Birdo
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UK Amazon had a load of them saying "Not played it, but I know it's going to be game of the year".
It looks like most have been removed, but there are still some saying "I played this in the future".
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TLOU2 Haters and Detractors are review-bombing Metacritic. The Salt rises!
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UK Amazon had a load of them saying "Not played it, but I know it's going to be game of the year".
It looks like most have been removed, but there are still some saying "I played this in the future".
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Deleted member 17706
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Review bombers are such a sad lot. I hope average people aren't fooled by a ridiculously low user score alone.
Potato Chip PRO
Member
The only 10/10 I see in this game is the Graphics..... Damn it's a fine looking game. ND has some wizards working in there. The rest, ehh.
Sethbacca
Member
For people that actually follow gaming and participate in forums and so forth though it's a useless gesture. I know the practice occurs and probably why it's occuring and so I'm likely to write it off as being stupid and just disregard it outright. It probably is more of an effective ploy for the uninformed consumer however.
Shinobitron
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It's funny how self righteous people get when they don't agree with someone else's opinions.
Bladed Thesis
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ethomaz
Banned
Winners.
It is easy to understand... an winner is never negative... loser are never positive.
You can't mix them.
I actually don't troll to be fair.
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EightBit Man
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Narcissism rules the internet, didn't you already know? If it's a great game, then I genuinely hope it will do good, even if I am not a PlayStation gamer anymore.
Bo_Hazem
Banned
Yes, I think it's not recognizing my Astro A40 (PS4 model!). Maybe an update to solve it. Next time I'm only going with PS headsets.
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Guilty_AI
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Is that a form of "no u" ? Never watched friends
MiguelItUp
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Right? People claiming they understand others opinions, but then clearly get frazzled when it doesn't match theirs.
I'm really starting to lose sight on the purpose and meaning of this thread, lmao. It's looking like it's slowly becoming a "YOU"RE WRONG!", "NO, YOU'RE WRONG!", kind of scenario. Which is ridiculous.
When everything is said and done. It's okay for you to like whatever you like, and it's okay for others to like what they like. If you can't understand that, it's a problem. It's more than okay to have cordial discussions, I mean, they should be welcomed. But it's looking like they generally succumb to condescending negativity and name calling, lmao.
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ethomaz
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Care to explain?
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Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Bladed Thesis
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Geki-D
Banned
Ah I see, that's a headset. I thought it was a surround sound receiver. Yeah, in that case I can't comment, I use a receiver.
Bladed Thesis
Member
Haha, dude, you're killing me. Stop it. I'm trying to finish my work before the weekend so I can smash this TLOU2 for thirty hours plus.
Shinobitron
Member
People play in different time zones. People get it earlier than westerners.
Sethbacca
Member
Yeah I fucked up my own reference anyway. PeeWee said "I know you are but what am I".
Dangers of getting old. This shits all a jumble in my head.
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MoreJRPG
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I see some negative reviews related to the story, and honestly they have merit. A lot of the social interactions I’ve seen so far without spoiling anything really go against what happened in the first game. Feels like I’m reliving The Rise of Skywalker all over again. Just horrible writing.
Guilty_AI
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B-universe
Banned
There is immerse irony in the term "truthfacts" when applied to your post.
Is that why yesterday there were already a number of videos discussing the ending ?
Does your assessment also apply to the thousands of rave reviews posted before official launch or during release day?
Why couldn't they have watched some of it, to assess whether shelling out 60 bucks was justified or not?
If a 10/10 doesn't mean a perfect game under IGN's guidelines, why can't a 0/10 mean something other than absolute garbage of a game under personal guidelines? Are you arguing against IGN's definition of a 10/10? If not, your duplicity is evident.
It's "all protest"? So no one can possibly dislike the game to that degree?
And if it's "all protest", are the 10/10s all politically motivated as well?
What's your assessment of the thousands of 5-star reviews posted before launch?
Again, if IGN is sovereign to redefine what a 10/10, means, if they can come up with a scale where a 10/10 means something specific, so can lay reviewers establish their own idiosyncratic review system whereby a 0/10 doesn't mean unplayable atrocity.
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ethomaz
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Maybe I need to explain.
A cheerleader will never be a loser/negative... he/she is only being hyped and cheering.
While a hater will always be a negative/loser.
Hater looks salty, depressed, hating because something he is against it is getting cheered... it doesn't import if the thing is good or bad he won't try it... just hate and use bad words to try to tell the world the thing is bad.
