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Smashingpmkns
12/07/19 4:51:15 AM
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https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/death-stranding

Review count was almost 19k, and it's now at 12 with a higher score. For a reference, Jedi Fallen Order which is arguably the bigger game with a bigger budget and presumably a bigger playerbase stands at around 3k across all 3 platforms. Huh.
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Smashingpmkns
12/07/19 5:09:59 AM
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Also one of the best selling Playstation exclusives (God of War) is sitting at 11k reviews. Death Stranding almost doubled God of War in user reviews in 2 weeks. GoW has been out for a year and 8 months.
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Malfunction
12/07/19 5:10:29 AM
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Seems like a weird game to review bomb
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legendarylemur
12/07/19 5:13:17 AM
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What game doesn't get review bombed? Reviews are dumb anyways. Majority of gamers aren't us. In fact, a lot of them are dumb little kids or edgy adults stuck in kid mindset. Their reviews should mean nothing to us. Not even professional reviewers really represent us because they work off of such a predictable model that I certainly don't judge off of.

Go into a professionally written review, scroll down til you get what you needed, get out, disregard scores.

Scores should be abolished and so should user ratings

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Smashingpmkns
12/07/19 5:18:04 AM
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legendarylemur posted...
What game doesn't get review bombed? Reviews are dumb anyways. Majority of gamers aren't us. In fact, a lot of them are dumb little kids or edgy adults stuck in kid mindset. Their reviews should mean nothing to us. Not even professional reviewers really represent us because they work off of such a predictable model that I certainly don't judge off of.

Go into a professionally written review, scroll down til you get what you needed, get out, disregard scores.

Scores should be abolished and so should user ratings


I won't argue against any of this. Scores are there for clicks, nothing else. The way I see it: if you must base your purchase of of a review, find reviewers and personalities that enjoy similar games you like and form a basic understanding of what the game is. Then find reviews from reviewers that don't like the same games you like and find out what's wrong with the game. Mash them both together and you'll make an educated purchase.
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Malfunction
12/07/19 5:24:21 AM
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Remember when every user review on gamefaqs would be this 500 word spiel wherein every single aspect of the game was arbitrarily broken down into separate sections and given separate scores out of ten. Soooo bad
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ReignFury
12/07/19 5:24:39 AM
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The first time I saw review bombing was when Dark Knight fans tried to downvote Godfather and Shawshank Redemption, but I felt like you could get a pretty accurate IMDB score if you removed the 1 and 10 votes

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solosnake
12/07/19 6:27:11 AM
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Its an open secret that Konami is paying for bad press on Death Stranding

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MrMallard
12/07/19 6:48:40 AM
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Cool, hopefully they can cull some of the Pokemon horseshit.

They aren't the best Pokemon games ever, but the Metacritic response is ridiculously ass-blasted and it's filled with the same discerning reviews from cretins who openly admit to not buying or playing the game.

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Smashingpmkns
12/07/19 12:04:41 PM
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MrMallard posted...
Cool, hopefully they can cull some of the Pokemon horseshit.

They aren't the best Pokemon games ever, but the Metacritic response is ridiculously ass-blasted and it's filled with the same discerning reviews from cretins who openly admit to not buying or playing the game.


Yeah they're definitely not perfect games but I enjoyed Shield enough to say it's not a 4 lol
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Lost_All_Senses
12/07/19 12:08:42 PM
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Malfunction posted...
Seems like a weird game to review bomb

...what? It seems super obvious that his game would get bombed. People who hate his games have been waaay louder than those who like them. Ever since MGS5. Maybe 4 and i just wasn't around

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DarkChozoGhost
12/07/19 12:11:42 PM
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MrMallard posted...
Cool, hopefully they can cull some of the Pokemon horseshit.

They aren't the best Pokemon games ever, but the Metacritic response is ridiculously ass-blasted and it's filled with the same discerning reviews from cretins who openly admit to not buying or playing the game. Even if
Nah that's ok. Cutting the national dex inherently hurts the game more than anything they could conceivably add would help it. Even if the game was otherwise perfection.

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JonTaylorThomas
12/07/19 12:16:17 PM
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JonTaylorThomas
12/07/19 12:17:09 PM
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ReignFury posted...
The first time I saw review bombing was when Dark Knight fans tried to downvote Godfather and Shawshank Redemption, but I felt like you could get a pretty accurate IMDB score if you removed the 1 and 10 votes


That would just make 2 the new 1 and 9 the new 10
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LordFarquad1312
12/07/19 12:18:56 PM
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Nope, they cut exclusively all the negative troll reviews.

