What Exactly Is Jim Sterling Reviewing? Not Much Apparently

[rocketpig]

Garcian Smith said:

rocketpig said:
Oh noes! He played ~90% of a game and didn't like it! Oh noes!

And a big LOL to anyone that brings up his Deadly Premonition review as proof of anything. Sarcasm is lost on some people.

Thing is, if it had been, say, Deadly Premonition that he'd only finished 90% of and then reviewed, nobody would care. But this is FFXIII we're talking about: a game that millions of Internet denizens would defend to the death even if it were nothing more than Motomu Toriyama's poo stuffed into a PS3 case. Any negative review of it would have received this kind of attention, and Final Fantasy fans across the 'net will do anything they can to discredit a reviewer that gives it a less-than-positive review. This is just one such case of grasping at straws.

I'm not arguing that he shouldn't have finished it. If anything, he should have finished the game BECAUSE he was going to give it a low score. No need to give his detractors ammunition.

On the other hand, gamers need to really grow up when it comes to review scores. Threads like this remind me of a petulant child that just had its binky taken away.