The History of Polygon - The Worst Gaming Journalists Around

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Dark_Feanor said:

globalisateur said:

Dark_Feanor said:

But that's not the point. The problem is that they are completely inconsistent between reviews. They clearly just search for any excuses to rate PS4 games lower than X1.

The occasional stuttering or rare drops (during cinematics) forced them to downrate COD on PS4 but clearly, it didn't disturb them when stuttering is 99% present in DR3 or Ryse or when DR3 drops to 17fps or Ryse drops to 16fps, it is not a problem either or they just didn't see the drops (But they clearly noticed the drops on PS4 games). That is clearly unfair. And we still haven't see DF next gen face-off with COD...

We may still have others "Ryseistic" surprises with others games.

Polygon gave

Ryse a 6 -  0,1 lower than avarege meta score,

Dead Rising 3  a 7,5 - 0,3 lower than avarage meta score.

LocoCycle and Crison Dragon both 4. - 0,8 and 1,5 lower than avarage meta score.

Is that enough? Is this fair?

You made an excellent point. Of course they can't give by average worse scores to Sony VS Microsoft, but they do on occasions rate lower some Sony important games and rate higher others less important:

TLOU was an important Sony game: rated 2.5 less than metacritic

Killzone was the most important Sony game at launch: rated 2 points lower

Forza was the most important X1 launch game and they gave a 9/10 score, almost 1 point more.

Resogun was not important, indie game: rated even higher than metacritic (because they have to up that Killzone downed average scores...)

COD on PS4 rated 0.5 lower for inconsistent reasons than X1 because it is a really important game for both companies.

LocoCycle and Crison Dragon are given low scores to re-equilibrate Forza and maybe upcoming high scores for important X1 games from Polygon.

 

They are smart at Polygon and know people in forums make averages of their scores. Serious theory.