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The Top Five Most Controversial Game Reviews in Recent History

AOTF:As many gamers have learned over the years, video game reviews are nothing but opinions of a users experience with a product. Many things can go into this calculation of a games score. But for the most part, games tend to be rated within a band or average as the number of reviews increases. Call it the ease of going with the flow, or a herd mentality, but you always have that review that sticks out like a sore thumb. Some may call these types of reviews flame baiting or stupidity, we call it balls, because Hell hath no fury like a fanboy scorned. These are our top five most controversial game reviews in recent history.

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AliTheBrit195575d ago

Lol destructoid, what a pathetic joke of a website.

wicko5574d ago

Both being Jim Sterling reviews.. surprise surprise! Who knew he was a troll?

Deuce Bigalow5574d ago

All the low reviews for the "AAA" PS3 games. I remember when Sony fanboys went tits up when Eurogamer gave MGS4 a 8/10, and then EDGE, and then other sources. Same for other games.

smittyjerkins5574d ago

I firmly believe that the GameCritic's review was completely justified and not flamebait. Same goes for Kikizo's score. The Destructoid reviews, however, are 100% pure flamebait.

jjohan355574d ago

It shouldn't be a list of controversial reviews. It should be a list of controversial review sites. The top two that come to mind: Edge and Destructoid. At least Eurogamer's review scores are still within reasonable standard deviation from the overall average scores of major gaming review sites. But Edge and Destructoid consistently fall off the chart for being consistently biased. Someone already proved it with statistics.

WildArmed5574d ago

lol if you looked at the last few articles that we got from this site, it's really sad to see that this site pretty much does nothing but bring down gaming journalism.

schlanz5574d ago

Not-interestingly, Jim Sterling didn't review it.

Pennywise5574d ago

AC2 - Sony advertising.

FF13 - Makes the 360 look inferior.

GOW3 - Even the biggest of fanboys can not deny this game its place in epic video game rankings.

KiRBY30005574d ago (Edited 5574d ago )

Gamervision. 6 out of 10 review for Demon's Souls, still makes me cringe
http://www.gamervision.com/...
the guy bash a hardcore game for being too hard...

TVG. 7 out of 10 for BFBC2
http://www.totalvideogames....
the guy reviews the solo part of the game like it's the main feature. the review is dumb but the comments are priceless! its like the reviewer is knocked down by the entire internet lol

btw i dont understand why bad company didnt get much praise by the press. the game is easely on par with modern warfare, and plenty of people (including me) are saying its the best FPS they played this gen. it truely deserve to be above 90 on meta yet it doesnt. i wonder why...

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Das_Bastardion5575d ago

is *NOT* a professional gamer, man, he souldn't be able to be near a computer to begin with!

The motherfvcker is always writing the purest sh1t out of his sick mind, sometimes i even ask myself if his brain is really THAT atrophied to concive what he tries to comunicate, or the people at that joke site do it just for the hits.

Nevertheless he is a goddam shame for this generation of consoles, people like him should be banned from gaming and castrated to prevent them to spread his stupidity in the planet.

The Iron Sheik5575d ago

No more hits for Destructioid until Jim Sterling is fired! Who is with me?

awesomeperson5574d ago

Along with him actually not FINISHING games before he says he has...

Comet5574d ago

I was looking for Edge Magazine...

Bayonetta - 10
God of War 3 - 8

Halo 3 - 10
Halo 3: ODST - 9

REALLY?
GOW 3 is the absolute best in its class. You don’t review a game based on previous installments. God of War was the first to set its bar for its genre, and GOW 3 deserved more credit.

JOLLY15575d ago

A fansite that has issues with proper grammar is critiquing actual websites?

math5575d ago

Who's critiquing? It's a list of controversial reviews.

