>>41865286If you don't know how modern reviews work you're an actual brainlet. Companies will send review copies to review places ahead of the release date, which gives review places good traffic as obviously that's the time when people are going to be looking up reviews. Gaming companies obviously want good reviews, so if a review site gave them a bad review, they're not going to go out of their way to send that place a review copy next time they release something.
Thus, major review places like to give things very favorable scores. You see very mediocre or middling games recieving 7s or 8s, rather than the 5s or 6s you should reasonably see for the sorts of games that are often described as average even in the text of the review. They do this because everyone still sees a 7/10 or an 8/10 as a 'pretty good' score, even though realistically it's been watered down to be absolutely meaningless.
