Gamespot: Arkham Knight Review: 7/10

The Arkham games have shallow, simplistic gameplay and missions that hold your hand, so I'm not surprised a clown like DSP fanboys them. If he's posted videos of his Bloodborne and TW3 videos I'm sure he spent at least five hours in the very first parts of the game dying, cursing the developers, and yelling "WOWWWWWWWW" over and over again.

His reviews.

Not to mention the same themes and the same villains.

What was his most recent flop of a game that should have scored higher? If anything he tends to give high scores to a broad spectrum of games even if they don't deserve them. He even gave Watch Dogs an 8, and that game was terrible and outside the types of games he normally reviews.

In those reviews, where is the evidence for your claim?

Gamers are fucking ridiculous. They demand transparency in reviews but then demand that reviewers conform to a preconceived or popular score. SMH

Funny thing is, like every other game (like Metal Gear and Kojima or Smash and, get this, Miyamoto rather than Sakurai), DSP is horrible at them and does his typical "blames the devs, not him" mentality.

Yet he's not the one giving it a score, genius.

Guarantee you that if this game was called Arkham Souls it would be 10/10 GOTY.

Erm, he likes PC centric shit.

https://twitter.com/fiddlecub/status/345591026339168259

There's something. I don't know, do you want me to skim all his reviews? Sorry, no can do.

Guess its gonna be hard for Kevin to like any other game after The Witcher 3. Still, I think Peter is a better reviewer when it comes to action games. Anyways, I'll have to play the game myself to judge it.

Kevin kinds of justifies his points in the review though. So, it's fair play.

So basically, you don't have any evidence of your claim.

All that tweet implies is that he wanted to see strategy games and a stronger PC presence at E3 2013...

no he's the one who thinks 7 is a just score , toad

Already have my digital copy pre ordered ... most reviewers are rating it much higher, and from what I've seen it looks stellar!! Tuesday can't come soon enough!!

But there is a reason to why he likes the game so much and I think it's because of LGBT and gender representation in general and not because of the game itself.

Because for example, the guy hasn't even played the new Deus Ex game but he has been on a crusade against it since the first trailer because of male power fantasy or something. Now he's claiming that it is racist/discriminatory because of "Mechanical Apartheid" which is an actual theme within the game... So, how well do you think the game will score if he reviews it? Not good I believe.

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No offense but you sound like a massive twat right now.

You haven't played the game, so you really can't judge whether a 7 is a just score or not.

What do you want to provide for you? A personal interview with him? Sorry I said anything lol.

So now people are directing their anger of numbers at kevin? Guess they have to, now that mcschea isn't here.

Wasn't is mcshea'd before? What will we call it now?Just a simple Vanord? Vanorded?

wow! That is just amazing

So basically it all comes down to whether or not you find the batmobile repetitive or not. Although the boss fights being lame is a disappointment. Still I am looking forward to this game.

Oh and FLOP!

It seems Kevin is deliberately scoring it down because he has a massive Witcher 3 bias, wanting to see Witcher 3 win GOTY by hoping to lower the metacritic score in order to make Batman: Arkham Knight seem less impressive than it actually is.

Quite shocking behavior in all honestly. It seems other reviewers haven't been fooled, 91% metacritics.

I'm surprised it only scored a 7 on Gamespot????

Have you played The Witcher 3? Absolutely nothing about that game screams "LGBT and gender representation;" that game's world is a very harsh depiction of medieval European fantasy. And Kevin's review doesn't even hint at some bullshit agenda. Not to mention the people who actually have social justice agendas are the ones condemning the game...

Now if we were talking about Dragon Age Inquisition you may be on to something, but oh, wait--Kevin never really talks about how the game injects LGBT and gender representation in his review. Apparently he just liked that game because... he liked the game?

And that tweet is about Deus Ex: MD's COLOR PALETTE. Did you even read those replies? Good lord....

Wow, third game in the series, and Rockstready still can't make good boss fights?

They should have gotten Warner Bros Montreal to make the boss fights. I hated everything about Arkham Origins, but the boss fights were definitely the highlight of the game.

lol GS. It's a small-scale re-run of TLOU's scenario.

There must be like a Godwin's Law equivalent of Gamergate. At some point, somebody's gonna bring that up.

Go home. Anita won. #freedomfreakforfeministfrequency

Abomination confirmed.

He gave MGS4 a 10.

Your sig is hilarious.

I had no idea what to do for a sig, so I just thought.. Anita Sarkeesian.. Why the hell not.

@uninspiredcup: You aren't serious.....right?

Was never convinced on the batmobile gameplay so not surprising to see it listed as a negative.

Still i have my preorder paid off but it'll probably just sit here until I'm done with the witcher.

It makes senses, every single critical thing about the Witcher 3, was ignored. This is a sign of critical bias, a lack of objectivity.

