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Originally Posted by hutzelkaefer
I absolutley agree with Wolpertinger that espacially that line is very offensive.
I mean there is no other argument for the five points than that line and good sound and graphic. I don't care if there are christian games on abandonia, but i think it's anxious when a game is reviewed that good because of content and not gameplay and complexity.
A reviewer should try to stay objective and I don't see it in the article. It's not about some conspiracy, it's about quality!
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People, since when is a line that says "something is teaching useful lessons and truths" offending? You're being ridiculous. Or maybe you forgot what "to offend" means? As an example: putting a saint in a porn is considered offensive, drawing caricatures of Mohammed is offensive... But saying a game teaches you valuable lessons and truths? I heard that being said about every game in existence.
You're the one who's being intolerant towards other people's opinions.
Now about the review. We're a site that's relying on volunteers: volunteers write the reviews, volunteers take the screens, volunteers are the admins, volunteers like me are talking to you in this thread; nobody's receiving any money, as you can see. We can't censor the reviewer's opinion, because we'll be on the same level as the nazis and the bolsheviks then. A part of our staff's job is correcting grammar and style mistakes (includes removing offensive material). Now there was only one case where we were forced to remove offensive sentences in the past. So now you know we don't just upload stuff without first checking them. We do, and this review is as innocent as a kid playing in a sandbox.
I'm sure nobody from you would have volunteered to review this game objectively, as you say, so my opinion is that it was good that someone like The Lemming, who'd care to actually play the game and write a few lines on it, has done this. I don't see a point in someone reviewing it who already has the preconception that the game is bad, even if it truly is. We have had many reviews in the past, some of them were detailed analytical reviews, some of them were just small chunks of info on the games. We can't force volunteers to write in a professional way, and we can't force (and don't want to force) them to change the scores they give to games.
Look for example at this
review. It has a score of five and nothing in the review talks about why it deserves a 5/5, but I'm sure when it was uploaded people didn't lynch the guy because of that. What I'm trying to say is even though a review doesn't have what it takes to be a real review, Abandonia is not so rich, not so mighty to refuse what people offer.