Rock, Paper, Shotgun critical Preview and Skill Up response

This review hits the nail on the head for me tbh. It's 100% the impression I have as well.

The Kotaku review is a joke. It reads like your typical bought review. Everything is just super duper great? Yeah, right.

I don't know this gaming site or the reviewer. All I can say is that EVERY single gameplay video I've watched with my own eyes has piss poor writing. It's exactly as dull and lifeless as this guy describes.

It's fine if people want to live in denial a bit longer. Or simply don't mind the staggering drop in quality. Even compared to DAI. Everything I've seen of the game so far has left me speechless in the worst possible way. Never did I expect the game to be WORSE than the worst aspects of DAI. At least that game had great characters and great banter. A passable main story and a wonderful secret main story in Mythal.

So the god-awful sudden chosen one bullshit that was DAI gets a repeat? Wow. This game looks like the most uninspired cash grab ever. I'm genuinely disgusted.

My only hope is that the game just has a bad start. But then again the Peebee mission bits wer TERRIBLE as well. DAI got a lot better after leaving the hinterlands. So there's hoping against hope for a similar situation...

MEA looks like The Sims in space to me though. Dull plastic doll characters engaged in trite conversation. I'm having more fun talking to my colleagues at work...

Combat looks decent enough. Especially multiplayer. So I guess EA has fucked my favorite developer over now at last. MP game with an atrocious SP experience. People called it back when MP was announced for ME3. And now it's obvious they were right. (I loved the MP, but still.)

The worst part is that there goes the Dragon Age franchise as well, I suppose. I was SO hyped for DA4 after Inquisition. Not anymore.

If the entire game is like what we've seen in gameplay footage, then Bioware is done in my eyes.

Feel free to disagree. I for one cannot understand how anybody can be hyped at this point. It's a sad sad example of how EA sucks all life out of the companies they buy.

Pretty landscapes do not make a good game...

Bit of a contradiction there, just saying.

Why can't the world be filled with more people of this opinion. We'd all get along so much more.

Are you saying you can't like Black metal if you listen to Drake?

Two different people with different opinions? What's strange about that?

Kingdoms of Amalur? I don't remember it having two dialog systems. I do remember it having poor dialogues, poor quest designs and a very themepark MMOish world design (zone with fixed level mobs you went through in linear fashion and mob respawned so backtracking was annoying in some places). The only interesting part was the lore (it was pretty much copy-paste of Irish Celtic lore) and the combat system was cool (chakram FTW!).

Going by how he doesn't like The Witcher 3, think ME3 ending was good and his own writing, I don't think he knows what good dialogues and quest design are. That or he's just writing for the clickbaits (which is working very well it seems).

I also said you can't like rap and Drake.

But... Poopoo gun! Hehe

Think the weapon namer will allow for "Konohagakure Hiden Secret Taijutsu Technique: One Thousand Years of Death"?

Dunno if anyone else has said this, but don't read into this too much. This guy is known for his clickbait bullshit. He hates Shovel Knight and Witcher 3 and loved the ME 3 ending. Does that sound like a guy you want to base your pre-release opinions on ?

No he isn't, and if you read what he wrote you'll see he has only.played an hour of Witcher 3 and wants or try and play more.

What's worrying me is the response on here to any negative criticism. It's a bit cult like.