JOLLY15575d ago

The author is criticizing someone work. He disagrees with the review. He is stating his opinion. Yes, other may have the exact same opinion. That is completely valid. The problem is that a lot of people find no controversy in these review at all. So he is critiquing from his opinion. That's just bad journalism.

math5575d ago (Edited 5575d ago )

You're just trying to argue for the sake of arguing.
In the description it says: You always have that review that sticks out like a sore thumb. So, it's not that I disagree, it's that everyone else did so much so that the review stands out.

math5575d ago

The reviews in question in the article deviate so far from the mean score that they stick out.

Like giving a game with an 85 average a 40 for example. It's not so much criticizing their writing, like you apparently like to do, as it is math.

JOLLY15575d ago (Edited 5575d ago )

You see, the reviews are (in your opinion) the most controversial. I don't see anything wrong with a 75/100 for Mass Effect 2. I don't have issue with anything he wrote. I just believe there should be a qualifier in your title. For example, AOTF's most controversial....

Also, the one I really don't get is the Kikizo one, if we are purely basing the "article" on score. There are 4 scores for GoW III that are at 80 and 2 at 85. How is Kikizo so far away from "everyone else"?

math5575d ago

You most certainly have a point there. It's not our perspective. That would be comparing it to a review that we wrote or our particular stance on the subject. Which this is not the case. It is relative to the average review score which you can calculate on any meta review site like N4G or metacritic. All of the reviews that I chose deviated from the median score, whether by percentage or points, in a manner which made it stand out.

It's not our opinion. It's just the numbers in five of the most popular recent titles. You can look back over the list of games that has been released since the beginning of the year. I could have included other games, but they didn't have as much of a distinct difference. These games were exclusive in the aspects that the reviewers seemed to be the only ones, or one of the only ones, who gave them these low scores.

exnihilonihilfit5574d ago (Edited 5574d ago )

Controversy is measured by the reaction of a broad public, and not by one person's dissent. To deem something controversial is not to critique it per se, it's not even to disagree with it, but to note that there have been a large number of critical responses to it, or that it deviates greatly from the average. Though not wholly objective, it's not simply a matter of this person or this site's opinion whether something is controversial. It's quite indisputable that Jim Sterling's reviews are controversial as they generate a huge amount of critical backlash and deviate widely from the average, but that's precisely why Sterling reviews in the manner that he does. The same is true of teletext. As for the other reviews, I can't really speak to that as I have neither read the reviews nor the responses to them.

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math5575d ago

Did you read the review? It was controversial, in it's tone. Relative to most of the reviewers. And with all scoring it in the top tenth, the couple of 80's stuck out.

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Final Fantasy and SaGa series veteran Kazuyuki Shindo leaves Square Enix after 27 years

Kazuyuki Shindo, who worked on games including Legend of Mana, Final Fantasy XIII, and SaGa: Emerald Beyond, has left Square Enix.

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50 Best PS3 Games of All Time

The PlayStation 3 is Sony’s most interesting home console ever, but what’s most interesting of all is trying to nail down the very best games on a console with hundreds of incredible games. Let’s give it a shot.

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darthv72109d ago

Personally, I'd rank Pacific Rift in my top 10. It's the best of the series.

badz149109d ago

We desperately need Motorstorm back. Evolution is no more though and this makes me sad

Cacabunga109d ago

Sly Thieves in Time
Stay the Party
Portal 2
Dj Hero
Demon’s Souls
God of war Ascension

rudero108d ago

2 of those games got railed through the “gaming media” during release.
Sly and god of war.
Both of which were fantastic games.

Cacabunga108d ago

Ascension is VERY underrated. Remake please!

Venoxn4g109d ago

Decent list.. I would put the Castle Crashers as well..

