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What Will The Review Scores Be?

9 - 10 44 61.97%
 
8 - 9 20 28.17%
 
7 - 8 4 5.63%
 
Lower 3 4.23%
 
Show Me The Scores So Far 0 0%
 
Total:71
BraLoD said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

So, forgive me if I'm incorrect as Metacritic's actual page won't load for me for some reason, but when I type the names of these games into Metacritic's search engine, it gives me these scores : Bloodborne got a 92 on Metacritic? Persona 5 got a 93 on Metacritic? Uncharted 4 got a 93 on metacritic? And Horizon missed 90 by 1 point? Are you guys sure you aren't exaggerating? Sorry if I'm wrong but for some reason the entire page won't load, it just tells me the score in the search bar on Metacritic.

Yes these are the scores.

As I said none could reach 95-96 like they did last gen.

Ok I wasn't saying you were wrong about that specifically, but don't you guys in this thread think you're REALLY exaggerating when you say there's a "sony bias"?  Granted I'm not just replying to you, but rather mostly to a lot of the thread. 

PS3 Exclusives Metacritic :

Resistance : Fall of Man : 86

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune : 88 

Ratchet and Clank : Tools of Destruction : 89

Resistance 2 : 87

Demon's Souls : 89

Ratchet and Clank : A Crack In Time : 87 (there are a few more titles but i'm lazy)

Killzone 2 : 91 

Infamous : 85

Uncharted 2 : Among Thieves : 96

God of War 3 : 92 

Infamous 2 : 83

Resistance 3 : 83

Uncharted 3 : 92

The Last of Us : 95

You get the point ... of course there is a few more big PS3 exclusives. 

PS4 Exclusives Metacritic : 

Killzone : Shadow Fall : 73

Infamous : Second Son : 80

Bloodborne : 92 

Until Dawn : 79 

Ratchet and Clank : 85

Uncharted 4 : 93

The Last Guardian : 82 

Gravity Rush 2 : 80

Horizon Zero Dawn : 89 

Persona 5 : 93 

Nier Automata : 88

Nioh : 88

I think this kind of disputes the claims that there is A ) An inherent bias against Sony or B ) That they can't have results similar to last gen

All in all seems pretty fair to me. The scores make sense, and from what I can tell Sony only had two exclusives last generation which scored a 95+? The PS4's lifecycle isn't done yet, so I really think it can make it. The Last of Us 2 is practically guaranteed to get a 95+ , but it's not like it's a common thing that just suddenly ended when the PS4 arrived. Nioh and Bloodborne in particular are very similar in their scores to the other Souls games, and in fact Bloodborne has the highest score out of any of them(that I can tell?). The other franchises either had a significant reduction in perceived quality, or where derivative and weren't considered the best of their series. Uncharted 4, what you gonna do. People aren't always going to agree with you. Uncharted 2 probably has a higher score because of how much of an impact it made at the time. 

Could it be that because Nintendo got two 95+ scores in a single year people are labeling  critics as unnecessarily nit-picky against Sony? If I'm wrong about this @otherpeopleinthisthread than you are more than free to ignore this part of the reply. But if that is the case, getting those kind of scores isn't exactly common for Nintendo either. Perhaps more common then Sony's 1st party output(I would check but again, can't load the page for some odd reason), but that doesn't imply an inherent bias either. There's always going to be one company at the top (in terms of arbitrary score aggregates!). Also, just because one company gets criticized too little doesn't mean another company gets unfairly criticized either. I'm sure there are tons of badly written criticisms of Sony games, and maybe you see them more often in their games, but then again no one ever said video game reviewers were good at articulating critique ("too much water!"). 

It's just guessing at the end of the day, but I think this game has a fair shot. Could be the big Sony game that is the landmark title for  PS4. Who knows!



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92. Mostly acclaimed and a few outliers who are salty about how different it is from previous GoW games and drag it down.



Somewhere in  between 88 ~ 92



I'm going to say 91, it might be a bit too high, it depends on how many reviewers feel alienated by the changes to the gameplay



BraLoD said:

You forgot Little Big Planet.

Also it's notable how much lower are the scores this gen.

And critics have always been more nitpicky with PS exclusives, there is always a ridiculous reason to drop it down, it's not something from this gen, in fact a Sony game has never got a 97 score on MC, despite the countless masterpieces the platforms received, in the end there is always something to pick that otherwise would have not.

Funny that I think Uncharted 2 is overrated and it's their highest score ever xP

I didn't forget Little Big Planet honestly, I just got lazy. 

The "lower scores" are not that notable tbh ... A lot of PS4's early games were by no means masterpieces, and Gravity Rush 2 and The Last Guardian were always going to have lower scores due to being niche (Last Guardian actually has a pretty high score considering how mixed it is). The bigger reasons for the lower score is that the best studios were taking a long time to make games for PS4 either because they made games really late into the PS3's lifecycle, or because they were being very ambitious. If you notice, the games with lower scores on PS4 are games that don't really have any good comparison on PS3, so it's hard to make a true comparison. Truly speaking, my list is heavily flawed as a comparison because I had to fill it out with nicher games than what was on my PS3 list ... like I said, I think God of War, as well as other big exclusives will close the "gap". 

A Sony game HAS got a 97+. Mr. Tony Hawk has something to say to you, good sir! But yeah, I know what you mean. "Sony branded" or games that have a Sony affiliation. Again, don't  really know how much that has to do with bias though. 

I don't like Uncharted in general. I don't think games like Mario Odyssey or Breath of the Wild should have nearly the metacritic score they have either. But I don't talk about that because it's not a very compelling point, I guess. But yeah, we can both agree that the list doesn't align with our taste perfectly xD 



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I am thinking 95 but I am a little biased toward games with Kratos.
From what I have seen it looks like it deserves over 90.



94



BraLoD said:

You forgot Little Big Planet.

Also it's notable how much lower are the scores this gen.

And critics have always been more nitpicky with PS exclusives, there is always a ridiculous reason to drop it down, it's not something from this gen, in fact a Sony game has never got a 97 score on MC, despite the countless masterpieces the platforms received, in the end there is always something to pick that otherwise would have not.

Funny that I think Uncharted 2 is overrated and it's their highest score ever xP

So, you truly believe that they are being purposefully biased against PS exclusives and giving them lower scores than they would on other consoles?



BraLoD said:
VGPolyglot said:

So, you truly believe that they are being purposefully biased against PS exclusives and giving them lower scores than they would on other consoles?

Bias? Nope, bias usually inflate scores.

But yes, Sony games have much more actual criticism than other games, no matter how good it is, it'll have people hand picking things to complain about that otherwise they would not.

It looks like some reviwers expect Sony games to be 12/10 to be able to give it a 10.

For example IGN hasn't given a single 10 to ANY game on the PS1 and PS2, the fucking PS1 and PS2.

I guess the PS1 and PS2 just didn't have any masterpieces like the Atari Lynx did.



BraLoD said:

You said last gen it had 2 95+ scores, LBP scored a 95, you forgot it xP

Hm true Lmao didn't even notice that

Dreams probably won't get that, probably too complex to get those scores. See that's the kind of thing I'm trying to explain but failing at, I think it's the subtle differences that make the lower scores and not necessarily a bias. Who knows though, we will see if they can get it up to speed this gen. I hope so! I still think GOW can do it. But if not we still have TLOU, Dreams, Days Gone, Detroit and a few others. Ghost of Tsushima and Death Stranding have a pretty good chance .... if they even come out this gen .... x-P