For those who don't know what 8.8 means, it's the name TVTropes gives to the phenomenon centered mostly around gaming where fans go into an angry fury over review scores for high profile games, whether deemed to low or too high. The name itself stems from Gamespot's review for the Wii version of The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess where the reviewer gave the game 8.8 and in response, fans sent a barrage of hate and death threats to the reviewer and spammed gaming bored with demand for the reviewer to be fired and threats of death.
Honestly, I just don't get it, why get so worked up about reviews score that you refuse to let go years later, that you get so pissed off that you think threats, abuse and hate is deserving, no matter how much you hide it under "legitimate criticism". So someone else liked or disliked a game more or less then you, that doesn't affect you, doesn't affect your enjoyment or dislike and like has been said tons of times before, getting worked up over a metacritic score is just silly. It's not the reviewers job to be promotion for a game and be part of its marketing nor is it their job to endorse your opinion on something.
Yet this type of hate happens all of the time, like every other big AAA release you see it and these "controversies" just make the gaming community look bad.
So what for you were the worst of these that you've seen? The ones that made you cringe or sad or mad at the players upset over a score. The ones that make you sigh whenever you see someone refuse to let it go and just make you sigh?
Their are two for me that stick in my mind, the first one I really saw was Gamespot's GTAV review which they gave the game a 9/10... Which was deemed to low so the comments were exploded with a ton of death threats, hate, transphobia and personal attacks against the reviewer. It got so bad that Gamespot had to change their comment policy because of it but even then, you had petitions to get the reviewer fired, gaming forums filled with hate to the reviewer and the reviewer getting emailed threats. I was utterly disgusted and I just couldn't believe what I was seeing over a score, a 9/10 score.
The second is the IGN "Too much water" Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire remake review because honestly, it bothers me the hypocrisy on display by the Pokemon fans. I remember a ton of dislike and criticism back in the day for the Hoenn region because it had to many water routes, Route 133 especially for the rapids... Which Game Freak agreed with which is why besides the remakes, we've never seen a region with that many water routes. Same with the too many HMs criticism, funny how the same fans who harassed her for that were praising Game Freak when they removed the HMs the very next game. Oh but because she was reviewer, it was okay for fans to harass and send her hate for saying that and again, 7.8 is a good score. The fact people turned it into a meme and pretend the threats never happened is one of the things that bothers me about the Pokemon Fandom.
Honestly, I just don't get it, why get so worked up about reviews score that you refuse to let go years later, that you get so pissed off that you think threats, abuse and hate is deserving, no matter how much you hide it under "legitimate criticism". So someone else liked or disliked a game more or less then you, that doesn't affect you, doesn't affect your enjoyment or dislike and like has been said tons of times before, getting worked up over a metacritic score is just silly. It's not the reviewers job to be promotion for a game and be part of its marketing nor is it their job to endorse your opinion on something.
Yet this type of hate happens all of the time, like every other big AAA release you see it and these "controversies" just make the gaming community look bad.
So what for you were the worst of these that you've seen? The ones that made you cringe or sad or mad at the players upset over a score. The ones that make you sigh whenever you see someone refuse to let it go and just make you sigh?
Their are two for me that stick in my mind, the first one I really saw was Gamespot's GTAV review which they gave the game a 9/10... Which was deemed to low so the comments were exploded with a ton of death threats, hate, transphobia and personal attacks against the reviewer. It got so bad that Gamespot had to change their comment policy because of it but even then, you had petitions to get the reviewer fired, gaming forums filled with hate to the reviewer and the reviewer getting emailed threats. I was utterly disgusted and I just couldn't believe what I was seeing over a score, a 9/10 score.
The second is the IGN "Too much water" Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire remake review because honestly, it bothers me the hypocrisy on display by the Pokemon fans. I remember a ton of dislike and criticism back in the day for the Hoenn region because it had to many water routes, Route 133 especially for the rapids... Which Game Freak agreed with which is why besides the remakes, we've never seen a region with that many water routes. Same with the too many HMs criticism, funny how the same fans who harassed her for that were praising Game Freak when they removed the HMs the very next game. Oh but because she was reviewer, it was okay for fans to harass and send her hate for saying that and again, 7.8 is a good score. The fact people turned it into a meme and pretend the threats never happened is one of the things that bothers me about the Pokemon Fandom.
