-Eurogamer 5 / 5

-IGN 9 / 10

-Game Rant 8 / 10

-PC Gamer 86 / 100

-TheGamer 3.5 / 5

-GamesRadar+ 5 / 5

-GameSpot 9 / 10

-Hardcore Gamer 4 / 5

  • @Melonpoly
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    96 days ago

    Gone are the days when"critic reviews" mean anything.

  • @[email protected]
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    76 days ago

    Considering the flurry of early reviews (45 only, all glowing, access journalism much? It’s veilguard 2.0) are responsible for the brunt of that 86 score and 24h later most reviews were already between 7 and 8, I’d be very cautious with this. If you already susbscribe to gamepass, give it a go, but I would not spend serious money on a game where most reviews write that the game is broken and there are serious problems with pacing, perspective shifts, bugs and then 10/10. Wait for a discount or a couple reviews from tubers you follow and have similar taste or, conversely, get it on gamepass.

  • @[email protected]
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    66 days ago

    Interesting. I didn’t have high hopes because the premise sounded incredibly dumb, but maybe they pulled together a decent story around it.

    I’ll definitely wait for a few more reviews (I almost never buy day 1), but I’ll check it out.

    • @NOT_RICK
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      116 days ago

      I always had faith. I feel like everyone forgot this is the same machine games behind the modern Wolfenstein games which had really fun and ambitious storylines

    • @filister
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      25 days ago

      Not to mention that if you want to play it now, you need to cough up 99 bucks.

      But yes, I trust Steam reviews more

  • @[email protected]
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    -126 days ago

    Generally speaking there is an inverse relationship between average review scores and the quality of the game. Considering the game is probably going to be another open-world collectathon, I’m going to wait.

    • Coelacanth
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      126 days ago

      I uh… what? I mean, sure, some reviews are bought etc but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a superb game average 1/10 in reviews. Did I misunderstand you?

      • @[email protected]
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        -16 days ago

        Reviewers almost never give 1/10, the lowest I’ve seen recently is 5/10. And anything below 8 should be seen as the reviewer not liking it.

        • Coelacanth
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          106 days ago

          Of course, but if a game’s quality was typically inversely proportional to the review scores, wouldn’t that mean 10/10 reviewed stuff like Elden Ring and BG3 was garbage and the truly great games averaged 1-3/10? I’m just confused by the statement.

          • @[email protected]
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            06 days ago

            Look past enemy and look at the sentiment: scores from big name reviewers aren’t a good metric for whether you’ll like a game. Statements don’t all need to be taken literally.

            • @[email protected]
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              55 days ago

              There’s a big difference between “not correlated” and “inversely related” though. The latter is very deliberately saying that good scores are a bad thing.

    • @ampersandrew
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      86 days ago

      A quick way to find out what the game is and is not would be to read a review. But if there’s an inverse relationship between the average score and the quality of the game, you might be interested in Crime Boss: Rockay City.

    • @Renacles
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      45 days ago

      A fellow fan of Ride to Hell Retribution 1%!!!