Jim Sterling wrote today:

With any other videogame, scoring an 8/10 would be considered glowing praise. According to Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski, however, that couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, according to him, anybody who dares give Gears of War 3 a score of eight clearly hates it.

"Doing great, apart from a couple of haters," Cliffy told VG247, while talking about review scores. When asked to elaborate on the haters in question, he pointed to Eurogamer's 8/10 review.

"You know, I didn’t quite gather it. I don’t want to come across as defensive," he defensively said. "How do I phrase this properly? When people rated Gear 2 higher than Gears 3, it kind of upset me because I know Gears 3 is a better game on every level."

An 8/10 review for any game should be considered a compliment, and for a developer to complain about that is to take somebody's compliment and toss it back in their face. I find that unbelievably vulgar, and have to say that I am a little disappointed that a man who is currently swimming in perfect review scores is getting upset because he didn't get just a handful more. The sheer spoiled greed of that attitude is staggering.

I just recently wrote an article about how certain games are assumed to have a divine right to certain scores, and I'm pretty sad that Bleszinski is actively encouraging such an insipid attitude. I wish I could understand how someone gets so overwhelmingly entitled.

http://www.destructoid.com/cliffy-b-upset-by-hateful-8-10-gears-of-war-3-reviews-211562.phtml

Cliffy is pretty immature for such a great game director.

Jim Sterling doesn't filter his opinions. I love reading his work. People may find him ridiculous, but I applaud him for not sugar coating like most of the crap out there these days.

"You know, I didn’t quite gather it. I don’t want to come across as defensive," he defensively said.

^^I liked that line a lot.

He has a point.

Yeah cliffy b and david jaffe need to shut the hell up and just make games.

8/10 is a good score, Cliffy is just acting like a child. But the real fun will begin if someone gives Uncharted 3 an 8.

This might as well be the pot calling the kettle black. If he doesn't like your review, get over it Jim. Nothing like calling someone out for feeling entitled, and then go on a rant about how he should appreciate your review? Yeah, you're not entitled in the slightest. Defensive much?

Bleszinski sounds like an arrogant douchebag

Please those were considered harsh spoiled comments. Sorry they don't appear to be that to me.