Reviews r only useful if you searching for new content

So you've actually listened to a project because the review was good? The other part i agree with.

how do you treat restaurant reviews? Do they determine your outlook of the restaurant from the get go, or do they give you a sense of what you’re getting into before you go there, experience it, and form your own opinion?

In the same way as music reviewers, these are people who are invested heavy into their critical field, and are probably far more thorough in their review than you because they’re publishing it for casuals like you. Because of that, they can reveal new insights to you as a casual restaurant goer.

However, if you’re invested in the food experience yourself, you’re gonna find yourself disagreeing with reviewers. Some don’t get the culture of the place they’re eating at for some reason. They seem silly.

It’s the same way for music reviews. It should be understood that these reviews appeal far more to those who aren’t as versed in music while sometimes giving more hardcore fans like ourselves tidbits of info. There are gonna be reviewers who are simply outsiders to the culture that their food/music encompasses, and you may not be an outsider and look at their view in disdain, but at the end of the day it’s another reviewer.

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I agree completely with what you said about word choice. The tone of a review says a lot about what emotions the art made the critic feel. Hate how fantano just sits in his room looking at the camera speaking in the most monotone way he can. I think fantano is really good at sounding disappointed and not much else.

I don’t think video game reviews benefit from being more technical though. I think we all remember IGN’s famous Pokémon ORAS review where the reviewer deducted points because he thought there was “too much water”. In terms of OPs argument, that was a phenomenal review because the critic said exactly what he didn’t like about the game. Obviously it had impacted his experience and it would’ve been a bad review if he had just lied about disliking something else.

I don’t agree. Music reviewers don’t necessarily have to be into music like that honestly. It’s just a job at the end of the day, the best And most immersed don’t always get the job.

And it depends on review type. “Casuals” as you say love scores and don’t really care about the review. Can guarantee if fantano stopped rating projects people would go ballistic and even stop watching because they don’t care about the review just the score. Chris stuckkmann didn’t it (because he wants to get in the film industry and didn’t want to “offend” anyone he may possibly work with) and fans killed him for it. He brought back scores but they’re obviously heavily biased now and I’m sure he dosent say that anymore. Which is what op is talking about I believe.

Yes I’ve listened to some music before because it had good reviews. Did it affect my opinion? No

Video game reviews have the chance to show the audience exactly what they feeling or how the game plays. The pokemin reviewer complained about a aesthetic choice that was suppose to tie in with rhe game's legendary pokemon and how the water can flood the entire country or have a drought so severe, it emptied the land. For the reviewer to make that comment as a serious negative made him lose all credibility.

You can say you don't like something, but even those who dislike something can find merit in it. If christgau can give radiohead an A on kid A while still giving them s***, makes me give them respect

What is he supposed to do if he legitimately enjoys the game less because of that? Should he nitpick the rest of the game until he's happy with the score? (like what fantano did with that one line on Desires) He's just one guy who played the game offering his experience with it. You shouldn't have given him any credibility in the first place.

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It's true, I really don't care about the review too much, but it's a bad take cause it doesn't make sense to hate the fact there's so much water. Now, he can hate and dislike it, but was the water necessary for the plot? Pretty much,and what was the goal off team aqua and magma during the game ? And how it involved the lgendaries groudon and kyogre. Did the water stop him from travelling to certain areas? Or had annoying puzzles or padding you make him take more time than he needed? No, it was an insane nitpick that changed the grading from what could be positive, to something mediocre.

It's more of confusion on my end. Understand what was the game's point, and what the game was trying to achieve and did the gameplay supplement it or hinder the vision?