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

[palou]

golfgt170 said:

palou said:

Again, looking at the amazon scores should make it fairly obvious that exceptionaly few people that reviewed on metacritic actually played the game. There are also far more 1st 3 day reviews than would be normal, both positive and negative, which further indicates that the score is more a fanboywar than anything to do with he quality of the game. Look also at the number of reviews, well over twice as much as any other game selling similar amounts would have after a little more than a week of sales. This is an unusual case.

Horizon is a new IP but with a lot of hype behind it. Got 4000 user review scores which is again pretty impressive. Yet it has 89% critic and 84% user. your point?

Zelda has twice the user reviews Horizon had in the same time frame (add 900 reviews for the WiiU version), for approximately equivalent sales. If Horizon had 3000 earnest reviews and 1000 fanboys (of either side, doesnt matter) reviewing, then Zelda had 3000 earnest reviews and 5000 fanboys.

Also LOOK AT THE AMAZON REVIEWS FOR ONCE! Both Zelda and Horizon were well received by the people that ACTUALLY HAVE the game.

 

Amazon reviews have their problems - people also take off points if delivery service is bad. But if, on amazon, 89% of people gave it 5 stars, and only 5% of the reviews are 1-2 stars, while Metacritic has 20% of reviews in the red, it seems fairly evident that the people voting on Metacritic are not representatif of the people that actually bought the game.