Haha that was a nice moment. The way all of the major gaming outlets that had pretended that DA2 was a good game handled that story was incredibly entertaining.Waaghpowa said:
Why The Witcher 2 Needed an Enhanced Edition
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And all the players who said they liked the game...were they also paid by EA? I'm curious. A good swath of the people in this very community really loved DA2, so are they also on the payroll?Thoric485 said:
Dragon age 2 wasn't bad on your first playthrough. You just realize that nothing you do has any consequence on your second playthrough and that pissed people off.
Christ can we not have an article about a fantasy RPG on this site without someone bringing up the damn DA2 review.It was over a year ago and it's a game that a lot of people enjoyed.Get over it FFS
So you're saying that someone who likes DA2 is a freak? Sorry, but that's just bullshit. As is the idea that you're a freak for liking FF13.CrossLOPER said:
I understand why people take issue with DA2, sure. But what I don't understand is this refusal to accept that some people didn't have those same issues.
There's nothing mature about The Witcher. There's a lot of content unfriendly to a child, but there's nothing at all mature in the product.
The question isn't whether this site is recieving money from EA - looking at the presence of EA ads, it obviously is. It's whether it has allowed that to influence its journalistic integrity, and in the case of DA2, I believe it did. It's a widely reviled title with multiple, serious flaws and can't be objectively given a perfect score.Susan Arendt said:
And if reviews here are all opinion, with no objective weighing of aspects like graphics, gameplay, story - what does the score represent? Luck, that it fell to the right reviewer for it? Should we put every review from the User Reviews section up on Metacritic so it can too influence developers' bonuses and payrolls?
Objectively?Thoric485 said:
Newsflash: art is subjective and a review is the personal opinion of the individual giving it. No score is any more or less valid than any other. Just because you feel one way doesn't mean you are right. Simple, really.
And yet, I really liked Dragon Age 2 and didn't enjoy Mass Effect 3 anywhere near as much (and I'm talking about the meat of the game, not the ending).Mcoffey said:
Enjoyment of games is highly subjective, people!
Sure, it's a subjective opinion. But I reserve the right to laugh at the subjective opinion of someone who praises, say, Twilight to the sky.Grey Day for Elcia said:
It's solely subjective; there is no unbiased way to judge personal enjoyment and absolutely no objective rules, if you will, to judge art. Even if a game barely functions, someone may love the hell out of it. I personally think Pokemon Crystal is one of the greatest games ever made and my boyfriend thinks I'm insane, lol.ms_sunlight said:
It seemed foolish to answer a rhetorical question. But, no - I don't think they are EA marketers, they probably like it.Susan Arendt said:
I just don't see why a reviewer would recommend it to everyone with a perfect score, despite a lot of people not liking it.
Am I the only one left on Earth who hasn't seen Twilight? Everyone I meet hates it or loves it. I feel left behind, lol.Kahunaburger said:
Perhaps because the reviewer liked it? Like, genuinely liked it, not was paid to like it? Crazy idea, I know. Positively nutso. The very notion!Thoric485 said:
"I didn't want [Twilight] to be forgettable, and even right down to the sort of polarizing reaction that the writing has had with people?debating whether the series is creepy and sexist, and whether they have actually become stupider by reading it."Grey Day for Elcia said:
"That to me is part of what's exciting about this story. There has always been a little bit of mystery there and a little bit of interpretation, and it's a story that people can talk about after the fact."