Because some people, like
Hendrick's
, are bent on trying to brainwash people (those who never played these games) into thinking that everything produced by a certain publisher is overrated, from both critics or gamers.
The problem is that they've never played said games so often provide very out of this world claims, resulting pure cringe to those who had, or
heroes from the same kind of people who have no real world idea of what these games are. This Forum is full of these people.
They also often praise much lesser versions of these games just because produced by third party developers.. if i have to guess, it's a way to cope with the current gaming situation.
The difference it that when i, a Nintendo and Sony fan at the time, was a little more than a child and noticed that Xbox 360 was getting all the praise on the Internet, i didn't pretend Bioshock, Gears, Halo were overrated, nor i felt the need to downplay them online.. i went on and bought a 360 and enjoyed them.
But this require having little emotional investment and a sort of maturity, which i guess is asking too much from certain users.
But again, they are still hardcore Xbox fanboy after the generation just passed.. so.