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[Exile20]

That review is missing an 'as'. That's hilarious. It's also pretty terrible, but I'm. Not going to start a petition or anything.

Your post has a random fullstop and capital 'N' but I'm not going to start a petition or anything.

Anyway, gamers seem to get angry over anything, it is a shame.

 

[-Horizon-]

Everything gets posted to Comic Riffs for game reviews

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ouls-game-is-brutal-violent-and-exhilarating/

Washington Post has 2 reviews for Uncharted 4

The real one which is a 4 out of 4

And a fake review with no score, which metacritic mistook for a 4 out of 10

So...who do I believe?

 

[MegaSackman]

1- Terrible review
2- More terrible that Metacritic included it
3- Even more terrible that there's a campaign demanding its removal.
4- ????

 

[NinjaCoachZ]

I am going to take the contrary view here on Gaf and say that while reviewers are allowed to have an opinion, so too are people allowed to have an opinion about a reviewer. If this review really is as poor quality as people are saying (I haven't read it) and Metacritic arbitrarily assigned a score to it, then it deserves to be called out.

Sure, a review can be criticized, absolutely, but doing a petition to remove it from an actual log of critical reviews just because you don't like it is immature and petty.

 

[Vault Dweller 111]

I mean, gamers are crazy.

But, I mean, it's a JOKE review, that Metacritic just decided was a 4/10. So in all honesty it really shouldn't count.

But who cares I guess.

 

[shinobi602]

Well that's just the reviewers opinion isn't it?

It is, I meant opinions don't warrant threats and attacks. I certainly disagree with him, but not to that extent.

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

“This guy doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously by big , crucial sites like Metacritic,”

what's wrong with ya'll?! You gamers are crazy /Pastor Manning

 

[ironcreed]

1- Terrible review
2- More terrible that Metacritic included it
3- Even more terrible that there's a campaign demanding its removal.
4- ????

4- Everything is terrible. Fuck it all.

 

[OnionPowder]

The "real one" is not by the Post, it's by the Associated Press.

They're still hosting it on their site with the exact same score they provided Metacritic. I don't think that's a coincidence.

 

[Deleted member 125677]

we've had enough meltdowns over this already

 

[RalchAC]

I don't think there is any need to go that far because of a review, tbh.

But I've just read it and I can help but think I've lost my time.

The game spends an important part of its time doing the following:

A) Saying the game is unnecessary and there shouldn't have been as many Uncharted games.
B) Complaining because its premise is that you are a treasure hunter stealing other countries treasures and stuff.
C) Saying the story is bad and why it's bad.
D) Style over substance.

And others. It felt like an opinion piece about why the reviewer doesn't like the story in Uncharted, not a review. They don't talk much about performance, acting, encounter design, gameplay, the quality of the set pieces...

It's an awful review (in my opinion, of course). But the best thing you can do is just ignore it and hope it gets buried under the other 100 or so reviews this game is going to get. Not giving it so much attention.