Reviews like opinions in many cases are skewed towards ones personal bias. I play a game and decide for myself wether or not it is good for me. To much hate out there today for competitors titles and many sites are allegiant to certain platforms. Needing some site or some group of people to tell you a game is good doesnt make sense to me. Go play it for yourself and you be the judge.
I was just about to say something like this. Biases are too intrinsic in unchecked human behavior to really put too much stock in review scores. Metacritic can be useful if you want one place to list out reviews that you can read through, for more context, but the scores themselves, whether critic or user, lack context and logic/real standards.
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You probably are in the minority, regardless of what the polls show.
I've been bothered by the inconsistencies of reviews for a while now (check my history), but I think Starfield really shined a light on how dumb and inconsistent reviews and reviews scores are. Even if you removed the mutually beneficial relationship aspect from the reviews, there's still no actual standard/rubric by which to review a game, leading to weird inconsistencies such as calling features in one game bad while either calling those game features good in another game or simply ignoring those features altogether.
Reviews in this industry are in much need of a major overhaul.