See, I KNEW this thread would be useful. Now after IGN has given MGS4 a 10/10, people are claiming that IGN is untrustworthy, even when IGN has repeatedly proved to be one reviewer that pretty much everyone on the site respects even if they do not always agree with them.
While they are not as harsh of a reviewer as Eurogamer, Edge, or Gamespot, to claim that they are untrustworthy when more often than not they are very close to the game's final metacritic/gamerankings average is just plain ridiculous.
Most people making these claims, of course, have not even played MGS4 yet, and if they have they have not even played 50% of the game.
Just look at some of the ridiculous things people are posting in this thread.
IGN review thread:
http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=29460
From a month or so ago:
After OPM gave MGS4 a 10/10, I am expecting as much pissing and moaning as we saw about the GTA4 reviews/plot to kill President Kennedy. You can pre-vent your conspiracy theory frustrations here if you would like. I will continue to post any conspiracy-related threads here for your enjoyment.
First obvious sign of a MGS4 conspiracy:
http://kotaku.com/5008693/first-official-metal-gear-solid-4-review
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
