Strange (Destiny)

by someotherguy, Hertfordshire, England, Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 17:45 (3268 days ago) @ Korny

I've always assumed the opposite - that community ratings skew high. The only time I tend to see 1-stars are when anyone can vote, at which point people who have never and will never play it will give it a 1 because "waaaah framerate" or "waaaaah graphics" or "waaaaaah Phil Fish". It's more rare to see low scores where a reviewer has to have purchased the product before reviewing.

But then you get all sorts of people with all sorts of outlooks and rationales, rating for all sorts of reasons. Not to mention the sometimes questionable taste of society at large (at least vs my own. Not to say theyre wrong and Im right or vice versa). Without an accompanying written review it's generally hard to glean what a numerical score actually means to a reviewer. It's why I prefer finding a traditional reviewer who lines up with your own views, rather than trying to read everyone.

Tl;Dr - people are weird, unpredictable and hard to interpret. Unreliable is an understatement.