Those all seem pretty fair tbh.The following from EDGE,
Dragon Age - 5/10
Mass Effect - 7/10
Neverwinter Nights - 9/10
Baldur's Gate 2 - 8/10
Fallout 3 - 7/10
Oblivion - 8/10
Morrowind - 6/10
The Witcher 2: Assassin's of Kings - 6/10
Arcanum - 5/10
Temple of Elemental Evil - 4/10
Diablo 2 - 6/10
Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines - 6/10
The 2.0 review from IGN to a Football Manager will always be hilarious. One of the few times I've seen a magazine ask for forgiveness and removing the review.
Mixing up a deep spreadsheet tycoon game... with FIFA.
That was definitely in a different era for reviews. MGS V would have been destroyed in todays climate.Most MGS5 reviews? 93 Meta for an unfinished, repetitive mess of a game that lacks everything that made the other games of the franchise so great is pretty atrocious in my book.
That was literally this gen.That was definitely in a different era for reviews. MGS V would have been destroyed in todays climate.
It´s very interesting you cant find out who reviewed it.
I bet the reviewer went underground after this.
EGM Review:
Aliens: Colonial Marines
By???????? | 02/12/2013 04:00 AM PT
Atrocious Musou reviews are nothing unique, unfortunately.
Doom is certainly a gorgeous-looking game - it has also, incidentally, made serious advances in what people will expect of 3D graphics in future. But the gameplay is as narrow as it gets: you run along beautifully parallaxed corridors and through stunning 3D rooms shooting at a near endless supply of green lizards. That's it. Still, we're not going to deny that there is a worryingly addictive fascination in watching the frantic despatching of those little green guys.
As it is, once the power of Doom's graphics has worn off (they're amazing, so give that at least a week or two), you'lI be longing for something new in this game.
lf only you could talk to these creatures, then perhaps you could try and make friends with them, form alliances... Now, that would be interesting.
If you look at average meta scores past 2015 they've dropped significantly since. I'm not talking about gaming generations so I'm not sure why you said that lol. I'm not sure why but games that would have been sure hits in terms of reviews like COD or BF are getting much lower scores.That was literally this gen.
And wasn't that the reception of the game. Story sucks and is unfinished, but it plays very well.
Oooh. Okay. That is truly an awful quote.While this falls under "I don't agree with the review, so it's bad!" Game Informer's 6.75 for Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door should count, if just for the poor justification given after the response.
Lot of games play very well and get way lower scores. A game is more than just pure "mechanics".That was literally this gen.
And wasn't that the reception of the game. Story sucks and is unfinished, but it plays very well.
The game's control setup is its most terrifying element. The left analog stick moves you forward, back, and strafes right and left, while the right analog stick turns you and can be used to look up and down. Too often, you'll turn to face a foe and find that your weapon is aimed at the floor or ceiling while the alien gleefully hacks away at your midsection.
And AI is one of my favorite games.Must be something about Alien games, because IGN's review of Isolation was garbage as well.
You said it was a different era. My response was "the one we're still in?"If you look at average meta scores past 2015 they've dropped significantly since. I'm not talking about gaming generations so I'm not sure why you said that lol. I'm not sure why but games that would have been sure hits in terms of reviews like COD or BF are getting much lower scores.
You youngsters, behold, the original Edge's bad review for the original Doom, talk to the monster!
https://web.archive.org/web/20120104155012/http:/www.next-gen.biz/reviews/doom-review
Some quotes:
Was Edge right? was it wrong? we leave this answers for future generations...
Shin Megami Tensei id...lf only you could talk to these creatures, then perhaps you could try and make friends with them, form alliances... Now, that would be interesting.
For reviews man and no one says eras for gaming generations.You said it was a different era. My response was "the one we're still in?"
Yes, let's pile onto reviewers. Lord knows we need more of that.
Would you call it the best storytelling and combat in any RPG?
They don't mention pretty much any of the negatives of the game though.Nothing in the review fundamentally misunderstands what the game is, like the Football Manager review. They just really, really enjoyed it, and got so into the story and characters that it outshone any issues with the mechanics.
There's nothing truly atrocious about the review except that the reviewer loved the game and you didn't.
Game informer on Silent Hill 2:
Instead of the brain-bending adventure with scares and gore that I had so desperately hoped for, it turned out to be a sloppy, monotonous bore that nearly put me to sleep.
Most of those complaints sound subjective - maybe none of those things bothered the reviewer. Are there any factual errors they make in the review, or poor writing?They don't mention pretty much any of the negatives of the game though.
10 dollar day 1 DLC for a character, Merill's cutscenes being out of order and spoiling the quest and making your choices meaningless, enemies spawning in mid air, no easy way to tell anders you don't wanna fuck him, literally nothing on the graphics and art style.
It's a bad review.
They don't mention pretty much any of the negatives of the game though.
10 dollar day 1 DLC for a character, Merill's cutscenes being out of order and spoiling the quest and making your choices meaningless, enemies spawning in mid air, no easy way to tell anders you don't wanna fuck him, literally nothing on the graphics and art style.
It's a bad review.
Yes I think a review that fails to mention any aspects which could be perceived as negative is a bad review.It would be a great example for a thread called "Super positive reviews where I feel the reviewer overlooked important negative aspects of the game."
You're ultimately still just disagreeing with the score.