I'm not saying critic reviews have no purpose. I'm saying it's ridiculous that people are judging the merit of a game on the number someone stuck on it. And, even more so, using those numbers to say one game is better than another. While there are certain cases of a game being better than another game (see anything vs ET), 98% of the time, it's subjective. Yes, reviews are a good way to find out what was done well or poorly in a game, but again, it's absurd to use those reviews to compare games. Go play them and make up your own mind, you know?

I agree with you on the number rating, it doesn't make sense to follow that because it can be different for everyone. But other than that lIke you said it's good to hear these people that put many hours into game giving us info on all the problems and good things that the game does. I think we're in the same page , number ratings shouldn't be followed , but explanations about the problems with the game or what the game does right can be up to a certain point.

[quoteI think we're in the same page[/quote] Yep. But would you mind moving over, it's a little cramped in here.