
In some ways this is a follow up to my last Evening Topic where we discussed fanboyism. Everything from films to plays gets reviewed in some form or another and video games are, of course, no exception. But video game reviews have a tendency to stir up a lot of controversy, especially among fans of certain games.
Not only are reviews a source of fanboy rage, there’s also a strange eschewment of the review system in general. Certain sites and publications seem almost too soft on games, rarely giving out anything less than a 6/10 while other sites and publications are deemed too hard, rarely giving out their highest grade. So I ask:
- Do you consider certain sites/magazines’ reviews to be more professional than others’?
- Have you ever read a review you absolutely disagreed with, even if you respected the source of the review?
- How much playtime should go into a review?
- Does a game need to be finished in order to be reviewed properly?







