Review Copies (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Tuesday, September 02, 2014, 19:45 (3742 days ago) @ Leviathan

Yeah, I don't see how Bungie could do it any other way. Since Destiny is dependent upon a population in its functioning, reviewing it without one would not be reviewing Destiny at all.

I do not see how this is true at all. If it is, then how do reviewers review multiplayer shooters and the like? I feel like folks saying this have not even played the game. Other random players are not a huge part of Destiny. If you review the game with two other people playing the story and strike, and play crucible with other reviewers as has been done for tons of other multiplayer shooters, you could absolutely come to a conclusion.

Advanced reviews often feel like marketing strategies (although I guess they don't always work if the game is truly terrible); I prefer these days to try things out myself or talk to people I know to discover art & entertainment (I also don't enjoy assigning numbers, letters, or stars to those things anymore - my compulsive brain gets all caught up on the ordering when I do, so that's another nail in the coffin).

This is why Ebert had it right with thumbs up and thumbs down. Good or bad. How good or how bad? Read the review.

Hell, I need like a month to think about a game or a movie or a book, and multiple sittings or viewings or reads before I feel qualified to say anything about it.

There is some truth to this, although if a game is bad you don't need to play it very long to come to that conclusion and say why. Same thing with a good game. The thing that takes time, is determining whether the game is good, or if it is great.