User blog comment:Inkie Twig/A Year in Gaming - A Review/@comment-1263839-20141230131906/@comment-3967954-20141230190733

Yeah, I never saw the appeal of TLoU. Really generic storyline (literally every zombie trope is in there), gameplay was nothing special and I'll admit that the animation and voice acting was pretty top-notch but that alone can't save the game from being a bit of a chore. Reviewers seem to think that good characterization and good voice acting equals a good storyline - this is anything but true. Infinite, as an example, was an example of characterization done quite well, but with a really poorly-thought storyline to go with those characters.

As for CoD, I get the feeling that critics are being blackmailed by their audience into giving CoD worse scores every year - I recall when the CoD hate train sort of started out, around 2011-ish when BF3 was revealed, that one of the gaming magazines I read got a whole lot of complaints from fans because they gave MW3 9/10 and BF 8/10. Critics really are just pandering to fans these days - hence why ultra-hyped games like Infinite, TLoU, Alien: Isolation, GTA V, and even Watch_Dogs to some degree, get ridiculous 10/10 and 9/10 scores, despite the fact that they're really quite mediocre.