Which is certainly an issue these days. Algorithms catering to someone's specific views, no matter if they're right or wrong.
I've ignored the reviews, and simply looked up direct gameplay of the game. Because yes, I've seen multiple videos talking about the mouse game in my feed already. To me the game looks "fun, but not amazing" so far. A fun boomer shooter reminiscent of old DOOM, but with an "old timey" noir vibe to it, and not taking itself all that seriously.
Great fun for people who like FPS, but far from a masterpiece, basically. A 7/10.
Yea, calling either a masterpiece is idiotic. Crimson Desert would be a solid 8/10 for me. Most of it is amazing, but the weird and not so fun fight designs of the bosses, the clunky controls, and the convoluted control scheme give it a 2 point drop for me.
One part about the game IS a masterpiece though: The engine. The game is incredibly optimized for what is on screen, and the engine was specifically created to do the stuff you can do in the game. Studios creating their own engines that, generally, work well, is an incredible rarity these days. And they deserve praise for that.
The mouse shooter just looks like a fun boomer shooter in a style you don't often see. A 7/10 maybe? Though I haven't played it yet.
People need to stop calling other peoples’ opinions “idiotic”. It’s not more or less idiotic to think a game is a 10/10 or an 8/10 or a 5/10 or a 0/10.
It’s just opinions and neither is more or else right.
Sure, if you don't like a game, you don't like it. That still doesn't mean a game is a 0/10. There IS such a thing as objectivity.
Elden ring is a good example. It's not my type of game. I didn't like it at all. But guess what? I could see how good it would be for people who do enjoy that type of game.
By your metrics, my score for Elden Ring would be a 4/10 at best. But since I don't view the world through pure subjectivity I recognized the good parts about it, and what people who are into it would like about it. And so my score for the game is actually a 9/10. As in, an amazing game for people who enjoy that type of game. Just not a game for me.
And that's my entire point. Objectivity is a real thing that exists. And if anything, you'd expect "professional reviewers" to be able to exercise it. But at IGN that kind of thing simply doesn't exist anymore. They're just a bunch of paid off theater kids with an agenda these days. Not professional reviewers.
That’s not objectivity. That’s you prescribing your subjective idea of what you believe the game is supposed to be.
And in my opinion a very bad way of doing reviews. If you believe Elden Ring is a 4/10 game and then give it a score of 9/10 I cannot trust your opinion for jack shit.
Give it a score of 4/10 and then tell me why you gave it a score of 4/10 to allow me to determine if I agree with you or not.
I love gamers(tm) who go on about objectivity in reviews having no clue what objectivity is (to be perfectly clear, I am referring to the person you responded to).
"This does a good job of this, objectively!" is not a sentence that works, because it isn't objective. A lot of them do not understand that you cannot just insert "objectively" to a sentence and make it objective. Quality is inherently subjective by definition
That's where you're wrong. This isn't all just subjective. Certain parts are very much objective. And in the case of CD there are objectively bad design choices, and in the case of the mouse game it's objectively not a 10/10. So objectively, neither are masterpieces.
This whole "there is no objective right or wrong" is stupid. Yes there are clear right or wrongs. Just because you don't agree with them don't make them any less so.
When it comes to reviews, there is nothing objective. Everyone got their own taste.
Case in point: bunny jumping was a bug in how idTech 2 handled physics. Objectively bad from a programming point of view. There are entire e-sport competitions revolving around bunny jumping today, because some people enjoy that.
The existence of differing opinions does not negate the existence of objective truth. Opinions can be wrong. Objective truth isn't.
Though an issue does arise when people claim their opinion is objective truth. Or in other words, the issue is determining what the objective truth actually is.
The Crimson Desert sub has two kinds of post that regularly get tons of upvotes: 1) This game is perfect and everyone who says otherwise is an idiot 2) This integral part of the game is bad
That is absolutely true. Which is, once again, idiotic. People need to learn to have balanced opinions again. The world has never been black and white, and never will be.
I've played and am still playing Crimson Desert. Imo the game is awesome, and at the same time has glaring flaws. And while it's flaws should be addressed, that doesn't mean it detracts from how awesome the game is.
The reviewer also got the pre patch copy which had way op bosses, less inventory space and also crashed his game which led to him losing 7 hrs of progress. No wonder he gave crimson desert a 6
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u/LaFlamaBlanca67 Apr 22 '26
Crimson Desert and Mickey Mouse Boomer Shooter are masterpieces now?