The whole point is anyone can say whatever they want everywhere. JPEG came in here and told people not to buy Dishonored 2 because it had negative reviews. Reviews by accredited critics have been very positive to which he claimed is only because everyone reviewing it got paid boatloads by Bethesda to do so.
He'd rather you go to Steam reviews (A PC review platform in the PS4 thread
) because they're more trust worthy (according to him).
Here's the skinny. There have been scandals in the past with review shills. It's been shown time and time again that this has been a small minority of reviewers who once outed, are discredited and no longer work in the field. I've been hearing the "Man, these reviewers are paid for XXX game for a great review" since the ******* Gamepro days when I was 7 years old. It's old and tired.
If you've EVER played a Bethesda game in your life in the patching era you KNOW that out of the box even with a day one patch it's buggy and sometimes unplayable. You have to wait until the big patch drops 3 weeks to a month in before it's stable. Is that acceptable for a AAA developer? I don't think so, but it keeps happening and everyone keeps buying. (look forward to that 20 gig day one patch for FFXV everyone!)
If you take a look at the steam reviews you'll see that most complaints are about framerate and bugs and not about actual gameplay. Given how customizable PC's are this can be anything from the game being total bug filled mess to someone with a Pentium 4 and onboard video trying to play your game. Generally, it's a mixture of both. I would venture to guess that over 80% of the reviews on Steam right now are from people who haven't completed the game. Again, these are still reviews from the PC platform and not a uniform experience like the Xbox or Playstation.
Going back to Dishonored specifically, before the launch most of the community was up in arms saying it was going to get garbage reviews because of "reviewer backlash" that Bethesda didn't send out early copies. Now we got dudes saying they got paid to review it well. OK...
Wait 3 weeks for the patch and play it for yourself. Don't want to to risk it? Then pick it up when it goes on sale for $20. Then come in and give everyone your opinion about what you liked and disliked when you beat it or why you got bored and quit. That seems like a good way to talk about the quality of a game to me rather than passing off false facts.
