The Last Of Us Review Hate

[OldDirtyCrusty]

A few kids get mad over reviewscores? That`s not a big deal and happens with other games too. If the reviewer messed it up a bit because he wasn`t able to get that clickers are suposed to be blind it`s just embarassing for GS. An 8 is still a good score and there are enough other reviews for the Last of Us. Some sites are acting like it`s the second comming of christ and i doubt it. I expect a good or great game nothing more and i don`t need review scores for my opinion.

 

[AnthrSolidSnake]

I'm incredibly excited for the game and even I don't think it's worth a perfect 10/10 score. I have no doubt the game will be great, but not perfect. It certainly seems to improve on elements from third person shooters and survival horror games, but it doesn't bring anything new.

 

[Tom_green_day]

Before jumping on the bandwagon of the popular opinion, was the review sub-10 for a good reason or just because of something trivial, like its exclusivity or bad menus or something? If that is the case, then I think complaining about the reviews is justified, and not done by the abominable 'fanboys'.

 

[Woodsey]

The leading issue is this: people are morons. I mean, real stone-cold idiots.

Reviewers are paid because they can express their opinion well in a written form, not because they have a divine mandate to reinforce the popular opinion.

Moreover, review scores are stupid. A 7 in one publication is not the same as a 7 in another, and for fuck's sake don't start making conversion charts and begin trying to explain how a 3/5 is really only a 6/10 and blah blah blah. Publications define what those numbers mean within the context of their own reviewers - which people always ignore anyway - and even then you're dealing with different people within a publication.

And just to reinforce it: reviews are opinions. That's it. Objectivity only factors in to the extent of someone not taking a bribe to give a good score, or not being friends with someone who's worked on the game. The rest is just what people think, and no publication mandates stuff like, "a game must get a minimum of Score X if it has only 3 bugs". If someone hates The Last of Us then they're well within their rights to give it a fucking zero. This is not a difficult concept, this is what you learn when you're 6 and it becomes apparent that not everyone thinks the same way as you do.

Of course, all of this would be solved if reviewers simply gave a sentence-long, spoiler-free summary of their thoughts on any given game at the end of their review instead of using numbers, but then that'd be way too easy.

 

[DioWallachia]

The problem really started with this game:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cG55gr-Fbmg/TinBohWoBHI/AAAAAAAAAE0/z8jnfVOa-o8/s1600/OcarinaofTime.jpg

Ocarina of Time is the highest rated game ever, and for good reason. It was way ahead of it's time and did things most had never seen before. Around five years later, games were coming out that were far better than Ocarina of Time; so reviewers started giving away perfect scores like candies at Halloween. Now we're at the point where trolls expect every AAA title to have a perfect score.

Or, you know, it could be this:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/03/22/mass-effect-3-gears-of-war-3-and-why-reviewers-fail/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/03/22/mass-effect-3-gears-of-war-3-and-why-reviewers-fail/2/

 

[jetriot]

Meh, seems like its good enough. If it was on PC i'd buy it. It doesn't look THAT great though. Just another run down a corridor playing with the different features we implemented in this game. I tend to prefer a bit more freedom in my games which tends to push me away from FPS/Action-Adventure games.

 

[Frotality]

well i suppose with a lot of sub-par yearly release franchises getting wholly undeserved 9s and 10s, some people think genuinely good games crafted with love should get the same treatment. on the same scale that gives blops a 9 the last of us probably deserves something higher (though i dont know why these idiots make that claim before fucking playing it themselves), but on a normal scale that actually uses more than the last 4 numbers, where blops probably has a 5 or 6, 8 is a perfectly great score.

 

[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.