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Kerotan said:
It just shows you what a joke metacritic standards are. This guy didn't even know the game was coming until this week yet he'll get to have a say on its meta score. Joke.

To be fair, a game may be better off reviewed without the hype bias leading up to it.



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He has given high meta games like GTA V and Metal Gear Solid 5 good reviews on PS4. He gave Ascension a 3/5, which is his only GoW review. Fingers crossed he doesn't troll. The fact that he went out of his way to mention "I see it's doing well on meta" in his comment though makes me very weary he will. Why mention that in the first place? It came off much too  like "I better put a stop to that."



This is actually funny, people shaking in their boots incase he fucks up the 95 metacritic dream. It's like he does it on purpose and gets a buzz out of it.



iceland said:
Zombie9ers said:

He's been bombing Sony exclusives ever since they stood him up for an interview after the original Infamous was released.  He went the longest time without even reviewing a playstation game after that.  Now he cherry picks their exclusive games and usually posts bomb reviews months, sometimes years after their release. He was the sole reviewer to give both Journey and The Last of Us poor/mixed reviews. How he's an accredited reviewer on Metacritic I'll never know.

Horizon: Zero Dawn QT3 60  Meta 89

Infamous: Second Son - QT3 40 Meta 80

Last of Us QT3 60 Meta 95

Journey QT3 40 Meta 92

Uncharted 2 QT3 60 Meta 96

Uncharted 3 QT3 40 Meta 92

Metal Gear Solid 4 QT3 20 Meta 94

I remember when he gave Halo 4 and Forza Horizon 2 a 2/10....

Seems like he likes the attention, and MC wont remove him because he's a backer...

so he pays metacritic to get his reviews up? are the sites that are weighted more paying more? if so what a fucked up system. 

LethalP said:
This is actually funny, people shaking in their boots incase he fucks up the 95 metacritic dream. It's like he does it on purpose and gets a buzz out of it.

well he could help the 96 dream if he gives it a 5/5.



Kerotan said:
iceland said:

I remember when he gave Halo 4 and Forza Horizon 2 a 2/10....

Seems like he likes the attention, and MC wont remove him because he's a backer...

so he pays metacritic to get his reviews up? are the sites that are weighted more paying more? if so what a fucked up system. 

LethalP said:
This is actually funny, people shaking in their boots incase he fucks up the 95 metacritic dream. It's like he does it on purpose and gets a buzz out of it.

well he could help the 96 dream if he gives it a 5/5.

It's only 8 positions away from a 96 right now (at 50, first 96 is at 42). 12 positions away from 94. An Edge 10/10 would move it up 3 or 4 places alone. And the lowest I see him giving GoW is a 6/10, at that point even that would still keep it at 95, even if barely. That's if he even reviews it.



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Faelco said:
iceland said:

I remember when he gave Halo 4 and Forza Horizon 2 a 2/10....

Seems like he likes the attention, and MC wont remove him because he's a backer...

You mean that he's paying money to be able to lower games' MC scores because he hates Sony and MS?

 

That's just sad, the poor guy! XD

And that makes having weighted reviews even less sensible, since we don't know how they're weighted it could just be that backers have more weight.



JRPGfan said:

Do they have a persona aganda against Sony or something?
How are such people credible reviewers? or given copies of games, if they systematically appear to do so?

Sony doesn't send him review copies of their games. And I don't know about other publishers. Thats primarily why his reviews usually come weeks or months after a game is released.

Its truly unfortunate his reviews are allowed to taaintthe metacritic pool simply because hes a backer though. His scoring is just too consistently bad that its impossible to say there isn't an agenda or bias. Especially when you actually see the stuff he scores highly. MGS4 a 40? Halo a 2/10????

Like really? And his reviews just track opposite from whatever the general concensus is..... just look at his review history on metacritic