Halo 4 gets a 2/10...

[Palademon]

So...if it's "half the game it should be"...then at it's best it should be 4/10?

Q: Why did you give Journey a 40%?

A: I didn?t. Quarter to Three uses a five star scale. One of the reasons I avoid percentage ratings is that too many people associate it with grade school, where anything below a 70% is a failing grade. Any scale where only the top third of the ratings is considered acceptable is a broken scale. Which is fine for children doing multiple choice questions about The Scarlet Letter, isosceles triangles, or the capital of France. But adults evaluating entertainment should be afforded the full range of any ratings scale.

I don't know what to take from this. Having a scale is fine, but having a game you think is mediocre be THE LOWEST RATING YOU HAVE is ridiculous. So a bad game is what? Negative stars? He only works on five star system.

 

[Kyber]

I'm thinking more like 6/10 but 2/10 seems a bit harsh.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

Oh and yes A.I.s have lifespans, this is a thing. This isn't something 343 pulled out of their rears, A.I. decay and rampancy have been a part of the Halo universe for years now.

What's this lifespan thing? I haven't played Halo since 2 so maybe I don't remember but lifespans sound interesting.

OT: The cynic in me would agree he's just trolling for hits. Unless the game doesn't function I don't think a 2/10 is really ever justified, even for games I hate.

 

[WanderingFool]

Too much like the past Halo games

Not enough like the past Halo games (yes I'm aware that these first two contradict each other)

You don't get to fire the big gun on the Mammoth

Enemies are Tron like

No scoring system in single-player (I agree with him on this, that's what made Halo 3's campaign so replayable)

AI's having a lifespan

The story is slow, sentimental and too serious

Those are reasons for giving a game a 2/10?

I know people are entitles to their opinion and all, but... really?

 

[Korten12]

Oh and yes A.I.s have lifespans, this is a thing. This isn't something 343 pulled out of their rears, A.I. decay and rampancy have been a part of the Halo universe for years now.

What's this lifespan thing? I haven't played Halo since 2 so maybe I don't remember but lifespans sound interesting.

OT: The cynic in me would agree he's just trolling for hits. Unless the game doesn't function I don't think a 2/10 is really ever justified, even for games I hate.

"Smart" AIs unlike their counterparts "Dumb" AIs can only live for 7 years as they begin to think themselves to death and begin to turn off functions to prolong rampancy but it only helps fuel it. Cortana in 4 has begun rampancy as she has past her life span.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

Oh and yes A.I.s have lifespans, this is a thing. This isn't something 343 pulled out of their rears, A.I. decay and rampancy have been a part of the Halo universe for years now.

What's this lifespan thing? I haven't played Halo since 2 so maybe I don't remember but lifespans sound interesting.

OT: The cynic in me would agree he's just trolling for hits. Unless the game doesn't function I don't think a 2/10 is really ever justified, even for games I hate.

"Smart" AIs unlike their counterparts "Dumb" AIs can only live for 7 years as they begin to think themselves to death and begin to turn off functions to prolong rampancy but it only helps fuel it. Cortana in 4 has begun rampancy as she has past her life span.

Ahh.. That explains what was going on in with Cortana in Forward Unto Dawn. Thanks

 

[Whitbane]

Only makes me more excited for the newest installment in the Halo/CoD war. The fanboyism shall be glorious.

The reviewer is obviously just fishing for attention, and it seems to be working.

 

[HellsingerAngel]

Well, the reviewer blatantly admits in a follow-up to his Journey review that he doesn't review games objectively, so there's that. That wouldn't be so bad if the writing for the review wasn't absolute trash. Buddy went to Harvard and he thinks using words like big-ass, douchebag and eff off are acceptable? He sounds like a thirteen year-old typing out his frustrations to his buddies on metacritic. Unprofessional doesn't begin to cover how bad the review was.

This doesn't really surprise me, however. He's admitted to have been fired twice as a reviewer and it's apparent as to why. He has some semblance of knowledge of the industry if his top ten list is any indication but the fact that he feels being objective in a review doesn't make a review it's clear why he's where he is.

 

[C F]

This is the equivalent of rating a cigar and then slamming it because you inhaled the smoke and started coughing.
Must be a bad cigar, yes sir. Surely there are better cigars suited for his lungs. Let's try some smoke free ones!

Methinks he missed some of the finer points. Like, oh, I don't know, the importance and reception of the maiden voyage that is 343i's first game? How well the shooting fares? What the new weapons and enemies contribute to the tactics pool? How the story fares in continuity? Are the MP game types unique and well thought out? The taste and quality of the cigar? Is the Forge Mode any good? Anything anyone will actually care about?

It comes out tomorrow, and if I find the game isn't horrendously broken, then I might never see this reviewer as credible again. Which is just as well, because I've never actually heard of him. I don't even know who this guy is.
Ooh, look! The Chief's back. Better kill some aliens and get to not afraiding of anything.

 

[Simonoly]

It's not the most professional review but I can relate to some of his complaints. I've always enjoyed Halo but there are certain things that the review touches upon like the over-sentimentality and over-seriousness of the story and characters that I've always found quite grating.
Although I do find it a bit strange that the reviewer singles out Halo 4 for this as, to my knowledge, every Halo has done this.

I wonder what will happen to 343 if they don't achieve a favourable metacritic score? Maybe Microsoft will take away their pensions or force them to make XBL avatar Kinect adventures for the rest of their lives. I think that sounds fair.

 

[Radoh]

Well now I've got another sensationalist reviewer that's going to be ignored right alongside Razorfist.
Looks like he gets to have some company now.

 

[lord Claincy Ffnord]

Yeaaaah, a number of those points are positives in my mind....... 2/10 is just silly.
I can agree with him not being too pleased about it being about master chief, I wasn't either. However complaining about how it is covering the same thing and then holding up borderlands 2 as something you could be doing instead, seems a tad strange.

 

[Tdoodle]

He's got a point with the mammoth gun thing. I wasn't happy in 2 when Johnson got to drive that big walker thing and I had to fly around in a Banshee. Halo has always been a bit of a cock-tease.

Scoring non-objective reviews seems a bit strange though, score are viewed objectively. Clearly likes the attention it gets him.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Too much like the past Halo games

Not enough like the past Halo games

The guy is trolling.

Either that or he needs help getting dressed or turning on his Xbox.

 

[neverarine]

The AI lifespan thing was established in the books... like 6 years ago... so that point is utterly moot...