Why do people hate low review scores?

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Mummelmann said:
I don't know to be honest. I don't so much mind low scores as I do inflated high scores that are given in the face of glaring flaws and massive issues, as has become the norm of the 7th generation.
This gen is where I officially stopped reading reviews seriously at all.

I agree with this.  The problem is that the scores are far too high.  On a scale of one to ten, a 5.5 would be exactly average.  This is not the case for a video game reviewer.  If I see a game with a score of 5.5, then that means that he / she thought that it was a piece garbage.  I'm all for lower scores and when people are crying that a game that they think is great gets a 8.5, I find it to be ridiculous.