Does MS have an IP that on level with Gears or Halo that we don't know about?

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EdHieron said:

Gears 3 wasn't a Masterpiece.  It wasn't nominated for any of the major 2011 Game of the Year Awards and it continued the Gears' series fall in Metacritic and Game Rankings scores that occurred with Gears II and has continued right through the series latest mediocre effort Gears of War Judgement.

Why are you using metacritic religiously, though?

I was led to believe that Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is the best game of the franchise, but if we use your logic system, the game actually is way way worse than MGS2: Sons of Liberty, scoring five points less than its predecessor. Things keep going downhill with the series latest mediocre effort Portable Ops, right?

 

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater has lower metacritic and Game Ranking than the following Playstation exclusives Uncharted 2 (The same as Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty), The Last of Us (not higher than Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty), Little Big Planet (Less than Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty), Metal Gear Solid IV: Guns of the Patriots (Less than Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty), God of War III (Less than Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty), Journey's overall Game of the Year 2012 (Something Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty achieved back in 2001), and Uncharted 3 was nominated for Game of the Year Honors in 2011 including the VGA's Overall Game of the Year Award, something (while not the VGA's) Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty had already achieved.

 

So, following that line of logic, we get to the point that the only Playstation Exclusive Sony has produced in the last 13 years that can be considered "Masterpiece" in comparison to a masterpiece because metacritic says so, is Uncharted 2. Only one game. One. The rest, games like Journey, The Last of Us, LittleBigPlanet and so aren't masterpieces, because, if we compare them with MGS2: Sons of Patriots, they scored less metacritic.

What a shame for Sony.