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

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potato_hamster said:

sc94597 said:

You mean like Jim Sterling's 95% for the 70% Metacritic game with horrible framerate that was Hyrule Warriors (3DS)? Yeah plenty of Nintendo fans were criticisizing him for this crappy score, and his excuse is "I like the genre."

Somehow Hyrule Warriors with its repetitive gameplay, and crap framerate (on the 3DS) is a 95% yet BOTW is a 70%. Right.

 

I doubt you'll find any Nintendo fan who would care if Jim's 95% for Hyrule Warriors (3DS) were removed with his 70% for BOTW because they are outliers. 

So when you don't like a game as much as Jim, the score is unjustified, and when you Jim doesn't like a game as much as you, it's also unjustified.

Okay. Have you considered that perhaps Jim decided to give Hyrule Warriors a 95 despite it's flaws the same way many reviewers have decided to give Breath of the Wild 100 scores despite it's flaws? It seems to me that your biggest problem with Jim is that his reasoning for what games do and do not deserve "free passes" are different than yours.

Perhaps you should take the time to learn that opinions are subjective, and your opinion isn't inherently better than anyone else's, including Jim Sterling's.

The conversation was about outliers and metacritic scores. Don't try to deflect now (like you have done countless times in this thread.) You made a point about consistency and I countered it with an example. Address that rather than deflecting to a different discussion entirely.