MEA scores higher than GTA5 and the dangers of online reviews

What a glorious statement, obviously without having the first clue what the outrage over GTA is all about. It's not about "change", since they didn't change their game to something people didn't want. It's about taking away support.

Spot on. From a personal experience I can say that I'm one of THOSE guys who really enjoyed the Star Wars prequels. Might be because I watched them a lot when I was a kid and I only cared for the battle scenes but the why's don't really matter here. I do know- and acknowledge however, that the prequels are considered terrible movies by many people, thanks to illustrious lines like 'I hate sand' and the evil Sith Lord Jar Jar Binks. I still love them, but I know that there are plenty of other people who don't and who have their own valid reasons for doing so. Doesn't detract from my personal view of the movies at all. Just puts things into perspective, and that's a good thing.

And now on topic: I feel like a discussion about the reliability of user-scores on metacritic is useless because the scores themselves are a terrible way to gather any reliable information at all. Everyone here hopefully knows that. Only seldom do I find an User review worth reading but it gets blurred out by the infinite amounts of trolls (10's and 0's) the internet holds. Someone here said that steam is different, but it really isn't. Take a look at the game Europa Universalis IV. It was always regarded as a great game according to steam users but now that Paradox has increased the price and keeps pumping out DLC the community is turning against them and the reviews are becoming extremely negative for that sole reason.

I've said it many times in another thread, but the User-scores on any platform should just get disregarded. Andromeda's User scores hold no real value, just as the GTA V scores aren't an actual representation of the game. Both numbers are just giant mood swings of the internet mob. If people still insist on using something as arbitrary as 'scores' to judge if they want a game or not I'd point them to the critic scores anyday, everyday. And not just the scores, but to the individual articles as well. Even though there are some bad critics in the bunch (therefore it's important to read individual articles so that you can see for yourself who knows his games and who not), they atleast don't troll and give 10's 'because another reviewer gave the game a 1'. They provide arguments as to why they come to their conclusions, instead of most of the user reviews, and they tend to know their stuff and comparisons. Yes, you can disagree with the critics, and that isn't strange because their reviews are also nothing more than opinions after all, but keep in mind that your reasons for disagreeing with a critic are not magically more valid in any way than the critics reasons giving the game the rating he or she did. Just as that your opinions aren't anymore valid than those of other posters on this forum.

Seeing as online reviews are fodder to me, I am happy to be ignorant of such knowledge.

Yeah I don't need someone telling me how I should think. I'm a big girl lol

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That's not actually why its 'on ice' (something that isn't actually true, but hey, its the internet, we'll roll with that, facts don't come into this), either. No game has a backlash of this scale because of facial animations and a character creator.

I don't totally agree with ioannisdenton (the way the bosses were handled in DXHR was legitimately awful, given the series) but people overreacted all the same, and unfortunately, Bioware tend to listen to their audience to a fault. 

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MEA was just a massive disappointment for a lot of people that's why it got so much backlash. Don't get me wrong some of the hate was overblown but this game has a lot of flaws and i don't how any of it has to do with fan feedback

I find myself mostly in line with the professional reviews collected on metacritic. For most games I played. Not with the user reviews. Certainly not with how they rated the last four Bioware games. I also find myself in line with the 72 the magazine reviews handed out this time round, but not the 4,9 the users gave it.

And the corporation will likely not give two fucks in this case. It is Rockstar, after all.

I have never played any of the GTA games, but I see where the outrage is.  Just imagine if Bethesda decided to remove it's modding tools and switch to an engine like Frostbite that was difficult to mod.  I think the internet might actually have a meltdown.

Metacritic and sites like it are more trouble than they are worth.

And if you want to comment on a thread, make sure you understand what the discussion is about before giving it both barrels.

Hint: He's not saying that the situations are the same.