Telltale Games employees found feeding perfect 10 reviews to Metacritic

[WARP10CK]

????? another day another incoming shitstorm here we go again
http://www.gamespot.com/features/jur...bused-6346288/

[waroftheworlds01]

So? I don't see the big deal. The game is a perfect 10

[louiedog]

Seriously? Come on, Telltale employees. You're better than this. Stuff like this has happened before with other games and studios and always ends badly. It causes people to view things extra critically and casts the game in a negative light. What a poor showing.

[beavermatic]

So your not allowed to rate your own work?

Freedom of speech. If anyone, they have the right to voice their own opinion of the game more so than anyone. It's THEIR work. They have a right to be proud of it.

And who wouldn't support their games?

[Shadowknight1]

They might have been TellTale employees that didn't work on the game and just played it.

And I f***in love that they immediately think something is fishy because they used complete sentences and good grammar. Ridiculous.

Also, Gamespot sucks. They have no idea what they're doing.

[lordvader900]

Uhh...I don't think the game could be anything but 10 / 10 anyway...

[WARP10CK]

Originally Posted by beavermatic

So your not allowed to rate your own work?

Free country. If anyone, they have the right to voice their own opinion of the game more so than anyone. It's THEIR work.

It´s like George Lucas (in a Roger Ebert disguise) reviewing phantom menace I think thats the correct way of describing it.
And metacritic is a site that many view as important to the industry.

Sorry Telltale but after playing through JP my feelings is that I liked it (for nostalgic reasons) but a 10/10 game it is not.

[waroftheworlds01]

I still don't see why it's a big deal. So what they gave it a ten out of ten. In the end a review is nothing but an opinon that is being share with others. Take Greg Miller from ign for example, he gave the a game a 5.5. Is he right? The truth is, there's no way to tell. Because it's just an opinion.

I think the game is an 8.5.

Someone might say it's a 7 or a 4. It's all just opinion based. So why does it matter since everyone can form their own.... oh wait.

[WARP10CK]

Originally Posted by waroftheworlds01

I still don't see why it's a big deal. So what they gave it a ten out of ten. In the end a review is nothing but an opinon that is being share with others. Take Greg Miller from ign for example, he gave the a game a 5.5. Is he right? The truth is, there's no way to tell. Because it's just an opinion.

I think the game is an 8.5.

Someone might say it's a 7 or a 4. It's all just opinion based. So why does it matter since everyone can form their own.... oh wait.

Everybody has a right to an opinion including telltale employees,but that fact that they did not reveal that they were employees. They reviewed the game before anyone else gave it a 10/10 and on metacritic no less.

Bioware did that on Dragon Age 2 and the shitstorm that followed was huge

[supmandude85]

Originally Posted by WARP10CK

It´s like George Lucas (in a Roger Ebert disguise) reviewing phantom menace I think thats the correct way of describing it.
And metacritic is a site that many view as important to the industry.

Sorry Telltale but after playing through JP my feelings is that I liked it (for nostalgic reasons) but a 10/10 game it is not.

I agree reviewing your own game is a dick move.

[waroftheworlds01]

Originally Posted by WARP10CK

Everybody has a right to an opinion including telltale employees,but that fact that they did not reveal that they were employees. They reviewed the game before anyone else is a little suspect and on metacritic no less.

The thing is I don't think them being TellTale employees is relevant. Having them putting a 10 out of 10 under a user review is no diffrent then the fan boys/girls who give their favorite series a 10 out of 10. In the end, it's just going to get lost in the masses anyway.

[ZerosTheWizard]

I agree that they should have stated that they worked on the game when reviewing it, but gamespot is just overreacting. A few people who worked on the game reviewed it giving it perfect scores. Players reviewing games are just opinions, sure its from someone who worked on making the game so their opinion is probably biased but is it any different than someone who hates adventure games and gets on there to rant on how much it sucks giving it a 1?

Its not as if telltale created hundreds of accounts and spammed the site with hundreds of perfect reviews. That would be cause for getting this upset over it.

[RAnthonyMahan]

Game reviews as a whole are just one big corrupt commercial. Developers will pay sites to write good reviews, withhold bad reviews until the game comes out so it won't have as a big an impact on sales, and yes, sometimes even write the reviews themselves. Hell, the reviewers can play dirty without being told to. Giving a bad review to a big hyped-up game is guaranteed web traffic. Hell, I'm amazed that Gamespot, the site that fired a reviewer for giving a bad review to the game that was plastering the site with ads at the time, is calling Telltale out on this.

I'm not saying it's OK for Telltale employees to write fake reviews, I'm just trying to give a little perspective. Besides, it seems like these were just regular (and fairly new) employees. If it was someone higher-up the complaints would be better warranted.

Also, good grammar means the review must be fake? Really?

[supmandude85]

Originally Posted by RAnthonyMahan

Game reviews as a whole are just one big corrupt commercial. Developers will pay sites to write good reviews, withhold bad reviews until the game comes out so it won't have as a big an impact on sales, and yes, sometimes even write the reviews themselves. Hell, the reviewers can play dirty without being told to. Giving a bad review to a big hyped-up game is guaranteed web traffic. Hell, I'm amazed that Gamespot, the site that fired a reviewer for giving a bad review to the game that was plastering the site with ads at the time, is calling Telltale out on this.

I'm not saying it's OK for Telltale employees to write fake reviews, I'm just trying to give a little perspective. Besides, it seems like these were just regular (and fairly new) employees. If it was someone higher-up the complaints would be better warranted.

Also, good grammar means the review must be fake? Really?

I see what you're saying, but using an example you can relate to. Wouldn't you feel like a dick if you wrote a review for your own book without saying you wrote it, even if you were fairly new to it?

[AndersonBKellogg]

Yeahhh..... I'm giving the game a 6, and that's pretty generous.

WAYYYY too much focus on frustrating QTE's in this game. While I was playing I found myself wishing I could just put the game on Autoplay and just watch the cinematics. There were just way too many "Try and predict which arrow button you'll need to press in this three-step quick time event sequence" moments. Inevitably I would end up dying three or four times until I could memorize the 2 or 3 individual QTE's required to pass before I can spawn again. I found myself swearing at this game so much these past two days.

I just can't agree with anyone who gives this game a 10. I paid $30 for this game and it just wasn't worth it.

[RAnthonyMahan]

Originally Posted by supmandude85

I see what you're saying, but using an example you can relate to. Wouldn't you feel like a dick if you wrote a review for your own book without saying you wrote it, even if you were fairly new to it?

Not if it brought more attention to my writing. You don't know what being an unknown writer is like.

But seriously, I wasn't trying to justify what happened. Ideally, developers would never meddle with reviews. I'm just saying that because it's so common it's not fair to single out Telltale specifically.

[LuigiHann]

This just seems... unwise.

[Icebear]

i give the game a fair 7/10, if they added that i can move my guy around and made it a few extra hours longer (maybe add a extra 2 hours to each part of the game) im sure my score would def go to a 8.5/10, would i buy the game if they made another one? i sure would and if they make it like this one i think 40$ is a little high maybe drop it to 30$

[MasCot]

Bad spelling was the cause of suspicion... that's just sad on so many levels.

Anyhoo, I don't really care, I've already played the game and I liked it. After that, TellTale coud even bribe the Queen of England to give it a good review, it's their business.

Moreover, JP4 is coming!!! And let's hope that we'll get some new games as well.

[tope1983]

in nowadays internet language I would call this an

EPIC FAIL