shacknews.com — Speaking on the current state of video game journalism and criticism, Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences president Joseph Olin has expressed his belief that "game reviewers are lazy" due to a reliance on scores and the desire to review a game quickly.
Jul 30, 2008 View in Crawl 4
mrlogicalJul 30, 2008
"When I just see a score, whether it's a Metacritic score or 5 stars or 4 thumbs, that doesn't tell me anything," Olin told Shacknews during an extensive interview, to be published in full at a later date. "I am never surprised when there's as much as a 40% or 50% variance between Metacritic numbers and user numbers." What? Because they give scores, that makes them lazy? Just like that lazy bastard Gene Siskel, giving movies a "thumbs up" or a "thumbs down." He didn't even expend the effort to give movies a number. And you wonder how he got cancer.