DevilRising said:
IsawYoshi said:
It's not like you guys doesn't know, but I find it absurd that nobody at Metacritic cleans up this mess. I've been looking at the site for COD Ghosts user reviews, and some of the reviews are around 8-9/10, but most takes the 0/10 route. Wii U version is at 3.1 average, Xbox 360 at 2.1 and PS3 is at 1.8. At this rate they should remove the user reviews.
Example:
Reviewers are getting PAID to give 80 and higher people! It's a disgrace to gaming and media as a whole. Ex-IGN employees actually admitted they get paid to give high marks! EA is also notorious to pay reviewers. Metacritic needs to get rid of these false reviewers. Welcome to 2013 where big companies pay reviewers so they make more money and we play uninspiring games. Meanwhile NSA is spying on their people, their allies and the rest of the world to steal information.
PS I've played some single player Ghosts and it's CoD4/6 but with dogs. A disgrace to gaming. How are they getting away with releasing the same game over and? Don't buy it.
The game was awarded a 0/10 score by this user.
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So..................some people might actually have an honest opinion that the game sucks, and you're mad about that? Fact is, a lot of "pro reviewers" ARE paid to give good scores to games. That's been a going on for the last decade, at least, since gaming go more mainstream. I'm sure some of those folks just hate the franchise, and that is understandable. But if someone earnestly feels that a game deserves a shitty personal score from them, then who are you to say their review should be discounted?
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If people think a game sucks that's ok, but a review is not supposed to be a protest. A review is supposed to be "Non biased" as far as it can go, and you shouldn't be giving bad scores for a game just if others is giving a good one. Also, the amount of games that deserves a 0/10 is incremental, and COD certainly ain't one of them. Repetitive or not, it sure as hell ain't that bad.
And as a lot of others have stated, a lot of this just boils down to fanboy wars. People can write as many reviews as they want to, but they shouldn't be given such a big role on a major review site when it's just misused for fanboy wars or protests. They could remove the score system, at least for users (they'll never remove it from reviewers) and let them write reviews.
