Slandering a reviewer why do it?

[Manchubot]

I was looking for videos in the x-play archives and I noticed several threads (old now mind you) that these reviews are lies. I have seen the same thing in Game spot reviews in comments and other sites comments as well. Seeing a game someone lieks get a low score sometimes make the people lash out at the reviewer for disliking it and say they were influenced by money, or were pressured to not like it and other reviewers have the right idea for liking it.

The point I guess I'm getting at is do people not realize games are subjective? Zelda is the best game ever made so therefore everyone likes Zelda. I have seen such statements but truth is there hasn't been a Zelda game I found fun or interesting. Reviewers as well (though sometimes money has been known to influence some decisions) are paid for their own opinions and they give them because someone feels people want to hear what they have to say and if they don't like a popular game, or an unpopular cult following game that other reviewers rave doesn't make the reviews "lies," or "influenced."

What everyone's thoughts on this, do some people get blinded by the games industry "selling out" and forget about objective views and personnel tastes often?

 

[brumley53]

sometimes people over-react to criticism of what they love (I know I do) but sometimes reviewers say the most outlandish things that you really have to wonder what influenced them to write such things. If someone says "COD:MW2 had a huge 30 hour average game time" (hypothetical no one really said this) I would call bullshit, if they said "MW2 had a really long average game time" I would be confused, but it is just an opinion.

 

[squid5580]

Games are subjective so there shouldn't be professional reviewers in the first place. Just because you play games, can write proper sentences and give an arbitrary score at the end doesn't make them any more qualified than any other gamer to tell a person how good or bad a game is. Until the industry as a whole realizes this and stop putting so much stock into what one person has to say about a game we should be saluting these freedom fighters.

 

[GiglameshSoulEater]

Because many people cannot comprehend that people have different opinions and they canot be 'wrong'or 'right' unless they are based on incorrect information.

 

[Fightgarr]

Some of it stems from the gamer's belief that their opinion is above all others, choosing to believe not that someone holds a different opinion of them, but that the differing opinion is wrong. Some of the comments have legitimate roots, though. The Kane & Lynch case from Gamespot is a prime example that good reviews can be paid for.

 

[Bullfrog1983]

I was looking for videos in the x-play archives and I noticed several threads (old now mind you) that these reviews are lies. I have seen the same thing in Game spot reviews in comments and other sites comments as well. Seeing a game someone lieks get a low score sometimes make the people lash out at the reviewer for disliking it and say they were influenced by money, or were pressured to not like it and other reviewers have the right idea for liking it.

The point I guess I'm getting at is do people not realize games are subjective? Zelda is the best game ever made so therefore everyone likes Zelda. I have seen such statements but truth is there hasn't been a Zelda game I found fun or interesting. Reviewers as well (though sometimes money has been known to influence some decisions) are paid for their own opinions and they give them because someone feels people want to hear what they have to say and if they don't like a popular game, or an unpopular cult following game that other reviewers rave doesn't make the reviews "lies," or "influenced."

What everyone's thoughts on this, do some people get blinded by the games industry "selling out" and forget about objective views and personnel tastes often?

Well if you are going to put your opinion out in the public sphere then you should be ready for criticism. If you are being paid for it, you better be ready for some kind of argument from the public. Also there hasn't been a good Zelda game since the Ocarina of Time... just sayin'.

 

[Geekosaurus]

I think the technical term is 'fanboyism.'

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

There are two reasons, as far as I'm concerned, one of which is legitimate:

1. The reviewer did a horrid job reviewing. However, if specific criticism aside from 'This review sucks' isn't given, then it falls into the second category...
2. Fanboys bitching about what they like being given scathing reviews, whether the review has valid points or not.

 

[Tipsythegza]

People hate you for your opinion. Welcome to life.