That reviewer then went on to put DA2 in his Top 5 Games Of 2012, so maybe he just REALLY LIKED THE GAME and wasn't payed off. Sometimes, people just like things. That's why you read more than one review.zombieshark6666 said:
Mass Effect 3 review bombing
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How is that even possible? The game hasn't even been out for 16 hours yet and Bioware promised that a play through would take 20 hours at the very least. They could only have played the game if they bought it at midnight and ground through it religiously, skipping pacifically all of the side quests, leaving them with an incomplete experience.
Considering the user reviews were at 35% when I looked at Metacritic about half an hour after the game was "officially" released I put this down to review bombing.
Edit: Whoops, multiple tabs = wrong post in wrong thread.
You can't trust reviews from average people OR professional critics. One group is full of jerks who will give something a 0 or a 10 on a whim, while the other group is full of jerks who are paid to give it 7-10 depending on how many rupees they're being bribed with.
You can't trust reviews from average people OR professional critics. One group is full of jerks who will give something a 0 or a 10 on a whim, while the other group is full of jerks who are paid to give it 7-10 depending on how many rupees they're being bribed with.
Aww bless them for thinking it matters. Nobody cares about user reviews on Metacritic because 95% of them are not written by thoughtful, intelligent human beings. I've only ever used Metacritic to scour through the professional reviews. And can people please stop saying that professional critics are paid off to give good reviews. To say such a thing is highly speculative and based on nothing. It also shows a real lack of understanding of what a review from a professional critic actually represents. But, most importantly, please stop doing it because it makes me and my friends cringe. I don't like cringe face :-/
I liked it, i really did, kind of weird considering it's a very depressing game but it's very well done, the endings abit marmite though (or at least the one i got was).
You can click to see if the people have reviewed any other games. Only 1 person that I have clicked that gave ME3 a low score also gave Portal 2 a 9. Its shit like that that make me not believe the reviews by users because if they only come out when they review bomb to raise or lower a score then they aren't to be trusted. Now if they had like 4-5 other reviews of games that are known to NOT have been review bombed it would be more believeable.Dandark said:
Review bombing a popular game? No. Never!
Personally I'm having fun with the game. I know the ending will kill my fun, but eh. I'm all right. I have some minor annoyances that do occasionally detract from the fun, and there have been some odd moments, but I like it. I'm not too far in, though. Like... 7 hours. Maybe a bit more.
Personally I'm having fun with the game. I know the ending will kill my fun, but eh. I'm all right. I have some minor annoyances that do occasionally detract from the fun, and there have been some odd moments, but I like it. I'm not too far in, though. Like... 7 hours. Maybe a bit more.
The game itself is very good. It's more engaging so far than the other two.
Everything else outside it is fucking despicable. There should be absolutely no reason why I should have to pay 10 bucks to get an online pass when I own a console. It's a shitty scheme where because I have a brother who clearly liked the demo more than me, I ended up letting him use it.
Everything else outside it is fucking despicable. There should be absolutely no reason why I should have to pay 10 bucks to get an online pass when I own a console. It's a shitty scheme where because I have a brother who clearly liked the demo more than me, I ended up letting him use it.
Turrets? Are you talking about turrets?AstylahAthrys said:
Because fuck turrets. They are the bane of my existence.
And I think I'm as far as you are. The only question I have so far is what the hell am I suppose to do with the war map thing?
I have played Mass Effects 1 and 2 many times and thoroughly enjoyed them both. I shall play Mass Effect 3 and decide for myself just how good/bad it is.
I only ever read user reviews after playing a game so I can laugh at how invalid I find their opinion! /smug
I only ever read user reviews after playing a game so I can laugh at how invalid I find their opinion! /smug
"In this letter I plan to cite some of Mass Effect 3's more topical crimes and let you, the reader, decide for yourself how to react. Although not without overlap and simplification, I plan to identify three primary positions on Mass Effect 3's bunco games. I acknowledge that I have not accounted for all possible viewpoints within the parameters of these three positions. Nevertheless, I must reach out even to my most ostrich-like readers and show them how I am interested in facts, not in paregoric for Mass Effect 3's spin doctors. That's the sort of statement that some people claim is soporific but which I believe is merely a statement of fact. And it's a statement that needs to be made because Mass Effect 3's biases leave much to be desired. An equal but opposite observation is that I'm tired of the worst classes of abhorrent ratbags there are. Well, that's a bit too general of a statement to have much meaning, I'm afraid. So let me instead explain my point as follows: There is something grievously wrong with those cankered insurrectionists who obstruct important things. Shame on the lot of them! If anyone should propose a practical scheme for carving solutions that are neither obstinate nor cold-blooded, I should be quite disposed to incur almost any degree of expense to accomplish that object. In the meantime, let me point out that Mass Effect 3 likes reconstituting society on the basis of arrested development and envious malevolence. That's the most damnable thing about him. It's also why Mass Effect 3's cause is not glorious. It is not wonderful. It is not good."
