Roxanne: Last year I wrote an article on the subjectivity of game reviews. That year saw a lot of interesting developments in games reviews, where Prey was given a 4/10 because an IGN writer’s copy wasn’t working properly, and where Jim Sterling got harrassed on all channels because he blasphemed Breath of a Wild with a 7/10 review. Both events raised public outcry because they disagreed with the scores given by both journalists.
Even here at Sirus we’ve had arguments regarding review scores – the same game might be given a completely different score by different reviewers in-house, depending on their preferences and specific experiences with the game.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
The Callisto Protocol director thinks the solution involves the right people, the right timing, and perhaps a little bit of AI
I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
The title made me think the article would be debating the relevance of scores. Instead the article is confusing scores with reviews. That's not the same thing. Reviews can, and should IMHO, be all the more relevant without scores.
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It's somehow sad that, nowadays, people (and apparently the author) think reviews are actually scores, and that's about it.