Charlie writes:
"Have you been on Metacritic in the past, oh I don't know, 2 years? You may have noticed that whilst actual sites have expressed great truths in a video game, the users of Metacritic have, how shall I put this, a different form of speech.
For a bit of fun, lets go through a couple of games which have received one of these "metacritic gamer attacks" (I call them) and some of the "user reviews" on those games (and yes. I will name and shame these users)."
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
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Because the media is making a profit off of warping their minds and they're slowly destroying our industry together.
I think metacritic user reviews would be a lot more reliable if there was some way of verifying that reviewer actually owned/rented the game prior to reviewing it.
I honestly believe a lot of the people giving 0s are just pissed off at some change the developer made to a beloved series or something else trivial and a lot of the 10s are people reacting to the 0s.
It would be cool if users could only review games from within the game after completing it and then the score was uploaded to an industry metareview site or if after you passed the game it gave you a code that allow you to review it on sites like metacritic... or something? because right now the user review system is useless when it should be the most reliable unbiased source of reviews available.
Do the Users scores on Metacritic count for anything? No
Why are Metacritic gamers so fussy and full of rage? Simple, they're nerds.
Basically user scores are either trolls, fanboys or pissed off fanboys. Your average bad review is due to 1 change in a game and therefore it ruins the entire experience for the self entitled gamer then he hides on the net and whines about "how he would have done it better" when they don't know anything at all.