8.8

Who was in the wrong here?

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all "professional" video game reviews are fucking garbage and have been since the practice of reviewing videogames began. The only way to ever actually know how good a game is has been user review aggregates.

Should've been a point lower, Twilight Princess is a fine but uninspired game. Tendies are the most fragile vidya fans on earth. Remember when Jim Sterling gave BotW a 7 and stopped doing actual reviews because of the aftermath? Snoys don't get that defensive over somebody calling Spider-Man or whatever a 7, lol

He was pretty much on the money. Metacritic user score is an 8.9.

8.8 is a reasonable score for Twilight Princess.
By that same metric Breath of the Wild is a 7.

>all "professional" video game reviews are fucking garbage and have been since the practice of reviewing videogames began
True.
>The only way to ever actually know how good a game is has been user review aggregates.
LOL no. You were so close. The only way to know how good a game is, is to play it yourself.

In retrospect an 8.8 may have been too high, even.
Good game but it had some big flaws, it definitely didn't deserve higher like people were demanding. 8.5 maybe.

nah fuck that 7.5 at most

I obviously meant prior to playing the game, you smarmy cunt

Jeff because the game's only a 7.5 if I'm being generous

Honestly, 8.8 is way too high for Twilight Princess.

Good times.

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If you trust any influencer's or "journalist's" opinion on video games you are literally dumb. The only proper way to evaluate the quality of a video game you have not played yourself is through Zig Forums.
>durr but Zig Forums hates everything
No! If you are not a tourist you should be able to gauge if the general opinion of a game among anons on this site is positive or negative and be able to spot and filter out the shitposts.

>The only proper way to evaluate the quality of a video game you have not played yourself is through Zig Forums.

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I still can't believe that one critic giving a game an 8.8 was enough to be a (FORCED) meme and cause (FORCED) butthurt.

You, for caring about a number instead of the actual review
Numbers mean literally nothing, if you're looking at reviews and not sifting through the shit for actual facts and criticisms, you deserve to be sold 9/10 shit games

I like Jeff because he hates video games

Whatever you say metafaggot

>Jeff was abused as a Child
I wish we could go back to the days where people could get this butthurt and not be ironic about it or put on airs.

In hindsight I'm amazed it was Kane and Lynch and not this that caused him to be fired. Nintendo is infamously retaliatory to reviewers who don't give "acceptable" review scores.

current jeff would give it a 4

gerstmann and davis were the only ones i would trust, prime kasavin was never wrong either
RIP GB

8.8 was a good laugh but nothing beats 4.0

They hated him because he spoke the truth.
That monstrous shitfest is also why Nintendo games have completely unrealistic review scores today.

>CBS sold off Giant Bomb / CNET at a loss
What's next for them?

EDGE still writes the best reviews

Jeff Gerstmann literally said that he thought his 8.8 was too generous and that if he scored it today it would be 3/5 stars.

meetings and 6 month E3 recovery

>some guy giving effectively 9/10 to the worst 3d zelda game was a big controversy
I don't get it

"Settling into the new office(s)" for 18 months.

>The only proper way to evaluate the quality of a video game you have not played yourself is through Zig Forums.
Or the first page of Steam reviews. Don't suck your own dick too much, chief

cause after windwaker everyone wanted the "real" zelda back

You're not allowed to say Zelda is anything less than GOTYAY.

8.8 was generous and N*ntendrones were in the wrong

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Because Nintendo's screaming sycophant squad demands 10/10 for every Nintendo game and Jeff was bringing down the average they'd threatened into existence.

i haven't thought about giant bomb in more than a year and this sent a shiver down my spine
some things never change

I'm sure he wanted to rate it lower than 8.8

That is a valid criticism, is it supposed to be triggering people? I love Zelda but TP felt kinda bland.

Sincerity is dead

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You need to know the context of the "Celda" bullshit. To those faggots giving TP a lower score than WW was basically spitting in their faces.

The summary is completely correct, I mean shit the music in TP is still fucking MIDI.

Fuck them, honestly

>TP is the worst 3D zelda
No, have you played SS? SS isn't a bad zelda game, it is outright a bad game.

He has always had it in for Zelda games

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I forgot that game exists
And so will everyone else, frankly. The Wii U never happened

Was it ever alive to begin with, user?

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It wasn't that long ago that a Switch port was rumored and Zig Forums immediately started pretending that the game was always a 10/10 lol