Gonna have to disagree. Meta bombings on the user scores of games happens literally all the time. Stop giving power to vocal minorities. These "meta bombings" you speak of don't seem to be effective because BOTW's user score is 7.4 (which seems to be accurate if you remove the industry's nostalgia glasses for Nintendo) and Horizon Zero Dawn's User score is 8.5.Dansen said:The game might be sub standard or bad, I don't know, and I won't until I have played it or see more reviews. However it is rather disingenuous to suggest that a significant portion of the back lash doesn't come from people with an ax to grind. There are trolls spreading misinformation and blowing things out of proportion for all high profile games, you don't have to look further than this months releases and the meta bombing of Zelda:BotW and Horizon: Zero Dawn.
People built up trolls or "alt right people" to seem like they're a massive problem with these 3 games and its simply not the case. A lot of the reviews for Mass Effect Andromeda echo the criticisms of the people who played the demo for a week. If it were on the scale of the Ghostbusters movie of last year, your point would be a fair bit more solid, but the constant "trolls are attacking" trope isn't really accurate here. I've seen way more memes making fun of the poor animations than anything.
The only attacks on "diversity" seem to be coming with Manveer's tweets against White people and the poor writing of the game's trans character, and the latter point was only when the game came out 2 days ago. Further more the critique of the trans character came from trans gamers mostly from what I've seen.