Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

Whatever, but what I am trying to get at is that I don't think it's fair to judge a game or any media really till you finish it. 

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Is it a review from a member of the community? Of course, what's wrong with this. Why are you trying to clamp down on people giving their impressions? Leaving 30 mins into a movie because you hated it is valid, and if they want to leave that as their review there's nothing wrong with them doing so. They're not being paid to go through the entire experience and make their review all encompassing.

If the review is coming from a professional, or a game journalist, THEORETICALLY they should be playing the entire game but we all know they don't. They have far too many games to go through so for those 100+ hour games they play a bit and leave an impression. That's more problematic but ultimately understandable

Most RPGs take their sweet time to properly set off (I personally like that, because I like slower-paced stories that take their time to make the universe feel lived-in), especially if they have companions to collect and a lot of initial setup - even vaunted BG3 can take up to 10 hours or more to properly start, as one can do almost entire 1st zone before even touching the main quest.

Quite the opposite. I gave a game several hours to grip me, if it didn't deliver it doesn't worth my time. As for judging the game, depends what do you mean by that. If you are a professional or semi professional reviewer it is expected of you to finish, but I don't see why should you expect a player on steam to do the same. You as someone who reads the review should just take that into account, but it doesn't automatically means the criticism on that he did play isn't valuable.

I told my spouse he doesn't have to finish his playthrough he started, he watched me play the game so he knows what's up. He said he wants to be able to say he played all the Dragon Age games. He really likes battle mechanics in games, will play them entirely for that. hates Veilguard Warrior and chose to play on Nightmare. No idea why he's committed.

I wouldn't go that far, but I think that if I'm consuming media that was recommended to me but simply doesn't resonate with me, the reason why doesn't really matter, because being stubborn and forcing myself to experience it fully might help me appreciate it, but from my experience, not to enjoy it.

And there are way too many things competing for our attention for me to force myself to play a game or watch a show I'm not really into in the hope it will get good several hours from now

That's moving the goalpost, I at least wasn't talking about people that behave like they experienced the whole thing, and if we are speaking of steam reviews, doing that is incredibly stupid when everyone can see you total

I'm sure these people exist for every new game and I don't think you should care about them one bit

I'd love to ignore them, but we're getting to a point where spaces people gather to enjoy the game, or even public positive expression is invaded/attacked by people hell-bent to complain or say how people are wrong for liking the thing, and it's becoming unmanageable even with generous application of block button.

Though I think, when talking about the above, we also have to talk about the decay of social media and how prevalent negativity in general is on them. Twitter, for example, was always very frustrating and difficult to discuss anything on it, never mind have a nuanced take (it's not a platform built for that at all), but to say that things are now exponentially worse is an understatement.

With recent changes, I think 10 or 15 million people departed on Bluesky, and Bluesky in general - apart from being more chill, 'cuz it's still smaller - appears to be a lot more positive about e.g. Bioware and DAV than Twitter is, the algo of which just keep pointing me at people who have TAKES on BW/DA and will go for your throat even if you politely disagree with that take.

I should make the jump myself. I'm just so stubborn.