A quick post at MTV Multiplayer on professional gamer reviewer scores versus user review scores. Interesting to see some of the differences there, especially when a high pro score is countered by a lower user score, and vice-verse. Does it speak to reviewers being somewhat out of touch with what the average gamer wants? Are they too critical to have fun in some cases?

While we certainly can't be called "professional" reviewers (the GoogleAdds total for the site, after 7 months, is a whopping $2.68), we here have all been playing, talking about, and (recently) writing about games for a long time. Is the distance we have from the developers a good thing when it comes to how we see the finished product? And what about age? I'll admit that many FPS games seem like DOOM with prettier monsters to me, while a 12 year old playing one for the first time might believe he/she has found Nirvana.

Of course, this also leads into the bigger issue of scores as ratings, but we will leave that for another time when I'm supposed to be doing real work.