For all its faults, I like that ResetEra can make people react this way lol.
Imagine the train of thought "oh my god that gaming forum likes astral chain, I have to leave a review." Theyre so obsessed.
Astral Chain is getting review bombed on Metacritic (update: review bomb scores removed)
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Imagine the train of thought "oh my god that gaming forum likes astral chain, I have to leave a review." Theyre so obsessed.
It really is quite strange. It's hard to take any 0/10 review seriously for almost any AAA published game that isn't somehow fundamentally broken.
Like let's say you really don't like the character design or the combat or FPS somehow. The game is high enough quality and the design decisions seen intentional enough that you'd get to a 5 or 6/10 at least.
For it to be a 0 it'd really have to be shovelware.
Like let's say you really don't like the character design or the combat or FPS somehow. The game is high enough quality and the design decisions seen intentional enough that you'd get to a 5 or 6/10 at least.
For it to be a 0 it'd really have to be shovelware.
Is it Ok to port fingers at a particular group of fanboys, cause i think i got a idea on which group of fanboys who are doing this. These are the same group of fanboys who didn't want this to be an exclusive to Gamecube.....
I get what you're saying but a numbered Resident Evil shouldn't be a console exclusive lol
The only people who pay attention to user scores are people who do the review bombing and the people that complain about it. No one else cares.
Seems like the review bombing reviews have been removed, astral chain is now at 9 UC
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Fire emblem's bombing reviews have been removed aswell, it was sitting at 6.4 UC yesterday: https://www.metacritic.com/game/switch/fire-emblem-three-houses
Is it Ok to port fingers at a particular group of fanboys, cause i think i got a idea on which group of fanboys who are doing this. These are the same group of fanboys who didn't want this to be an exclusive to Gamecube.....
And yet by the time it released, the PS2 port had already been announced, so...?
in all of these, only the pathetic fanboys looked bad. they really thought giving 0s to a game they haven't played would have any effect.
why should they?
I think the PS2 version was announced just before the GameCube one released, enough time to breed internet wars, anyways i agree main RE shouldn't be exclusive those were other times..
Last one was Revelations but i always wanted a handheld RE and at that time made sense to make portable only games :^P
Nice. Took some time for Metacritic, but at least they're doing it.
Fire Emblen Three Houses also had some cleanup done for the review scores. (It had received some splash damage.)
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I don't know if other games are affected (but I doubt it).
It is at least not automatic/widespread and has some manual input into it, as older review bombs seem untouched.
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I don't know if other games are affected (but I doubt it).
I hope they based themselves on grouped IP or VPN lists, as to reach both extremes.
It is at least not automatic/widespread and has some manual input into it, as older review bombs seem untouched.
Good to see justice get served even tho I really don't look too much into user scores. Even the positive ones. But review bombing a game like this thats had 0 major technical issues and 0 controversy surrounding it just for being an exclusive or running at 30fps is silly.
Nice to see they fixed that issue, but some other games also need fix,
for instance Zelda BotW has plenty of 0 or 1 scores.
https://www.metacritic.com/game/swi...breath-of-the-wild/user-reviews?dist=negative
for instance Zelda BotW has plenty of 0 or 1 scores.
https://www.metacritic.com/game/swi...breath-of-the-wild/user-reviews?dist=negative
some of those are a bit histrionic, but it's not a crime to not like a zelda game. the issue with some of the astral chain posts were that they were solely based on something that had nothing to do with the game at all. (its platform exclusivity, etc) metacritic shouldn't go around removing every slightly melodramatic user score. If they did that they might as well get rid of the feature altogether.
granted i guess i wouldn't be opposed to that but y'know
Actually its similar story, those 0 and 1 are because its Nintendo game that's very critically acclaimed, and plenty of Nintendo haters, PS/Xbox fanboy gave plenty of 0 and 1 even they didnt played game.
I mean its true you have that for other games and other platforms also, but I think point that Nintendo game, that runs on weaker hardware than PS/Xbox, and with usually cartoon like graphics can have great reviews, triggers plenty of people and much more than when we talk about some PS/Xbox games.
That was kind of my point. Control is still getting "review bombed" without being an exclusive, point being people don't really need a reason.
I think its getting review bombed - if at all - because it runs subpar on base system. So people who jumped in blind on Day 1 are likely pissed.
This situation cant be compared to the standard console warrior BS that happens with exclusives.
These days I don't buy into number-rated reviews. I see garbage games showered with positive scores, and underrated ones smashed down.
There are many reason dirt chooses to review bomb.
Exclusivity for the wrong platform, or dare i even think of it "promoting female streamers" are just some of the many reasons they can pick from.
user scores are meaningless. the review bombs were because certain fanboy youtuber were telling their fans to give the game 0s because they childishly thought that can hurt the game. the positive 10s hurt no one. the 0s getting removed is a good way to stop pathetic fanboys to stop review bombing future games.
Metacritic removed review bombs
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Control launched with severe performance issues on the baseline PS4 and Xbox One models.
It looks like they weren't removed. There was just a lot on 10's that offset the initial review bomb.
Control got bad reviews because it runs poorly on base PS4 and X1, Man of Medan had mixed reactions in general.
Happy the useless reviews from Astral Chain were removed, being a niche title it needs all the word of mouth it can get, I assume the review bombing in itself kept the coverage for the game high on several outlets in the past few days.
Nope, I recall the bad reviews being over 700, now they are slightly under 200
No they were, at one point there were 1000+ negative user scores.
Didn't justify the review bombing those games received. That's why metacritic removed those scores.
Review bombing a game because of a 30fps cap encapsulates perfectly how the gaming community is riddled with the fragilest, pettiest snowflakes of any entertainment medium.
The real motive is this thread, which led to multiple articles being put up on aggragate sites about it. The attention is the motive and we are feeding it.
I guess my point stands still then. :P
User score is not useless. Idiotic user score (review bomb) is useless. See when they remove the bombs, the user score is much comparable to critics.
...Which, I would argue, makes the user score redundant and therefore useless.