Rebellion’s CEO Jason Kingsley has voiced his concerns over the use of Metacritic as a yardstick for a game’s quality, saying that “there are a lot of idiosyncrasies” in the site’s score aggregation process, and that the site could negatively impact creativity within the industry.
Chained Echoes is getting slammed, and its devs have no idea why - Calling on Metacritic to do more.
Who doesn't have anything bad to write in these blank reviews and would benefit from sympathy sales?
I still say they should just get rid of the user score. They are untrustworthy of both good and bad review and honestly user reviews arent even a review. Of course tie it with the psn/xb account would be better.
That is simply horrible! The game is one of the best games, if not the best game of last year. Play this! Forget the bugged and rigged system of review bombing, just buy it and support Matthias and his team. These guys are superb!! We need to fight this stuff as a community, because small indie devs are the ones who least deserve this type of mistreatment.
User reviews are screwed for obvious reason and so are “professional” reviews because of money that companies throw around in many ways.
I just buy games that I think I will enjoy. Some devs you know make good games. Some long lasting series I know I will enjoy. Mostly I know what a game I want to play looks like. On rare occasion I get it wrong but I just sell it on eBay but that’s rare these days.
By most accounts this is a good game. I haven’t played it yet waiting for my physical copy.
Put it this way, I love jrpgs, but usually I play for 10 hours and move on. I had 80 hours in chained echoes and 100 percented it. The story is great and the game is beautiful. If you have game pass play it right now! If not buy it!
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Aside from the highest gaming sites, it still cherry picks to determine what game gets a certain amount of average score. Some ratings have a "huge" gap between certain games it makes you wonder what goes in and goes out. (A certain Harvard reviewer comes to mind.)
This from the studio that brought us the latest lackluster Alien Vs. Predator game, and the execrable Rogue Warrior? Wow. Heh.
The fact that ridiculous sites like Quarter to Three (See their Journey review) are listed on this site only adds to the fact that Metacritic is irrelevant, hell people have lost their jobs because of this site
I don't listen to others reviews, I research it out on my own and if it seems promising then I will buy it and form my own opinion.
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Fallout NV sold over 2 million and was one of the highest selling games of 2010,garnering strong positive reviews from major publications.Many fans including myself were happy to see the blending of VATS/FPS gameplay with old school Fallout elements like Reputation and 4 alternate endings.
HOWEVER...It got an 84 instead of an 85 on Metacritic therefore sections of the highly talented studio Obsidian were laid off.Metacritic and Gamerankings ruin the industry because publishers(not just gamers) pay too much attention to it.