The game that he said was "blatantly better" than Heavy Rain was Deadly Premonition (http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/deadlypremonition?q=deadly%20premonition), a game that is... not very good at all, which is something that really isn't up for debate. Whether it's "so bad, it's good" or "so bad, it's horrible", however, is open to interpretation, but in either case, to imply that it's even in the same league as Heavy Rain, much less that it's "blatantly better", is just another unfunny attempt at a joke on Sterling's part. Not to mention the fact that in his actual review for Deadly Premonition, Jim gave it a 10/10, which is simply further proof that the score numbers on Dtoid are absolutely useless. The whole thing, both the review of Deadly Premonition and the "Blatantly Better" article, were little more than further digs at Heavy Rain. That's the way I saw it, anyway.
That's his thing. He'll write a shitty review for a good game, and then waste the next three or four editorials on defending that review, continuing to bash the game he reviewed, and whining about all the people that called him out for his piss poor review. In the case of Heavy Rain, he simply used a review for another game in this process.
The "Blatantly Better" articles in general are supposedly not meant to be taken seriously, and he's been doing them for a while. They're just another example of Mr. Sterling's so-called "humor". He's done other "Blatantly Better" articles with other things, such as the PSP vs the DS, Prototype vs Infamous, and so on. I don't find them very funny at all, but his bootlickers seem to eat it up, just as one would expect of them.
As for me, I haven't had much faith in Destructoid's reviews ever since the very first one they ever did, for Twilight Princess, in which one of the editors gave it a 4/10. I could see even then that stirring up shit was going to be more important to them than actually fairly reviewing a game. Sterling has simply taken this attitude and run it into the ground.
Re: Completely agree with you 100%
That's his thing. He'll write a shitty review for a good game, and then waste the next three or four editorials on defending that review, continuing to bash the game he reviewed, and whining about all the people that called him out for his piss poor review. In the case of Heavy Rain, he simply used a review for another game in this process.
The "Blatantly Better" articles in general are supposedly not meant to be taken seriously, and he's been doing them for a while. They're just another example of Mr. Sterling's so-called "humor". He's done other "Blatantly Better" articles with other things, such as the PSP vs the DS, Prototype vs Infamous, and so on. I don't find them very funny at all, but his bootlickers seem to eat it up, just as one would expect of them.
As for me, I haven't had much faith in Destructoid's reviews ever since the very first one they ever did, for Twilight Princess, in which one of the editors gave it a 4/10. I could see even then that stirring up shit was going to be more important to them than actually fairly reviewing a game. Sterling has simply taken this attitude and run it into the ground.