Blast from the past: The crazy reactions to 8.8

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@monkeyman04: Haha, true. I wanted to mention the Duck Tales review from a while back, but I decided not to. Yeah, I know it's still around. People are just freaking insane about this shit.

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#152  Edited By ShaggE

I take back what I said on page one! 8.8-gate (8.G8?) lives on! Down with Jeff Worstmann! Up with Greg Activision! Greg Eurovision would have given it a 15 out of 10, like it deserves! BRING BACK GREG INTELLIVISION! FIRE JEFF FREDDURSTMANN! RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE! 8.8 IS FOR JERKS!

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Compare that to the watch dogs review which got 3 stars. Most of the comments there are pretty decent, some agreeing with Jeff. Shows some progress (or just better moderation).

Not the same thing at all. No one cared about Watch Dogs before it came out. People really like their Zelda.

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gr8 b8 m8 i'd r8 it an 8.8

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Old thread or no, man, I remember Girthman. I'd say "good times" but... yeah...

What a weird thing to get personally offended by a review score.

Plenty of other jokes to make here, like: whatever happened to Greg Kavision?

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@cyberfunk said:

Compare that to the watch dogs review which got 3 stars. Most of the comments there are pretty decent, some agreeing with Jeff. Shows some progress (or just better moderation).

Not the same thing at all. No one cared about Watch Dogs before it came out. People really like their Zelda.

Not entirely the same thing but there was hype being built up for Watch Dogs so there is that. A more apt comparison though would be the Uncharted 3 stuff with the inverse of that being anytime a COD is given a score higher than 7 people freak out.

Stuff like this still happens sadly enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9TwE7iuCKc Just look at the comments on that review. I don't think internet rage has gotten better. Just look at DA2, ME3 and all the stuff about EA after that. People still have a deep distrust of reviewers because they don't have an understanding of what a review is and will attack them. This community has a lot of growing up to do.

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@andrewb: Imploded around the same time as the Intellivision.

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@hunkulese said:

@cyberfunk said:

Compare that to the watch dogs review which got 3 stars. Most of the comments there are pretty decent, some agreeing with Jeff. Shows some progress (or just better moderation).

Not the same thing at all. No one cared about Watch Dogs before it came out. People really like their Zelda.

Not entirely the same thing but there was hype being built up for Watch Dogs so there is that. A more apt comparison though would be the Uncharted 3 stuff with the inverse of that being anytime a COD is given a score higher than 7 people freak out.

Stuff like this still happens sadly enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9TwE7iuCKc Just look at the comments on that review. I don't think internet rage has gotten better. Just look at DA2, ME3 and all the stuff about EA after that. People still have a deep distrust of reviewers because they don't have an understanding of what a review is and will attack them. This community has a lot of growing up to do.

The most apt comparison I can think of is Resident Evil 6 which- like this game for around 10 years- people still complain about. I guess the difference there is RE6 was bad and got an apt score but there's a very loud minority that apparently really like RE6.

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gr8 b8 m8 i'd r8 it an 8.8

A true wordsmith.

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People will always suck.

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@shagge said:

I take back what I said on page one! 8.8-gate (8.G8?) lives on! Down with Jeff Worstmann! Up with Greg Activision! Greg Eurovision would have given it a 15 out of 10, like it deserves! BRING BACK GREG INTELLIVISION! FIRE JEFF FREDDURSTMANN! RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE! 8.8 IS FOR JERKS!

Lost it at Freddurstmann.

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#166  Edited By Shaunage

The reaction wasn't too different when Carolyn Petit 'only' gave GTA5 a 9.

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I admit that I was taken aback by Jeff's 8.8 score initially because TP, at least from the screenshots, looked like the second coming of Ocarina of Time. Once I got the chance to delve into the game I realized quickly how ignorant I was to believe that Zelda games will always be perfect. In retrospect, going by today's scoring system standards of 10 being good and 7 being absolutely terrible, I would definitely rate TP between 8 and 9.

I respect Jeff for sticking to his guns and not caving into fan pressure. Also, the outrage over the score was simply gold.

