dark souls 2 metascore!(big hit)

[kupomogli]

FlamingWeazel said:

kupomogli said:

No, because on games that are average difficulty, critics bitch about the games being too hard. 

Like I said in another thread, Dark Souls 2 is going to be a good game because of its combat system and design, however critics are going to rate it in the 90s probably because of the high difficulty.  Anything that is a really high difficulty, regardless if it's good or not seems to be hyped up by the press because high difficulty is the in thing now.

BS name another game this gen hard that got rated high? Ds has amazing world desoign, mechanics, combst innovative MP and a tonne of content, difficulty is overblown in these games anyway. Game gets high scores because it is one of the best RPG's around period.

I called that Dark Souls 2 was going to get 90+ because it's difficulty before we even saw a single Metacritic score.  It was a fairly recent thread.  Obviously if it was a shitty game with high difficulty it wouldn't have got such a score.  Everyone knows journalists suck dick at video games and bash games with normal difficulty and the slightest bit of a difficulty spike, yet Dark Souls is one of the few games where they've spepnt half the review talking about the difficulty being hard as why it's such a great game.  Yeah, there are other reasons why it's a good game, but most reviews spent half the review talking about its difficulty.

Anyways, here.  http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/super-meat-boy

Super Meat Boy isn't a bad, but a 90 Metascore?   Hell no.  Not even close to one of the best platformers.  The only reason Super Meat Boy is rated so high is it's an okay game with high difficulty.

Video game journalism is shit.  It's less about them reviewing a game iwth their opinion, more on what they think the consumer wants to hear.  I'll make a thread about this opinion if you're interested.