What is a game that you love and highly rated, but when you went to check its rating you were suprised it was rated low?

[Tenfivefour]

I have experience a few games like this, I wonder if it's happened to others?

 

[Count Morado]

None. I have great taste.

Honestly though, I don't pay attention to any ratings here and, for the most part, no one should. Too many people don't know how to properly review objectively. Mostly they rate based upon what they like (whether it's in the game or not - "yuck! There's NTR!" or "no incest - 1 star" or "boobs too small" or "cock too big" or similar) rather than whether the game/VN is meeting acceptable standards of quality and is achieving what the developer is intending.

 

[Meaning Less]

This happens quite often to me, not only with games but even with other forms of media like movies and anime.

I've long accepted that I simply don't have a normie taste, things that bother many don't bother me, and things that are boring to me are often praised by others.

I completely ignore reviews by default because of that, the only way of knowing if I'm going to enjoy something or not is by watching/playing it.

 

[Hadley]

For me its the other way around. I often try Games because of good ratings and can't fucking understand how these Games got these good reviews.

 

[Tenfivefour]

For me, I pick games depending on what mood I am in. E.g wanting a story game, or just pure sexual and nothing else. I also look at the quality of renders, the story of the game, and genre tags on it.

If I know what im going to get and it delivers, I am tottally happy with it, regardless if its not everyone's cup of tea or of it low rating. My recent experience of this is Mother's Devotion.

I was expecting good sexual content with a bit of story and I got it. The sexual content I found amazing with quality renders and choices, and the story is decent enough, thus me rating it personally high. So I was just suprised when I saw the game again by accident and noticed it was rated fairly low.

 

[MarshmallowCasserole]

I'd say the reverse is true: a lot of bad games are rated too high.

I can see games falling in two broad categories: blatant trash VNs that idiots rate as 5 purely because of CGs, and games that actually try to be better games, or heck, to be games at all. Games from the second group attract a more discerning audience and as a result are rated a bit lower.

There is no way in hell actual games like, say, Karryn's Prison, Future Fragments, Last Sovereign, or SK Aura are on the same level as a DAZ linear clichéd incest VN. Not even fucking close.

So my impression is that complex games are rated more or less fairly (all the games I gave as examples are good, but not without flaws, so around 4.5 is a fair score), but there's a flood of grossly overrated VNs that makes 4.5 look poor by comparison.

 

[hakarlman]

From my personal experience, I found you can really trust the opinions of people on this site (when they're not shit posting or trolling of course, ). When I go and play a game with 2-3 stars, it usually matches the low effort quality of the game.

 

[nulnil]

Some game called Edge Lords, IMO best porn game in a long time. Most of the bad reviewers don't seem to understand that just because a game has cards, it's not necessarily a deck builder. The other times, they just have a skill issue.

 

[♍VoidTraveler]

You can't trust most "reviews" on F95.
And that in large part is thanks to F95 allowing any random yolo to leave his poop in the review section of any thread.

To ever have any hope of fixing this mess, F95 needs to create another job here - Reviewer.
Select people who can review properly, and let those trusted people do the job of reviewing.

 

[Joshy92]

Something that I see a lot of in reviews and it annoys me.
Is people saying something has potential.
I don't care what might happen in the future I want to know about the game now.

 

[IIIIamsb]

There are some games I played with pictures that are rough, even rough to funny, but it just feel awesomely right to me,like a guy called スタジオシロッコ in DLSITE

 

[User4862]

You can't trust most "reviews" on F95.
And that in large part is thanks to F95 allowing any random yolo to leave his poop in the review section of any thread.

To ever have any hope of fixing this mess, F95 needs to create another job here - Reviewer.
Select people who can review properly, and let those trusted people do the job of reviewing.

Then it'd just be not trusting reviews for a different reason. Currently, critic reviews for other media is largely not trustworthy. By allowing anyone to review, sure there's a lot of shit to sift through, but there's also going to be the honest ones.

