Getting less than 70/100 is a science in the reviews!

Today’s gaming climate is hardening among the internetbrowsing gaming geeks. They’ve grown some kind of ulterior armor and equipped themselves with explosive rounded machineguns in order to make sure they don’t have to play every game in the universe. It’s obvious when you read reviews online that people mostly go for games above 80/100, being in the 70-79/100 area is extremely hazardous and is where a game starts to lose a lot of internetgeeks. You’ll see them rampaging over games that receive less than 70/100 as if the world was hitting the apocalypse the next day, and they were hoping at least one good game could be released the day before.

I feel the need to quote one of these moronic persons who rampage our dear online landscape.

“Please remove your head from you know where.. Bungie was RIGHT on the money with what he said.. You than quote another games scores? Maybe you should check what thread your in before you post.. This game is a huge waste of money and has recieved many bad scores.

GamePro = 70

White Knight Chronicles is definitely hit-or-miss at times, and while it finds itself occasionally hampered by a stale single-player campaign and wonky combat system, the overall experience brings just enough fresh content and online innovations to the table to make it a worthwhile purchase for hardcore JRPG fans.

Game Informer = 73

White Knight Chronicles was a disappointment for me, especially coming from a quality developer like Level-5. Some of the studio’s trademark customization helps to give the game some legs, as does its hefty multiplayer component. However, for interesting combat, deep characters, and an engaging fantasy, I’d look elsewhere.

1UP = 42

When I’m in the market for an RPG, it’s for a select few reasons: I’m looking for an epic story, rad loot, combat that stimulates the tactical chunks of my brain, and beautiful environments. White Knight Chronicles does none of these things well. To top it all off, the game inexplicably ends after less than 30 hours with most of the major plot points left wholly unresolved.

GameSpy = 60

Though the game features several imaginative environments, the same can’t be said for its pedestrian, trope-riddled story.

Eurogamer= 70

Despite their relative strength, the disparate halves of White Knight Chronicles fail to gel in meaningful ways.

IGN = 51

White Knight Chronicles is a disappointment. Besides the unimpressive visuals and poorly-told story, the game suffers from a flawed battle system and inconsistent gameplay rules.

Obviously this game is BAD…

Sorry if i hurt some fanboys feelings but this game is no better than
the 360 RPG Infinite Undiscovery which had a meta of 68, or the Last Remenant. Which both where murdered by the PS3 fanboys saying how the 360 is the reason JRPGs suck.”

If you agree with what I wrote earlier you will surely agree that this comment is slightly idiotic. 1UP and IGN are two very large game sites and have a lot of support from users online, but I’d hardly say that two reviews like these make the others less important. I can not for the mind of me understand how the rest (60-73) are bad scores.  Because, from the pure score we can conceive that the game is relatively good, but it lacks in some areas to make it stand out from many other games. Where 50/100 is acceptable and less makes a relatively bad game I can’t mount up 60/100 or 70/100 as a bad score. His comment in particular is directed at “White Knight Chronicles” but even if it’s been an anticipated title, the score isn’t bad. Why? Because the hype doesn’t make the game. The game does.