Patrice Désilets accuses some reviewers of ‘not playing’ Ancestors

Designer says his team are ‘pissed’ over ‘invented’ review elements.

[TheOptimist]

Haven't played his game, but modern media is a joke

[VenomUK]

Developers put code into their games to see where everybody has played up too, so if
Patrice Désilets says journalists, who often have unique codes, haven’t completed the game then he’s speaking from factual data.

It sums up a significant section of the games media. Many of the ‘journalists’ all know each other from press events and follow each other on Twitter. And when it comes to deciding what to think of an unknown game they often discuss it amongst themselves.

I do not hold their reviews with the same esteem I once did.

[william_cade]

I have a interest in physical anthropology, so I will check this out when I can; and yeah most game reviewers are sleazy and entitled.

[Smokehouse]

I’d definitely give him the benefit of the doubt on something like this lol. I lold at the “didn’t bother Finishing” reviews, yeah well then don’t release a review you worthless hack.

[Rachel_Alucard]

I can understand a handful of reviewers not playing it being a real thing but he can't just dismiss 70 different reviews just because he thinks he's entitled to a higher score. Him getting pissy that they didn't just hand out a 9 because of his responsibilities over 35 famiies would just make the whole review process uncredible if everyone just passed out high scores because people could lose their jobs if nobody buys your game. You knew that going into the industry in the first place.

[DerfDerf]

The game is very interesting and requires a certain amount of leg work that I don't doubt most reviewers wanted to avoid doing.

[Rachel_Alucard]

Theres many credible reviewers that reviewed it. Even if we removed the non credible ones, theres still way too many reviewers that it wouldn't affect the metacritic by more then a few points. His problem is that too many people reviewed the game overall and it's very difficult to get consistent positive scores with this kind of game.

[TheOptimist]

By a handful, you would be including every from IGN to Kotaku to Vice to Polygon more than half of the industry. Basically anyone who has ever whined about Dark Souls difficulty falls under the bracket.

[Rachel_Alucard]

And there's even more unheard of sites. What you listed is a handful of sites people don't like. Gamespot who actually has a good reputation with people even stated they played 35 hours of it and kept sticking with it only to keep the negative experience they had with it. If that wasn't enough even the user score on Metacritic is on the same level as the reviews. There's nothing wrong with the reviews, the creator is just mad nobody liked his game. It's their personal opinion after all. Even the highest scoring review stated the game would be polarizing and it's 64 score is exactly where it ended up.