Hyrulian Hero
Zelda Informer Codger
So if DDOSing him over it isn't "freaking out", then what is?
In fact, nobody I know of is freaking or outing about a video game rating that is, for all intents and purposes, irrelevant.
Nobody I know of is currently "freaking out". The point being that my bringing up the review now is not a knee-jerk reaction (like DDOSing him) but an observation about which my opinion had not changed for this long.
Why not call it a piece of **** and give it a 3/10 or something?
Because, as I said, he's not 12. The man isn't entirely vindictive but he specifically does trollish things to appease his fan base. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, I'd say he let the shills get the better of him and in response, have Breath of the Wild a lower score than it deserved. If I were not to give him that benefit, I would say that he specifically did it to give his Sterlingites something to defend him over. But I'm going to say it was the former.
OK let's pretend he gave it a lower score than it deserved. Why is this a problem and not that reviews that:
1) Gave it a much higher score than it deserved. i.e. the 10 reviews that ignore the massive flaws BOTW has?
2) Were hastily submitted despite the reviewer clearly not having time to complete the game?
3) Were written by parties whose careers are dependent on early copies and thus have a conflict of interest?
My answer:
If not for Sterling's borderline libelistic troll review of the game, it would be the second highest rated game of all time instead of the third.
What I said was true, apart from my opinion (that Sterling's review was a troll review, which is not a fact, but an opinion) regardless of anyone's opinions on other reviewers. To quote one of my favorites, "More than one thing can be true.". In this case, three things are true by my reckoning. First: Jim Sterling gave BotW a lower score than it deserved (my opinion). Second: there seem to be many reviewers of all kinds of media today that crap out worthless reviews daily (our shared opinion). Third, absent Jim Sterling's score for BotW, the game would be rated the second best game of all time (a fact, as far as I can tell).
I'm also not a fan of SJWs, let us join forces in solidarity regarding this point.
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