Now a cheerleader is just being hyped and positive about that thing.... there is nothing bad with that.
Nope.
gotcha
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thelastword
Banned
These guys are only going to give the game more momentum. More people are going to ask "why are they review bombing this game", then they go play it and realize it's the best game they ever played. Besides, the critics have spoken and LOU2 is sitting as the certifiable GOTY so far........LOU 2 is also on the upsurge from the 1st and the 1st was already massive relative to sales, so expect 20-25 million copies for LOU2, Hope it gets to 30 million tbh....
MeatSafeMurderer
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Well that's kind of the point, it informs the uninformed consumer. It also inevitably results in articles about how Gamers™ are review bombing again, further drawing attention to the issue at hand. It does need to be sustained though. 2 days of review bombing isn't going to get you anywhere. You need to keep it up consistently until the company you're targeting begins to wonder if the PR nightmare is ever going to end. This is where most efforts fall down...there just aren't enough people who care or, even if there are, they blow their load in a matter of hours, causing a steep decline in the number of negative reviews after a short while.
Bo_Hazem
Banned
First time to have that, played like uncharted 4 and had full support and it shows in the menus. I think an update will solve it, but it's ok so far, but would love more locality and surround.
Iced Arcade
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Apologies for saying all games.
Also meant bombed/praised initially at the start from fanboys in case that bothers anyone.
Also meant bombed/praised initially at the start from fanboys in case that bothers anyone.
#Phonepunk#
Banned
really this is only a problem if you have some kind of unrealistic view of metacritic. like if you are one of those losers who think it is an objective marker of anything other than critic consensus.
if you enjoy a game, great. but that enjoyment should not be dependent on other people also enjoying it. that is actually childish. if you feel personally attacked because people review bombed a website, that is a problem with you. you need to not identify your personal worth with a product produced by a corporation (made of people you will probably never meet in your life)
if you can't enjoy a media product unless everyone agrees with you on it, you need to grow up. because that is never going to happen and you will go through life mad at people for very stupid reasons.
people dislike things. it happens. it doesn't make them full of hate. it doesn't make them toxic. IT IS NORMAL FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS. the more you insist that only certain opinions can be allowed, the more review bombing will take place.
if you enjoy a game, great. but that enjoyment should not be dependent on other people also enjoying it. that is actually childish. if you feel personally attacked because people review bombed a website, that is a problem with you. you need to not identify your personal worth with a product produced by a corporation (made of people you will probably never meet in your life)
if you can't enjoy a media product unless everyone agrees with you on it, you need to grow up. because that is never going to happen and you will go through life mad at people for very stupid reasons.
people dislike things. it happens. it doesn't make them full of hate. it doesn't make them toxic. IT IS NORMAL FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS. the more you insist that only certain opinions can be allowed, the more review bombing will take place.
Sethbacca
Member
Yes, but when articles are written, they will be about the content of said reviews all containing "woke" "SJW" and "Cuckman", so instead of the article being written as a cautionary tale as to the quality of the game, it will instead continue to portray the gaming community as toxic trolls. It will no longer be about the form of the protest or even what is protested about, but again about the content of the protest and those making it. Posting these kinds of reviews and at zero hour when it's obvious nobody could have yet completed it makes the PR about the toxicity of the community rather than the content of the game.
Blond
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...Did you not pay attention to the past 2 years of bullshit from Neil Duckman? I don't even know why I keep calling him Duckman, that's reserved for the amazing character played by Jason Alexander but at-least it's dehumanizing him lol. Look, I bought the game for the gameplay but let's not act like Duckman doesn't have a reason to hold onto blame.
