Two posts are negative, and >90% of the reviews are 70 or above. I think you need to look more into what "all over the place" entails. Not just a vast majority, almost ALL of the reviews being positive (literally 90%) is NOT even close to all over any place.
Not really, the consensus is that it is a good game, I mean that's exactly what metacritic is for. Like, that's it's exact fkn purpose, lol. It's averaging an 80% good reviews.
if you posted that you've played games with great stories, yeah, I want to know which ones so I can try them too. Sorry for the confusion, resetera isn't behaving with my ps4 browser lately.
Reviews are not all over the place. It isn't even a mixed reception.
The modern narrative adventure genre? That's Oxenfree and 1979 and Life Is Strange and The Walking Dead and, technically, stuff like Subsurface Circular and Sorcery and so on
You could say the same thing about the toxic fanboy reactions to any negative reviews that call for metacritic to ignore them and claim that the reviewers are trolls. But of course, a fanboy like yourself won't bring that up. You're more than happy to prove most people right in assuming that 'gamers' are dipshits who will happily stan for corporations that don't give an iota of a shit about them, and get mad whenever the grown-ups have conversations about media that goes beyond puddle-deep rhetoric and hyperbole.
But it is saying something when no game in a particular genre has gotten above a certain score and this particular game sells in the top percentile of reviews from said genre. That's what people mean by "for this genre." There is obviously "ceiling" on a grade someone can receive, but it's saying a lot when in some particular chemistry classes no one gets above a certain grade and you manage to get into the 90 percentile.
There being variety in scores and there being negative reviews doesn't mean the game's reception is divisive or that the reviews are all over the place. The large majority of reviews, like 70-75%, are positive to very positive on the game.
But most games in this genre score in the low to high 80s. Even a lesser known indie one like 1979 has an 80 on Metacritic. This game isn't in the "top percentile of reviews for said game", it's right in line with most of the genre outside of The Walking Dead
Well, for example, MEA has a 71 and is treated like the worst shit ever.
Nice try, your comment of "The game has reviewed well move on." and your smarmy dismissal of "intellectuals" kinda shows where you stand. Also interesting of you to try and take the high-road, considering said comment about intellectuals, as if you're offended by the very idea of people speaking about this game critically. Real grown up stuff.
You are looking at the complete series here which only got 16 reviews. The individual episodes scored as follows:
Where are you looking? I even did a quick search before making that post and most results I saw were in the 70s (many even lower).
Still just one game. Heavy Rain also got close to a 90. My argumentvusbt that Detroit is in the 99 percentile of its genre. Just better than a large quantity of them based on what I saw.
Dude you will love this game so much. It is amazing on so many levels. Enjoy :)
As much as some may very well enjoy it, games criticism is still very much in the mindset of product reviews. Cultural criticism and analysis isn't given the exposure or cheerleading as much as technical or surface level "is this fun?!" type reviews.
Yep, The Evil Within is a good example for that, as it's one of the best game ever made.
This is exactly what I'm referring to. Thanks for this post. No I and no one else called Detroit the epitome of the top tier of the genre, but there's no disputing that it's in the higher escalante of the genre.
The Walking Dead S1 - 80-89%
And yet it will do great for it's genre. This must really piss you off.
It is hopeless. And for reference I now consider Detroit the best of the genre. At least in gameplay which smashes Until Dawn left and right
