• Eggyhead@kbin.run
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    5 months ago

    It’s IGN. They probably had this score lined up since the announcement.

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      5 months ago

      Eh, I don’t love IGN but it seems like at this point nothing they do makes people happy. I remember when they gave Starfield a 7 people rioted lol, even tho the score was entirely deserved.

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        5 months ago

        A seven is VERY generous for Starfield… but I know game review scores are BS and only go from 5-10.

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          5 months ago

          Totally agree, tbh I even felt 7 was a bit too high. But people were pissed that it was that low.

          Dunkey actually made a great video showing how any game that gets below an 8 gets slammed, regardless of the title. Was kind of funny tbh, albeit a little sad.

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        5 months ago

        Bethesda should have put “Mario” or “Zelda” in the title if they wanted better scores from IGN.

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        5 months ago

        Were people angry because it was low or high? I’d give it a lower score personally, though I’ve still seen some people argue it’s a perfect game

        I’d say it deserves a perfectly mediocre 5. Everything it does is better in other games, and the one thing it’s supposed to do (exploration) is better in their other games. I live sci-fi so I was willing to overlook a lot of issues, but I think the biggest letdown is that the sci-fi stories it tells are boring as hell and don’t actually make use of the genre. If they really wanted to make a sci-fi game they should have been ready to tell interesting sci-fi stories. Instead they gave up all the strengths of their other games to tell uninteresting stories.

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          5 months ago

          There’s an extension for YouTube dislikes if you’re curious. That video got slammed with them.

          Granted, people eventually agreed that the game was pretty mediocre. But at the time the only people that had played it were the diehards that paid extra for early access, and they were livid.