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@shagge said:

I take back what I said on page one! 8.8-gate (8.G8?) lives on! Down with Jeff Worstmann! Up with Greg Activision! Greg Eurovision would have given it a 15 out of 10, like it deserves! BRING BACK GREG INTELLIVISION! FIRE JEFF FREDDURSTMANN! RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE! 8.8 IS FOR JERKS!

Lost it at Freddurstmann.

Oh my god, that's fucking great.

8.8/8.8

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#169  Edited By HeyGuys

@sethphotopoulos said:

@hunkulese said:

@cyberfunk said:

Compare that to the watch dogs review which got 3 stars. Most of the comments there are pretty decent, some agreeing with Jeff. Shows some progress (or just better moderation).

Not the same thing at all. No one cared about Watch Dogs before it came out. People really like their Zelda.

Not entirely the same thing but there was hype being built up for Watch Dogs so there is that. A more apt comparison though would be the Uncharted 3 stuff with the inverse of that being anytime a COD is given a score higher than 7 people freak out.

Stuff like this still happens sadly enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9TwE7iuCKc Just look at the comments on that review. I don't think internet rage has gotten better. Just look at DA2, ME3 and all the stuff about EA after that. People still have a deep distrust of reviewers because they don't have an understanding of what a review is and will attack them. This community has a lot of growing up to do.

The most apt comparison I can think of is Resident Evil 6 which- like this game for around 10 years- people still complain about. I guess the difference there is RE6 was bad and got an apt score but there's a very loud minority that apparently really like RE6.

Oh man, that's pretty crazy. I'm a big RE fan, I even liked RE 5 a lot, but I'm playing through RE 6 right now and maaaaaan it is rough.

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I'm glad this was necro'd. Every so often I remember "Jeff was abused as a child" and have to make my way to this thread to get a good laugh.

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Why do you think every Nintendo game is praised? No one, and i mean no one has the balls to talk about Nintendo the way they talk about EA, Activison, or other companies. Fact.

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Wow, what timing, I was just about to play this game for the first time. It's weird, I am playing 3 Zelda games right now. Wind Waker, Twilight Princess and Skyward *sigh* Sword.

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Is this the time someone showed up at his house?

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I want Greg Kavision to review all the games. He sounds like a man who can really see shit clearly.

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@cyberfunk said:

Compare that to the watch dogs review which got 3 stars. Most of the comments there are pretty decent, some agreeing with Jeff. Shows some progress (or just better moderation).

Not the same thing at all. No one cared about Watch Dogs before it came out. People really like their Zelda.

Also, this site is for people who already like/respect the GB crew. So I doubt people are as prone to flipping tables on the rare occasions they are told the thing they...uhh... care about?.... is bad.

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#176  Edited By Clonedzero

Yeah, this is pretty damn funny. I'll admit i've gotten pissy about other peoples opinions before, haven't we all? But nothing like this or over something as silly as a review score. Granted its sometimes over dumber stuff, I mean who would take flight as a super power instead of telekinesis? What are you retarded?!

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Was there a similar clusterfuck of opinion when Patrick posted his 4/5 Skyward Sword review? I feel like that was around the time people were still looking for reasons to dislike "the new guy."

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hehe, this brings back memories..... Actually, if I'm not mistaken, there was a BIG message board anticipation over Jeff's Halo 3 review. Becuase on the bombcast he shited on Halo, there were some people on Gamespot boards all like "Jeff shouldn't be allowed to review halo 3." and other silliness just in fear he would give it a score like Twilight Princess. One of those internet drama sillines.

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@subwayd said:

@tru3_blu3 said:

gr8 b8 m8 i'd r8 it an 8.8

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@punkxblaze said:

I want Greg Kavision to review all the games. He sounds like a man who can really see shit clearly.

I miss Kavision's insightful video game reviews. His views may be a bit high-brow, but he does offer a unique lens with his observations. But I reckon it would be near-sighted of him to only do that with his brilliant talent. The new game his studio made looks spectacular!