Exclusive: Critics Admit To Lowering Scores For Attention.

[nuckles87]

thedawghousev2 said:

nuckles87 said:

thedawghousev2 said:

Rafux said:
So all review sites got together and decided to give The Order a low score? Or maybe The Order is just a bad game.

not if 90% of the people who actually played it thinks it's good

 

Yeah, maybe, but I don't think there's any evidence that that's the case with this one. I mean, unless you have access to a consumer study I haven't heard of or something.

studies of my own

So I'll take that as a no, then. I wasn't being serious when I asked that question, but I get the feeling you're not being serious either.

 

Either way, I think I need to point out that this feeling of "review collusion" and "unfairness" isn't exclusive to The Order or Sony. I've seen Nintendo, SEGA, and Microsoft (among other) fanboys all say the exact same thing about all sorts of games over the last decade. If you want to believe there's some conspiracy among reviewers to bash Sony or The Order, that's fine I guess, but it's also not in touch with the reality of things. As someone who used to think the same thing about reviewers and games I liked, I just got this to say: let it go and enjoy the game. If you liked it, great. Hopefully you'll like the inevitible sequel even more (which it'll definitely be getting if the sales pan out).