It's been a while since my last c-blog post, mainly because I'm finally working my way through Persona 3.
Why is it, that a self proclaimed "hardcore" gaming blog, needs to summarise every review in quadruplicate?
- A (well written) review with its own conlcusion in the last paragraph
- A useless "Forget it, rent it, buy it" endorsement - completely dependent on how much a gamer is able to spend on his pasttime (This used to be pretty cool, because it forced you to read the review)
- A "Metacritic made us do it"-score, which appearantly excuses certain individuals to skip the wall of text and dump a hateful message in the comments.
- A "Don't hate us, haters!" score explaination that is supposed to convince said individuals that 4/10 means an admirable effort. (Spoiler: the haters aren't convinced)
And then there's all those articles that state how exactly one has to read Destructoid reviews. Those miss their point entirely, because they are aimed at the people that do not read anything but summarising digits.
Blah.
I'm going back to my highschool simulator. What else is there to do, when school's out?
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I just get a little annoyed everytime I hear Destructoid staff whine about people who got mad when Patapon and Condemned 2 recieved "bad" scores.
Don't get me wrong: They're absolutely right, they should deliver unbiased reviews. However, having a score-system simply draws in a certain crowd - it was to be expected.