It is pick and choose kind of mentality though. When Uncharted's, GTA's and Last of Us, Mario Galaxies, etc get big scores, multiple threads are made for that ordeal. If someone shows skepticism, metacritic and review scores are brought up to shut them up and further mocked. Now a big game gets bad scores and the fun factor is being brought up by many. I respect and am happy that they are enjoying a game despite the popular opinion. It would just be better if we as collective group show more consistency and be less hypocritical. 

Ignore the reviews and ignore the hype too. If not those, just ignore the previews atleast. More time is spent riding the hype wave than it takes to beat most of those video games when they eventually come out. 

i agree. that happens a lot. i said it a million times before, when a game your hyped for gets good reviews its always awesome. but i been believing with time that these reviews are getting more and more meaningless. sadly the effect of reviews on the industry is becoming much stronger, and people are looking at a score rather than the games them selfs when deciding what to buy.

That guy on GAF was correct.
If Destiny is barely managing to cling onto 75 meta, given the amount of negativity following The Order throughout the months, it is dangerously approaching Knack territory.

Atleast have a knowledge of the developers previous games' reception before making such a comment.

I think you misunderstood my post, but whatever... 

GTAexpert said:

 Uh, your post could only mean one thing obviously.

Did Destiny not just launch with the biggest opening in sales ever?  Where is the effect of the reviews on that?  Reviews are just becoming less important and games are getting sold based on hype not on quality.