>Video game voice actor Troy Baker recently tweeted about a fan petition requesting that Metacritic take down the Washington Post's bad review of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End.
Video games always get good and bad reviews, though, right? So, why take down this one in particular?
Well, it seems that the reviewer for the Washington Post, Michael Thomsen, is the only person reviewing video games that didn't like the latest — and last — title in the Uncharted franchise. However, for anyone who read the review, it seems that Thomsen also didn't really like any of the Uncharted games, so maybe it's not a surprise that he would also score this one so low.
"The Uncharted games have never excelled at storytelling," writes Thomsen. "Instead, they've used it an accompaniment to overwhelming visual technology. The games have always struck me as garish more than gorgeous, more interested in overwhelming the senses than communicating with them."
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/158803/20160516/troy-baker-tweets-petition-to-remove-the-one-bad-review-for-uncharted-4-from-metacritic.htm
Relevant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko1sklmOR9E
>So, why take down this one in particular?
When you're analyzing stuff at a lab, you tend to exclude numbers that are drastically different from the average because it's most likely a mistake.
While I don't think the game's as mindblowing as everyone's saying, I understand getting butthurt by a troll,clickbait review
So only people who really liked the uncharted series should be allowed to review it?
>>337861606
Uncharted 3 was pretty bad by Uncharted standards.
>>337861715
It says bit about the fragile ego that is attempting to strike out a troll review.
Also I don't know whet Troy of all people feels so compelled to even speak up out of all the people at ND. It's weird.
>>337861437
What is Trump doing between all dem models?
>>337861908
Reviews should be unbiased. If a person clearly hates the Uncharted series, or japanese stuff or strategy games or whatever they shouldn't review it
Generally people who really like something are capable of seeing the flaws. Haters usually ignore the good aspects.
>>337862092
Trump owned miss USA until last year
>>337862092
you have to be 18 to post here you dense mother fucker
All that stuff about how gamers are just a bunch of pathetic children and adults that act like pathetic children is right.
Who the fuck cares if Uncharted 4 got a bad review from someone? Is the need for affirmation so strong that even one dissenting voice is unacceptable to your egos?
>>337862092
>yes
>yes
>nope, average
>no, living the dream
>no
>idort
>centrist-left leaning>bisexual
>>337862092
no
yes
idk I havent been tested
yes
multiplat not a poor nigger master race
Im not american so I dont fully understand liberal vs republican vs conservitive
>>337862092
Winning
Because he is a winner
>>337862503
Sonnygers are children, they are just tall and fat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko1sklmOR9E
LOL
sounds like fascism
cinematic "gamers" are fucking cancer. you're so easily manipulated.
I remember there was a hooplah when Toy Story 3 came out that people were making jokes about one dude who hated 1 and 2 reviewing 3 and ruining it's 100% fresh rating.
He predictably gave it a bad review, but nobody gave a shit and went about their day.
This is embarassing. People gave Undershitters so much grief complaining about the 65 from Kill Screen then turn around to do this.
Take your bad review on the chin and move on.
>>337864005
DELETE THIS
Trump is a meme candidate.
>>337864243
ok hillary
>>337864005
>He predictably gave it a bad review, but nobody gave a shit and went about their day.
He was banned as a reviewer for the rottentomatoes aggregate for five years or something like that.
>>337862184
I actually agree with this, never really thought about it before.
>>337862184
>Reviews should be unbiased. If a person clearly hates the Uncharted series, or japanese stuff or strategy games or whatever they shouldn't review it
But if they clearly like it, then they shouldn't review it either. So you have to get rid of all reviews then.
>>337862184
>
Generally people who really like something are capable of seeing the flaws. Haters usually ignore the good aspects.
Except that's wrong. Ignorance abounds on both extremes of the spectrum.
>>337861437
>>337866267
That's incredibly petty if it was after the fact. I haven't heard anything about that other than people laughing at it then moving on instead of trying to sign a giant petition like this.
>>337862092
This is was too old. Should change Atheist to Agnostic and remove liberal.
>>337861437
Ok so that review is batshit biased and retarded, the guy completely misunderstands the point of uncharted games. And that's retarded.
But you know what's even more retarded? Complaining about his review and creating a fucking petition to take it off. It's pretty embarassing, no?
I like how people called the Federation Force petition pathetic but then there's a petition over a review score that's embraced by the gaming community and NeoGAF. Fucking lame.
