The History of Polygon - The Worst Gaming Journalists Around

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anamme said:
At the end of the day, as a site, they should have some kind of grading consensus, because there are only a handful of entertainment critics with some name recognition that you can trust as reliable, and Polygon is not there yet. When someone like Roger Ebert says your favorite movie sucked, it was okay because you knew the man had some principles and had earned respect when it came to his critiques, so you could just chalk it up to differing opinions.

But, if you know a game is coming out that is highly-anticipated and apparently with great production values, you don't hand the review copy off to someone who doesn't like that sort of game, and then proceeds to give it a low score. That's just being that moron who says they didn't like 'The Godfather'. Yeah, your completely entitled to your opinion, but that doesn't make you right. You just end up sounding disconnected from what actual gamers are saying.

And this isn't some pro-Sony thing. If Titanfall ends up getting a low score from Polygon, when the universe and your mother knows it's going to be a good game, there's no need to have that one person who didn't like it officially review it on behalf of your website or publication. Because that's what leads to Halo 9 and God of War 7. How about giving these companies a bit of a break for trying to do something new and introduce new IP's. Is that too much leeway to give them?

Although, Polygon did give The Last of Us a good score. 75+ is considered postive on Metacritic. :P It's akin to saying "I like The Godfather" as opposed to "I love it".

I get quite tired of people acting like anything under 8 is trash.