0815user said: simple solution: make a site called nude reviews. there you can be honest and don't have to worry about clicks.

Why are we not funding this yet?

No dude, what I said was story would be max 2/10 and gameplay max 3/10 then be added up to be 5/10. That way you can dictate wich parts of a game deserve higher value. Like gameplay deserves more value than graphics, while graphics deserve more than sounds and what ever other thing to be judge. If we do it your way, wich is still better than what we have now, we would say that something unimportant like sound would be valued just as much s something essential like the actual gameplay.

But I should have wrote it better lnstead like

Story                            2/2

gameplay                    3/3

graphics                       2/2

glitches                        1/1

day one dc                  1/1

total                              10/10  or 100/100

I read reviewers just for personal opinion, however i do not "agree/disagree"  with them or do not take any opinion from them, it's their taste. Surely, most of them poorly excuse written such as pointless negative here "Too much water" & paid for ads, it's too messy. I usually watch Angry Joe & Totalbiscuit because... You know truth is out there stuff lol.

I'll tag, interested in what's going to happen.

They would use Sony games as examples wouldn't they. SMH

I guess the whole point of this thread is to justify ignoring The Order's reviews?

Yes, The Order did get some unfair review from small-to-midrange sites. There was one review I read that was COMPLETELY unfair to the game, and gave it a 1 out of five for reasons that simply weren't suitable for a score. Short length and generic gun play? Fine, that isn't great, but it's not as if the game is a buggy, non functional mess. Some sites, but especially the smaller ones, tend to give out really small and really high scores like they're candy, which is why I don't put much stock into them.

But this doesn't discount all of the mediocre reviews The Order has gotten from more reputable sources. For instance, Jim Sterling's site gave the game a fairly mediocre score, and when I read through his review it made sense. The game has some serious flaws in pacing and can be very formulaic, but isn't a BAD game, just isn't a great one. And this was essentially what every review from every place I trust said. This is why I'm not going to buy the game until I find it for a cheaper price. I still want to experience it, just not for $60.

Killzone: Shadowfall was also mentioned in this article, and let me say...that game wasn't exactly remarkable. It's a shame that one website (potentially a few) directed the game get a low score for clickbait, but in the end it's not as if they were trashing an amazing game. Even with the more reputable sites, the game averaged in the 70s if I remember correctly, and from what I've played (which was well over half the game) of it the game didn't deserve much more than that. It's a well done, polished, above average, but thoroughly unremarkable first person shooter that did little to make me feel like I was not playing on a PS3 beyond improved graphical fidelity (which didn't even match Ryse on the supposedly inferior Xbox One).

It sucks that gamer's accusations of low-review clickbait has been confirmed, but something that's gotta be taken into account is that:

1. It's mostly from smaller to midrange sites, which are weighted less than the bigger sites on Metacritic

2. The article itself admits this is a small minority of these sites

3. There's probably plenty of websites that are cozy with the big publishers, including Sony, that balance things out.

I mean, for every crappy small site that does this, there is a Nintendo, Sony, or Xbox fan website that gives these console exclusive games higher than average scores to balance things out. Not to mention there's been accusations of big sites being too cozy with publishers, letting events and embargos sway their scores in a positive way, etc. Yes, there is STILL a problem here, but there's a problem in the realm of high review scores to, and I wouldn't be surprised if poorly reviewed games like The Order benefited from that.

In the end, I just have to say...don't worry PlayStation fans. Yes, most of your exclusives have been poorly reviewed since the PS4 came out. Yes, in my opinion, from what I've played and read, most of these scores have been deserving. But this is Sony, they've got some spectacular developers under their belt. Things WILL get better eventually. I know when I was complaining about a lack of compelling exclusives last year, some of you were pointing towards The Order as one of your many saviors. Obviously that didn't happen. But things will improve, you've just gotta give it some time. I'm sure the next Uncharted will do well with critics and consumers (albeit I will say that it does look a little too much like its predecessors in terms of gameplay, it's also impossible for me to deny its predecessors were as fun as hell) and I'm sure we'll get other awesome games from Sony as well. Great games take time to make, it's why the earlier games in a system's lifespan are so often mediocre.

And again, I do intend to play The Order later this year. Even if it is incredibly linear, generic, and short, its beautiful visuals and steam punk world still interest me enough to give it a go. Just not at $60.

It's been obviously for a while.

The bad thing is, that this is all for getting attention and not to help gamers

They shouldn't, but sadly, they have 'insiders' to help them. If not that, bribing is the next option.

So all review sites got together and decided to give The Order a low score? Or maybe The Order is just a bad game.