>>337862092
yes
yes
maybe?
yes
yes, but I'm not a sperg about it
yes
centrist right leaning, MAGA.
>>337862184
>reviews should be unbiased
someone should tell this to polygon when they review weeb games even if the game is good they'll give it a low score because muh sexism
>"The Uncharted games have never excelled at storytelling,"
>The games have always struck me as garish more than gorgeous, more interested in overwhelming the senses than communicating with them."
he's right and so is Trump
>>337862184
>review should be unbiased
>ohwaityoureserious.jpg
How dare people review a Sony game negatively. They should all be 10/10s
>>337862184
That's not the problem here.
Those people are retarded and have no self esteem.
If you're an editor, it makes sense, I agree, since bad review affect sales.
But how much of a faggot and a fucking sony-co*ksucker can you be to make a petition about a bad review?
How much of a submissive b*tch can you be to be worried about a review?
>>337870793
I'd at least kind of understand if it was some niche game which bad reception/sales could mean less chance of sequels. But Uncharted is going to sell as well as it always does regardless of what any site says
It's almost like a no-name hipster voice actor has no redeemable opinion on anything.
Why are people trying to make a thing out of this?
He is a literal nobody.
His tweets mean shit.
>>337861606
that was pretty good actually, 4/4.
Sony has the most retarded fucking fanbase of all the 3 companies, holy shit.
>>337862092
>smarter than average
That's a fucking good one m8
>Athiest
not quite
>Liberal
Is fucking anyone on /v/ straight-up liberal nowadays?
>>337866714
This. Removing 1 bad review is just stupid and egostistical. Well, we are at a time where even a slight critcism is labelled as anti-(insert thing here).
>>337861437
While I'm not for censorship, the guy who wrote that review is a known contrarian who likes to start shit.
Could go either way, I think. But you start a petition to remove one bad score, where does the complaining end, you know?
>>337862926
if you think you need to be tested to know if you are smarter than average, then you arent
The uncharted games aren't very good though. They're highly scripted cinematic experiences. They look good, and the story is fun, but as games they're not very good. And that would be fine if everybody wasn't always sucking their cocks.
>>337866648
>But if they clearly like it, then they shouldn't review it either. So you have to get rid of all reviews then.
From what I know, and that's nothing, if you already hate a series, you aren't gonna put any effort into liking it, you're already going in with the fact that you hate this style of game, they aren't gonna reinvent the wheel in the 4th game, however a fan of the game, although may be biased, if anything would critique the game more honestly since they would most likely be pickier.
>>337862092
Yes
Yes
no
yes
yes
no
don't know enough about politics to make a judgement.
>>337874096
>if anything would critique the game more honestly since they would most likely be pickier
If you'd ever seen a diehard fanboy you wouldn't say that, just like people who hate something can be blind to its merits, someone who likes something can be equally blind to its faults. The only thing you should be is follow reviewers whose tastes align with your own and not act like a corporate fucboi by petitioning against anyone who has a negative opinion on a franchise
>>337875649
A society that has telepathy and still exists is truly a work of fiction, because can you imagine anyone being able to read each other's idea and opinion?
>>337870793
Brand wars are amongst the most disgusting behavior I have ever seen a human being engage in. Anyone who participates in them should be executed.
>>337861606
>chewing grass
I died.
>>337862092
27
Yes
I'm not presumptuous
Nope, I'm a lazy perfectionist
I'm agnostic
I game on handhelds and PC
Not completely liberal. I do think both parties have idiots but the GOP is far worse.
>>337862092
31
Yes
No
Agnostic
No
No
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy5rz1cft5w
>>337861437
Fuck off you crossboarding faggot, take your drama shit to your containment
>>>/pol/
>>337876795
>muh crossboarder boogyman
While he's fucking off back to /pol/ make sure you fuck off back to /a/ you filthy weeaboo.
>>337862059
>Shit 3 was pretty shit by Shit standards
Kek, at least you weren't saying it was the shiniest turd in the pile
>>337862092
1. Nope. 26.
2. Yes.
3. Nope. IQ tests confirm my IQ is around 105. Give or take a few points.
4. Nope. I actually work more than 40 hours and currently pursuing a career with a standard salary. I have average intelligence, I can't afford to slack off.
