So all reviews should only be targeted at the reviewer's (potentially mistaken) viewpoint of what the 'average consumer' wants? What about everyone else? Is Jim Sterling really the only person on the planet who would really hate Yooka Laylee?
Exactly the point I tried to make too.
So every review should attempt to do the same exact thing (and presumably produce scores all inline with every other review) so as not to 'harm' the metacritic average of the game?
Why bother aggregating reviews if they're all the same?
This is dumb.
If someone can't read this:
Jim FUCKING STERLING SON said:
Yooka-Laylee is a game out of time, clinging so desperately to past glories it doesnt seem to understand the Earth kept spinning after the N64 was discontinued. Its everything wrong about the formative years of 3D platforming and it somehow retained none of what made the genres highlights endure.
And understand that if *they* don't think 90s platformers like Banjo Kazooie have aged terribly, and thus that they may very well not come to the same conclusion as Jim does... then that's on those people.
Not Jim. He explains clearly why he doesn't like it.
If you think Banjo Kazooie has held up just fine, because Jim explained why he didn't like the game, you can read his review and know that you wouldn't rate it the same way he does.
There is no subjective fact here on whether or not Banjo Kazooie has dated so much that it's unplayable. For some people that's true. For others it's not.
Why shouldn't someone who thinks the former get to share their opinion? Why shouldn't people looking for a review from someone who thinks Banjo Kazooie is now dated unplayable junk be able to find a reviewer catering to that viewpoint?
If you get upset about a game getting a specific metacritic... get over it. Game reviewers aren't there to give metacritic datapoints to work from. They are there to share their opinions of games. Some people read reviews as a buyers guide, some people read reviews to see what other people think of a title.
Reviews should cater to both.
And they do!
They shouldn't cater to someone upset about a metacritic score.