Pure gold.
Pure gold.
A lot of people are raging over the DLC and the endings.
DLC people haven't read the script, or think (Not even sure I need this, but just to be safe)
Is necessary information critical to the story. Seriously, some people are pathetic.
The Endings people I'll give more credit too, though review bombing is too far really. The endings are all pretty damn crap IMO - and its not the fact that there is no good one. I understand the anger here, but eh. Its why you never trust Metacritic.
DLC people haven't read the script, or think (Not even sure I need this, but just to be safe)
Apparently explaining somewhat about Prothean Culture and how the cryostasis thingy all worked out and that [From what I saw one guy complaining about]
The Endings people I'll give more credit too, though review bombing is too far really. The endings are all pretty damn crap IMO - and its not the fact that there is no good one. I understand the anger here, but eh. Its why you never trust Metacritic.
To be fair they could have just not reviewed any games before but been driven to by the sheer levels of hatred and rage caused by ME3. Unlikely but possible.Krion_Vark said:
None the less, I see your point and most of these reviews are probably just review bombing.
But...let's be the rational human beings us Escapists are and note that, as a AAA game it can't possibly get less than 5/10 in an un-bias professional review, (all AAA games will be playable and therefore start at average, unless it really is unplayable and buggy...like Skyrim).
So, ME3 starts at 5/10, now I'm judging from the demo and what I've seen as it's not out here yet but I think I can make a guess as to how the game should review.
Everything works - 5/10
Improved combat - 6/10
Epic Story - 7/10
Great Voice acting - 8/10
Graphics and animation has somehow gotten worse - 7/10
multiplayer is fun for a little bit - 7/10
I mean, unless the game itself is literally FULL of bugs and control issues the game at least will be 6/10 and ONLY then if the bugs are on a level of Skyrim, which I doubt as Bioware have been pretty good with bugs so far.
Day 1 DLC doesn't mean you can give lower review scores
Design decisions to cut corners around designs of characters or scenes, you can give lower scores for this but come on, that's really detracting from the experience of the game
Let's say the story is god awful, that still only makes it a 6, not a 0.
The only way ME3 can get a 10 or a 9 is if the combat was improved to match the quality of Binary Domain or Vanquish, the enemy AI too, if the animation looked like Heavy Rain or something and if the story was literally the best thing in the world ever
The only way ME3 can get a 0 or 1 is if the game pretty much didn't work, you couldn't walk around because it was THAT painful to control, if the combat was like ME1 or even worse, if the animation looked like MGS on the PS, if the story made no sense or did something completely random or retconned everything.
Sure ME3 may do some of these things but certainly not all
So, ME3 starts at 5/10, now I'm judging from the demo and what I've seen as it's not out here yet but I think I can make a guess as to how the game should review.
Everything works - 5/10
Improved combat - 6/10
Epic Story - 7/10
Great Voice acting - 8/10
Graphics and animation has somehow gotten worse - 7/10
multiplayer is fun for a little bit - 7/10
I mean, unless the game itself is literally FULL of bugs and control issues the game at least will be 6/10 and ONLY then if the bugs are on a level of Skyrim, which I doubt as Bioware have been pretty good with bugs so far.
Day 1 DLC doesn't mean you can give lower review scores
Design decisions to cut corners around designs of characters or scenes, you can give lower scores for this but come on, that's really detracting from the experience of the game
Let's say the story is god awful, that still only makes it a 6, not a 0.
The only way ME3 can get a 10 or a 9 is if the combat was improved to match the quality of Binary Domain or Vanquish, the enemy AI too, if the animation looked like Heavy Rain or something and if the story was literally the best thing in the world ever
The only way ME3 can get a 0 or 1 is if the game pretty much didn't work, you couldn't walk around because it was THAT painful to control, if the combat was like ME1 or even worse, if the animation looked like MGS on the PS, if the story made no sense or did something completely random or retconned everything.
Sure ME3 may do some of these things but certainly not all
If most places in the review industry are giving it 9/10 then that means that it is PLAYABLE and not completely broken. Which makes it go down to a 5/10 at the lowest.Dandark said:
The fact that its put out by EA or Bioware does not lower the score. Like a lot of those people are putting in there for.