can people who dont own the game review in Metacritic?

My grandmother could review in Metacritic, and she's dead.

Metacritic user review scores are incredibly unreliable for this very reason, along with how binary a lot of people's views on games are, where its either 10/10 or it's the worst trash ever made with no redeeming qualities at all. And then there's also the folks dropping politically charged "reviews" in an attempt to harm a developer they don't like, complaining about "SJWs" in it.

You're first mistake is putting any stock, in 2017, into metacritic user scores.

If only we could just have anything put on Metacritic to aggregate reviews for.

Grilled Cheese (ca. 1920)

1
Using a lot of cheese makes it spill over into pan and it burns. Disgusting!

0
Lactose entolerant! USELES!

2
It's OK, but only with bacon.

0

LIES. It's a FRIED sandwich. I don't see a grill anywhere.

As soon as the game went live on Metacritic the 0/10 reviews came flooding in. Most mention things like Bioware being racists, feminism ruining games or it looking like a PS3 game (what a joke!)

If you actually look, a ton of reviews are actually copy and pasted word for word with the same 0/10 score (suggesting the same person spamming multiple accounts to post the same reviews).

Ironically I read loads of 10/10 scored copy pasted word for word reviews for Zelda BoTW when that came out! I have no idea why people do it, it turns the entire system into a big joke.

There should be some way of verifying a purchase and being able to review.

I have started just ignoring most of the negative comments. I've asked so many times for someone to tell me what PS3 game they're all playing that looks better than ME Andromeda and yet everyone remains strangely silent 😂

I think many of the issues come from how Mass Effect straddles genres. On one hand it's an RPG from a celebrated RPG developer, with a pre generated fanbase of Bioware RPG fans. On the other hand it's also a shooter. It attracts an entirely new type of fan base with the shooter crowd. Pleasing both sides of the fanbase, who broadly speaking both enjoy vastly different sides of the game, is difficult.

RPG gamers often don't care about the combat, it's just something to get out of the way to get back to the story and characters and exploration. They will often say ME1 is the best one and their favourite of the trilogy. They love inventory systems, reading codex entries, and probably complained a lot about multiplayer being added, and the stripped down RPG mechanics of ME2 & 3 made them quite angry. They are often quite bad at the combat!

Shooter gamers usually either didn't play ME1, or tried it but didn't like it. The combat is very important to them, and they don't like slow pacing. They usually say ME2 or 3 was their favourite, and say things about ME1 and Andromeda like 'the inventory is ridiculous' or 'the crafting system is too complicated'. They often just select "mark all as read" on codex entries and happily ignore non essential side quests. They play solely on insanity because they like a challenge and the combat is far too easy for their godly shooting skills on lower difficulties.

I'm just speaking very generally and a bit jokingly here, but the fact is that Mass Effect does have two very different fan bases merged together who both want very different things from the game. I actually think Andromeda does a very good job at pleasing both sides.

If I had to guess, the younger the player, the more you'll like this game.  The dialogue and plot is very twitter-esque.  On par with text messages people send on phones, or fan-fiction in general.  

Love the game and don't see what all the hate is about =  25 and under. Skewing lower in age for people that LOVE it.  The more post-secondary education you have, the more you'll dislike this game because you'll see just how poor the writing is.

Anyone older than that, or old enough to have played Bioware games like BG and Neverwinter, I'd wager they're the ones that hate the game - because they've seen what Bioware was capable of before EA came along.  

Yeah buzz off. I had enough with the negativity spewed on this forum. You said your piece a thousand times over already. 

[If I had to guess, the younger the player, the more you'll like this game.  The dialogue and plot is very twitter-esque.  On par with text messages people send on phones, or fan-fiction in general.  

Love the game and don't see what all the hate is about =  25 and under. Skewing lower in age for people that LOVE it.  The more post-secondary education you have, the more you'll dislike this game because you'll see just how poor the writing is.

Anyone older than that, or old enough to have played Bioware games like BG and Neverwinter, I'd wager they're the ones that hate the game - because they've seen what Bioware was capable of before EA came along.  [/quote]

Swing and a miss! I've played and completed every Bioware game since Baldur's Gate; NWN, KOTOR, Jade Empire, I am also (sadly) quite a bit older than 25, though vain enough to not want to say by how much haha, and despite your assumptions that gamers who love Andromeda must therefore be hopelessly uneducated (charming!) I assure you I am far from ignorant. 👍🏻

You disliking the game is your right, but it is quite horribly rude to make sweeping judgements like that about everyone else who doesn't share your opinion.

I do LOVE Andromeda, in a way I didn't actually love ME 2 or 3. That doesn't mean I am wrong because I am too young to know better, or too ignorant to recognise why it's bad. Be kind 🙂

#notanaivethicko (because you love Twitter so much 😜😂)

Swing and a miss! I've played and completed every Bioware game since Baldur's Gate; NWN, KOTOR, Jade Empire, I am also (sadly) quite a bit older than 25, though vain enough to not want to say by how much haha, and despite your assumptions that gamers who love Andromeda must therefore be hopelessly uneducated (charming!) I assure you I am far from ignorant. 👍🏻

You disliking the game is your right, but it is quite horribly rude to make sweeping judgements like that about everyone else who doesn't share your opinion.

I do LOVE Andromeda, in a way I didn't actually love ME 2 or 3. That doesn't mean I am wrong because I am too young to know better, or too ignorant to recognise why it's bad. Be kind 🙂

#notanaivethicko (because you love Twitter so much 😜😂)[/quote]



We'll agree to disagree.  I think you're an outlier, and while I agree I shouldn't lump everyone in the same boat, I still think that players who have more of a history playing Bioware games will be the ones who are the most upset, because they've seen what Bioware has become.  There's a reason why this game is hovering around the low 70's, after-all.

We need something similiar to steam user reviews for this game, in other words people have to own the game in order to post a review and they are limited to only posting recommended or not recommended.

In my opinion metacritic user reviews should be like rotten tomatoes - either positive or negative which would eliminate the meta-bombing with zeros. Feedback should be limited to 255 characters and prioritized by pluses and negatives given the sheer volume to sift through.

Long term users who obtain a certain threshold of likes could be rewarded with more characters for editorial length reviews which would incentivize people to think more carefully about the content of their posts.