Gaming Trend editor Sean Lama discusses the virtues of choosing a game that speaks to you on a personal level rather than choosing a game because it has good reviews.
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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Or you can follow your nose...it always knows.
It's a nice sentiment, and one I agree with.
Sadly, I think I'm gonna be in the minority on this one; most people, especially the reviewers who propagate this problem, look at a 1 to 10 scale and consider anything less than a 7 on average to be beneath their notice, or to be something that deserves being ripped apart for every minor flaw it has, until it looks like they're reviewing a 2 out of 10 title.
Which is sad, because there are a LOT of games that get 6's and 5's that are actually worth getting.
It's only when you get below 5, which is average, that things start getting dicey...
I much prefer a flat 5 star system.
No .5's or any of that BS.
When you receive the games free of charge you probably can have such a statement, but when you pay for games either full price or at a discount, with your own money, then a score can help you. I doubt anyone on the internet can state that games like Ride to Hell was a 10/10 in their heart, when everyone else gave it 1/10.
Nice sentiment...!!!!
We get so hung up on review scores as a community that we sometimes go into this 'sheep mode' of looking at metacritic and judging the game on that. Obviously, not everyone does this, but its pretty prevalent.
One man's bad game is another man's good game. And vice versa.
Wonderful article!