There are still a bunch of 10/10 that are equally worthless.

So yeah, biased af.

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Lost_All_Senses
12/07/19 12:21:04 PM
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LordFarquad1312 posted...
Nope, they cut exclusively all the negative troll reviews.

There are still a bunch of 10/10 that are equally worthless.

So yeah, biased af.

Critic score is still more accurate here.

All users did was cancel out their worth overall. That score might as well not exist anymore

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ReignFury
12/07/19 4:12:04 PM
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JonTaylorThomas posted...
That would just make 2 the new 1 and 9 the new 10

You could do it without notifying users

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ledbowman
12/07/19 4:20:46 PM
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Why would people care so much that somebody made a game they don't like (and probably didn't play)

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ultimate reaver
12/07/19 4:32:07 PM
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People are pretending like this is some sort of conspiracy in some parts o the internet and it's such a stupid fucking take that it is beyond words. It had more user reviews in less than a month than huge games that had been on there for ages, does that not seem the slightest bit suspicious to you?

The gamergate mentality where people race to condemn stuff on steam or metacritic or whatever every time there's even a slight controversy involved in its existence is so tiresome, and it's basically rendered user reviews completely useless

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SwayM
12/07/19 4:35:34 PM
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Gamers: lets all be absolute man children and review bomb a game because we cant comprehend things that dont completely line up with our tastes

gamers: oh they purged all those reviews. wHy ArE tHeY tRyInG tO sIlEnCe Us !?!?!?

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Questionmarktarius
12/09/19 6:12:13 PM
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EvenSpoonier
12/09/19 6:15:08 PM
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Still scores worse than Kingdom Hearts 3.

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PatrickMahomes
12/09/19 6:15:15 PM
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Smashingpmkns
12/09/19 6:20:20 PM
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Ew console boards.
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KillerSlaw
12/09/19 6:23:53 PM
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Dorito Popes doing I'm sure. Get ready for FS to sweep the game awards.

But the fact is true, death Stranding didnt sell nearly enough to have that many reviews

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Infost
12/09/19 6:26:10 PM
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Reviews shouldn't be removed unless they're illegitimate (alts, botted, etc.)

If I think a game is a 2 out of 10 pile of dog shit my opinion is no less valid for inclusion than some shill giving it a 9 in a paid magazine.
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BakonBitz
12/09/19 6:39:27 PM
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Conflict posted...
Inb4"censorship"
Trolls already played that card on the PS4 board.

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Questionmarktarius
12/09/19 6:40:46 PM
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KillerSlaw posted...
But the fact is true, death Stranding didnt sell nearly enough to have that many reviews
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Zeeak4444
12/09/19 6:54:35 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Also one of the best selling Playstation exclusives (God of War) is sitting at 11k reviews. Death Stranding almost doubled God of War in user reviews in 2 weeks. GoW has been out for a year and 8 months.

does this really seem that out of place though?

You list two games which are pretty cookie cutter formula vs a game that up until release didnt even have a clear genre it fit in.

Doesnt seem absurd to me that the focus was on the first of its kind game instead of another entry in established franchises.

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iPhone_7
12/09/19 7:03:09 PM
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I feel like 5/10 or less & 10/10 reviews should be thrown out.

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Smashingpmkns
12/09/19 7:32:00 PM
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Zeeak4444 posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
Also one of the best selling Playstation exclusives (God of War) is sitting at 11k reviews. Death Stranding almost doubled God of War in user reviews in 2 weeks. GoW has been out for a year and 8 months.

does this really seem that out of place though?

You list two games which are pretty cookie cutter formula vs a game that up until release didnt even have a clear genre it fit in.

Doesnt seem absurd to me that the focus was on the first of its kind game instead of another entry in established franchises.


Those other games most likely sold way more than Death Stranding so yeah you would expect there to be a lot more user reviews regardless of score. There is no "focus" when it comes to user reviews.
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KillerSlaw
12/09/19 7:34:24 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Those other games most likely sold way more than Death Stranding so yeah you would expect there to be a lot more user reviews regardless of score. There is no "focus" when it comes to user reviews.

Or maybe people are more likely to leave a bad review for feeling burned on a bad purchase than a good review for a game that already has great reviews everywher

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Zeeak4444
12/10/19 5:10:42 AM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Those other games most likely sold way more than Death Stranding so yeah you would expect there to be a lot more user reviews regardless of score. There is no "focus" when it comes to user reviews.

Ya, thats a good point.

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