Specialist

[Alekay]

Writers with one or various specific genres focusing in reviews about those categories.

I hate when a ''journalist'' review a game that he don't like, don't understand or simply don't care enough and all the review is bias by that person taste.

I'm a big motor sport fan, so when I see a review about Gran Turismo Sport calling it boring or grindy or even ''unplayable'' is a BIG insult because he doesn't like racing or doesn't even know how to tune the cars and thus says all are the same.

the same happens with a RPG or long game, for example reviews complaining about the length of The Witcher III or how long is to learn everything... Yeah that's part of the fun factor.

take me for example, I love The witcher series and RPGS, so I can make a loooong and specific review because I completed 100% 3 TIMES.

But I don't like card games, it's not my thing so I find it boring... So I can be bias about Gwent, so I don't review it and let that to someone who actually like it or understand it better than me.

[ISP]

I think you are certainly right in your viewpoint of a review with a single reviewer but I think there is some value if you can also hear from someone who isn't a super fan of a genre or series. I think someone who understands the genre or title should take on the brunt of the work, while staying objective of course, but there should also be a blurb or two from someone else who others not well versed in the game or genre can hear from that might echo their initial experiences should they choose to jump into whatever game is being reviewed.

That kind of nuance seems so rare these days though. Reviewers in particular seem to view it all as a "one size fits all" kind of affair.

[Alekay]

Yeah that's alright.
I'm not saying that this should be the only review mode or only specialist can make their only genres.

I mean something like a extra perk or badge at the side of the reviewer name or score.

So for example if you like JRPG you can search an specific reviewer that you know is Good in that genre and can make a more detailed reviews.

I myself would made a very accessible reviews first, scored and all and THEN if you want to keep reading WHY I give it that score or just want to know a little more of details you can keep reading.

So for example you know I'm good at car games, JRPG, RPGS ext. You can read my review knowing it's going to be a little more deep.

But I can actually made a review about a platformer or a FPS, I'm going to make a good review (hopefully) but less detailed than my other reviews, but maybe that's your specialty so you can make one much more detailed.

It's something like a Plus for specific fans.

[Valkenr]

You could solve part of the problem with a secondary multi-variant review system that describes how the game plays (in addition to the that was just discussed in Super Chat).

For instance:
- Length
- Story Quality
- Complexity
- Action/Intensity (How fast paced things are during gameplay, bullet hell = intense)
- Grindiness
- Microtransactions


Then you can arrange them like the Pokemon EV polygon for quick review graphic.

The rest of the problem could be solved by making reviewer/user pick a number of genera tags, and they can only write reviews or leave ratings for those genres. For user ratings you could have people fill in their interests using the above metric, so user ratings are weighted towards people with similar interests the metric given by the reviewer.

Just ideas, not saying they're good After 10 PM my mind is usually altered

[DGCae]

I like where your head is at and ISP's as well. Doing something like how Game Informer does it would work here. Have the person that primarily plays that type of game review it while having the opinions of other reviewers who may not be all that into the genre give a paragraph off on the side detailing their experience with it. That way if a person comes across it and isn't all that familiar with the genre but enjoys other types can see how someone who shares their interests feels about it.

We can also utilize the user review section here in the forums and maybe add in some subsections for genres and link people from the website to here so they can see if other users have reviewed it and get even more perspectives.

[Tonic]

It's a valid point that will be taken into consideration.