Jeff Rubenstein On Polygon's The Last Of Us Review

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Mythmaker1 on 06 June 2013

weaveworld said:

VGKing said:

weaveworld said:
So they payed every single reviewer and this one decided to not take the money?

What's more likely? That Sony payed 25+ websites to give perfect scores or that Polygon is wrong about their review?

I'll go with the latter. When the general consensus is that this game is fucking amazing and you go and give it a 75. YOU ARE WRONG. PERIOD.

It is possible for your opinion to be wrong. External factors such as bias and getting your website funded by Microsoft are also factors.

How can an opinion be wrong exactly...?

Opinion can be incorrect if it is based on a fallacy, or if it has no consistent internal logic.

Otherwise, it's subjective.

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Simulacrum on 06 June 2013

Pretty weird.

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VGKing on 06 June 2013

Veknoid_Outcast said:

VGKing said:

weaveworld said:
So they payed every single reviewer and this one decided to not take the money?

What's more likely? That Sony payed 25+ websites to give perfect scores or that Polygon is wrong about their review?

I'll go with the latter. When the general consensus is that this game is fucking amazing and you go and give it a 75. YOU ARE WRONG. PERIOD.

It is possible for your opinion to be wrong. External factors such as bias and getting your website funded by Microsoft are also factors.

Come on, VGKing. I'm sure The Last of Us is an amazing game, but we can't automatically charge reviewers with incompetence or fraud just because a score lies outside the average.

Not every critic should agree with one another. The critical consensus is that The Last of Us is a terrific piece of software, but not everyone will arrive at that consensus. Surely there are games out there where you strongly disagree with the consensus and agree with the outlier?

When you are the only one giving it such a low score, there's something wrong with you're opinion. You're being too critical.

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HikenNoAce on 06 June 2013

Polygon is just trying to get some clicks. Simple as that.

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