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veen  ·  3789 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: On Video Game Reviews (Or Why Bioshock Infinite was the "worst game of the year")

This is a great article, with some truths hidden in it that apply well beyond gaming reviews. One of the parts that I found interesting was this one:

    A good review is openly, flagrantly, unabashedly subjective. It goes all in with the reviewer’s biases. It claims them for what they really are – not tastes, not mere opinions, but values. It is a full-throated expression of one person’s experience...

I had a fantastic professor with whom I've had very interesting discussions. He'd state his opinion as a solid fact, often with very strong arguments. I combated him, in an attempt to find The Truth, aka objectiveness. Most of the time he'd find a good counterargument that subtly attacked that objectiveness ("how can you know that for sure").

It took me a long time and lots of discussions to figure out that his strong opinion was openly, unabashedly subjective and that he was trying to teach us how you can discuss with that in mind.