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Yes, only highly rated Nintendo games have legit reviews.
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>>336639901
they are not paid though
Liberals don't need to get money to shill for Nintendon't
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>>336639749
>>336639938
>muh paid reviews when is not nintendo!!
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video game "critics" are just paid shills

welcome to a decade ago
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>same common word used in 4/69 reviews
Gonna need a bit more than that to join the goobergate club anon.
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>>336640212
>goobergate

anti-liberalism shill is now GG?
Oy vey.. tell me more about your donation to Bernie.
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>>336639749
>Gets high Metacritic:REEEEE paid shills
>Gets low Metacritic:Hahaha fucking blunder of the century
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>>336640041
Pretty much this, it's in their best interest to praise popular games, no matter how shitty they are, if not they'll get hounded by rabid fanboys.

Don't you remember Fallout 4? That one guy who gave it a 7/10 is still getting death threats from retarded bethdrones to this day.
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>>336639938
>>336640450
>liberal
What the fuck are you on about?
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>>336640984
Why did Starfox Zero get such low scores then?
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>>336640984
>rabid fanboys
more like they'll get dropped by companies that make games

they rely on them for ads, what else would you advertise on a videogame website?
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>>336641091

ameriturds like using "liberal" as an insult when their brain can't process the information they're receiving
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>>336641091
He overdosed on /pol/
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>>336641201
It's fucking awful. It's literal 90s game, released 20 years later.
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>>336641245
I'm sure somebody still has that image of the IGN page for their ME3 review with ME3 ads along the sides and top of the page.
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>>336640212
now is 7 and counting..
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>>336641201
The game is shit and was shitted on by nintendo fans too.
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>>336640984
Which is why CoD games always get 10s.

A lot more than usual games media are taking a look at uncharted, you can't bribe everyone
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>>336641091
If anything Nintendo is the liberal console, or they at least censor problematic content like liberals.
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>>336641337
That's a good thing compared to the current state of gaming.
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>>336641091
>What the fuck are you on about?
>>336641301
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If sony was going to pay people to describe their game in order to get people to buy it, "emotional" would not be the word they choose.
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literally just a buzzword, highly doubt it means anything since its used in most reviews for movie games and walking simulators
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>>336641469
>Which is why CoD games always get 10s.
CoD games are really well-made to be honest family.
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>>336639749
youll have to wait for christ centered gamer's review. Im not even christian but for some reason they have very even handed reviews.
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>>336641301
I'm an American and this is true.
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>>336641201
I wouldn't say it's "popular", amung older people sure, but most "gamers" these days are 12-16 year old shitters who never would have heard of Star Fox. The game is nostalgia bait personified.
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>>336641509
The answer is simple: you hate transgender people and now we have to kill all white males.
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Not paid reviews, just the limited vernacular of hack bloggers desperate to out-jerk the competition over the industry's latest filmic turd.
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>>336641416
Emotional is still a super common word to use for video games especially the finale of a long story. You need better proof, I'm not trying to defend games media or what have you but this is silly.
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>>336641528
>"emotional" would not be the word they choose.

Why not? Bernie and weeby people are based on emotions.
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>>336641416
Emotional is considered a good thing by the numales who review games professionally. I bet they cried playing the game like the faggots they are.
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>>336641483
3 hour game with gimmick controls, dropping framerate and awful graphics is a good thing?

Feel free to pick a game on the left that is worse than Star Fox.
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>>336641509
>>336640450
>>336639938
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>>336641531
No shit sherlock, they're always just a new lick of paint on the old clucker. If they weren't well made there would be a serious problem.
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>>336641620
your first argument was that it was only 4, now is 7 and counting and you changed your argument

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

>>336641709
I'm sorry, I don't respect people who defend liberals.
They are worse than Bernie fags.
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>>336639938
you are right they are not paid, but they are legaly given FREE colectors edition, Past EAX ticket, E3 ticket, launch party, exclusive sneak peak, 'sponsor' money, early access to new game,

you dont want to give all that 8/10 as thanks, do you?
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>>336639749
I bet you'd see a lot of word choice patterns in any group of thread posts here.

