Remember how people review-bombed Portal 2?

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...Yeah. I think it's fair to say it's now gone a bit in the opposite direction.

Valve must be quite pleased at getting almost a 120% approval rating on their game.

Oh, and for the record? This is not an isolated incident. In fact, it's one [http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/max-payne-3] of [http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/mass-effect-3] the [http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/diablo-iii] tamer [http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/total-war-shogun-2---fall-of-the-samurai] ones [http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/tribes-ascend] (EDIT: These have since been fixed and are disappointingly ordinary).

So, what is it? A hacker? A glitch? A lamppost?

Discuss any amusing website glitches you have seen in the past.

 

[Hal10k]

It's 4chan, as always.

http://boards.4chan.org/v/res/143761582

That link should be good for at least an hour or so.

Basically, somebody on /v/ discovered that Metacritic's coding is pretty shoddy. So shoddy, in fact, that by using the "inspect element" tool on a web browser, you can submit a User Review with a score of 9999.

Edit: Screenshot for posterity.

 

[9thRequiem]

Wow, Tribes has a score of over 400 ...
I never thought I'd say this, but now the User score on Metacritic is even more useless than it was before. So there's something.

That is pretty shoddy coding. The first rule of data input is don't ever trust what you're sent. This goes double for anything over the Internet.

 

[Hal10k]

This is probably my favorite:

Edit: I'd like to point out that this has been going on for at least a day or so. Which raises the question of what the guys who run Metacritic plan to do about this, if anything.

And whoever keeps giving stuff related to Snoop Dogg a score of 420? You're brilliant, keep going.

 

[Hal10k]

The current PC gaming rankings, according to Metacritic:

It never fails to be amusing when 4chan decides to take a stroll around some other part of the internet.

 

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This is probably my favorite:

Edit: I'd like to point out that this has been going on for at least a day or so. Which raises the question of what the guys who run Metacritic plan to do about this, if anything.

And whoever keeps giving stuff related to Snoop Dogg a score of 420? You're brilliant, keep going.

Fuck, that's hilarious. <3 Big Rigs. May want to edit your images though, I had to do some right-clicking to see them.

Shame it's over now, that was fun.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

This is probably my favorite:

Edit: I'd like to point out that this has been going on for at least a day or so. Which raises the question of what the guys who run Metacritic plan to do about this, if anything.

And whoever keeps giving stuff related to Snoop Dogg a score of 420? You're brilliant, keep going.

that's hilarious. I laughed out loud at that one.

OT: this is hilarious and quite fun to look at, as everyone is getting in on the fun it seems.

Once again proving how useless scores actually are.

 

[razer17]

So Portal 2 was review bombed? Why?

Because it had micro transaction in it, and apparently some people thought harmless cosmetic purchases was a terrible affliction for a game.

 

[Zagzag]

It looks like this person [http://www.metacritic.com/user/ecko1o1] was responsible for some of them, going off his comments and the fact that the system doesn't seem to know half of the scores he gave, plus he admits it.

 

[shrekfan246]

So 4chan broke Metacritic? I'm... impressed?

So is Metacritic going to take down the entire site and try to revamp the code or... just... let the user reviews devolve into somehow being even more useless than they use to be?

EDIT: Looks like they're ironing out all of the trolling scores, though I'm not sure how... it could just be my internet, really, but the side bar still has Tribes: Ascend at 403, while actually clicking on it brings up the User Score at 7.9, but Total War: Shogun is still at 145.

 

[Unsilenced]

It looks like this person [http://www.metacritic.com/user/ecko1o1] was responsible for some of them, going off his comments and the fact that the system doesn't seem to know half of the scores he gave, plus he admits it.

RE: HL2: "This game is way underrated. Anything less than a 10/10 or 100% is scumbaggery. This is why I game this game a rating of 3918 out of 10."

Brilliant.

 

[bliebblob]

The current PC gaming rankings, according to Metacritic:

It never fails to be amusing when 4chan decides to take a stroll around some other part of the internet.

