just when you thought the uncharted 3 reviews could not get any worse...

[lestatdark]

jneul said:

lestatdark said:

haxxiy said:
You guys are so funny it's almost laughable. It's just a goddamn score in some goddamn random site you won't even remember anymore one year or two from now on.

If you bet a certain score and playfully complains about it now, it's fine - but stop treating game reviews as if they were reviews to your own character, because that's what it's looking like. And stop being childish enough to think "oh man, everybody needs to give X game a 100 in meta Because It's The Exclusive Title Of My Favorite Company", and who cares whether the game deserves it or not, only the score matters!

Come the fuck on.

One year? Try one month after all the hype surrounding the game has died and everyone (or almost everyone) has moved on to another game. This is what really makes me sad about this generation, the goddamn fixation on scores and reviews as if they were the ultimate measuring stick of the worth of a game and not how is your experience with it. 

Acting like a bunch of fanatics (not even fanboys, this is becoming worse than that).

thats exactly why i was disgusted, they know it will affect peoples views even before they play the game, hell im just glad i try out things for myself and i decide how good a game is...

It affects people's views when those same people are easily led by the reviewers. I know this happens in every entertainement medium, but that's why people need to be critical about what they read and not over-react when it's an unfavourable and contrary view from what they were expecting. 

Again, in the end, it's all about the consumer's experience. That's what defines the success of any entertainement medium. Not the critics, not the individuals that have some kind of agenda regarding a certain product, be it positive or negative, not the producers or the company that produces the item. Consumer's and their own individual experience is the defining thing and should be the most important measuring stick in any medium. 

If people took all the reviews they read with a grain of salt (and not just the negative ones, the positive ones also deeply influenciate people's views as badly as negative ones do, yet you only see this kind of backlash mostly for negative reviews) and think with their own heads ("should I get this game because it fits my tastes?", "did I enjoy the previous games?", "will it be a good experience, considering my own expectations and not anybody elses?") then little by little, all the agenda-filled, hit-snatching "reviews" (both super positive or super negative and those that have literally no worthwhile content) would simply dissapear due to the consumer being wary of them.