Jim Sterling reviews Andromeda's Metacritic reviews - article

I'd disagree on that. Ironically I found Jim Sterling's review of it one of the few out there that accurately mapped to the experience of it.

Nintendo is a bit of an exception to the rule when it comes to reviews. Individual games only really get reviewed in comparison to other Nintendo games. This kind of makes sense given how insular Nintendo are but for someone like myself, who isn't really invested in the Zelda brand, coming into a game that was being described as the Second Coming and getting what was a fairly decent open-world fantasy game that whose 'innovations' appeared to be largely caveated by '...to the Zelda series' made me wonder wtf was going on. A lot of what Sterling said chimed with me (I only actually read his review after playing it for a goodly number of hours). A lot of what BOTW was doing were not 'innovations'. Voice acting is not new. Open worlds are not new. Annoying gameplay conceits (like the damn weapons degredation) are not new. It's not like it was even that stable at release (much as sterling pointed out), which given it's a first-party console game is just downright unacceptable... but no, this is Nintendo, they can do no wrong.

The fact that he got death threats for having the audacity of not giving Nintendo's latest opus 15/10 pretty much reinforced the feeling that if this game hadn't had anything to do with the Zelda brand (or Nintendo for that matter), it would have been forgettable. Having said all that, it certainly wasn't a bad game, and as Suko (bizarrely I agree with him here, even if he was kidding) said, 7 is a good score. Probably not by Nintendo's standards but that really goes back to the idea that Nintendo games are always reviewed in vacuum, which to many gamers inherently doesn't make sense.

But, as I say, I'm really not that bothered about the Zelda franchise itself. I was just told it was gaming perfection and after a while, I found myself wishing I was playing Skyrim.

Like the original BSN. I was banned for someone else's post once in a thread I had never posted in at all, and their response after I contacted them about it was "Well we don't take back bans we've handed out, soooo..."

The mods during the last few months of the original BSN were some of the worst I've seen.

>being this salty

Yeah, I think we're seeing EA taking the raging barbarian minority as truth for backlash against their rpg niche studio, hence why this is the only time I've ever seen a decent but not great game with mixed reception get support pulled so early. No one who doesn't have a learning disability can see that these "reviews" don't give a clear picture either way. Just like here on BSN the most angry irrational detractors either never played the game at all or didn't even clear 2 hours.

Haha...this is my first time actually going through those reviews....alot of them are hilarious!...     ......haha..again Andromeda wasn't a bad game, but this entry was one of the most criticized and for good reason. The characters and the story was boring...even fans that highly supported this franchise came out and stated the game had issues.

From what i've read on this board now is that support for MP has been pulled as well....EA is treating this title like they wished it never existed and that is leading me to believe,..at least at this point that the next Mass Effect game will have nothing to do with Andromeda......the game is toxic.

Which is a bit unfortunate, because while i wasn't really big or impressed with Andromeda, the game still deserved to be supported and the next game in the series could improve upon this somewhat of a reboot with a solid group of writers that are up to the task of creating interesting characters and storylines........art direction and design was already stellar throughout the game.

Metacritic user reviews for video games in general are hilarious because it's where the vocal minority of the internet goes to cry bloody murder, we can agree to disagree on characters but I do agree that Andromeda was possibly THE most criticized Bioware title. (This is also including their Sonic game that they made with SEGA.)

Yup, it's reception was generally positive, though it's story seemed to have garnered mixed reception. (Though Andromeda might just be Bioware's most polarizing game)

Isn't anti-SJW whining better confined to its own threads?