I'm not seeing reviews from IGN, Gamespot, Joystiq, Kotaku, etc. Is this because of the embargo? Or am I just blind? Seems like those would be important scores to include in the aggregation.

a bit unrelated but i thought this user review was funny:

"To all those people giving it bad reviews, you don't know how to have fun playing games. You are probably totally biased because you have a life. To all gamers though, we don't have true lives, we play games for fun and fun only."
(10/10)

It seems like there's a lot of critically disappointing games this year. Besides Last of Us, what's the highest rated game this year?

Hsh, I'm a bit of a Destiny hater,  but the sales for it are going to be ridiculous. It sort of proves that reviews don't really matter. COD and Madden are the same thing, who really cares about the reviews? Almost nobody. They will sell by the truckload be it 60 or 90.

Well most say they will take their time with possible a discussion between reviewers what to give the score etc..  

Gametrailers for example has some editorials talking about the game...

http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/6yprqc/destiny-report--destiny-launch-recap


BTW, I did not know you were still around..

Basically this folks ^^^

It will hurt it's legs, and no matter how good destiny 2 is it won't sell as good as the first.

Shovel Knight... I'm not surprised at all. All Halo game where boring after the first one and this looked boring even in trailers. It will sell nevertheless, it's Watch_Dogs all over again...

yeah...so I'm sure we're going to get a couple different looks at the game by next week..

and do I know you?

I certainly dropped off the site for a while...for a number of reasons...mostly a lack of interest as the last generation wound down...but with the next wave starting I felt compelled to return.

I'm not sure that was appropriate. He isnt disappointed, he is paralysed. He can only control his blinking.