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Renna Hazel on 19 March 2017
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MTZehvor said:
Renna Hazel said:

I do believe it's the latter. That's just the impression I get from the guy, so that's what I said. You seem to be taking that to heart, and that's fine I guess. Whether it's a bias or just him going out of his way to make the game a worse experience, I find the review to be so far removed from my own point of view. With that, I disregard his opinion as a reviewer.

I'm not particularly concerned with people deciding to disregard certain opinions if they feel their experience has or is likely to be different. What does bother me is users, particularly in the video game community, trying to delegitimize a review for everyone simply because it doesn't line up with their opinion (perhaps the most notable recent example occurring with IGN's Uncharted 4 review). If you want to personally ignore a review because you don't think their experience won't line up with your own, or even if you suspect them of being dishonest, that's fine. But telling other people that they are definitively being dishonest (and therefore discrediting their opinion) with nothing to back it up besides your impression is something else entirely.

I laid out where I believe Jim is misleading people. You disagreeing with that is fine, but it's part of the basis for which I've formed my opinion. I could also point out Jim's little Horizon vs Zelda rant where he cherry picked information to paint one fanbase in a negative light. I'm sure you've seen this article

http://www.thejimquisition.com/the-sad-ghost-war-between-breath-of-the-wild-and-horizon-zero-dawn/

“So I guess Jim is going to use this comment section to justify how Zelda fans are toxic and all that, yet he still hasn’t commented on the Metabombing of the Metacritic user score by Horizon: Zero Dawn fans,” wrote one responder to The Jimquisition’s Breath of the Wild review.

This sentiment is not uncommon amongst those Zelda fans who genuinely are toxic, the fans I guess I’ll just call Fucking Slithering Pricks.

This is a sentiment almost anyone following metacritic has, and there is just as much evidence of Horizon fans "metabombing" Zelda BotW. Mathematically speaking, Zelda has a higher percentage of 'metabomb' scores than Horizon does. But this entire article was written to make one fanbase look bad regardless of the facts. I truly do believe he has something against the game and it's fans. 

At the very least, Jim has gone far beyond discrediting one's opinions and has gone on to directly insulting users on his site and Zelda fans (who believe the game is also being 'metabombed'). 

I'm sorry but I completely discredit the opinion on individuals who act like this, and I truly believe he's showing a VERY clear bias. It's fine if you disagree with me, but my accusation certainly is not baseless.