Jim Sterling reviews Andromeda's Metacritic reviews - article

. Krogan females, too.

Really, just think about how many people were willing to be honest about how their psychotic hatred of the game boils down entirely to female characters not making them horny and gay characters existing at all.

Then think about how many people's psychotic hatred of the game stems from the exact same reasons, but they just makes up lies to pretend that's not the case.

Offensive to lump people together like that. You're describing a very small minority of players, Fluffy.

Interesting - I love Dorian. We are all sensitive to different things - respond differential based on our own experiences. The father disapproval thing didn't bother me.

Excuse my ignorance but are the majority of the reviews on metacritic fan reviews?

After reading some of the reviews it is hard to take them seriously... does the industry? If so, YIKES! No wonder MEA is allegedly being put on hold! I am sure there are many thoughtful reviews and the reaction from players and their reviews are clearly very important but if we have players rating the game 4/10 because Garrus wasn't in it or we have informative reviews like - this game is cr*p 1/10, its hard to put too much stock in the metacritic score.

In general I think the industry is more interested in sales and critical reviews (IGN, Forbes, etc), and not as much with user reviews.  There's nothing stopping people who didn't play the game from putting out a score on metacritic (or posting here, for that matter), and if you go into some user profiles you can see that they post a score for all three platforms (PS4, XBOne, PC), even though the game had only been out for 1 day and it is very unlikely they actually played the game on every platform.  There's also people who create multiple profiles, those who only score in "10 or 0", and of course those lovely people that gave MEA a score of 0 or 1 based on "Bioware SJW's", gay romances, the lack of Shepard, and the ME3 endings.  

I don't doubt that there are people who played the game, absolutely disliked it, and reviewed it poorly.  That is perfectly fine and I honestly don't care about if a person likes MEA or not.  But on metacritic, and other places, there is a sever lack of critical thinking and actual reviews.  Instead people point to memes and jump on bandwagons.  Don't like the profile system?  Fine!  Upset there aren't a lot of Renegade options?  OK!  Think there are too many fetch-quests?  Sure!  But once you start attacking the game because "There aren't any hot chicks to bang" and stating that Bioware SJW's have ruined the game by giving voice to the LGBTQ community and hating the game simply because it's in Andromeda and "SuperMac burned the whole franchise down.   Muh endings" it just gets tiring and not helpful.  

In the long run, sales will mean more than scores, and if you look at Metacritic, where MEA got a 76 on XBone, it's sharing company with other well-receivedgames as "Ghost Recon: Wildlands" (which sold very well, I believe) and "Dishonored:  Definitive edition" (one of my all-time favorite games).  
It also ranks higher than Star Wars Battlefront, Elite Dangerous: Horizons (f***ing awesome game), Destiny (that game didn't get a sequel, did it??), Dying Light, Assassins Creed: Unity (that game didn't get a sequel, did it??), and just bellow Assassins Creed: Syndicate, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, and Alien Isolation (freaking great game).  So it doesn't hold the worst company, and many games that ranked around the same score got sequels and DLC.

Oh, I'm not saying the individual reviews are better, I'm saying the review system works better. It's much harder for a game on steam to get generally bad reviewed. 

I put far more weight on audience reviews than critic reviews. Critics tend to be English majors infusing the sociopolitical biases into the evaluation of a game and passing themselves off as impartial authorities.

At least with user reviews nobody pretends that they don't have personal biases, and often the critique of a game boils down more to its technical aspects than whether the game adhered to the politically correct preferences of said critics (similarly, you can discard user reviews that use "SJW" as a sole reason to dismiss a game instead of explaining why the game fails on technical/narrative merits).

Rotten Tomatoes shows this so clearly.

Here's the movie Stonewall

www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stonewall_2015

10% critics rating. Popcorn audience score of 87%. Reason? Most critics drank the KoolAid of a few loud activists/bloggers (redundant, I know) in the deranged idea that Stonewall was actually started by an abundantly black/Latino drag queens. The movie makes the capital crime of having gay white male protagonists. Anyone who had any clue about demographics and looked at the historical records and pictures of the riots would have known the ethnic breakdown being heavily white and male.

Larry Kramer, a prominent voice in the gay movement, begged people to disregard the naysayers that were trying to sink the movie. Nevertheless, the damage had already been done at the box office with the false propaganda and negative buzz about "white washing" Stonewall.

The movie was vindicated by a 87% positive user review compared to the 10% critics one, but the real annoyance about importance placed on the politically slanted opinions of critics (most of which are partial to far left, post-modern worldviews) put a real dampener on the performance of a work of art, regardless of what the actual consumers would have said about it.

Similarly, games that many people enjoy like tales of symphonia and several japanese RPG's that enjoy widespread appeal did not do well by critics (especially since Japanese tropes clash heavily with the college activist industry).

Ultimately the best way to tell whether you'd like a game or not would be to wait for a youtube playthrough to get an idea of what the game is, but going by user reviews is far better indication of how a game is received by the normal person compared to a critic.

Yeah, but he gave BOTW a 7, so he's clearly unbalanced.  

But I thought 7 was a good score?

Nintendo fans sent Jim death threats for giving it a 7.