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[Azuren]

Errorist76 said:

Azuren said:

Couldn't be that he just doesn't care for more mature themed games?

 

Trends don't always indicate correlation. For example, high ice cream sales trend with higher shark attacks. Not because sharks hate ice cream, but because ice cream is eaten more in the summer and people also swim more in the summer.

Don’t tell me you think that a 5/10 for Uncharted 4 is in any way justifiable.

Same goes for the others.

Even though reviews always are to an extent subjective, professionalism dictates that reviewers should at least TRY to stay objective.

This is in no way the case with all those games. If they work like that they clearly shouldn’t review games.

And they especially shouldn’t be listed on MC.

They clearly have an agenda, don’t try to justify it.

As someone who regularly has unpopular opinions, I can understand how he would dislike a popular game. That said, it's not like they never favorably score Sony games. Shadow of the Colossus, Ni no Kuni 2, and Street Fighter V all received 80+ from them. Not only that, but they've given low-than-average scores to high profile Nintendo games, too, such as an 80 for for Mario Odyssey and Kart. They've also scored some Sony exclusives higher than their MC, such as Toukiden 2.

 

You're looking at some of the higher profile games without noting their similarities and accusing them of rating only Sony games well below the normal scores. But the fact of the matter is the group is intentionally being an outlier in their scores. As a result of that, I do feel there is some merit to wanting them removed from Metacritic.