Micah Whipple

Personal take on game reviews: I want the least amount of information to tell me if a purchase is worthwhile or not. My enjoyment of games is in discovering the systems and content, so I don't need a lot to convince me, and also don't really want anyone's opinions.

If robots could objectively review video games that'd work just fine for me. I really don't want to have to read a whole review to understand the reviewer doesn't care for the genre, and that's why it's a low score. Why is it on me to have to understand the context for a review.

When games take sometimes hundreds of hours to complete, it's just not possible for me to grow to understand and like an individual reviewer's tastes. They're just not going to review enough games. But I would like to get to know and understand a site's review ethos.

"It's just my personal opinion" isn't something I think any reviewer can reasonably state when the site and editorial staff are and should be ensuring the reviews reflect positively and accurately upon the larger site name and brand.

I disagree with some of this. It's the author's review. "If robots could objectively review video games that'd work just fine for me." That would be nice but we don't live in that world. Games are subjective. There isn't really much objectivity when it comes down to it.