the less spiteful way to put that would be that most of his arguments boil down to a prescriptivist reading of review scores, and as a general descriptivist, I'm just not really interested in that. Is there good writing about the game, either in reviews or out? I hope so!
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Like, I hated God of War. I feel like that game deserved maybe a 3/10 (with review text that supports that score). And I certainly understand why some gave it 9s and 10s or whatever. I don't expect everyone to agree with me. But EVERYONE giving it 9s and 10s? I mean, come on.
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I just think he tends to argue it in a way that implies review scores are the end of the discussion, which I hate, as opposed to the start, which I'm fine with. It's an aesthetic disagreement. It IS an important question and I hate how he raises it.
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I cannot speak for another writer either, but I get the suspicion that if his point were the former he could have easily focused on Obra Dinn, Into the Breach or any other of his hated selection. Focusing on RDR2 (and, from what I gather, formerly on Bioshock Infinite), imo,
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pretty clearly signifies that his aim is to point out the illusory consensus that titles with their considerable marketing clout tend to impose. Even if he's not doing that, the fact that the field, overwhelmingly, chooses to deridingly respond to the former, irrelevant
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We don't though. Smart folks, at big sites and small ones, wrote about issues with games like Red Dead and GoW. The argument arises out of partially out of a lack of literacy, which makes it a shaky argument.
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which is why I think the argument is primarily one of labor: who gets reviews, and writes reviews, and why? as opposed to a massive critical failing
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If I can add my own take on why game critics agree with each other so much: https://tinyletter.com/KyleOrl/letters/the-game-beat-weekly-the-pressure-to-stay-in-line …
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I think that's part of it, but even before that, there's a basic necessity where the act of playing a game, of interfacing with it, requires a certain level of technical competence and games tend to be judged according to that.
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