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[Samus Aran]

Hynad said:

Samus Aran said:

The problem is that critics aren't consistent with this as games like CoD and Assasins Creed come out YEARLY and still score pretty high, even when they're broken.

Compare Gamespot's review of DKC: TF with the CoD game that came out that year.

All games reviewed by different reviewers. So that's a moot point at best.

Money talks you mean.

Why are reviewers in general more lax about a yearly franchise that is as stale as old bread than a 2.5D platformer that comes out every 4 years at best? Doesn't make sense.

If freshness and innovation are truly as important as you claim then CoD shouldn't score higher than 50% on metacritic.

We're not talking about one review outlet here, but over a 100 outlets. That's enough to constitute a trend.