This isn't just about the game, I feel like the story beats are just the thing that FINALLY pushed people over the edge. Off the top of my head here's what I can remember
-Intentionally writing in trans characters for no reason other than to show how progressive he is while having that bald actor he chose go and shit ALL over people on twitter, she was openly chosen for her openly antagonistic attitude towards people who aren't straight and it's fucking obvious
-While not known at first, retroactively making the female leads in Lost Legacy as lesbian. I thought they were because my older lesbian friends who saw a screenshot on Facebook out of nowhere "Are they putting lesbians in games now? We use to dress like that in the 90s and it's giving us flashbacks!" The only thing I said back then was that I'm not sure but it didn't seem like it, a year later on valentines day they did it. This is as fucking annoying as all the ridiculous ret-cons from J K Rowling, but the difference is why the fuck anyone would buy a book from someone in the internet age still using "J K" (Just kidding, and boy was she) as a pen name always made me laugh
-There's a very obvious anti-christian theme throughout the entire plot, again, can't say details because I'll be banned, but know it runs so deep that when you come across a synagogue that's completely pristine and suddenly Ellie can't shoot anymore but you can gut hundreds of Christians along the way? The fuck? I'm not even the most faithful christian, hell, by all accounts I'm a bad one and sinner like most but that shit DID NOT sit well with me
-Neil ironically wrote a stereotypical "Sassy Mad Black Woman" while trying to be progressive and then made her superwoman by kicking a dozen foreign mercenaries ass, I could also believe this she used techniques that would disable a person by hitting them in sensitive places like the eyes/throat/genitals but she's fucking Mike Tysoning a field of mercenaries!
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MeatSafeMurderer
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Well I'm not necessarily in agreement with the review bombing going on in this specific case, merely disagreeing with the sentiment that review bombing is solely a fruitless endeavour only partaken by manchildren living in their parent's basement. Reviewers I trust have stated they didn't like TLOU2...but there's nothing I see worthy of a review bomb, in this case it should be left to succeed or fail on its own merits.
Lionel Richie
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This happens with literally every major exclusive that's worth a damn. Really sad, some gamers are really fucking pathetic.
Manstructiclops
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Barakov
Member
The britbongs are working overtime.
tassletine
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Only if you’re nitpicking. The SJW stuff does stick out but not in comparison to other games, which do clunky political stuff like this the entire time. It’s the fact that it’s when it’s at it’s peak it’s incredible that shows the weaker (and more traditional stuff) up.
Case in point — Video games revel in misery and violence for no good reason but here for some reason it’s not allowed.
Although having said that the violence here is especially brutal.
Shinobitron
Member
it might, but the people disliking the game hate it for the story, so they'd get the game and either like it or not, not care, or play it for the gameplay and graphics.
300 hundred thousand people are watching this game on twitch, it's possible a lot of those people are going to buy it after watching, and it's also possible they will watch it and not buy it.
Eiknarf
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The triggering continues as TLOU2 releases today. A mob of children have taken their anger and moral purity to Metacritic to make sure TLOU2 is made an example of. As we watch the salt pour from every single keystroke we're reminded of the fragility of their egos. Snowflaking has never been this good. Here is to enjoying the tears when the reviews eventually get taken down.
The prophet has foreseen it.
The meticulous planning.
Wait
Will Metacritic really take reviews down? They’ll remove reviews? Which ones? How do they know which reviews are just review bombs and which reviews are genuine?
I mean it makes sense that you could safely get rid of any zero 0 grade because, even if you hate the game, it’s clearly not a zero.
It’s very hard to find a game that you would think is a 0. Maybe a 2? Maybe a 4? But 0? C’mon! You’re basically asking to have it removed
Bladed Thesis
Member
I can agree with this. You're a cheerleader. Fair enough.
SleepDoctor
Banned
Review bombing is bad but where's the outrage at all the perfect user scores? I guess they did have time to beat the game already right?
Or all the perfect scores from way before launch? Lol the irony
Or all the perfect scores from way before launch? Lol the irony
ethomaz
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Remove boths to be fair.
There is over 8000 0's and around 2000 10s.
I can imagine the result.
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megreotsugua
Banned
I have a feeling this game will be GOTY. The salt when that happens I can't imagine.
Shinobitron
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If cyberpunk wasn't delayed again we know who the goty would be.
Barnabot
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besides the game being overhyped to hell the i believe the reason behind this hatred is within the spoilers you are trying to avoid.
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ethomaz
Banned
More salty then Death Stranding being overall 2019 GOTY?
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kebaldo
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Spoiler: there are 3 groups of people in Tlou 2... WLF, the religious motherfukaz, and the crazy people on Metcritic. Druckmann surpassed him self this time... The Metacritic dudes are the most scary people you can find lol
I'm passing a really good time reading stuff on Meta. Laughing like I'm watching a Chapelle special. Thank you haters. <3
I'm passing a really good time reading stuff on Meta. Laughing like I'm watching a Chapelle special. Thank you haters. <3
Vawn
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No one claims ANY user scores should be taken seriously.
And who is "outraged"? I'm loving the fact that people are this worked about yet another 10/10 PlayStation game that they're going to such desperate lengths.