You don't even have to have an opinion on something for GamerGate to declare you a cuck/Hitler. Damn he made the salt flow without trying. Literally.
There you go. In technicolor moving pictures even.CrazyGirl17 said:(I want to put up a picture of that old cartoon gag where someone briefly turns into a lollipop - or "Sucker" - when they realize they've been tricked, but I'm having issues putting in pictures for some reason...)
"The reviewer was bought out" = They liked something I didn't!Dr. Crawver said:I love how people complain that reviewers are bought out, and then we have a reviewer actually give their honest opinions and an honest score, he's just trying to be subversive or trolling.
They can either learn to trust, or be angry.Eric the Orange said:people need to learn to not trust everything they see on the internet.
It's a big release Nintendo game, anything less than a 9 would be seen as an outrage by these people. People kicked off when GameSpot gave Twilight Princess an 8.8, it's insanityExley97 said:The most disturbing thing about this -- besides the fact that someone created a fake screenshot to get Nintendo fans to mob Sterling, of course -- is that a 7/10 is somehow seen as an egregious grade in this industry, which is really fucking sad. You can't even give games something below an 8 without mobs of angry "fans" losing their shit.
Also, it's funny: I know the review excerpt is fake, but I'm reminded of how many ACTUAL reviews I've read over the years that are, content-wise, largely negative in nature and suggest the game is average at best, only to have a 7 or even an 8 numerical score attached to it. It's entirely incongruous; the scores often don't seem to match the reviewers' actual feelings about the game. And seeing the reaction from Nintendo "fans" over this BS, I can see why some folks would be reluctant to score games lower. I doubt that was the intent of whoever created this fake review, but I thought it was interesting nonetheless.
The reviewers at Scary Ghosts did a joke thing where they will only rate games either a seven or a ten out of ten. Seven has become the industry standard term for "The game is average to shit, but I'm told the studio will stop sending us early review copies if we score it such, so here's the weakest 'positive score' instead." Similarly in boxing, a losing boxer could get knocked down twice in a round and still get a 7/10 on the score cards.Exley97 said:The most disturbing thing about this -- besides the fact that someone created a fake screenshot to get Nintendo fans to mob Sterling, of course -- is that a 7/10 is somehow seen as an egregious grade in this industry, which is really fucking sad. You can't even give games something below an 8 without mobs of angry "fans" losing their shit.
Also, it's funny: I know the review excerpt is fake, but I'm reminded of how many ACTUAL reviews I've read over the years that are, content-wise, largely negative in nature and suggest the game is average at best, only to have a 7 or even an 8 numerical score attached to it. It's entirely incongruous; the scores often don't seem to match the reviewers' actual feelings about the game. And seeing the reaction from Nintendo "fans" over this BS, I can see why some folks would be reluctant to score games lower. I doubt that was the intent of whoever created this fake review, but I thought it was interesting nonetheless.