No.
Nothing can be overrated, and nothing can be underrated. People’s opinions are people’s opinions. Every reviewer’s perspective on their respective games are perfectly valid given the context that they are based on opinions.
I believe that there are no such thing as perfect games, and that 10/10 scores do not reflect this mythical ideal of a perfect game, but rather, it’s a representation of a perfect satisfaction of entertainment in the reviewers’ opinion. So if someone can find flaws or things that needs to be improved for a certain universally praised game, that just reaffirms that not all games are perfect.
But to say that people over rate their enjoyment is quite a dangerous claim, and I admittedly falls into just another writer who has blamed games for being overrated and underrated, myself. But when I use those words, I don’t actually mean that the games are flawed in a way that the reviewers inaccurately gave their opinions. I actually mean hype. When I call a game overrated, I just mean that the bar for expectation for that game is set higher than that game may achieve, so when someone decides to pick it up based on this over hype, they might get disappointed. Conversely, underrated games are just games that many people may have overlooked because of negative hype.
And I understand why websites publish these sort of articles. It’s the same reason why HipHopGamers scream at their audience--views. Calling a universally acclaimed game bad is as click-attractive as reskinning Modern Warfare to Modern Warfare 2 is to game sales. But I hate this sort of journalism. It’s a profiting strategy at the expense of integrity. Michael Pachter pulls weekly bullshit out of his ass to get views, and it works, but that’s just so pathetic.
I’m sure that there are tons of people who are now blacklisting me in their minds, calling me arrogant or whatnot, but this is just my honest opinion. And whether or not you agree with me, people’s opinions are just their opinions, nothing’s wrong with that (unless publishers starts to pay for reviews like certain websites that rhymes with FameSpot). So don’t blame the reviewers, don’t blame the games, can’t we all just agree to disagree?
A schedule for all of the currently announced game conferences in June 2024, including the Summer Game Fest 2024 date and times.
For the first time in a long time I have a hard time feeling excited for these events. Maybe it's because of all these massive lay offs and closures there hasn't exactly been good news since the start of the year.
Maybe come next week I'll get a little more excited but I dunno I just can't get too excited right now
Is it just me or is there little to no buzz or marketing leading up to this compared to previous SGF?
The Nerd Stash: “The PS3 marked a turning point in the industry, and among the sea of popular titles came the rare games that are worth more now than ever.”
I don’t collect games for their value I collect games I enjoyed playing. Many games I own are worth a lot of money but they must be games I want to play for me to purposely collect them. Most of this list isn’t games I would enjoy. I may have some of these games because I bought my friends PS2/3 Collection years ago and I never actually looked what was in it. It was a couple hundred games though still sitting in a box and I’m sure there are some good valuable games. I should go sift through it sometime.
Ex-Rocksteady directors' Hundred Star is collaborating with Xbox Game Studios Publishing for its first-ever AAA game.
Highly doubt it'll be an actual Batman game that IP belongs to WB Games along with other DC property.
They're making an action adventure game. IMO I think it needs to be another Marvel game despite MS already have Blade as that action Marvel game. Dead Pool? Punisher?
Realistically it'll probably be a new IP entirely.
I hope these devs needed support to start/finish (like Stalker 2), vs are basically done with the game but wanted to secure an exclusivity-bonus because they know Xbox needs a system seller (like Titanfall).
It’s a bit strange that they’d rather invest in this game than Tangoworks’ TWO canceled projects; or just trust a single dev from their existing massive stable of talent to emerge with a system-seller themselves anytime soon.
Either way, it is just cool that we’ll likely get a new IP from the geniuses behind the Arkham Trilogy. I wonder how creative they’ll get now that they aren’t married to an established franchise.
This is about the former co-founders of Rocksteady and their new studio. So naturally it makes people think its Batman related with the way its worded, even though its not.
Exclusive? Sure
This year alone Microsoft has changed their plans so much with Xbox regarding multiplatform releases as they step closer to just being a full blown third party publisher and it's only been 4-5 months, imagine where we'll be once this game is finished. It will be a completely different landscape.
Spawn (as well as master chief) are the only characters I associate with Xbox. Are there more I can’t remember?
"Is -Insert Popular Game Here- Overrated?
No. "
Ignorant is right. There is a trend to give games by big publishers and developers consitently high scores, even when they are deemed average by the users. There is nothing wrong with questioning the validity of a review.
A lot of modern games have decent visuals but shallow gameplay and or stories, people look back at the greatest games and what do they remember?, they remember the stories, not the visuals, and not the hype, but the stories.
90% of all the games being hyped right now will not even be remembered in 10 years time. BFBC2? not a chance, KZ2?, not a chance. When a game gets a 9/10 and the majority of that score is made up of visual praise then you have to wonder how long the reviewers have been gaming for.