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Metacritic is a cool aggregator but it's a shame they don't do anything to verify the userscore side (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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People just put up unhelpful dumb reviews with no verification of if they played either game and then it just gets to affect the score.

Steam definitely has its share of "anti-woke" rants and culture war nonsense, but at least there's some kind of bar to clear. If someone’s dropping a review after 7+ hours, even if it's unhinged, you can at least say they engaged with the game beyond the title screen or Character Creation

Plus, Steam shows:

Hours played (which helps you separate kneejerk takes from people who gave the game a shot)

Whether the review is marked helpful by others,

Whether the game was purchased or received for free,

It’s a way more transparent system than Metacritic’s “0/10 because woke” with no explanation and no way to know if the person even launched the game.

hell, almost all of BioWare's games on Steam are "Mostly positive" except for Dragon Age 2 and Veilguard which are both "Mixed"

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not to sound like a dick, but I actually think the low user scores are more reflective of the actual quality of bioware games. if I was gonna rate me3 a 6 would probably be about it. It's me2 again but with a dumb story, less effort and more bugs (and andromeda was just that squared from what i understand). Also they tried to use a multiplayer mode that they shut down as a form of drm or something by gatekeeping the "best" ending behind playing it.

And dragon age inquisition wouldn't even get a 6. It's a single player mmo except it also does the standard bullshit bioware thing where everything scales to your level so progression is pointless.

Sure the "0/10 cus woke/sjw/feminism" scores are influencing things, and I wish people were rating the game poorly because the games actually do have problems, but bioware games also got a lot of undeserved perfect scores

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Veilguard is the most egregious of all these, I think it was a pretty decent game. Probably one of the better BioWare games in a long time.

It was a bit goofy sure, but the game loop and the character dialogue was fun and engaging and made me want to play more just to hear the interactions between everyone.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I expect it's a functional game. I didn't play it though, whatever interest I had in Dragon Age died off a couple hours into Inquisition and never returned.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

It's the only game I've ever platinumed lol. Is not even particularly great, they just really nailed the combat and did a good job with the companion banter