PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT A HALF ASS / BAD REVIEW

I'm not sure if this was directed at me or not, as I was just offering a suggestion. Personally, I could care less, but every time a review gets written on this site, it seems a horde of people chime in with their own personal thoughts of what the review should have been like, instead of writing their own review. I think too many people spend their time worrying over a score than the actual contents of the review, which is why I thought dropping the score might help.

Whatever the staff decide to do is perfectly fine by them, but saying you'd like to shove peoples' heads into an oven makes you look moronic yourself... if not a bit psychotic.

Just sayin'.

author=Liberty
We have staff who check the reviews. Most of the time as long as they're reasonably well-written and not flame-war worthy, they'll pass. Why? Because people have their own opinions of games and you can't please everyone when you write a review. It's usually about how you felt the game stacked up and that's going to change for each person based on their own experiences in gaming.

This is how you get people who gush over the most simplistic and annoyingly stupid games, and others who are very critical of the things they play. It's part and parcel of being a site like RMN that caters towards players and developers.

My advice? Get over it.

That said, there was some talk a while back about looking into making a difference between critiques and reviews. We might look into it again.

If you have any issues with a review that someone has written, drop a line to one of the staff. Don't be stupid about it though, okay? Saying that such and such review is bad because it's critical of your slow-ass walk and text speed will make you come off looking like a complete moron and possibly make the staffers want to shove your head in an oven.

And I'd be down to help them with that. Just sayin'.

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author=amerkevicius
I could care less

couldnt

thats my contribution for this topic

It is completely possible to respect a person while completely despising that person's work, and that's a goal worth aspiring to in all aspects of social life. Just give your reasons, understand what the problems are, and be polite while explaining your point of view, and you'll write a good review.

Besides, we're all friends here, right?

author=Sauce
But seriously. A dev should not have to be grateful to receive a review of any kind. Especially if the review is terribly written (positive or negative).

...what? Yes they should. It means someone took the time out of their day to play your game and give you feedback. Positive or negative, poorly or well written, that's pretty darn flattering. :\

Poorly written reviews don't get past as often as you'd think. Maybe one or two slip past, but the amount that don't is a lot. As it stands, the average quality of reviews on this site is higher than that on most other sites.

In other words, for each bad review that gets through, there's many more that are caught and returned to be refined.

When I see a review that is crappy nowadays, I usually comment on its crappiness, as long as it's not for one of my games. But I mean if a reviewer was clearly just "phoning it in" it's probably not a bad idea to call them on it. I don't mean "their opinion of this game differs from my own" type cases. I mean "this is poorly written, badly structured, uninformative, and the text doesn't agree with the score at all" type cases.

Reviews are good, though, I don't want to discourage them. But both reviews and articles I've seen that have been approved recently I thought never should have gotten past RMN's quality controls; they were proportionately worse than games RMN has rejected in the past.

author=Jparker1984
I was just reading a few reviews were the person reviewing the game was a complete jack ass and just really half assing it. Which, is annoying and dumb. However, who on here really takes those people seriously?

Also, you got those people that write a seaming nice review, yet highly inaccurate. Its like they didn't really play the game, but wanted to say "Hey look at me, I wrote a review."

Either way, that brings me to my point of posting this. I hate how when people get one and or both of those types of reviews and they get all mean, nasty and defensive. I mean really, if you honestly felt that it was a crap review, why are you even wasting your time replying. If you think about it, by replying you are only getting down to their level and proving that your a cry baby.

EDIT: Now, let me clarify something. Replying with disagreement and being a cry baby about it are two different things.

i don't know why people is doing like this...

meh, i take reviews as constructive criticism. And besides, most gamers are assholes and are never happy, they nitpick worse then my wife.
It's better to take their review with a grain of salt or even go a step further and take what they are complaining about and try to learn from it and hopefully don't repeat the same mistake.

But yea, some seem to go out of their way just to be an asshole. There are better and nicer ways to criticize to get your point across, and if your nice about it they will usually listen to what you have to say a lot better then if your just being mean about it. But you also have to take in consideration it's easy to take things the wrong way online, as things could read as being mean but they didn't mean it to be like that.

Games in general should not be reviewed using scores, they should use comparisons with other games instead.
Chances are that even if a game get's awful reviews it will still be fun to play for someone.
That and every reviewer is indirectly biased by their preferences.
Explaining why you liked or didn't like a game and all it's elements (music, story, grapics, etc) should be enough for a review.