Looks like BoTW got hit with some troll reviews. It would be great, but very, very unlikely, if Metacritic/ GameRankings filtered out all the clickbait reviews.
| PotentHerbs said: Looks like BoTW got hit with some troll reviews. It would be great, but very, very unlikely, if Metacritic/ GameRankings filtered out all the clickbait reviews. |
How would you go about doing that? Maybe they can drop those who are primarily entertainers first and reviewers second, but when site's are reviewing possibly hundreds pf games a year there are going to be times when they just get it wrong. Should Gamespot be dropped because one reviewer just hates hard games (Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze), or another can't be bothered to try to figure out how to play the game the right way despite the game going out of its way to show him (Skyward Sword)? Flukes are going to happen.
h2ohno said:
How would you go about doing that? Maybe they can drop those who are primarily entertainers first and reviewers second, but when site's are reviewing possibly hundreds pf games a year there are going to be times when they just get it wrong. Should Gamespot be dropped because one reviewer just hates hard games (Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze), or another can't be bothered to try to figure out how to play the game the right way despite the game going out of its way to show him (Skyward Sword)? Flukes are going to happen. |
Exactly my point. I'm not saying a game can't be penalized for its flaws, or awarded a score thats below its average, but clickbait reviews are clear as day.
sc94597 said:
The point was that all games which have 10/10 scores have faults. The 10's here are perfectly consistent.
I already made a post about what I think is wrong (and right) with his criticisms in this thread. I am not going to retype all of it.
The most egregious example is he says the gane is only difficult because enemies one-shot you/do a lot of damage. This is only true when you first start the game, have bad gear, and only have three hearts, like in pretty much every role-playing or actions adventure game. After you get to the first town you can collect fairies which revive you when you die. And depending on which dungeon you go to first there is a skill which revives you. It is really hard (you have to be unprepared) to get OHKOed. Additionally a lot of the difficulty is derived from avoiding enemy's teleprompted attacks.
His entire tidbit trying to make it seem like the game is only difficult because the enemies hit hard and there is nothing you can do about it is a big misrepresentation of facts. Likewise with the facts surrounding when and how you fight Ganon.
These aren't things which can be amounted to "he has a different opinion." These are claims about what the game is like, which can be refuted or supported. |
Not that I want to defend him at all, yet after 40 or maybe 50 hours, I still don't know about fairies or a revival skill or armor, I didn't even know you could counter and dodge until I saw my kids do the tutorial shrine in Kariko village yesterday. My fault for heading of West into the sunset instead of following the main quest but I don't mind the hard hitting one hit kills. I do die 30 to 50 times a night. You die you learn.
It's the risk of offering too much freedom, some people are going to get stuck. Like my 5 year old that ran out of weapons and food in a bad place, that took a bit of work to get him back on track. I guess you can always teleport back to the beginning and work your way up from a branch again lol.
Anyway the game isn't perfect, it's just the best game since Dark souls and the best Zelda.
Down on Metacritic! 97 Switch and 94 Wii U
So, Jim Sterling's site is actually being DDoS'd because of the Zelda review. The amount of effort some people will go to attack reviews they don't agree with is just baffling at times.
Good. Just a few more clickbaits and my 96 prediction becomes truth. My score still at 0 on the meta prediction thread :(
About the Jims Sterling review, I was ready to defend my boy Jim. But he indeed has rated games with the same problems much higher. The 3ds version of Hyrule Warrior is almost unplayable and did get a 9.5 from him. Also, his last tweet pretty much exposes his intentions.
“Simple minds have always confused great honesty with great rudeness.” - Sherlock Holmes, Elementary (2013).
"Did you guys expected some actual rational fact-based reasoning? ...you should already know I'm all about BS and fraudulence." - FunFan, VGchartz (2016)
I don't get the feeling the Jim review is click bait. I think you just have to come to terms with the fact that not everyone is going to be masturbatory about Zelda
the Slant review isn't particularly good though, you could make an argument about that.
| celador said: I don't get the feeling the Jim review is click bait. I think you just have to come to terms with the fact that not everyone is going to be masturbatory about Zelda the Slant review isn't particularly good though, you could make an argument about that. |
Way to strawman. Nobody is arguing that it is clickbait.
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