Why is Sales the majority of the replies in the first 5 pages of this thread? Jesus Christ, why do you guys keep feeding him?

You liven this place up Sales and it was hella quiet while you were banned recently, but please, every now and again just give it a rest.

OT: Don't see how anyone could have any qualms with these review scores really. It's a shame that so many reviewers have the mentality "It sticks to the original formula, minus points!" these days, but there you go. In a vacant genre on consoles featuring the occasional Epic Mickey scoring high 50's and De Blob scoring mid 70's, I'd be happy with Sly finishing his review score where it is.

Sly: Thieves in Time is the definition of "the middle" of the industry I've been talking about recently, reflected in its price (something I salute Sony for, hope to see more of it in the future), and I'll be supporting this. From the videos I've watched, it looks just my cup of tea. Reminding me of another era of games which I sorely miss these days. Ratchet & Mario have done their part to keep me sane, but it's always nice to have someone else along for the ride.

Retail and PSN

I know you're joking.

It was brought up because of Sales2099 comment. The guy is just derailing the thread.

Atleast your not FisheyJoe Axum....

So you salute sony for publishing mediocre games.  not saying that Sly is a bad game for having a 77 but i guess you need to start saluting games like Viva Pinata, Banjo N&B, Kameo, and plenty of other games while you are at it if this is the case.

Just wondering who on this site is going by the usernames

slybrodie12 and slyking783

over on metacritic?

Sounds about right, honestly. The developers tried to give it the same feel as the older games. Critics look for things to be critical of, while the average gamer looks for things to enjoy. That's a much different perspective.

This game isn't trying to do anything new or different, it's just trying to give a similar experience to the games that came before it. I have no problem with that. The game still looks like fun.

I was expecting a score like this. A score around the high 70s or rly early 80s. Wich is not bad by any mean.

Though by that logic the EA NHL games are more important than all the Metal Gear Solid games on PS360.

AAA titles are just a definition of budgets and are unrelated to meta scores which is a mistake many people make.  I'm not completely positive on what a medium class game would be called, but I'm assuming that would be called AA which we have plenty of those released on a yearly basis.  They do get ignored in most cases because they are usually not very good and don't gain in popularity either while smaller games like Minecraft, Trials Evolution, and Journey sometimes take off due to their brilliant gameplay or originality regardless of having a low budget.  AAA budget games usually get the most praise due to the polish they have.  In some cases no, like Crysis 2.  That is a AAA budget game that failed to meet expectations.  Now as far as AA games go or whatever they may be called I'd say has a lot of games but they still need to be profitable for a company to see them worth while.  In this case I believe that Sly 4 will make it worth while.  I still see no reason to salute somebody on making a mediocre type game.  Regardless of it being AA or not though as I'd give more praise to developers with low budget games who made a brilliant game than someone with a higher budget game that made something that was mediocre.  Sony is definitely not the only company to publish AA games either.  i would say Activision, Ubisoft, and EA have 10x more AA games than Sony so once again i dont understand the salute behind this one.