Has a Video GAME Review Ever Made You Mad/Upset?

nope because my opinion is all that matters to me

No not really although the Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn review back in the day was pretty bad.

Nope. I've matured up enough where I can respect and listen to other people's opinions/viewpoints.

This era never existed. Video game review scores for hyped shit was never in the ball park of critics in film, literature, or music, the ****. They been running the 8-10 scale for years, shit this website ran a 100 point scaled based on an algorithm while actually trying to say gaming is art.

I used to get upset about some GS reviews, but I was silly back then.

Yes that Zelda SS review on GS and the Titanfall reviews pretty much everywhere are good examples of very bad reviews that pissed me off. Ah and BF4.

If you want me to elaborate:
Pretty much every gaming site pretended to have reviewed Titanfall for PC. But it wasn't really. A PC gamer wouldn't have reviewed it well because it was lacking a ton of standard PC features for a multiplayer game not the least of which is the server browser and the terrible lag compensation. Now I can forgive them for lag compensation because that is tough to review when you are in weird conditions, but you couldn't pick your map, couldn't get an admin to kick or votekick, couldn't even pick every mode or a server with a good ping or one that stayed on a map or excluded a map. I felt a little scammed by the reviewers.

BF4 had a TERRIBLE campaign and they all mentioned the campaign but never say outright how terrible it is. I could pop in Brothers in Arms (from the Stone age) and have more fun with that campaign than with BF4. Hell, in that game the enemy A.I. was ten times better than in BF4... I don't even care about the campaign, it's not what BF4 is about, but the reviewers were even praising it in spots... That was just giving up. Come on. Where are your standards. I don't like reviewers settling for less. Now this can be different from person to person, but apparently not for any of the reviewers I read... And this has been going on for some time too. They continuously settle for less with FPS games. BF4 was kind of the point where I had enough. Those reviews were nonsense.

And the Zelda SS one made no sense either. The reviewer could not play the game. You don't let people who can't play a game review it for the masses. It wasn't the best Zelda but he was docking points for all the wrong reasons that were not even subjective anymore, just plain wrong. Almost like it 'had' to score lower than everybody expected. I don't like clickbait reviews or any review with an agenda other then informing you about the game.

Yes. I can;t find a link, but there was one ridiculously negative review of Silent Storm, where the writer didn't play any turn-based games before. He actually conclueded that turns are something this game invented and he didn' like this bizzare method when compared to real time.

That was some medium sized site, but big ones can screw up just as much. IGN reviewed Football Manager once and they trashed the game because there was too much managment and no options to play as the soccer player. That review was removed and replaced with something different really fast :D

I think you and I are the only ones who played that game. I'll be honest, not only did i totally forget about that game, i also forgot that there was even an Anime and that I watched it. I cant tell you a god damn thing about it or recall a single scene or moment, not even a name.

that shit has completly some how and some when got erased.

I do tho... remember really liking the game but complaining that it was too short and not much to do. That the matches didnt last long at all, they would be over in like 30-40 seconds. But i did like the attacks and specials. And that the graphics were amazing.

I wish i remember more, especially who the characters were.

Pretty much any X-Play review of any game from Japan was a sure fire way to piss me off.

No. I may disagree with a review, but I never become emotional over it. This is regardless of how professional the review is written.

most new CoD reviews make me mad. i've played the games for myself (the campaigns are downright horrible gameplay-wise, made for dumb kids. multiplayer is essentially the same with some new features), and i'm absolutely baffled how those games can still shine in most reviews.

so why am i mad then? it sends a wrong message to the industry. the message says "we are dumb sheep. please don't bother making better games because we also buy this shit."

Gamespot review of The Last Of Us.

Honestly they were drunk or something before writing the review.

MS really doled out the cash bags that day

Such an era did exist, but it was before your time. You see, I grew up buying and reading games magazines in the 90's. And back in those days, it wasn't unusual at all for hyped-up "AAA" games to receive scores around the 60% mark. And more importantly, 60% was actually considered a good score back then!

Games magazines in the 80's and 90's usually used the full 1-10 scale, unlike today's game websites that are too scared to give any hyped-up "AAA" games scores below 90% out of fear of publishers pulling ads and/or psycho-fans harassing the reviewer... something which game magazines in the 80's and 90's didn't have to deal with, so they were able to review games more honestly, without fear of backlash.

dude... it was still an 8... people are acting like if they bashed the game or something. 8 is good, and the reviewer clearly liked the game. not to the god-like-extent like other reviewers, but still liked it.

Annoyed at the most, but it's usually when a reviewer gushes over a shit game. Especially if said shit game happens to be a shit entry in an otherwise good series and the reviewer just doesn't have a clue.

I love it when a big game flops though, even if it was a game I was rooting for. The tears and damage control are always worth it.

Listening to Adam Sessler is very much like attempting to strain out a shit after it has solidified into a brick. In many ways, I'm glad he died.

adam sessler is hipster. he start playing games recently and think representative of gamers.

This review gets more annoying as time goes on. It shows us the mentality of many gamers that caused the dumbing down of rpg's

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/gothic-ii/6393p1.html

Only game I could think of in this case is STALKER: Clear Sky. This was six years ago. I was on the first cart of the hype train, and when it started getting underwhelming reviews it genuinely bothered me. I subsequently decided that nobody knew what they were talking about, foaming out the mouth in the process.

Then I got the game, and quickly realized that it was, more or less, a piece of shit. My perspective on the reviews went from underwhelming to generous. It's probably one of the worst shooters I've ever played.

Not upset or angry. I do think they are worthless for the most part though, something that is recognizable years later. Sometimes I'll pick up games way late--say, I'll want to grap a psp football game, or an older 360 game. Well, when sequels are involved things get messed up when one would preferably pick up the best version of x game in x genre. Seeing an earlier release score better than a sequel doesn't make sense if said sequel does everything better. The games should be review based on their own merits.

Never was upset about a gamescore.

The problem is that many people take reviews as gospel and label some games as shit because of them.

The only time I ever flipped out over a review was on GTA5. I didn't even play the game because I don't have a 7th gen console, but knowing how fucking much political agenda Carolyn had and seeing she was the one who wrote the review (which, unsurprisingly, turned out to be filled with nonsensical bullshit) just gave me a major sense of disappointment.

Read the Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn review on the Gamespot website. Holy shit, is it terrible. They actually critiqued the game for FEATURES IT DID NOT HAVE. How do you judge what's not in the game? That was unbelievable.

I dont read reviews, not that a review would annoy me anyway

Only when a game gets overwhelming praise on 99% of the internet and GS decides to go full retard and rank it well below everyone else. I don't get angry, just confuses me, like that Jackie Chan meme.