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Kerotan on 28 February 2015
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Acevil said:
Kerotan said:


There is a piece going around atm that exposes a culture among many critics.  They give hyped games a low score to increase website hits.  All 3 examples were sony games.  The order,  killzone and heavy rain. I believe Sony titles over all get the most attention on the Internet so they are prime targets for practices like this.  

 

Other games get away with it like gta.  No way should gta 4 have a meta critic that high.  The game was good but the online was shit and technically a buggy piece of shit.  Critics have double standards. 


I agree with you with GTA 4, I also agree that reviewers do this practice. I however don't agree that it is just Sony. However Sony fans love playing victims, and about a week after the Order reviews, I am starting to get sick of it. I still think The Order is roughly where it should have been, take out high reviews and take out low reviews, you roughly get the same spot, maybe it will be a 68-69. Killzone (Ps4) was a pretty boring a dull game compared to Killzone 2. If it was in regards to killzone 2, I don't remember negative backlash outside of them change the control thing a week in.

No comment on heavy rain, I could never play such a game and think of it critically. 


Let's put it this way if some of nintendos games were sony games you'd suddenly get some 9/10 or 10/10 reviews dropping to 7's and 8's and excuses like not enough improvement over the last game or too basic online or story not great.  The reality is sony games are held to a higher standard.  Microsoft get this the most after sony and i think they do a lot to ensure it doesn't happen.