It appears I'm always late to your blogs, mostly because GiantBomb's coding ain't so grand, so you don't appear on my "tracked blogs" listings, but WHATEVER I'm saying stuff now:
Dead Space is awesome. It's totally unoriginal in every way, but that doesn't stop it from being fun. Really people can only be upset about Dead Space depending on their definitions of certain aspects of gaming. For instance, is a "good" game something that's fun? Or something that innovates? Many people believe it needs to innovate, I think that demand is unreasonable, and those people will never be pleased with any game. So those types of people hate Dead Space, while everyone else likes it, because it's fun.
I wouldn't say it's a game of the year, because to me a Game of the Year has to innovate. Or rather, when the other nominees innovate, and are fun, while Dead Space is just "fun" it's unfair for it to win. I had to review Dead Space at the website I work at, which is the other thing I want to get in to.
Your whole reviews rant, does make sense in a lot of ways. But just like how reviewers shouldn't blanket games as being either "good" or bad" you shouldn't say "Fuck all the reviews." To some degree, going on GiantBomb and saying "IT'S GREAT!!!" is a review. You really have to keep track of who you're reading, what other games this person liked, and of course keep your own opinion in mind.
My sister LOVESA Walk To Remember with Mandy Moore, does that mean I'm going to? No. Just like if a hardcore FPS fan gives a rave review to Unreal 3, I know I'm going to hate it, regardless of what he says. I think reading the review is important, and you should probably ignore the score.
Even with Mirror's Edge, you said everyone complained it was terrible. I don't remember a single review saying that though. In fact I remember a lot of reviews overrating the game. Some of the more moderate ones made the most sense. "The game is great, but it's too short blah blah blah." Everything that you like about Mirror's Edge, reviewers also enjoyed. They liked the Speed Runs, platforming / parkor mechanic and all that. All of their complaints are parts of the game that you haven't gotten to yet. So I think it's kind of unfair to say "the reviewers were wrong" when you only played the first 2 chapters.
I'm not trying to tell you to change your mind. You're totally right. No one should ever listen to a review 100%, because no single review is taliored to any particular person. They're all opinions from different people, read a few, watch a few videos, and then make a decision. But I don't think you should exclude the reviewing community all together just because you think one or two people, out of an industry of hundreds of people, were incorrect one time.
Well that was super long. Hopefully it didn't come off too angry or anything, I'm enjoying the video blogs! Even if I see them five days late... Don't wait another month to make another one!
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