The Last Of Us Review Hate

[SecondPrize]

I love angry responses to reviews. The best place I've found for them is Tom Chick's reviews. He'll give a game three stars, meaning he likes it, and Metacritic converts that to 60/100 and his review comments are just flooded with tears. It's fantastic.

 

[Happiness Assassin]

Review scores are stupid anyway and those that put too much faith in them are stupid too. They are essentially and attempt to mathematically explain someones opinion, a thing that is intrinsically subjective in its value and even its interpretation. To some a 10 is perfection, while to others it is more like acing a test. The whole thing is just stupid.

Anyways, this happens whenever anyone didn't automatically start drooling over big budget titles. I remember Uncharted 3 being particularly divisive when a "not perfect" score came up.

 

[idarkphoenixi]

I used to grow up in a world where 8/10 meant "This game is fucking fantastic, you NEED to play it"
And now 8 is the new 6, or is it 5?

Man, numbers in a review is just meaningless at this point.

 

[CityofTreez]

I'm still wondering how GTAIV got a 98 on Metacritic.

 

[Soxafloppin]

I remember on these forums when Uncharted 3 got 9/10 review someone made a thread about it because 9/10 is fucking shite am I right?

I'm really looking forward to The Last of Us though, Naughty Dog do not disappoint.

I'd also point out that this isn't just any game..its a PS3 exclusive. Which means PS3 fanboys will praise it to high heavens even if they have no interest in the game, and 360 fanboys will call it over rated trash despite never playing the game and maybe even having some interest in it, because platform wars.

 

[MeisterKleister]

This isn't anything new. Just look at almost any top comment on almost any video review of a big game on Youtube that didn't receive a perfect score and you will find someone whining and saying "This reviewer sucks! This games deserves at least a 10!"

As I see it, it all stems from the problem of most people failing to separate personal opinion and objective facts.
When they say "This reviewer sucks! This games deserves at least a 10!" what they're actually saying is "I disagree! This games deserves at least a 10 ***in my opinion***!"

It's like failing to understand that a review is really just the summary of the personal opinion, the personal enjoyment, the personal experience that that one individual reviewer had of a game.

I believe they generally confuse the statement the reviewers subjective opinion for an objective analysis and they conflate their own view to objective facts.