Waitwat I thought 4chan hated "TORtanic"? Or was that just the umpteenth sub-sub-sub faction? I think the whole thing is hilarious though.

 

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So 4chan broke Metacritic? I'm... impressed?

So is Metacritic going to take down the entire site and try to revamp the code or... just... let the user reviews devolve into somehow being even more useless than they use to be?

EDIT: Looks like they're ironing out all of the trolling scores, though I'm not sure how... it could just be my internet, really, but the side bar still has Tribes: Ascend at 403, while actually clicking on it brings up the User Score at 7.9, but Total War: Shogun is still at 145.

It seems like an incredibly basic issue, so I don't suppose it should be too hard to fix... should it?

 

[Spongebobdickpants]

Max payne getting review bombed because i has alot of cutscenes in a story driven game.

Well that is hilariously stupid

 

[kortin]

Max payne getting review bombed because i has alot of cutscenes in a story driven game.

Well that is hilariously stupid

I think it was, from what TB said on the issue, not the amount of cutscenes, but the ability to skip them. They were played over loading screens, so you could not skip them until the loading in the background is finished.

 

[shrekfan246]

So 4chan broke Metacritic? I'm... impressed?

So is Metacritic going to take down the entire site and try to revamp the code or... just... let the user reviews devolve into somehow being even more useless than they use to be?

EDIT: Looks like they're ironing out all of the trolling scores, though I'm not sure how... it could just be my internet, really, but the side bar still has Tribes: Ascend at 403, while actually clicking on it brings up the User Score at 7.9, but Total War: Shogun is still at 145.

It seems like an incredibly basic issue, so I don't suppose it should be too hard to fix... should it?

Well, I don't suppose they'd need to take down Metacritic to fix it, but they will need to alter the code if they want to keep it from being exploited again. I'm just a little intrigued by how they're actually fixing it, because they've managed to bring a bunch of the scores back in line (like Max Payne 3, Diablo 3, Mass Effect 3, Tribes: Ascend) but the side-bar is still broken, showing the ridiculously inflated scores, and there are still scores that are broken, like Iron Front: Liberation 1944, Game of Thrones, Postal III, and Total War: Shogun.

 

[Spongebobdickpants]

Max payne getting review bombed because i has alot of cutscenes in a story driven game.

Well that is hilariously stupid

I think it was, from what TB said on the issue, not the amount of cutscenes, but the ability to skip them. They were played over loading screens, so you could not skip them until the loading in the background is finished.

A cutscene or a loading screen, i think using cutscenes to disguise loading screens is very smart. Now on pc the inability to skip SOME cutscenes on fast machines is a pain but if you are playing a story driven game and knowingly buy a story driven game and realise that hey cutscenes are a part of them you have shouldnt complain.

He mentioned that "HALFLIFE 2 DIDNT HAVE CUTSCENES SO ALL GAMES MUST NOT HAVE CUTSCENES",this is bullshit.

The reason it worked in hl2 is because Gordon freeman is a non character with no impact on the narrative so you could fuck about all you want and have no impact on the road the story takes because you were not part of the story, you were an observer.

Im sure there were trigger finger gamers who wished the game didnt have dialogue because it was interrupting them shooting things.

Its simple, cutscenes are a game design tool. If you dont want plot, thats fine. Just dont but a plot driven game. And for fuck sake dont review bomb a game because TB doesnt like cutscene

Max payne getting review bombed because i has alot of cutscenes in a story driven game.

Well that is hilariously stupid

Sorry but there are more ways to tell a story than just slapping cutscenes in the way every 2 minutes. And when a cutscene is more than 5 minutes long without any kind of usefull information than the game can fuck off right away.

They were not meaningless. Anyone who played the game can tell you this, they were either used to forward the narrative or develop max's character. As far as im concerned if you dont find story/character development "useful" information then dont play max payne 3.

And this wasn't the only story telling the game employed, the constant narration also drove the plot, character and themes forward.