Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004...

On 23/11/2024 16:36, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Not that user reviews are without their own problems, of course.
They're, individually, just as easily manipulated, and even the ones
that are written in earnest, a lot of them lack objectivity or any
sort of real analysis. But the sheer number of them means that_some_
of them are going to be honest and trustworthy. Which is more than you
can say about professional reviews.

That's kinda what I like about them. Yes there lot's of dross ones that don't really say anything but you still get ones that do expand on what they found was good/bad beyond awesome/complete pants. My least favourite review, ones that review it against this is what someone wanted the game to be and not this is the game that the devs. were trying to make. So no, you shouldn't give Shadow Gambit:The Curse Crew a bad review as it's not Commandos. I'm not even going to mention the I've never played the game but I saw a talking head on YouTube saying it's woke (whatever that actually means) crowd.
Possibly a failing of them is that if people on Steam are generally anything like me there's a bias towards reviews that either are this is just really bad or this is just really good. Who's going to spend time writing a page of text for well it's ok I suppose.