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> When Astro Bot won GotY, a bunch of idiots who thought that Black Myth Wukong should have won started review-bombing BG3; since Astro Bot is a PS5-only game a
by surgical_fire 2y ago
> When Astro Bot won GotY, a bunch of idiots who thought that Black Myth Wukong should have won started review-bombing BG3; since Astro Bot is a PS5-only game and you can't review games on PSN, they decided to go after BG3 since their CEO was the one who presented the GotY award to Astro Bot.
And that is valid information and context.
If I see a bunch of user reviews that gave a zero but no textual information on that zero (or the textual reviews that gave it a zero contained bullshit), I can ignore those as irrelevant for me and pay attention to the game.
> You don't often see people review-bombing games positively that they've never played, so the skew is going to be towards the negative and not the positive.
That absolutely does happen. Fanboyism is a thing.
- Narishma 2y agoHow can you be a fanboy of something you haven't played?
- ijk 2y agoYou'd think that, but it's a common enough phenomenon that satirical articles joke about it [1]. [1] https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/huge-earthbound-fan-excited-play-first-time/ https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/huge-earthbound-fan-ex...
- pjc50 2y agoPeople are told what they should be a fan of and what they should hate by content creators, usually on youtube. Playing the game itself is often a mere distraction from the more important business of internet comment section PvP (ahem)