I'm just trying to figure out why any poor review score is met with waves of people telling the reviewer he's full of shit or doesn't know what he's talking about. Any time Uncharted 3 got an 8 or lower, there were people there harassing the reviewer for daring to criticise the game's stringent linearity or occasional technical glitches or lack of advancement. When Gamespot gave Skyward Sword a 7.5 for it's repetition and reliance on motion controls, the internet went batshit insane. When Duke Nukem came out to unanimously poor reviews, EVERYONE got criticized for daring to unanimously agree that the game had a lot of issues.
Why is this? a criticism is a criticism, if it ruins a game reviwer's enjoyment of the game, he really shouldn't say "Well everyone else gave it a high score so I must be full of shit." This is peer pressure and it happens in game journalism all the time.
If anyone was wondering who's to fault for the inherent belief that anything under an 8/10 is a bad score, it's the gamers who make reviewers scared to give a game a bad score even if he or she has good reasons for giving that bad score.
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