99 and 70 is a bit of a vast gap, and even if you don't buy into reviews most would admit 70 is a worrying score for a franchise that use to get 90~

Unless all the reviewers are lying and making it up, which I doubt, there is some cause for concern for those wanting to pick up KZ.

70 is a competent score tho, if I was a fan of the series it wouldn't put me off buying it.

Stop pretending you are a shady lawyer and demand numbers that aren't realistic for anybody to provide and if I did, would be just as easily dismissed.Oh please right back at you :)

Just saying that we live in a world where a gamers wallet and bank account has a finite amount of money. We live in a crazzzzie world where a sensible gamer can only afford 1-3 launch games. Now given KZ's meta, maybe, just maybe.....a gamer on the fence may get Battlefield 4 instead to get their one FPS fix this year.

Now the more silly explanation to your OP is that fans of console corporation allegiances, NEED good scores for leverage to elevate themselves. It literally makes their day. Trust me, I knew what it was like lol

Honest to god I don't know why people care about launch titles so much. No console has ever had a perfect launch and it's games weren't too great either.

People buy consoles at launch, largely on promise but it seems fans in other camps will take every opportunity to cut down the opposition. Having said that Killzone's reviews must be disappointing to many and could give some reason to hold off a little longer for a must have game.

Metacritic does not make sales.

Look at Rayman Legends and The world ends with you, huge critical acclaim, no one bought em.

Or in the other sense, COD:Ghost

A lot of people do, it seems! As for me, I don't really care about reviews at all, after the inflation of the 7th gen, they have lost all meaning to me.

It wasn't Xbox or Nintendo fans that were hyping KZ to death as the best launch game.
It is not Xbox nor Nintendo fans making threads about disappointing review scores for PS4 games.

No to offend you but you're acting like a teenager that after being rejected says, "I didn't want him anyways".

Lol, a brilliant question in the OP, the next one should be "who cares about games for consoles anyway?"

If I'm gonna invest my hard earned money in a brand new system, I want to be able to do what it's meant to do (as in, play games). I do not want to play games just because:

- they exist

- they are in 1080p

- they are made for certain brand of consoles

I want to play games because they are good great and enjoyable (and challenging, if I'm in the mood). When I play a game I invest 3  things: time, money and effort. I want to be properly rewarded for all of three. Now, a metacritic score isn't always a true story behind a game, but it's a good indicator. With inflation of good and great scores, any game below 80 today I double check. 

Will I play Knack just because it's out for PS4, but the evil reviewers are comparing it's enjoyment by killing time in airplane by watching a bad movie? Ofcourse I'm not. I bet all the reviewers thinked twice before giving out those scores to the two big launch PS4 games, and that makes those scores even more worrysome. 

Who cares about resolution?
Who cares about FLOPS?
Who cares about launch games?

I'm starting to think that nobody should care about anything.

I do, every good review moves the balance to which console I will buy, I can't afford all and the PS4 and X1 are too similar to pick up both, so each good exclusive game moves the balance, I don't buy based on future promises I buy based on what is in the market and the exclusives of the launch are not giving points to the Ps4 right now.