5. Nope. Not even close.
6. More of a handheld gamer.
7. No, G-d, no. I lean to the Right, if anything else. Why would anyone support the social progressive movment, especially the ones who want to censor video games?
>>337876947
>filthy weeaboo
And While he's fucking off to /pol/ and I'm fucking off to /a/. You fuck off to reddit
a thread involving journalism?
I wonder who long it will take until somebody cries about /pol/...
Oh >>337876947
>>337877697
I was crying about /a/, get your facts straight fagotron.
Holy shit sonyggers are pathetic
>>337877757
I quoted the wrong person.
pls don't bully
>>337877929
Don't tell me what to do. I'll bully whoever I want.
was this petition started by neofags?
>>337861437
Petitionrace.
>You aren't allowed to review Uncharted 4: A Thief's End® unless you already like it.
>Literally delete this
Fucking console warriors are literal boot-scum.
>>337862092
>PC gaymer
>Liberal
>>337862092
>The common /v/ poster considered himself to be an underachiever, atheist, a PC shill, and Liberal
Really?
>>337862092
>Liberal
Cuck.
>>337862092
No
Yes
Dunno
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
>>337877267
You're a retard, anon
>>337875649
We weren't talking about diehard fanboys here, so nothing you just said really applies, we're talking general fans of the game. The guy in the article clearly disliked the previous games and wasn't a fan in any sense, therefore there was no way he would give an unbiased review.
>People are actually defending a shit review made by a contrarian for the sake of attention because they are triggered by a good game that isn't made by slavs or JapsGo ahead and spam the same 6 webms you shitpost about the game with since you have no real argument to say the game is bad
>>337862092
Older
Yes
I guess?
I'm a useless sack of meat, so I guess so
Deism
Yes
Social Democrat? I'm slightly left-of-center and opposed to authoritarianism.
>>337873841
maybe hes humble?
>>337861437
>sonyggers literally became DELETE THIS
fucking hilarious
>>337873841
If you think you can be sure you're smarter than average because you met one or two people who were definitely dumber than you, you aren't either. People are very good at lying to themselves.
>>337879897
>We weren't talking about diehard fanboys here
Thats pretty much opinion, how much does someone have to like a series before they can't see a series flaws?
>unbiased review
Thats a moronic statement, someone who does like the games cant give an unbiased review by the same logic, since the fact they like the games colour their perception of them. The review of someone who disliked previous games for their vapidity could be useful to someone who felt the same in seeing if they'd improved. If you did like the previous games its easy to disregard it
Unless you want game reviews done by robots, any reviewer will have bias and preferences
>>337880195
>wanting corporate thought policing to be a thing
Review be damned, they're trying to silence a someones opinion and it shouldn't be tolerated no matter how bad it is. If you really had a problem with that you wouldn't browse /v/ would you?
>>337880547
>Thats pretty much opinion, how much does someone have to like a series before they can't see a series flaws?
Incredibly stupid question, like are you just trying to type because you have nothing else to do? When someone starts ignoring obvious flaws they're a diehard biased fanboy, this isn't like a subjective point.
>>337880547
>Thats a moronic statement, someone who does like the games cant give an unbiased review by the same log
No. Again are you some sort of moron? There are plenty of thinks that I like that I can give objective viewpoints on, and for the most part, it's pretty obvious when I enjoy something as a fan vs as someone new. For example, I enjoy the new wrestling games, and most of the gundam games, one of my favorite gundam games is Gundam vs Zeta Gundam, however, I realize that a lot of that is nostalgia/not a lot of other games in that genre, and I realize that most people would have issues with the dated graphics, poor controls, and camera.
>>337880947
This is completely different than someone who went into a series already biased against it. If someone doesn't like chocolate milk, more chocolate milk isn't gonna make him like it.
For someone on the edge of buying this, they're not getting an objective opinion, and the only thing that even comes close to integrity is that he half-heartedly admits he wasn't a fan of the previous 3 games.
>>337880926
Honestly, I don't give a fuck about the metacritic score and no one else should, I'm just saying it's retarded to act like there needs to be defense for contrarian reviews when they just shouldn't be acknowledged
>>337861437
>he can fuck literally all those bitches at the same time if he wanted to because he's rich
women are whores. it's not fair. give me money god.
>Washington post has 2 Uncharted 4 reviews
>one of them is a satire review and is listed as such, has no review score.