1Victor109d ago

Yes it’s a decent list of popular games with a heavy hand on FPS and no Warhawk or Starhawk 2 of the best games (not sale wise) on ps3.
I would buy a Starhawk again even if it didn’t have a graphics upgrade hell I would even take a new one with micro transactions 😱🤯

Profchaos109d ago

I've noticed a recent nostalgia for the PS3 and I don't get it for me it's been my least favourite generation to date and I've been gaming since the NES I just feel like the ambition of the developers outweighed the capabilities of the consoles so I remember lots of games running in the lower end of 20fps range and I remember for the first time ever actually disliking the duelshock 3 and it's curved triggers

Sure there were some standouts and great games but that's the only gen I switched entirely to PC gaming

darthv72109d ago

Maybe the recent nostalgia is because pretty much all of its games are trapped on that console. People want to play them on more modern hardware. hell... if XB can do it then so can Sony. there are competent emulators out there that can run on PS4/5 hardware but Sony just wont let them become official... why is that?

If we are talking least favorite generations (personally) then this one is certainly mine. i had more fun playing 8th, 7th and 6th gen stuff than 9th. And it isnt like i dont have access to do so... the heavy hitters just havent shown up anywhere close to those previous gens. The few here and there just doesnt cut it compared to the likes of constant good games that showed up in 6th, 7th and 8th gen. hell.... I'll even throw in 5th gen has been better than this one.

Profchaos109d ago

I tend to agree there's lots of amazing games locked to the PS3 like GTA IV or mgs 4 but then again my issue was never with the content the PS3 had but rather it's performance many other people have said the PS3 felt like it couldn't walk and chew bubblegum at the same time using PSN and downloading a game could take a few minutes to just start a download.

I typically don't worry all that much about performance I've never had a problem with games that run at 30 but games like crysis 2, Skyrim are good examples where the performance was so unstable you would never even touch the top of the frame cap and the hitching was worse than say Goldeneye on the n64

I think emulation is more than possible on the ps5 though it's just that Sony has no incentive to rush it's development it will likely be a ps6 feature if it ever happens at all.

But yeah the 9th gen has been so bad from a content perspective thats a given I see constant articles where people are frequently expressing their disappointment around the industry as a whole right now to much live service competition that sinks longstanding studios and consumes Devs time less ambition and games cost so much to make they have to play it safe.

The 5th gen was easily better than the 9th we had some all time greats crash, Spyro, Tony hawk, mgs, Mario,64, Goldeneye, Mario kart 64 the list goes on. The 5th gave us a new dimension and I remember being blown away by how much more open gaming had become the 4th gen with the mega drive and SNES was great and very easy to still revisit some of the greatest games of all time came out like earthbound, secret of mana, sonic , Mario world etc but saving our games was still not a standard function or a given so gaming was still evolving but it was very impressive to see some of the tricks Devs used like dithering to give us new experiences those earlier gens limitations bred innovation.

Michiel1989108d ago

if XB can do it so can sony? I didn't know xbox had a cell processor in their older consoles, that's the reason why ps3 was so cool, but also the reason why games are hostage there and no, xbox did nothing similar even though their backward compatbility is good, they always had a similar architecture to their consoles.

darthv72108d ago

Sorry Michael... I guess you missed the obvious part where i said there are already emulators out that do this. and that is what XB is doing... emulators for OG and 360 games. Its why the full slate is not BC on XBO/Series.

coolbeans109d ago (Edited 108d ago )

The list is missing Folklore.

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Mass Effect Companion Tier Ranking

One of the best things about the Mas Effect series is the companions you meet along the way. So here is a tier list of all the companions from Mass Effect!

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IAMRealHooman193d ago

Bro missing companions: Legion, Grunt, Samara/Morinth, Javik, EDI

anast193d ago

Legion, Zaeed, and Jack are my favorites.

RiseNShine193d ago

To think that Bioware at some point was capable of doing games like this, you see those characters and remember them like good old friends, and now check ME Andromeda, Anthem, Veilguard etc and wonder what the hell happened.

anast193d ago

They lost too much talent.

IAMRealHooman193d ago

some in andromeda are decent, I agree with peebee and Vetra being good companions. Except Liam he's trash tier

anast192d ago

Liam lol I can't stand that dude.

IAMRealHooman192d ago

it's like bitch but your shirt back on, your not blue or spikey get away from me