Welcome to "Backhanded Box Quotes," a collection of super pissed-off user reviews from people just like you! Whoa, whoa, don't take that personally.
Spec Ops: The Line
Released: June 26.
Critic: hcookie (Metacritic) • "Incredible storyline. The Apocalypse Now for the next generation." • "Gameplay is fantastic and a great story. " • "Do not miss this game."
But ...
• "Once again, Developers fail to polish what is probably one of the better games released in 2012." •"And for that, what would have been a perfect 10 is now an 8."
And yet ...
Score: 0.
OK ...
The Amazing Spider-Man
Released: June 26.
Critic: Criticalkev1169 (Metacritic) • "[T]he graphics are amazing." • "[T]he combat system is amazing and very simple."
But ...
Score: 0.
OK ...
Backhanded Box Quotes will be an occasional feature of Kotaku's Anger Management hour, unless it isn't.
Comments
How is it backhanded that they are just retarded and can't use a slider to save their lives?
The issue is that they know it's an aggregator and that everyone else will be voting binary: 10 or 0. They want to push the score down, so they do it the only effective way they know how, assuming they'll be balanced out by a handful of unwarranted 10s.
With that in mind, I see this all over the reviews. If you point out every instance of folks gaming the system we're going to end up with a lot of examples of hypocrisy and no funny quotes. Stick to the funny quotes!
(Sidenote, this particular binary mentality really does indicate that metacritic should consider switching to using like/dislike for user reviews.)
These guys sound "super-pissed off". Ditch this stupid backhanded quotes thing; do some real journalism.
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