If it weren’t for Gamecritics and Quarter to Three, I would agree with you. But it’s very possible that both of those sites could give GoW a score as low as 50 based on their history. 

What are you talking about? Your comments sometimes are so odd, and you frequently seem to go against what people say just for the sake of doing so.

Scoring a game fairly with an open mind based on your experience with it does NOT qualify as a biased view. And that obviously has nothing to do with what I was talking about in my post. Also, bias:  prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

Reviews are based on a subjective emotion/feeling while playing a game, trying to act impartial/unbiased when you're going to do it, even subconsciously, is just setting yourself up for something that you can never truly commit to. Then again, we're just looking at the low scores, but that ignores that the same thing could be occurring for the high scores too.

Except you can do a technical and objective analysis instead of more emotional driven.

Well, if you're doing a technical analysis, it should be like Digital Foundry, which doesn't have a review score.

1.5

I'm so sick of people defending zoilists who actively enjoy reveling in negativity by fabricating problems & exaggerating whatever personal issues they have just for the sake of going against the general consensus. Sure, you could argue the same applies for high scores but what normal person would complain about 'excessive' positivity? I think we all prefer that to the other end of the spectrum which would be the guys at GameCritics, QT3 etc who are cynical prats just for the sake of imposing some sense of self-importance for going against the grain.

I'm not saying it's not okay to have a differing opinions, problem is these critics are supposed to be professionals giving a fair evaluation to serve the public and shouldn't be actively trying to create issues just to fit whatever preconceived negativity they had for a universally acclaimed game just to satiate their own egos for being an outlier like that makes them superior... 

Anyway that's enough talk of this, the game has received an overwhelmingly positive reception and I'm looking forward to playing it tomorrow. :) 

Well, excessive positivity bloats a score in the same way that excessive negativity drains a score. I think it's not very sensible to want a system where ratings are given importance, but then not want the full scale to be used in game reviews.

I just listened to some of the Gamecritics podcast and he even said it's probably going to be the lowest score on Metacritic and everyone will be pissed off at him. So count on it, a 7 or 8 if it's lucky. Shouldn't knock it out of a 95 though. But if Qt3 decides on a 60 (it won't be any lower) and Edge is a 9 or less it might drop to a 94, because anything below a 9.5 will drop the score.

Going forward, even if on the same PS4 you guys should just have seperate accounts. That way you can both play anygame and not have to worry about any save slot snaffu....