What I also find hillarious is the amount of people in the comments going "You don't know shit Jim, that game is awesome!" <-Yeah as if, how the f' did you manage to play it then dipshit? It's just amusing when people defend games they haven't played yet just because it's exclusive to their platform lol. I mean Kane and Lynch 2 didn't have that problem even though it scored the measly 1/10 from Jim haha.

PS, it does happen in both camps unfortunately lol, some people just take this whole "fanboy" war to the extremely holy levels.

I hate to admit it but I haven't read many LBP reviews that expressed the way I felt about the first game. I had a lot of fun with the first game, but the basic jumping and platforming was broken. Sorry but it was. Imprecise, wonky and unresponsive doesn't equal a good platformer. So yeah this guys review was dead on! It is a fun game, but ultimately still has a lot of issues.

Bravo Jim Sterling!

You can't be serious. When the Fable 3 score was revealed half the review thread was spent shitting on him and his site, I know mainly because I was defending his review from the feral 360 fans willing to reference his weight and mother. 

I will still defend Jim by saying that even though he is inconsistent and I'd like to think he does lower or raise review scores on purpose (Deadly Premonitions 10/10 or Assassins Creed 2 4/10) to start up shit storms just for the sake of it, he still does write some good reviews and the LBP2 was one of his better ones.

Also, the people saying that he uses the full scale are wrong. He just fluctuates depending on his taste, a game could look and play the best, but if it involves space marines and he doesn't like space marines, then his probably going to give it a 5/10.

But you don't think the addition of a now practically limitless level creation tool in LBP 2 was innovative? I think that was almost just as large a step as LBP1 took with its level creator when no game had anything of the like before. I'll admit, it was probably difficult to make LBP 2 feel as "new" in some ways as LBP1 did, but regardless imo with the new level creation tools and all the various other additions they've made, it is certainly innovative. And also, it's not like the online is the only part-they have I think 50 new story levels as well.

But you don't think the addition of a now practically limitless level creation tool in LBP 2 was innovative? I think that was almost just as large a step as LBP1 took with its level creator when no game had anything of the like before. I'll admit, it was probably difficult to make LBP 2 feel as "new" in some ways as LBP1 did, but regardless imo with the new level creation tools and all the various other additions they've made, it is certainly innovative. And also, it's not like the online is the only part-they have I think 50 new story levels as well.

I would say it is a logical evolution. Besides he cannot review based off things which may or may not eventuate from that level creater. He has to review the game and just the game.

I don't see how a single person in this entire thread, nor the thread itself, has said a single thing that would make this a "shit storm". (almost) Every post has been civil. The review score is kind of irritating bc it didn't seem to make sense when compared to the written review; but by no means did I bash JS or anything of the sort. I said it doesn't make sense to me, and asked other people if it did to them. If you weren't going to contribute to the thread then why would you post?

Good point - although I don't think that means a reviewer can't, at least in part, consider that innovation (or its potential) into his/her overall perspective of the game.

Yeah, it does happen and it's pitiful. I personally prefer the ps3 over 360, but at the same time I hate when people act like idiots and completely deny everything that could possibly be good about another system. Xbox has a lot of strong qualities, but for my personal preference ps3 has the games, specifically the exclusive games, I like. Anyways, I'm embarrassed to be a ps3 fan on a regular basis unfortunately bc of how people act. That's why I try to steer away from fanboy closed-minded banter in general and it's also what I tried to avoid in this thread. I want to hear people's opinions, regardless of what they are, but I just don't want any flame.