LurkerJ said:
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For the record, I don't recall ever complaining about Jim giving the game a 7/10. If Jim feels the game deserves a 7/10, I stand behind him 100%. However, if in the meat of his review he's going to complain about a cutscene "disrespecting" player's time, I'm going to point out that Jim makes no mention that most cutscenes can be skipped.
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I don't disagree with the point you are making. However, you'd be surprised by the amount of reviews that are filled with inaccuracies and factually wrong statements, be it positive or negative, it's just no one bothers to nitpick. Some FF fans were very upset by the Guardian's review, they supposedly gave FF15 a bad score for some BS reason, and fans nitpicked that one paragraph they didn't like, forgetting that The Guardian's review just balances out one of the undeserved perfect scores it got when it's obviously a flawed and imperfect game.
In the end, you have the clickbaiters and the generous reviews cancelling each other out, so chill out 
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I'm chill yo. I find good discussion fun.
NintendoPie said:
There's absolutely nothing wrong with Jim's review. He is the equivalent of a tabloid writer and so he writes what he feels, idiotic or not.
The only thing wrong with his reviews are that certain people treat them as real, objective reviews and that Metacritic acts as if his reviews should count towards some type of real "critic score." He is not that. That is fine, but that is all.
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Has Jim described himself as a tabloid writer in more recent times? He describes himself to a degree as such in pokoko's link https://www.destructoid.com/screw-your-journalism-why-games-blogging-is-nothing-to-be-ashamed-of-68336.phtml but the article is almost ten years old...
