some people gave it a bad score just because it was cel shaded. and some people give sucky games good scores like bmxxxx. just because there is some naked chik on a bike. it gets annoying after awile
Amen to that, a hundred times over! Can someone PLEASE explain to me what is happening to the teen crowd these days?

I was out shopping a few months ago and drove past a comic book shop. Now I haven't touched a comic in almost 15 years, but I used to be a huge fan and collector as a kid, so I thought I'd venture in and check things out. The comics have completely changed. Now for the most part (especially with the 'cooler' independent publishers), every single issue of every single comic has some 99%-naked and impossibly-proportioned female space alien or Lara Croft on the cover to sell it. Now, I know that sex sells... but does COMIC BOOK SEX really sell? It DOES?!?

Later that night I was flipping through channels on the TV and saw a commercial for that DOA Vollleyball game. There are eight 13-year olds sitting around a couch making "ooo-ahhh" faces at the bikini-clad cartoon video game characters on the TV screen... with pillows in their laps for covering the hard-ons. <b><i>ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?</i></b> This is the year 2003... internet porn is universally pervasive. If you're too stupid to use a search engine and find free porn, you can just get an email address... I get a dozen pieces of spam email every day with porno images. With this being the case, <b><i>WHY</i></b> are kids having to get their whack-off jollies to CARTOON CHARACTERS? Why don't you just look up "vagina" in the dictionary, and carry that into the bathroom with you to use the anatomical illustration? Insane. I'm kinda going off on a tangent with this rant, but I firmly that believe people who spend a dime of money on these DOA and bmxxx games are undoubtedly the biggest losers in the gaming universe.


Getting back to the original question... I think everyone realizes that you have to take reader-submitted reviews with a ton of salt, but they're still valuable. Well, the "number of stars" rating is completely worthless, but the text comments are valuable. Everyone has their own bias, but 9 times out of 10 they wear it on their sleeve with their text comments and make it obvious. That can actually be somewhat helpful. Take the new Zelda, for instance. It got tons of bad reviews, but if you browse through the text comments you see that they were almost all from people who "felt betrayed" over Nintendo going with a cartoonish Link rather than a realistic Halo-link. I happen to like that style of graphics, so it was easy to determine that this would be a great game FOR ME despite the overall mixed opinion.