Numbers. Thousands of people champing (or should that be chimping?) at the bit to register their disgust online is fucking suspicious.
Now try that sentence replacing "disgust" for "enthusiasm".
Read it out loud. See how it sounds.
How can watching partial footage of any game justify 0/10 scores the second that the opportunity presents itself to register that opinion online? Short answer it can't and it won't unless you already have an axe to grind.
There are full walkthroughs out there, full plot disclosure videos, detailed ending analysis discussion videos, etc. Yet, somehow, it's not enough to form an opinion.
I'm not commenting on the ethics of posting a review of a game you haven't played. But the notion you have to play it before forming an opinion is absurd. You form opinions on games you haven't and won't play
all the time. You watch the trailers, read the previews and then form the opinion those games aren't for you. But this trivial approach is now being maligned because it's just not yielding the kind of results you were hoping for.
Tough luck.
I'm really curious to lean how you've come to know that all 0/10 reviews were from people who didn't paly the game, but all 10/10 reviews were from gamers who did play it, especially since thousands of 5-star reviews were posted ahead of launch.
Because EVERYBODY uses te IGN scoring scheme... /facepalm
What a dumb remark.
The point is that there is no universal meaning attached to either a 10/10 or a 0/10, as the IGN example illustrates. If their 10/10 doesn't stand for perfection, then somebody else is equally justified in having their 0/10 not mean absolute rubbish. Their 0/10 could stand for defrauded expectations, for example. Or D-grade story and characters.
Therefore all your assertions about how foolish it would be to rate the second instalment in a AAA franchise a 0/10 are based on an unsubstantiated premise and instantly go out the window.
How many games get legit 0/10 scores? They don't. Its a blatant review-bombing tactic.
It's not up to me to show that. You're the one making the claim. You have to provide evidence that these 0/10s are not legitimate.
Noone, no. but literally thousands of them? That seems like a manufactured, semi-organized response. And certainly not an organic phenomenon.
Under the circumstances applying Ockham's razor supports my view. Especially as there are several YT who unabashedly have been gunning for the game and its director for weeks now.
Hilarious.
Thousands of 5-star reviews ahead of release, likewise on Amazon, but somehow the simpler explanation is the conviennetly partial explanation that ignores half of the facts.
Ah!
If you think any game produced by a developer as well respected across the entire industry as Naughty Dog warrants a 0/10 score you are an idiot, most likely an idiot with an axe to grind.
I don't give a flying fuck about your grand pronouncements and think there's no good reason anyone should.
Disliking the game isn't the issue, its the extremity and timing of these scores that mark them out for being what they are.
Yes, the extreme is only problematic when it's a 0/10. When the extreme is a 10/10, lo and behold, the problem with extremes magically vanishes.
I think I now have a good understanding of how you're approaching this.
We're done here.