Jim Sterling’s site under attack after Zelda: BotW review

[pokoko]

vivster said:

pokoko said:
Someone in the other thread suggested that Sterling was wrong to assume the attack had something to do with his Zelda score. I giggled like a school-girl.

Fanboys who do things like this or leave nasty personal insults over scores should have all their consoles and games taken away. They are a blight on gaming.

Bad idea. Then the only thing left for them is bludgeoning everyone to death with their amiibo collection.

Maybe if we locked them up together with their amiibo collections?  Kind of a Battle Royale situation where only the strongest amiibo user gets to live.

Mummelmann said:
Lol, that's ridiculous. One of Norway's biggest gaming sites gave it a 6/10, some of the criticism in it seems justified but the score doesn't match what I've personally seen and tried in the game myself.
As for Jim's score; he's kind of an oddball, and I don't understand why people get so angry at reviews, it's not like a dropped point on metacritic is ruining your experience of a game.
Overly kind reviews of games with massive flaws annoy me more, all in all.

I'm not a Sterling fan but he has always used his scores differently than most other writers.  His score seems to be just a number used to represent his own personal enjoyment, not some kind of award based on what he thinks a game deserves.  He's give some good games low scores and some highly flawed games perfect scores.  This is harsh medicine for the "live by the score, die by the score" crowd.