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Some of you take review aggregates as far too much of an absolute barometer for how much you may personally enjoy a game. Just because gaming journalists - who are not only a group of mostly likeminded individuals, have various conflicts of interests, but also, aren't even particularly good at their jobs, if we're being honest - tell you X is better than Y, doesn't objectively make it so.

Just because Ghost of Tsushima didn't get that 90+ average you may have been hoping for, doesn't mean it's necessarily any less amazing than TLOU2. It's not even remotely difficult to imagine that a great many people would have a vastly better time playing Ghost of Tsushima than TLOU2. Their 10 point meta differential doesn't make one "good," and other "amazing." Do yourselves a favor, and learn to contextualize the actual meat of the reviews you read with your own interests, and biases. Ignore the arbitrary number value the writer assigns the game. Beyond weeding out something truly terrible, these scores are generally not that helpful. If you can learn to decouple yourself from this shallow snap judgement of content, I guarantee that you'll ultimately be happier for it.