When Karsten Lund of IO Interactive boldly claimed that the reviews for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days were going “to be a lot better” than the franchise’s first title, most thought that that outcome was a given. After a month of reviews from every man, woman and child, Dog Days has in fact only received a score of 64 out of 100 on Metacritic, 1 point worse than Dead Men. Should Lund reconsider his career choice, or should we as an industry stop placing so much faith in these decidedly subjective scoring systems?
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!
Fandom Acquires Leading Entertainment & Gaming Brands Including GameSpot, TV Guide and Metacritic
Starting with the top 128 best rated games on Metacritic and putting them head-to-head tournament style! The round of 16 for the March Madness Podcast. Vote for which games you think should go through!
I think gamers need to look beyond metacritic. I hate when fanboys go X game got X score on metacritic and since its rated higher that = better game. There have been many games that score like shit, that are actually pretty good.
Why do we even look at Metacritic anymore? Have you guys seen what that place has become with User Reviews? Games like Uncharted 2, Alan Wake, Halo: Reach, Killzone 2, even Heavy Rain getting 0s and 1s by fanboys who haven't even played those games.
The whole Metacritic system has become useless, a ploy used by trolls to put down or pull up what ever title they jerk off too.
When everything in life is so heavily based on opinion and personal viewpoints, why the hell would you let other people's mindsets determine your own?
i always look at review for games but i ignore them if i feel 2 i.e
WKC is amazing fucked what the metacritic has to say about that
I think IO Interactive should look beyond Kane and Lynch and get back to Hitman.
Review scores are from one person and subjective.....
If that person does not like that game he or she is reviewing, they give it a poor score regardless how good the game is techincally or otherwise.
This is why no true gamer should take scores seriously bcause its from ONE PERSON.
How many games have you played that you loved that recieved poor scores overall on metacritic or on some game site?
I bet quite a few.
I loved Too Human. Lair. WKC and Haze and they scored craptastic.
If I went by Metacritic to buy games then I would miss out on some great games and some even greater indie games.
If you are a lemming with no brain, then go with God and use a review site to judge games YOU NEVER PLAYED and use some strangers judgemnt you don't know from Adam.