Originally Posted by
Lt Clayton
Yh I never pay attention to reviews, especially movie or game reviews because they are so subjective. My best example is my friends reviews of CoD: WaW. They all loved it saying how fun the game was and how much better it was than other games at the time. I admit the game had certain elements which I enjoyed.
However end of the day I hated the game inside purely because it had no historical accuracy (Sadly boring history student at Uni lol). Now people would look at that review and say why are you being so petty, if you enjoy the gameplay why should you care if its not historically accurate. But it just made no sense to me using reflector scopes in WW2. It made me angry inside that kids were growing up thinking WW2 weapons were the same as ones today (Yh I know weird thing to get angry about). Ultimately I look back on that game and give it bad reviews when friends ask about it because of my opinions.
It is hard to write a review without infusing your opinion onto it. If you want to take reviews seriously the best way is too look back at other reviews by the same person. That way you get to know there tastes and dislikes. Taking the one IGN review out of context causes arguments from both sides. However if you look back and find the reviewer only ever likes playing Halo games, or only ever gives good reviews to CoD games you start to see why they may not like Defiance. It could be something as silly as not liking Sci Fi that could cause this person to give a worse review.
P.S My standpoint, I love the game. So far I have had three weapons disappear and one level froze on me for a while. Yes the game frustrates me, but then I think how much other games frustrate me. FIFA and the little annoying kids on it, CoD and the quickscopers, Halo and the Bunny Hoppers. Hell even Sonic frustrated me back in the olden days because you had to restart the game everytime. Games frustrate me, but then good things in life take patience and a little bit of time to mature. Think of Defiance as a Cheese or Wine. Give it some time lol
