The Last of Us Part II - Review Thread (MC: 93 / OC: 93)

[DonFerrari]

Bonzinga said:

DonFerrari said:

See the summaries, they don`t match the score.

A 6 or 7 for a 10 game is a troll review. No one would take seriously a 2 review for almost any game.

Yearly like games don`t really go for GOTY, you are trying to make GOTY as if it were meta only. It goes for unique experiences.

And using if as potential no game could be sure to win or lose a GOTY until the end of the year. There could be a Candy Crush game release this year in IOS that could score 100 in metacritic and be GOTY using "any company could improve and put a GOTY contender"

I haven't read the 7/10 reviews however I will say that 6 or a 7 are not troll reviews. Some people just don't like the game or think its a masterpiece, no one has to like the same things as everyone else. with your logic, every masterpiece should have a 100 metascore, is that what you want to see? After all, those 7/10 scores come from people who have actually played the game, how would you know what the games score is entitled when you haven't actually played it? You might hate it.

Your example of that Candy Crush IOS game that might score 100 meta will most likely be sub categorized into best mobile game and win that category. Iv seen a lot of GOTY awards and iv seen a lot of games get sidelined in favour of what's more fan pleasing. Its just me though, some people treat GOTYs like life and death while others like me don't care for them. My taste in gaming is very different to the majority.

I also highly doubt IGN Japan would be a troll reviewer, considering the brand. Also Polygons review doesn't sound good either and that's another major outlet.

So you didn`t read the reviews but are sure they aren`t trolls?

And again not liking a game is one thing totally different than doing a professional work. Also from 25 points bellow average the alternative of not liking but seeing the game is great there is a lot of leeway until you hit 100.

So you think major outlets don`t put troll reviews? Ok then.

BraLoD said:

DonFerrari said:

See the summaries, they don`t match the score.

A 6 or 7 for a 10 game is a troll review. No one would take seriously a 2 review for almost any game.

Yearly like games don`t really go for GOTY, you are trying to make GOTY as if it were meta only. It goes for unique experiences.

And using if as potential no game could be sure to win or lose a GOTY until the end of the year. There could be a Candy Crush game release this year in IOS that could score 100 in metacritic and be GOTY using "any company could improve and put a GOTY contender"

A 7 definitely is not a troll review, even as yes, it can be.

A 6 is quite in the muddy territory for such a game, not that it can't happen, but there is hardly any actual reason to drop a work of excellence a 6 just because it didn't meet a personal taste.

In my way of viewing things a critic review for a paid outlet is a professional work, and as such it must reflect objective standards instead of reflect a personal opinion only, even as it will always be bound to it, it should be technical first and foremost, so reserving as much as 40% of the score to your personal bias while you represent an organization... is quite too much, imo.

When a game average on 96 it is very likely that the review is trolling while trying to stay away of being to obvious. And when you see the summary and the person say the game is better than the original in all terms but he didn`t like the story then taking away 25 points from the average that game is getting (or 30 from the perfect) is quite excessive.

Hiku said:

iron_megalith said:

Never said SkillUp had a different set of restrictions. But sure let's just it at that.

So if every reviewer has the same capability of being as critical as SkillUp, why did you mention the 'insane' restrictions?
Which SkillUp did not refer to as insane, but rare. He says they're not unique to TLOU2, and that he has reviewed a handful of games like that before.

You also said "most reviews ended up praising all the time". Have you read through 43 other reviews?

And they are being allowed to release the review score a full week before the game releases and it is a very heavy story game so it certainly is expected to be a lot of restrictions for whoever wants to release early.