/vr/ - Retro Games

How biased do you think the reviews were? Having been able to play most if not all of these games myself over the years I find that their scores were generally pretty accurate, unlike internet reviewers who can be completely off to such a degree that it's maddening.

>>4627132

Posting this classic article from the September 1995 issue of Amiga Power. There have definitely been some questions on the ethics of video game reviewers even back in the 90s but can we ever actually be sure of anyone's ethics, especially public figures?

>>3400254
>They're just opinions by people
They're often not genuine opinions though. There have always been all kinds of influences that serve to bump up scores or make it appear like the person never even played the game (and if they did didn't do so for long.)

A subjective "I played mario and I hated it because I hate platformers" is semi-acceptable if you've got a writer over the long term and can sort of learn his preferences (and maybe later get a second opinion from a different one who loves platformers), but more often than not you'd get PR-man nonsense or any of the other sins in pic related.

Amiga Power is still fun to read today, given their correct use of a 0-100 scale (50 = average) and sense of humour.

>>3374948
Amiga Power for sure. Only mag I've known to actually use a 0-100 scale properly (where 50% = average, neither good nor bad, instead of "Well, it loads.")