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Main Eight Point Eight Discussion
qweasdzse: cut this entry on the grounds of it being more about personal hatred of the review than anything to do with the trope (it's also innacurate about the review not having a score.)
- While not giving scores, Insomnia's Team Fortress 2 review
. Bonus "points" for its Eight Point Eightness stemming from the Stop Having Fun Guys and "It's not Team Fortress Classic, so it sucks" mentality driving the writing as well as the site admin's Small Name Big Ego, both of which caused more hysteria on both the site's forum [1] and GameFAQs' TF2 board [2].
- It doesn't help much that his general response to people raising issues was "FUCK YOU YOU'RE A FUCKING RETARD YOUR OPINIONS DON'T COUNT GO FUCK YOURESLF"
I find it so f***ing hilarious that people flip out about a game getting "only" an 8.X. On a scale of 1-10, anything above an 8 (maybe a 7.5) is actually pretty good.
Removed:
- A well-established fact about Pitchfork is that they do not have an ethics policy. While this is the norm for most blog-based websites, this also means that any rumors or speculation about their reviewing practices is true.
Does anyone have a link to X Play's explanation of why better games can get lower scores than their predecessors? It sounds interesting. I'd like to see it.
Given the enormous backlash to Game Spot's review of Skyward Sword, I propose that we rename this trope to "Seven Point Five".
Is the quote at the top right, or did ten(Then) get misspelled?
Eevee Lord will check...