[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiHH-X6SUrI[/media]
"Believe the hype"
I imagine two groups coming to going and it going something like this "The market will decide what it wants".
Clearly the studios, publishers, and reviewers are to blame.
There's one really easy demonstration that publishers are intentionally misleading the consumer.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/6o12VJt.png[/img]
This is from the metacritic page for the film "300: Rise of an Empire". It is at a metascore of 47, and by the metric of the film industry it is deemed an [I]average movie[/I].
[img]http://i.imgur.com/srzv481.png[/img]
This is from the metacritic page for the game "Thief". It is at a metascore of 70, and despite being 23 points higher than 300 (almost 1/4 the maximum score), the metric of the game industry deems it an [I]average game[/I].
Now, let's come at this from the perspective of the layman, who does not buy many games. He is more likely to be experienced with films and the metric they are judged by, and thus will expect games to follow suit. When he sees a publication give a game 70, he is most likely going to assume that it is a [I]good[/I] game, not an [I]average[/I] game.
Oh my fucking word, the nostalgia that happened for me when the video started was almost unbearable, I felt like I'd just stepped back into the 90's
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