>ctrl+f "liberal"
Paid conservatives or just "coincidentally" code words?
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Let's talk about some actual emotional games instead
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let me ask you this, when the game comes out and everybody start saying GOTY and shit, and when some of you sad sacks of shit try the game for yourselves and find out its fucking amazing, will you come here and make a thread apologizing?
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>>336641809
Yes. You are correct

There is a fat women who received many SFZ gifts and gave the game 94 or 96 score but when I posted about it /v/ thought I was being a sexist person oppressing the poor fat.
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>>336641891
I don't play PS4 or console games, i only shitpost about them on /v/ and couldn't care less whether they're good or not
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>>336641869
>Paid conservatives or just "coincidentally" code words?
They do it for free. I highly doubt there are any conservatives on this website, alt-right is what we got here.
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Either
A: They've been paid to say good things and have been given a checklist of things they have to mention

or

B: They're shithouse writers and just copied each other, or collborated to write these reviews.

Either way, rating systems are fucking stupid and you all know it so who gives a shit.
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>>336641941
stop projecting Ahmed.
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>>336639749
wow sony actually won. They've reduced /v/ to a paranoid mess of it's former self
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>>336642049
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Uncharted 4 certainly looks like an extremely emotional, compelling experience, my good friend! You can't blame others for admiring the deep, compelling story that Uncharted 4 has all wrapped up in a tight gameplay experience.
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After Alison Rapp was fired, she said on Twitter (according to Destructoid): “To pay off student loans, I started moonlighting under a fake name, and with no real identifiers. An anon found out, told them, and here we are. It was moonlighting Nintendo didn’t like, despite the fact that it was anonymous.” However, Destructoid points out that Nintendo did not approve of Rapp’s second job, and even Rapp said Nintendo does not have a problem with moonlighting. So she was fired, because the second, anonymous job Rapp had was even worse than promoting pedophilia. I’m inclined to believe that Alison Rapp is indeed Maria Mint.
I find the whole thing about Alison Rapp rather disturbing. She’s a young and attractive woman, not a creepy old man, yet she’s promoting pedophilia. But the thing that hit me was that her Twitter name is “smol pterodactyl”. A pterodactyl is a flying dinosaur, a reptile. Smol apparently is short for “smile out loud”. A smiling reptile. Just that got me thinking about the stuff David Icke has said about the Satanist reptilian elites and their pedophilic rape rituals to siphon energy from children. And now it’s come out that Rapp is also a prostitute.
To me this sounds like Alison Rapp is an MK Ultra sex kitten. There’s even a picture of Maria Mint with cat ears on. She’s probably been subjected sexual abuse ever since she was a child, and therefore thinks pedophilia, and also using sex as currency, is normal.
This is, of course, conjecture on my part, but I think the big picture makes sense in light of what people like David Icke, Cathy O’Brien and Fritz Springmeier have said about MK Ultra mind control and sexual abuse employed by the Satanic elites. Maybe she is actually possessed by a demonic reptilian entity, or the reptilian thing is just another mind control program, like the sex kitten. The victims aren’t literally turned into kittens, so maybe the reptilian thing is just code for a different type of programming.
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>>336641795
That is a damn fine American.
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>>336639749
Only trust DToid and Giant Bomb desu senpai.
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>>336642118
>deep, compelling story that Uncharted 4 has all wrapped up in a tight gameplay experience.

holy shit that came straight out of NAMBLA
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why hasn't gamergate raised suspicion on these obviously biased reviews?
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>>336642145
Therefore

Uncharted 4: 9.5/10
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Can someone who has actually played the Uncharted games answer my question?

Will the series give me a similar experience to Metal Gear Solid? I've recently been missing the experience I had with MGS 1, 2, and 3 and have wanted something similar, is this it?
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>>336642145
10/10
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>>336641891
>uncharted
>even the most remote possibility of being fucking amazing
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>>336642213
Because they don't work for George Soros or Naughty Dog thus don't have free time to do useless stuff
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>>336642305
>Will the series give me a similar experience to Metal Gear Solid?

