Yikes... another 45 year old dude from Jezebel/TheRoot that has no idea games are (best he remembers is PAC-MAN and the Atari) but still comes to comment his yelling at clouds on Kotaku? Maybe we should indeed split these networks...

Boohoo. Figure out a way to deal with it just like anyone else that’s ever worked.

*BARF*

I feel nothing for him. He was a brat. Heck that day he was shooting people, cars...etc with his bb gun. And of course his mom taught him to fear the police. So when they came he got shot because he pointed the gun. Sorry but this is the parents fault. The mother who also claims to be some amazing person is your…

I read a lot of the user reviews and for every “SJW iz bAD” take, there are probably 3 more that honestly DO NOT like what’s been done to Joel and Ellie’s characterization in this game. Even if they got rid of the lesbian and (trans?) signalling in the game this still would have been the result.

Because no-one is allowed to express their dislike, right? You're a fucking moron and I hope you get covid.

Yeah... Except not all those reviews are reviews bombs and the opposite is true. What about the 6 thousands 5 stars reviews left on the playstation store before anyone played it?

Man. People still think review bombs are happening to this game because of SJW related stuff? The TLOU2 subreddit is doing one of the most hilarious victory dances of all time right now (the story and script are abysmal) and people are still muttering stuff about total SJW / political nonsense. Pretty amazing.

Imagine how sad you must be to think you know for a fact its all “rEvIeW bOmBiNg”. Ive been all over the 4chan threads and no one has organised ANYTHING. It is in fact plenty of people who either got it early and played, or read/ watched the hours of leaks. Completely ignore how and why the PAID CRITICS get early…

Ignoring all the other senseless political and social value nonsense leading to some of the negative reviews, I can say very clearly that The Last of Us 2 is not the 9.5/10 game that people hoped it would be. In reality it’s much closer to something like a 7.5/10. It’s not horrible, but it’s not great either, and…

That’s...literally not what the hate is about. Many of the negative reviews are those who adored the Left Behind DLC and were heavily anticipating the game beforehand.

oh Ellies queer.  How shocking.

The game is terrible. The end. 

to be fair

How can you criticize user reviews as bots or people who speed run the game as meaningless. But will not criticize your own for being dishonest about a game. Give a game 10/10 because “you” believe the game is a “masterpiece”. In all honesty people can’t trust sites who do this before “anyone even gets to play it for…

“Mixed critical reception?” That is such a disingenuous line to open up with. You might as well be saying “well, we didn’t like it and this other random person didn’t like it so lets just ignore the almost exclusively rave reviews and pretend that opinions are mixed.”

Watched a bit of the game on YouTube.

look alot more like a ps5/newXbox type of delay for me .... yes Ironing bug, but I think they just also took the opportunity there . 

I remember them saying the game was playable start to finish like 2 years ago when they showed off that first long demo. They seem to be having alot of trouble optimizing the game and ironing out all the bugs. I have full confidence in CDPR but this game seems like it's been a real bitch for them.

This game’s in trouble.

Just like anything else, this is a matter of priority. And those priorities should probably look like this: