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Post by H0RSE on Feb 15, 2019 8:24:53 GMT
I mean to be fair, neverwinter nights 2 was basically obsidian copying bioware style, at a time that was going stale. And that game was a bit rough at the edges. It's still better than neverwinter nights though. I thought NWN2 was ass cheeks compared to the original. Sure, it looked a lot nicer, but it lacked any personality or "soul," at least for me.
Anyways, Anthem will probably struggle to reach the 80s on metacritic. It seems the case with looters shooters. I'm really interested as to how this is gonna turn out. Can't be another Andromeda. Looter-shooter or not, it will struggle simply because EA is involved...
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Post by river82 on Feb 15, 2019 8:33:49 GMT
I thought NWN2 was ass cheeks compared to the original. Sure, it looked a lot nicer, but it lacked any personality or "soul," at least for me. The campaign in the original NWN is almost non-existent. It's a mediocre adventure tacked on almost as an advertisement to show what the toolkit could do, which was the main draw of NWN. NWN2 IIRC had a better single player campaign, but a much more complicated toolkit which wasn't as accessible or easy to use, which was the point of NWN in the first place.
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Post by alanc9 on Feb 15, 2019 15:42:21 GMT
Although NWN2's OC does seem to be an exercise in how many tropes they could pack into the game, though. Not to everyone's taste.
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Post by Andrew Lucas on Feb 15, 2019 22:47:38 GMT
I mean to be fair, neverwinter nights 2 was basically obsidian copying bioware style, at a time that was going stale. And that game was a bit rough at the edges. It's still better than neverwinter nights though. I thought NWN2 was ass cheeks compared to the original. Sure, it looked a lot nicer, but it lacked any personality or "soul," at least for me.
Anyways, Anthem will probably struggle to reach the 80s on metacritic. It seems the case with looters shooters. I'm really interested as to how this is gonna turn out. Can't be another Andromeda. Looter-shooter or not, it will struggle simply because EA is involved... I'm sorry this "EA Bad" isn't really an argument here.
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Post by samhain444 on Feb 15, 2019 22:49:45 GMT
Mike Gamble said, per Twitter, that the review embargo is lifted and I am already some comments being posted on Metacritic.
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Post by OdanUrr on Feb 15, 2019 23:03:24 GMT
Mike Gamble said, per Twitter, that the review embargo is lifted and I am already some comments being posted on Metacritic. It would've been strange if it hadn't been lifted considering the number of people probably playing the game right now.
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Post by majesticjazz on Feb 16, 2019 0:40:17 GMT
Waiting for that review embargo to drop....
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Post by OdanUrr on Feb 16, 2019 0:43:22 GMT
Waiting for that review embargo to drop.... It has already according to Mike Gamble. The problem is that reviewers have probably only started playing the game today.
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Post by biggydx on Feb 16, 2019 1:48:44 GMT
Waiting for that review embargo to drop.... It has already according to Mike Gamble. The problem is that reviewers have probably only started playing the game today. People probably shouldn't expect a review to come out until sometime during the end of next week (at the earliest).
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Post by Elessar on Feb 16, 2019 2:33:38 GMT
I've seen some meh early reactions from sites like Gamespot or GiantBomb. This might go the way of Destiny or Andromeda for that matter. 6/7 scores.
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Post by river82 on Feb 16, 2019 5:03:58 GMT
I've seen some meh early reactions from sites like Gamespot or GiantBomb. This might go the way of Destiny or Andromeda for that matter. 6/7 scores. Gamespot, IGN, and sites like that have a review score spread that means average games get a 7.5 or an 8. So even if they have a 'meh' reaction scores could still be high regardless just because of the way they scale their scores.
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Post by river82 on Feb 16, 2019 5:05:03 GMT
It has already according to Mike Gamble. The problem is that reviewers have probably only started playing the game today. People probably shouldn't expect a review to come out until sometime during the end of next week (at the earliest). Any review which doesn't take into consideration end-game content can be thrown in the trash. So if they appear before the end of next week ...
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Post by Conquer Your Dreams on Feb 16, 2019 9:06:18 GMT
Mate campaign is less than 15 hours long. They should finish their reviews today.
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Post by Elessar on Feb 16, 2019 9:33:52 GMT
I've seen some meh early reactions from sites like Gamespot or GiantBomb. This might go the way of Destiny or Andromeda for that matter. 6/7 scores. Gamespot, IGN, and sites like that have a review score spread that means average games get a 7.5 or an 8. So even if they have a 'meh' reaction scores could still be high regardless just because of the way they scale their scores. You might be of the opinion that their scores are inflated but the likes of IGN and Gamespot don't hand out 8s for games that in their eyes are average.
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Post by river82 on Feb 16, 2019 9:43:51 GMT
Gamespot, IGN, and sites like that have a review score spread that means average games get a 7.5 or an 8. So even if they have a 'meh' reaction scores could still be high regardless just because of the way they scale their scores. You might be of the opinion that their scores are inflated but the likes of IGN and Gamespot don't hand out 8s for games that in their eyes are average. Source of image: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/9zgefo/i_parsed_all_5001_of_igns_game_reviews_on_their/
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Post by Elessar on Feb 16, 2019 11:29:11 GMT
You might be of the opinion that their scores are inflated but the likes of IGN and Gamespot don't hand out 8s for games that in their eyes are average. Source of image: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/9zgefo/i_parsed_all_5001_of_igns_game_reviews_on_their/ Yeah? It means on average the games reviewed by IGN are bordering on good IN THEIR OPINION. Again, you might disagree.
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Post by river82 on Feb 16, 2019 11:36:01 GMT
Source of image: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/9zgefo/i_parsed_all_5001_of_igns_game_reviews_on_their/ Yeah? It means on average the games reviewed by IGN are bordering on good IN THEIR OPINION. Again, you might disagree. But considering that an 'average game' or a 'game that is average' is pretty much just saying that game is typical, or represents a typical experience, doesn't that mean that IGN's mean of 7.4 would represent a typical experience, or an average experience, of a game in the marketplace?
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Post by Elessar on Feb 16, 2019 13:34:44 GMT
Yeah? It means on average the games reviewed by IGN are bordering on good IN THEIR OPINION. Again, you might disagree. But considering that an 'average game' or a 'game that is average' is pretty much just saying that game is typical, or represents a typical experience, doesn't that mean that IGN's mean of 7.4 would represent a typical experience, or an average experience, of a game in the marketplace? Imagine multiple years where every game would be awesome to you. I mean, you could start arguing awesome games are becoming typical but giving awesome games a 5 because of it kinda defeats the purpose of the rating system. Plus if you start giving awesome games a 5 you will never hand out anything higher than a 5. It's an exaggeration but you get my point.
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Post by monkeylungs on Feb 16, 2019 16:55:30 GMT
Many sites seem to use a scale that is similar to how schools grade in the US. Below a 7 is not ok. You are missing more than 30% of the possible marks at that point.
If you are scoring 70% you are doing "ok" or "average".
On Gamespot I think a 7 is "Good" but that's just a nice way of saying "ok".
"10 - Essential 9 - Superb 8 - Great 7 - Good 6 - Fair 5 - Mediocre 4 - Poor 3 - Bad 2 - Terrible 1 - Abysmal" (Gamespot's scale)
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Post by akots on Feb 16, 2019 19:37:09 GMT
On Gamespot I think a 7 is "Good" but that's just a nice way of saying "ok". I take it similar to imdb ratings for movies. Never watch anything that is below 7, always try to watch anything over 8 and make your pick for those that are from 7 to 8. Does not mean anything in reality as there are quite a few of the 5- movies that still make good money in the box office.
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Post by hawkspian on Feb 16, 2019 21:48:12 GMT
This guy tries to get his opinion over as fact to deliberately drum up hate.
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Post by ShadowAngel on Feb 16, 2019 22:22:24 GMT
This guy tries to get his opinion over as fact to deliberately drum up hate. Depends, not all of it was opinion. Tarsis being so quiet makes being dead fit perfectly for example. The AI also do wonky crap, they did in the demo I mean betas too.
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Post by NotN7 on Feb 16, 2019 22:24:10 GMT
This guy tries to get his opinion over as fact to deliberately drum up hate. Concur he's so full of it, its sad what a rear-end of a Lame click baiter.
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Post by hawkspian on Feb 17, 2019 0:06:30 GMT
This guy tries to get his opinion over as fact to deliberately drum up hate. Depends, not all of it was opinion. Tarsis being so quiet makes being dead fit perfectly for example. The AI also do wonky crap, they did in the demo I mean betas too. I was talking about the micro transactions part. Saying they were released on purpose to see how we'd react. He couldn't possibly know, but he says it like he does and stupid sheep will belive him and miss out on anthem for that reason. That video made me rage a lil
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