Why do people hate low review scores?

[MontanaHatchet]

Runa216 said:

MontanaHatchet said:
Gamers today are the most entitled babies ever.

There, I said it.

They don't want lower review scores for their favorite games or a legitimate challenge in the games they play. They know that a game they're anticipating is the best game ever before they even get to play it, and they'll ruin you if you should so dare as to give it a sub-9.0 score. If you made the average "hardcore" gamer today play Magician Lord, they'd have a panic attack.

What about games that were universally hated, like Duke Nukem?  I remember seeing almost every review for that game (mine included) getting harassed for "jumping on the bandwagon of hate" in spite of the fact that almost everyone agreed it sucked.  

I also get a lot of complaints when I mention shoddy control schemes...apparently I should just deal with it :P 

Gamers have invested so much hype and energy into Duke Nukem that the idea that it was, in fact, a bad game was devastating to them. It's one thing if a PS3 game disappoints (for example) and 360 gamers get to bag on it, but when a hyped, multiplatform game from a classic series launches to bad reviews, most gamers resort to a natural defense mechanism. It can't be the game that's bad, just the reviewer! Entitlement pure and simple.

Trust me, I wrote a couple reviews for Vgchartz. I got a lot of flack for my Mass Effect review because I gave it an 8.5 (the same as Gamespot gave it). Apparently many of its fans on the site thought it deserved no less than the excellence of a 9+ score. I don't really mind it now, but more than one user seemed to give the impression that I was the problem and there weren't any great issues with the game itself.