Consensus Does Not Invalidate Personal Experience
EGMR's Bracken Lee-Rudolph discusses polarising attitudes in gaming, and how ostracising people based on uncommon views will not help the industry progress.
Quote: "Last week, an IGN article went up about Bloodborne and how Reviews Editor, Dan Stapleton, struggled to retain interest through the grindingly formulaic gameplay, and brutal difficulty.
IGN’s own review of the game rated it at a 9.1/10; an incredible score by most measurements. Our own review gave it a 90 — from the perspective of a reviewer who has played, and loved, the past Souls games. These are hardly the only positive reviews on the internet for a game which has largely received critical acclaim, but still Dan Stapleton, a journalist in the industry for over a decade now, found little to no enjoyment from Bloodborne‘s unforgiving outlay."