>the other gave the game a 4/4 and was posted a day before the other one.
>metacritic took the satire review and put it in with the averages, ignoring the other review >decided to give it a 4/10 out of nowhere.
B-BUH MUH FANBOYS
>>337861437
>The games have always struck me as garish more than gorgeous, more interested in overwhelming the senses than communicating with them
Sony Pony here... he's actually kinda right 2bh. That's a very poignant point he made. I never really thought about it before but he's 100% correct.
>>337861437
so the review is unfair because the reviewer never liked the series? We want to remove his review because he was bound to hate it? yeah that sounds so much fairer; let's just only accept reviews from people who do like the series.
>>337862092
This shows how much /v/. All of those used to be true for the average poster; now the IQ's gone down, atheists are "fedoras", and the politics have shifted right.
>>337880947
And I have plenty of things I dislike I can see some merit in, what's your point?
>>337881106
Imagine how stupid it'd be if people couldnt review garbage sequels to garbage games just because them thinking the first entry was garbage would make them bias against the sequel
>they're not getting an objective opinion
>objective
>(of a person or their judgement) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.
By the actual definition of objective, any reviewer with any feelings of the series is biased
You can think the review is poor, but campaigning to get it censored because you think only people who're definately going to like it anyway can review something is fanboyism of the shilliest king
>we live in a time where opinions against the norm can be disregarded as shitposting because corporate interests trumpall consumer interests or rights
What a time to be alive
>>337881834
But /v/ and 4chan have always been far right which is why we scream for long time users to leave for not being conservative
>>337881865
>You can think the review is poor, but campaigning to get it censored because you think only people who're definately going to like it anyway can review something is fanboyism of the shilliest king
You're just making words right now, not even stringing along a point especially throwing words like censorship out there.
First of all, let me tell you I have never played a single Uncharted game in my life. That said, if someone wants a review removed because the think it is unfair/dishonest, especially with how the ratings system works, then yes, I could see the merit in wanting it removed, that is completely different than wanting it removed because it's honestly negative. The guy set out to write a bad review and the game's score was tainted by it.
>>337881834
>the average IQ has gone down
No, posters here just aren't as delusional as they were before.
>>337880195
Man I miss Spill.com
>>337881481
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2016/05/16/yes-the-washington-post-is-allowed-to-give-uncharted-4-a-410-but-did-they/#727b6f4927db
It seems to be more of a strange policy issue that the review score wasn't shown on the site. The score and review though are legit.
>>337882229
>You're just making words right now
No i'm not, the original post i replied to (probably yours, but even if it wasn't you should have read the reply chain) was this
>if you already hate a series, you aren't gonna put any effort into liking it, you're already going in with the fact that you hate this style of game, they aren't gonna reinvent the wheel in the 4th game, however a fan of the game, although may be biased, if anything would critique the game more honestly since they would most likely be pickier. Nothing about the review being unfair, it was arguing against people who hate a game series reviewing it. Unless you're flip flopping now
I've never played Uncharted either, but fucking campaigning to protect a giant multinational publisher by getting a review removed is corporate cocksucking of the most disgusting kind.
>>337882741
>if you already hate a series, you aren't gonna put any effort into liking it, you're already going in with the fact that you hate this style of game, they aren't gonna reinvent the wheel in the 4th game, however a fan of the game, although may be biased, if anything would critique the game more honestly since they would most likely be pickier
Cut off the quote wrong
>>337882502
It is a shame that Co-Host and Cyrus couldn't come back with Korey and Martin on Double Toasted but Goodwin is fucking great
>>337862092
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
fuck no
VIDEO GAMES
not even trying to meme but it literally does look like a photo sometimes desu
>>337881834
>liberal = smert
top kek lad
>>337861437
Troy Baker is a massive faggot
>>337861437
It's just one lousy review and I'm not even a fan of uncharted but I seriously doubt the score is legit and the reviewer was just being a contrarian cunt. That aside Trump is so alpha
>literally a DELETE THIS petition
What the fuck is wrong with people?
Why are people fans of a console and not video games? It's just a stupid device you put games into.
Nobody is fanboy of a dvd player.
Funniest part is, nobody gave a fuck about Uncharted when the first one came out. It was a "whatever" game. Now that ps4 is Bloodborne machine and finally got another game, suddenly it's the holy grail.
