I've recently been playing a lot, and I mean A LOT of Samurai Warriors 3 for the Nintendo Wii recently and I decided to just look around online to see if anyone had anything to add to my experience.
The first thing I noticed, however, is video game reviewers; IGN gave this game a 3/10. I was confused at first, I started to wonder if I was a suck up or if I just didn't see the game the way anyone did. So I clicked the IGN link and read one of the most awful examples of Video Games Reviewing of all time. Now granted, I'm sure a lot of people don't like the game but being platformed on the Wii, I'm sure a lot of Samurai (and maybe even Dynasty) Warriors fans were on the fence whether or not wanting to buy this and this review surely pushed a lot of people to the wrong side of the fence.
You can read the review for yourself if you want but basically the whole review is bashing the game for, you guessed it, "It's just the same as the other games in the franchise", which is fair enough, I know that some people only like a couple Warriors games and, myself, I like many of them because I can find the smallest differences to be at least something new and exciting to what I already know and love. But the fact that the review only talks about the negatives and makes them even more negative but the author's word choice is just wrong.
And what's wrong with this is, like I said, the author makes everything a negative within the review. Instead of saying something like "The character models seem to be quite repetitive" they say "It's just the same fat ugly muddy guys" that is no way to review a game. Now I believe Video Game Reviewing should be all about telling people how good a game is , rather than is this game good or bad because everyone has an opinion and, and by saying the game is "not good" instead of "could be better" really throws away a lot of people and it shouldn't be like that people should choose for themselves if the game is good enough for them and not have someone else choose for them.
I know I ranted on for a bit and there's still a lot I want to get covered here, but imagine if this was for Call of Duty,or a Fifa game, I bet a ton of people would be thrown off and get angry at IGN. Like I said, I know some people don't like it, and I know many people would give it a 3/10 but to say the game is "awful" instead of "It's not fantastic but fans of the series would like it" is just horrible Video Game Reviewing Etiquette that people have gotten into.