As a fan of the series, I can tell you with full honesty.
Fuck no.
Nowhere close.
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>>336642305
Nothing similar, it's more like the new Tomb Raider games.
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>>336642305
>similar, is this it?

you should be ashamed of asking this question

Uncharted is a climbing movie.
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>>336642323
>series I don't like
Good job, Luigi
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>games media is corrupt
Okay, and? You live in the YouTube/streaming age you'd be a retard not to just watch gameplay yourself and see if it appeals to you or not.

Lets assume these are all fake/paid for. Tell me how fake reviews affect you in any way
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>>336641337
>>336641439
Wrong. I am loving it. The only people who didn't like it are people who either

>Didn't take time to learn the controls or check control settings

or

>Complained about the game's length, not understanding you're mean to unlock every level/scenario and go for the medals

Casuals and retards in both cases.
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>>336640618
It's actually a fair system. If it's a game that even critics won't give an 80, it's probably shit or niche. But if it's getting mid to high 90s with a substantially low user score, there's a good chance it isn't all that good.
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>>336640041
Axchully, it's more like "Welcome to since video games have been popular enough to have large marketing budgets and publications about them".
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>>336642305
It's more like the best Indiana Jones videogames ever.
Cruise through supernatural temples and shoot bad guys and raid treasures across the earth
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>>336639749
Who cares if they're paid or not?
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>>336642520
This.

Based DSP is the best place to go for a genuine review, guy's only allegiance is to his fans and gaming itself
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holy shit , another one

#8 and counting

http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/5/11540948/uncharted-4-review-a-thiefs-end-ps4-playstation-4-naughty-dog-nathan-drake
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>>336642591
no, video game "journalism" has always been untrustworthy because of its close relationship with the corporations that put out the products being reviewed
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only 94?

what a disappointment.
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>>336642664
Go away Phil.
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>>336641991
why tough?, thats just sad man, I know its an internet forum and time spent here is worthless, but still why use that time only to be an ass on the internet?.
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>>336642772
>unironically linking to and giving clicks to polygon
Is this your first time shitposting?
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>can't shit on games journalism anymore without triggered libcucks complaining about GG

What happened to GG being dead and irrelevant?
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>>336642875
It's a joke
There are people here who would say exactly that, if they were being 100% honest and couldn't lie
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>>336642791
Achully, back when publications first started they were mostly small fan things unconnected to the companies, only once both the game industry and the publication industry matured did it become a "close relationship" we know and hate today.
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>>336641891
>Appealing to the majority
Neoshill pls.
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>>336642895
>implying shills covering their bases are lib-anything
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>UC4 is getting unfairly shit on /v/ and any threads made are accused of being paid sony shills
>Overwatch threads all over the place and no one gives a shit and some people are unironically calling it GOTY already

and people say this board isn't biased against sony/for PC
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>>336643032
Yeah they were pretty much just freelance writers doing it as a hobby and a few extra bucks on the side.
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>>336643032
nobody cares about websites back when the internet was irrelevant

IGN is owned by Newscorp, enough said
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>>336642772
Found three more

11 emotional reviews and counting
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>>336641702
you're missing the last guardian
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>>336643304
>Emotional Love Song

What did they mean by that?
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>The word "emotional"
>All this talk over the fucking word "emotional."

You could've had a better argument if it wasn't such a common word people use to describe games nowadays. you faggots
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>>336641702
Xbox has less shit games than PS4 and better online servers
>Gold games are better too
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>>336643304
when all is said and done make a mega compilation of reviewers using the word emotional, autism anon
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>>336643485
The word emotional in Uncharted 4 is always attached to 9.5 and 10.0

Very interesting.
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>>336643505
Having less shit games is kind of a byproduct of having less overall games anon.
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>>336639749
Paid reviews. Legally game companies can't directly pay the people reviewing their games. So they pay them in epic lootz and merch. As well as they pay google or the website host to advertise video games on game review websites. I feel that the ads thing is a very grey area, and should be addressed. However my opinion can't change things. There is a reason that when reviews were in magazines they would have ads for: graphics cards, and PC components, stuff like that, and not video games. Cause that shit negatively affects journalism; which in turn shits on consumers.

