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contestgamer on 10 May 2016
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DonFerrari said:
contestgamer said:

Why is Uncharted 2 score the expectation to Uncharted 4? Because it's a sequel on new hardware and you'd hope it'd be better than a decade old game? I really dont think it can surpass expectations when the last two games are among the best reviewed ones on all time on old hardware and one of them got better reviews

Because most games had worse score this gen than on the previous? Any Zelda that get less than 99 haven't met expectation?

Are you sure you aren't claiming something no one else is claiming just to make the game look worse and you feel better?

You're the one that is arguing the original claim, which is that it exceeded all expectation. You realize 94 is a very high score, but it certainly doesn't exceed expectations. Their last few games were UC2 at 96, UC3 at 92, LOU at 95. Now we're looking at a sequel to a franchise that's among the best reviewed ones ever on next generation hardware that graphically destroys the previous entries.  94 falls pretty well in line with their track record coming in to this, so I don't think it's a stretch to say that 94 didn't blow away expectations. It should have fallen squarely in to expectations for anyone that has been following ND's track record.

And yeah, people were disappointed with MM and WW's score when they released, despite those scores being enormous on their own simply because they fell far short of OOT. After several relerases of lower scores obviously expectations get reset, but that's not the case with ND. They're coming off a 96, 92 and 95 metacritic track record. 94 falls smack dab in the middle of that.