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Guy gives a negative review to Battlezone after playing 8k hours; He's right

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162 points isaacfrond | 1 comments | 01 Nov 24 09:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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CM30 ◴[07 Nov 24 00:20 UTC] No.42071706[source]▶
To be fair, it kinda makes sense. The person best equipped to criticise a game or work is probably often someone who's experienced it for the longest. That way, they get to know all the things that don't add up, get repetitive on repeat playthroughs, various UI and UX annoyances that get worse the more you experience them, etc.

There's a reason the biggest fans of a game or film or TV series tend to give some of the harshest criticism, and why the most active users of a tool or program tend to have the most to say about it.

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1. paxys ◴[07 Nov 24 02:01 UTC] No.42072475[source]▶
It depends on what you are looking for out of the review. If you want a PhD dissertation on the game then yes, the guy who has dedicated probably decades of his life playing it is the person to go to. If you are a casual gamer looking for a simple answer for whether you should play the game or not, you don't really want to ask someone whose evaluation criteria isn't even in the same universe as yours.