..it's the internet. People on the internet will be forcefully pushing a "majority view" that then dominates all the console magazines, shapes the opinion of everyone in publishing, etc. In spite of many, many people disagreeing.Fenixius said:
Then when a game actually is changed based on that majority opinion everyone has - it sells next to nothing, even as it goes down in price, on a re-launch, along with the patch - that "finally adress 'community' concerns".
That's how the internet works. The only point with it is to make sure that anything except Halo, Modern Warfare and Mass Effect is dropped by publishers, so that any games I like will never be made, or sponsored other than as an exception.
..it didn't really knock it for gameplay, I think. If you watch the video-review, you get the narrative laid out: everyone thinks "this kind of game" should be like Mass Effect 2. And when it's not like Mass Effect 2, then it's either "buggy", or "broken". While the mechanics actually are solid enough, and no less or more quirky than any other game based on the U3 engine.Joabbuac said:
This is what we're seeing "everyone" saying here as well. Up until recently, Mass Effect, Kotor, any role-playing game, etc - have had a graphical representation of the hidden dice-rolls going on in the background, and that was perfectly fine. But then suddenly "we" hate that, and think it should be done away with. Baldur's Gate, Fallout, Planescape Torment, Morrowind, etc, all stupid crap. And if you actually read the review(s) on Cnet, Joystiq and Destructoid, they are complaining about game-mechanics specifically (in the same way, sentence by sentence) - and then justifying a lot of completely unrelated griefs on those problems, without going into detail on those.
I mean, trust me, I do enjoy a harsh review. But the "everyone says" review is just extremely badly written. It's also not a majority view, even though the internet seems to think so. But on the internet, that the game is statistically better reviewed on a monstrous majority of gaming sites - that just reinforces the idea that the destructoid review is honest, doesn't it..
And of course - as you can see, when publications start to make headlines out of an anonymous poster on the internet claiming to be a developer - then you know you're dealing with the unbridled truth, right?
No offense, The Escapist and Destructoid - but the Sun does more quality reporting and writing than this.
[/footnote]) I thought the game had a lot of good things going for it but I never read further into it. Now, from what I hear, this game has been ruined by someone messing with the chain of command.
