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RubberWhistleHistle on 28 December 2014
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Samus Aran said:
DerNebel said:

Oh yeah, it takes so much effort to look up sales on vgchartz and highest rated games of 2014 on metacritic, took me almost 2 minutes.

Also what are you even trying to say with that sales =/= quality bullshit? Are you trying to suggest that those games aren't good?

GTA V is a good game, but the franchise gets over inflated reviews of the "critics". On what ground do I make this claim?

http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/grand-theft-auto-iv

GTA IV, 98% on metacritic and considered by many fans of the franchise to be one of the worst entries of modern GTA games! 98%! That's a ridiculous high score, that means over 90% of the "critics" thought this game was perfect! 

I can only assume a large amount of the marketing budget of Rockstar goes directly to the hands of the "critics" lol. 

And people buy what is marketed well, not what is of amazing quality (of course a game of amazing quality can be marketed right as well... Look at The Last of Us). Bayonetta 2 might be a good game, but most people haven't heard of it. 


i showed my cousin what games i got for christmas (my wife bought me bayo 2 and capt toad). he said he never heard of them. he got a ps4 and cod aw. so yeah.. its definitely about what is marketed. wii u is a niche product, but will probably have the most highly regarded games of the generation.