If your opinion is mixed and you feel so strongly about that, that you can't justify a positive or negative review, then your opinion does not serve the purpose of a review system to begin with, which is to inform purchase decisions.
And if a game is "meh" or can't justify a positive value judgement, then that should justify a negative. Because the game costs the consumer money, it should at least be a positive.
The neutral opinion is no review - if someone absolutely must tell the world that they don't have an actual opinion either way, that's just narcissism.
I disagree because of how in particular I know it's very difficult to get proper feedback on a video game but you're entitled to your opinion. Mind you, to provide some balance, I feel like this is exactly what stuff like early access and beta tests were originally meant for.
Feedback for the developer isn't the primary purpose of the review system, though. That's what the forums are for. The review system is for informing consumers.
It's a terrible system for informing consumers as well because it gets gamed so much on either direction. These days you're better off as a gamer simply ignoring the reviews unless they're warning about something very specific and checking out the recorded gameplay yourself to see if you like it. The weird thing is sometimes you get this with anime on comments pages where you see people shitting all over the show and it's like they haven't even watched it, which let's be real, they may well not have.
I get plenty of value from reviews. First thing I do is check negative reviews to see if many of them are talking about similar problems. Positive reviews are a very mixed bag, but the negative side is usually decent for highlighting major issues and much faster than forum crawling. Positive reviews are mostly just simping, but if someone I know has good taste posts one or it's getting a lot of comparisons to other games I like I'll give it a second look if I was on the fence.
It's a tool, that used along with others informs the consumer. It's not ideal as a sole metric, but it's useful to look at aggregate opinions.
If your opinion is mixed and you feel so strongly about that, that you can't justify a positive or negative review, then your opinion does not serve the purpose of a review system to begin with, which is to inform purchase decisions.
And if a game is "meh" or can't justify a positive value judgement, then that should justify a negative. Because the game costs the consumer money, it should at least be a positive.
The neutral opinion is no review - if someone absolutely must tell the world that they don't have an actual opinion either way, that's just narcissism.
I disagree because of how in particular I know it's very difficult to get proper feedback on a video game but you're entitled to your opinion. Mind you, to provide some balance, I feel like this is exactly what stuff like early access and beta tests were originally meant for.
Feedback for the developer isn't the primary purpose of the review system, though. That's what the forums are for. The review system is for informing consumers.
It's a terrible system for informing consumers as well because it gets gamed so much on either direction. These days you're better off as a gamer simply ignoring the reviews unless they're warning about something very specific and checking out the recorded gameplay yourself to see if you like it. The weird thing is sometimes you get this with anime on comments pages where you see people shitting all over the show and it's like they haven't even watched it, which let's be real, they may well not have.
I get plenty of value from reviews. First thing I do is check negative reviews to see if many of them are talking about similar problems. Positive reviews are a very mixed bag, but the negative side is usually decent for highlighting major issues and much faster than forum crawling. Positive reviews are mostly just simping, but if someone I know has good taste posts one or it's getting a lot of comparisons to other games I like I'll give it a second look if I was on the fence.
It's a tool, that used along with others informs the consumer. It's not ideal as a sole metric, but it's useful to look at aggregate opinions.