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I already read Yahtzee. I will check out 1up.
That Yahtzee thing is hilarious too, BTW.
Although I do agree that a game cannot be accurately classified by a number, I also find that reading just one review is also likely to be just as "wrong" to me as a number is.
Here, try this, you big crybaby.
Thats 3 thumbs up out of 5 by the way.
Or 8.8 out 10 if you prefer
If you want to know if a reviewer's opinion matches yours, read.
A number is a good summary of a reviewer's gut reaction: Moar, plz or do not want. So when I see a see a bunch of reviews, all as long and hopelessly self-important as one of my cblog posts, I want to sample a variety of differing gut reactions. Numbers help me quickly find reviews where the reviewers had very different experiences, and to discover why that was so.
As to your parting admonition, how can I know if a reviewer's opinion matches mine if I haven't played the game? If you want to intelligently respond to a blog post, read.
I think you probably have, in fact, read dumber shit.
Linde : We know you just like this review because of the shit storm you had to go through that is Zelda.
But I do try to be a thoughtful contributor to the community, and not just repeat kneejerk smears or memes. So your abrupt and total dismissal stung like benzene in a papercut.
Do you... do you think we can still be acquaintances?
Hey, if I had a 360, I'd walk you through it firsthand. I swear, with the amount of currently-useless 360 information I have in my head, I should be able to spontaneously will a 360 into existance.
I think that the world of game reviews would be a better, far less irritating place if people would actually take five minutes to read the words of the actual review for a game they might spend $60 on, instead of instantly decrying some sort of bias because some number was lower than other numbers they have seen.
-sigh-