Quarter to Three does it again! Ruins TLoU metacritic

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BinaryDelt on 13 June 2013

Talal said:

J_Allard said:

brendude13 said:

Like his Halo 4 review?

Halo is boring enough, I don't want to read a review about it.

Okay it's not as good as previous ones, but 1/5, really?

That implies that the game is barely playable.

Some notables (Quarter to Three/Metascore):

Halo 4: (20/87)
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale: (20/74)
Final Fantasy XIII-2 (40/79)
Journey (40/92)
Max Payne 3 (40/86)
Bioshock: Infinite (60/93)
Far Cry 3 (60/91)

The list goes on...

I understand everything is a 20 point swing on a 5 star scale, but some of these are ridiculous.

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Jay520 on 13 June 2013

Damn, I was expecting a 1/5 from them. A 3/5 is good and all, but a 1/5 from these guys would have made TLoU a true masterpiece.

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Max King of the Wild on 13 June 2013

Talal said:

Okay it's not as good as previous ones, but 1/5, really?

That implies that the game is barely playable.

I defended the guy when he reviewed Halo and I'll defend him here. Metacritic is a poor way to measure. I bet if you ask him if he thinks halo is a 20/100 or TLoU is a 60/100 hed say no. It seems like he is reviwing it like movie critics... which means 3 stars is a above average movie that you should see (4 and 5 are academy award winning classics) and 1 would be a typical boring summer blockbuster that you should see in cheap theaters

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RolStoppable said:
Instead of bashing the reviewer for bias or claiming that he was fishing for hits with a troll review, perhaps you guys should consider that The Last of Us isn't all that. I've seen promotional material for the game where the developers hadn't even bothered to add colors yet, a clear sign of a halfassed job. Maybe the game is also lacking in mature themes (i.e. necrophilia and pedophilia) which the reviewer didn't like. The Last of Us had a lot of potential, but maybe it's just another shooter.

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JinxRake on 13 June 2013

I've said time and time again that there's very little to recommend the video game journalism industry. At this moment in time there's really no point in looking up reviews or even opinion pieces. They're all usually heavily biased towards one segment and ignore the rest, or deride it. Meh. We'll all see how the game holds up to its current reviews tomorrow (and of course we're hear the usual "OVERRRAAAAATED!!!!!111oneoneleven").