He was probably well aware Batman: Arkham Knight would eclipse it. If the President Of The Unites States himself gets caught with Watergate, or having relationships of an inappropriate nature, it's no small leap to assume reviewers are attempting to control the game.

I don't get you people.

What, GS is the only legitimate gaming website out there?

Cool, 7 isn't a bad score, last I checked it still means it's a good game.

Besides I kind of always knew the buttmobile was going to be a lame addition to the gameplay.

Meh still getting it.

@uninspiredcup: Stahp

Kevins score is the only low score, it has a 92% average on metacritic last time I looked.

"the end result is the best game of this console generation." Many other reviewers loved it, don't let one persons review on gamespot stop you from trying this game. He seemed to only dislike the batmobile, if thats the only main issue then thats not to bad at all.

I was worried about that score when I saw the headline. Then I saw who the reviewer was. I think it's a safe bet to leave my pre-order alone.

Batman AK is a 91 at metacritic.

I'm looking forward to the PS4 version with extra Scarecrow content.

I have the Limited Edition reserved. Should be grand.

I'm not saying the review is wrong or bad or anything, I just think his decision revolved around comparison above all. Yes I did say the souls series has the same iterative nature that CoD does. So does the Arkham series, actually. A LOT of modern franchises have this sort of scared, formulaic strategy. That is the nature of sequels. And then when developers try to reinvent their games they get super criticized which makes the strategy completely acceptable.

What I'm seeing in the gameplay videos for this game makes me want to buy it. 7/10 games normally don't catch my attention like that. This game is not your average 7/10.

Either way, neither scores nor reviews matter for a consumer who has already made their mind.

Well so much for a GOTY contender.

Loving the butthurt ITT.

Oh so now we're gonna start trusting Metacritic when it's convenient to our hype and expectations?

I love this place. I really do.

Or just to help one's buying decisions, independent of the System Wars dick-waving contest.

well it's a multiplat and I don't think there was a hype thread, so for the SW metagame its score is pretty irrelevant

Huh?

I've been here since 2005 in System Wars, and other than the silly metagame, I have always trusted the majority of critics over one single critic (same for movies, TV, books, and music). It's 2015, my stance has been the same for a decade now and I've always been consistent with that viewpoint. There is nothing wrong with bringing up IGN, Gametrailers, Game Informer, Eurogamer, or whatever scores you want here. GS scores are only used for one thing, to decide if a game is a flop (the metagame).

If we are talking the metagame, sure, let's adhere to talking GS scores and see if a game is a flop. I wasn't playing the metagame, I just made a simple statement, and certainly my statement shouldn't have offended you. It wasn't even directed towards you. It's a simple post about how the critics are recieving Batman AK.

However, my post is a simple statement of the metascore and how I'm buying the game soon. GS could have scored the game a 1/10 or 10/10, it wouldn't affect my purchase. It's not a big deal, my post offers something to compare the GS score too, nothing more.

Do you not want people to discuss the game's scores at sites now? GS, or Kevin really, didn't like it as much as some other people. Not a big deal.

Would you have everyone be silenced? Am I to understand you would prefer we only talk GS scores and in a public forum? I just don't get the vitriol or pretending that my expectations can only be managed by GS scores.

My post is about buying the game and I for one have never liked GS scores (as I've said 1000x of times over the many years I've been here) and I don't consider any reviewers here when I make my purchases. There are reviewers in the world I do trust when I make purchases, GS doesn't employ any of them. Just the way it is.

I'm not playing any metagame right now dude. I personally don't care about the GS score. I'm sure some people are angry, but they shouldn't be. Kevin didn't enjoy the game as others did and that's that. Kevin has an opinion, my uncle will have an opinion, I have opinion. Who cares. I would suggest once again that people shouldn't worry about Gamespot.com's scores, it doesn't matter at all. I might agree with Kevin after I play Batman AK, I don't know, I haven't played it. I just don't understand your problem.

How strange to have an issue with other websites scores in a forum discussion about Kevin's reception of Batman...you just loathe when someone brings up anything that isn't GS score related? Get over it.

I hate this place. I really do.

**** gamespot. They're always trying to be the pierce morgan on reviewing games.

I'm just merely pointing out the irony and hypocrisy when it comes to this place. Personally I've never trusted a single outlet over a consensus. With that said so many people here say they can't trust X or Y publication. That is at least until, said publication gives a high score to a game they've been anticipating. People shit on video game criticism in general because of how it can be somewhat of a hivemind. But the second someone goes against the grain, all of a sudden their credibility is shot down and they're more or less scrutinized even if they have the most valid of criticisms. Reviews in general cannot be taken seriously because the gamers who read them can't be taken seriously. It has nothing to do with having an issue with other websites.

So many people here call and have called Metacritic a joke, until again, it plays in their favour. It doesn't offend me. It humours me.

Aside from this SW bullshit, how many of you really listen to GS reviews?