McClaren said:
Zucas said:
Well although I'm very happy that many are excited for Uncharted 2 and glad reviewers think it is good, this is kinda silly. I know most people are familiar with this, but I'll state it again anyways. Generally publishers ask that if you review a game before release, that the score be something rather positive. Meaning they don't want reviewers giving bad reviews before it comes out to not give the game "negative" hype. Of course this goes against everything a critic is supposed to do, it is how it works.
What that means, is well before launch, such as this, publishers try to get review copies out as early as possible and encourage that they review it well early such that they can use it in extended advertising. What this means is, generally, all early reviews are going to be positive and have good scores. Which is why most scores always go down after release and not up. After the release occurs, those that had been held back for whatever reason release their scores which drives down the overall average. Thus looking at the metacritic score right now may be appealing but in no way reflective.
We are all excited for Uncharted 2 and hope that it gets reviewed with marvelous scores, but this not the proper way to do it. Especially on stacked evidence fallacies haha. Let's see how the ratings are a week or 2 after launch and we'll go from there. But traditionally games that are in that range will be in the low to mid 90s at the end of it all like MakingMusic stated. There are only very rare cases where this doesn't happen such as Galaxy but we aren't talking about the norm there.
I'm only saying this because, getting hopes up under silly premises is not a good thing. Instead we should glorify in the already good reviews and just use that as a way to get personally hyped for the game on Oct 13 instead of using it as a way to deduce anything falsely. Of course I know, don't bring the logic in here. Sorry but it's a habit haha. |
Everything you said is correct. But something is different Imo since even Eurogamer absolutely loves it.
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Haha that just means even despite biases they can see it as good. But we all know that, logically, we can't deduce that about everyone or assume that everyone reviewing is simply doing it based on fanboy guilt or fanboy love. Nor actually could we assume that about Eurogamer. As I said it's best to take that just as yes the game is awesome considering even these guys think it is good.
