I'm glad the reviewer completely disagreed with the professional reviews. I personally put more stake in the opinion of a long-time series follower disappointed with the latest incarnation than in an industry hack who might be won over simply by the title.
As for the subjectivity of a review: An objective "review" would be a feature list. A review is evaluative writing, and therefore subjective. The problem with some reviews is that their criteria for subjectivity is not clear. This reviewer made the criteria very clear.
As for the game itself; sadly, I cannot play it. I downloaded the demo, and apparently my video card isn't beefy enough. Does anyone out there miss the days of 2d gaming? How come I can barely run Civ4? Why must turn-based games be so resource-intensive!?
Yeah, I will update the video card this summer, and I might even look into HOMM5, but probably only after it hits the bargain shelf. Or after the inevitable "gold" compilation surfaces, with the multiple expansions loaded into one, easy-to-carry package.
Thanks for the review!
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Originally Posted by Kalor
Are you aware that your review of this game completely disagrees with virtually every professional review I've read of it? In other words, I think you've let subjectivity get the best of you something hardcore. Namely, you put HoMM5 through the same gauntlet that HoMM4 went through: being unmercilessly compared to previous games in the series and not being taken on its own merit.
Sure, none of said reviews claim that HoMM5 is perfect, but they gave it far from a 1/5 or 20%. In fact, I can't think off the top of my head any review that gave it a rating of anything less than "average," and most have it higher than that!
I'm sure you'll say this is due to graphics or buy-off (probably more the former), but after playing the game myself since the day it came out I'd have to say you'd be completely wrong; I'm very much enjoying it, and apparently so did a lot of people who review games for a living. I'm sorry my friend, but your review is mostly subjective and hardly objective.
Your naked opinion counts, but not when submitting a public review. Your score could very easily frighten away people who don't have your personal, subjective expectations and would actually enjoy the game.
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