So no they aren't paid with money. Just swag.

I know people who work in game studios. This is how this shit actually works.
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>>336643485
Shitty "cinimatic" games maybe, I'm damn sure nearly no one uses the word "emotional" to review a game that is mostly gameplay.
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>>336643485
drake dies. probably what it means
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>>336639749
Jesus the PCucks and Nintoddlers are getting desperate.

>everyone's saying that a dramatic story with great characters produces emotions!
>it's a conspiracy!

Keep crying faggots. Be sure to mention on how any game with cutscenes isn't a real game.
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>>336643590
Literally a retard >>336643304
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Quantum Break is way better despite having cinematic shit

It's shorter but have real action gameplay.
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After reading some of these reviews it seems like the game is one step away from being a walking simulator. There seems to be a hell of a lot more focus on the story than the gameplay, and that leads me to believe that there isn't much gameplay there at all.
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>>336643790
Non-retard = Sony puppets ?

Nah. Try harder.
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>>336643820
you mean the game with lazy reload animations?
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>>336643786
>Be sure to mention on how any game with cutscenes isn't a real game.
Yeah but when a game has more cutscenes than gameplay can it really be classified as a game and not an interactive movie?
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>>336643994
>lazy reload animations

So is this the best you and your people can do?

top cuck
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>>336643937
No you're a retard because you say it's attached to 9.5+ after compiling an image including it being used in 9.0's.
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>The word "emotional" is now a sign of paid reviews.

Here's your brain evaluation, OP.
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>Uncharted 4's story has emotional themes
>HOLY SHIT ALL OF THESE REVIEWS ARE BOUGHT OUT FOR USING THE WORD EMOTIONAL
Honestly, I do find it odd that all of the video reviews seem to be using the same b-roll footage but I think that's more to do with Sony not wanting the ending spoiled
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>>336644232
>it being used in 9.0's.

That's what I call autism.
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>>336644260
There is a connection between paid reviewers that get high emotions when they get Naughty Dog gifts
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>>336644260
It isn't a sign of paid reviews for me, it's a sign that Naughty Dog are bored of making games and be a film studio.
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>>336644373
You're the one who said "always", retard.
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>>336644456
and want to be*
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>>336644260
This.
If it's one of its principal subjects, obviously people will talk about it.
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>>336639749

>Super common word is used in several reviews

So are all Nintendo reviews paid because they have the word "colorful"?
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It turns out "emotional" is the most common word used to describe something that inspires emotion.
Who fucking knew.
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This is why the only reviewer you should trust and care about is yourself
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>>336644467
Go back to redit Berbie fag.
Thank you

>>336644575
>The game inspires me
10/10!
>not paid

C'mon..
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>>336644456
>>336644441
Modern reviewers want emotional crap in games. If a game as story focused as Uncharted, marking the supposed end of the series, brings some emotion, then of course they'd use the word "emotional"

Then again, be paranoid and think Sony gave them a list of positives to say, but find more things other than "oh it's emotional" written in different ways.
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>>336645163
I feel like you just quoted my post without reading it.
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>>336641509
Remember: everytime you call Samus an actual girl, God kills a trans teenager.
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>>336641509
No brianna, mental instability killed your friend.
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>game gets shit reviews

>"JUST"
>"LOL Post YFW NOT A ______ CuCK"
>"So this is the power of __________"

>game gets amazing reviews

>"paid off"
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>>336645163
>Then again, be paranoid and think Sony gave them a list of positives to say

You just send them gifts anon
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The game is so pathetically cheesy and mediocre it made me physically sick.
Like investing hours on a B-rate movie, you know the ending will be shit, but you already sat 2 hours you might as well finish it.
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So how come no one has stood up and campaigned against reviews?
We all know is a paid shilling clusterfuck all the way and shouldn't be used by anyone as a tool to decide whether to buy a game or not.
It goes beyond simple favors like five guys.
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People should revolt against reviewers and journos.
I bet demos would be more common.
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