Hey Tom, why don’t you reply to some of the comments on your Halo review page?

Because you realise that that page heralds the death of your essentially non existent video game journalism career?

Because you are afraid to go back to the article that killed what little credibility you had?

Or perhaps it is simply because you are simply a pathetic thief.

Yes thief.

You have taken credit from where it was rightfully due and caused real people real trouble.

An opinion is the property of that person and they can express that in any way they wish. But when that opinion is in place simply for the purpose of personal gain…then yes, it does disturb me. The immense selfishness that people are capable of is a disturbing thing.

What credit is he taking and what did he “steal?” I don’t recall Tom claiming that he developed Halo 4 himself.

To Tom – You are having a very negative impact on the years of effort that went into this game. Real people (the developers and their families) are impacted by your childish actions. Are your page hits worth it? Is five minutes of fame worth it? I expect a reply to this. And unless you are a total coward, you will reply.

I came here to see the “page hit desperate” review. And yeah, the site is really shit.

Oh the gods, the people at 343 industries won’t be able to feed their families despite Microsoft’s billion dollar investments into advertising! I assure you one negative review never killed anyone.

What criticism? The entire comments thread is filled with juvenile insults, blatant fanboy-pecking and sprinkled with a light dose of death threats. The irony is that trying to start a reasonable debate now would be null given that the review page has been officially given the metacritic hit squad that came and went.

Are you a stupid person in real life, or do you just play one behind the veil of internet anonymity?

Count how many friends you really have.

Indeed a good idea that he had already taken care of about eight months ago when he reviewed Journey: http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2012/03/24/the-official-journey-review-faq/

Of course you would know that had you at all bothered to read the addendum at the end of the review which was edited in (presumably) explicitly as a response to such fallout.

Never mind the fact that Mr. Chick owes no one absolutely anything, why would anyone take the time to respond to people who themselves never took the time to consider the whole situation and all its evidence? Your collective bitching deserves a response as much as Mr. Chick deserved such asinine and misplaced ire.

In short:

Dear Mr. Chick: You rock – don’t ever change!

Dear Internet: Grow up.

Good Lord you Metacritic people. Go back to the Halo review thread and vent your spleens there, stop polluting the rest of Quartertothree. You are annoying.

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Tom, just take it down. Jackasses like this will ruin the site otherwise.

Amy, let’s get down to brass tacks: if you were a mask in Hotline Miami, which one would you be?

Get out of here. We are busy overwhelming this thread with Halo 4 review comments. By the way, your Halo 4 review was total crap.

He’ll be too busy playing Marvel.