There's something simple and easy about reading a score, even if we mistrust that score. While I agree that review scores are pretty arbitrary and unhelpful, they're also a natural and perhaps unavoidable part of our modern consumption of consumer goods. That doesn't even take into account the race to the bottom that occurs when no embargo is in place to ensure thorough reviews. Now that review code isn't handed out until hours before a game launches, any issues like this that could have potentially been resolved before an embargo or launch are delayed. Of course, part of the problem here is Bethesda's ridiculous review copy policy. But over at MetaCritic the score remains a 40/100, dragging the average down forever. This is an interesting point given that IGN has since updated their score to an 8/10 thanks to a patch that fixed the bug in question. A score should be impacted by missing or broken features, it just doesn't hurt to see if a quick patch can fix those issues. If the game's issues aren't resolved in a timely fashion, and especially if they're pervasive ( The Master Chief Collection comes to mind) then by all means, have at it.
If there is a bug (and especially a bug that isn't widespread, such as was the case with Prey) issuing a "buyer beware" post ahead of a full review would be a wise move. If a game won't have its multiplayer features available until after launch, but review embargoes lift before launch, it makes sense to wait to issue a score. Holding off issuing a score for a game for any number of reasons is perfectly fair so long as you explain to readers why. I find myself in Bain's court on at least the second point. " I'd have held off scoring the game until I knew more about how widespread this savegame bug is before putting a permanent blackmark on a games reputation," Bain writes. I reached out to Stapleton for his take but he declined to comment. And second, more specifically that given the fact that review aggregator MetaCritic only uses the first score a publication hands out, never updating it should the score change down the line, this kind of major outlier can unfairly tarnish a game forever.First, and more broadly, that review scores create arbitrary limits on reviewers, hindering what they say by tying it to a number.Others took issue with this, including popular YouTuber John "TotalBiscuit" Bain, who pointed out that the problem here is twofold:
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