this is why the ratings on gamefly are so messed up. fantards go around and rate the other systems games low.

You shouldn't generalize like that, it isn't fair. i happen to know for a fact that not everybody likes mario games, no big deal.

but don't you find it worse that people diss things that other people love just for the hell of it? and ruin discussions that are ment to be for fun and enjoyment?

how would you like it if i kept someone you loved ugly or something? and kept saying that i hated them? should you just take it lying? i know i wouldn't like taht at all. i don't know about you... but i think it would be better to keep one's opinion to themselves if it's just going to be that negative.

My point exactly, isn't it just awful? especially when it happens here since i like spending time here :) it's like a home to me, shouldn't a person feel comfortable in their home? i wish it would stop... :(

i didn't say that an 8 was a bad score in a normal situation but compare that same 8 to the average of what a highly rated game actually recieved, big difference.

I think that if there's a big difference between one or two people's score and the vast majority of gamer's and reviewers' scores, well.. guess who's more likely to be honest.

and btw, i'm not saying everybody has to like the same thing, but if someone's going to rate a game they hate low knowing it's a good game, i think that's wrong :(

but i agree that our review system is a flawed one...

@ bolded, yeah cause this thread is in no way about someone making a stupid generalisation and stating it as fact...

@ the rest, completley and utterly irrelevant to this thread/debate, the issue was over you and slimebeasts suggestion that people giving a game an 8/10 was them hating on it, which I think by now has been shown to be utter nonsense, no-one in this thread or the thread that inspired this continually insulted a game, they all in fact said it was good, the worst thing i saw said about the game was "its not great though" or something like that, please stop making up situations that have not taken place, the other thread was actually going fine and was for fun as you say, until that is, a user suggested people giving 8/10 were stupid fanboys and haters, obviously they and I defended ourselves as it was a pathetic baseless assertation.

SciFiBoy

For heaven's sake do you see everythingin black and white?

Downplaying the competition ain't (necessarily) the same as 'hate' or 'insulting' something. You're using too strong words, and also (again) putting words in my mouth.

And are you really so naive that you don't see the phenomenon??

In your world there's only honest people and haters, nothing in between?

no, but I saw no evidence of what youre talking about in that thread, I did however see a post or 2 give a 10/10 without any reasoning, that seemed more suspicious to me than any of the reasoned 8.5's I saw.

But I already told u a thousand times that there's an overrating phenomenon too.

For me it's quite obvious that if you give 10/10 it's out of fanboyism. I did it in a at least two of those ranking games already. I assumed it was obvious for everybody. For Halo 3 too, do you really think i'd rate it 10/10? Of course not. I put 10/10 to favor Halo 3 over MGS4 in that ranking contest.

99% of Sony fans downplay everything about the X360 and vice versa, to different degrees. Then there's a minority who even hate and bash, but that's nothing I accused anyone of in that thread.

It's all essentially a war between console fans (rooted in fanboyism).

check out mu last post before this.

and btw, i wasn't just talking about that thread. what about that 3 score for CoD4 and mario galaxy? and also, i mentioned that haters were being stealthy in that thread, a six or similar would have been too obvious...

why don't you read some peoples' replies in this thread? it happens in places like metacritic's and gamefly's user reviews where it's easy to post a zero, but here if you'd post something like that it'd be obvious and you'd get banned from the contest or something, and you can't do it by making an alt account because of the 100 post rule, so someone would have to post something not so obvious.

face it, it happens sometimes no doubt. there's no point denying it's what some people do, not all but some... why are you acting like it doesn't happen at all?

Exactly.

I sometimes, or even often, use this method myself. I admit it. My purpose was never to call out others and then hide my own sins.