 

[♍VoidTraveler]

Then it'd just be not trusting reviews for a different reason. Currently, critic reviews for other media is largely not trustworthy. By allowing anyone to review, sure there's a lot of shit to sift through, but there's also going to be the honest ones.

That is going to be waay too much money to buy all of those trusted reviewers, and if found they can be banned from reviewing again.
And nothing prevents anyone from buying reviews even now.
On top of that, without the existence of trash reviewer filter, one can just create new accounts and keep "reviewing" all day long from those accounts. So.. yeah, your point is moot at best.

And lastly, i don't know about you but i don't have the time nor the patience to try and dig up a few decent reviews from among a pile of 300+ "reviews." Of course not all games have that many, but some do.

 

[User4862]

That is going to be waay too much money to buy all of those trusted reviewers, and if found they can be banned from reviewing again.
And nothing prevents anyone from buying reviews even now.
On top of that, without the existence of trash reviewer filter, one can just create new accounts and keep "reviewing" all day long from those accounts. So.. yeah, your point is moot at best.

I wasn't talking about devs paying reviewers, I was talking about the review system being inherently untrustworthy because it'd only be a select group of people that would be allowed to share their opinion of the game. It's like you're trying to create state run reviews.

Your final point already happens, though on a much smaller scale than you're hypothesizing, but actions against that also currently happen when it's discovered. What you proposed is silencing people that you deem unworthy of reviewing.

 

[♍VoidTraveler]

I was talking about the review system being inherently untrustworthy because it'd only be a select group of people that would be allowed to share their opinion of the game.

I don't see what would make them suddenly untrustworthy simply because they would be selected as F95 reviewers.
If they can analyze the game well and write objectively, more power to them i say.

What you proposed is silencing people that you deem unworthy of reviewing.

What i proposed is filtering out low quality reviewers, to make way for quality reviews.
Once that is done then perhaps people will finally be able to look at review system of F95 as something more than just a giant joke.

If you like "gam looks promising" "reviews" so much... well, whatever shakes your broads i guess.
I don't.

 

[User4862]

I don't see what would make them suddenly untrustworthy simply because they would be selected as F95 reviewers.
If they can analyze the game well and write objectively, more power to them i say.

What i proposed is filtering out low quality reviewers, to make way for quality reviews.
Once that is done then perhaps people will finally be able to look at review system of F95 as something more than just a giant joke.

If you like "gam looks promising" "reviews" so much... well, whatever shakes your broads i guess.
I don't.

Filter it out yourself, like we all do. Get better at identifying what you don't want to see. But frankly, people should be allowed to share their dumb opinions as much as they want, regardless of how low effort it's considered. Hell, maybe they're intellectually deficient and "gam looks promising" is the best they can muster.

If you think it's such a good idea, why not create a poll thread?

 

[nulnil]

I think they should remove the average rating from a game, so you'd actually have to see what people have to say about the game. It'd probably be the best way to see which reviews are "worth" more. An eight-paragraph review probably has some important points in there compared to a three sentence review.

 

[♍VoidTraveler]

If you think it's such a good idea, why not create a poll thread?

As if that will actually do shit.
Not to mention it'll likely be flooded with fake account votes anyway.

Suggestion section of this forum is full of suggestions too, and do you often see any of them actually making it into the active forum build? I don't. It's essentially a dump that serves to get people off admin's backs.
Which to me implies that they don't really give a shit about what people think or want.

So all you can do is waste your breath in general or in off-topic.

 

[MarshmallowCasserole]

You do know that reviews have likes, right? That's all there needs to be to have a foundation for a functioning rating system.

All you need to do is make likes count as a weight factor for reviews' score. People aren't (too) stupid. Good reviews are generally well received and trash like "game looks promising, 5 stars" is not.

 

[Meaning Less]

All you need to do is make likes count as a weight factor for reviews' score.

I can easily see people abusing this even more, if all you needed to change the score was a like, suddenly you would see tons of people creating alt accounts just to bump up/down games with likes.

At least now if anyone goes to the struggle of manipulating reivews they have to work harder writing actual reviews, and they often get caught because it is not easy to write multiple reviews without looking suspiciously like the same person.