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[falconhoof]

When filtered by those who played over 10 hours, the Steam reviews are 92% positive.

Meaning, once instead of having just around half a dozen of mostly unknown blogs (which is the case right now) they have over 100 or 120 websites covered in Metacritic/Opencritic, the average score should be pretty good with only the usual few attention whore trolls like Stevivor giving 1 or 2 star reviews.

You might as well just say "filter the reviews by positive to see what I want to see"

Who's going to play a game for more than 10 hours if they don't enjoy it?

 

[diffusionx]

Steam reviews shows you how many hours someone put in a game. So if someone put in 2 hours and gave it a negative review because after 2 hours, the game didn't get any more fun, that's a legit review. Someone giving it 0 on metacritic and parroting the same bs line everyone else is, not so legit.

I think we can agree on that, no?

2 hours is also the cutoff for Steam refunds, so people bought the game, played it for 2 hours, decided they didnt like it, wrote a review, and refunded.

It's totally legitimate.

 

[Ogbert]

You are certainly hoping for that outcome.

I'm actually not, at all.

I love Bungie. Brilliant developer and responsible for my favourite games.

My hope is that they move away from pure pvp extraction and find a way to make it pve. Would buy it immediately.

 

[sainraja]

I said this in another thread, and I will say it again here. People forget but Destiny 1 is "76" on metacritic and got many 7s, 8s, etc. Don't count out bungie yet with marathon. It ain't a sprint, but a marathon

 

[StereoVsn]

VGC - Diego Arguello - 4 / 5

Despite the tumultuous landscape of live-service games around it, Marathon firmly carves its own place in the extraction shooter genre with an unmatched presentation and breakneck rhythm.

Another AI reviewer? What exactly is it firmly carving here, lol.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

You might as well just say "filter the reviews by positive to see what I want to see"

Who's going to play a game for more than 10 hours if they don't enjoy it?

The beta would had weeded out lots of gamers. And since this is a paid game, what you got left are people who liked the beta and will commit $40.

 

[yurinka]

You might as well just say "filter the reviews by positive to see what I want to see"

Who's going to play a game for more than 10 hours if they don't enjoy it?

Yes, I prefer to filter reviews to to see what I want: the opinion of those from players who cared to play the game enough to have a decent opinion of it, independently if positive or negative.

I'm not interested on the opinion of those who bought it, gave a negative review and refunded the game before having completed the tutorial, or those who still haven't seen half of what the base of the game offers.

Particularly in a live service game, where one of the most important things is the long term progression, unlocks, in-game economy, post launch support and so on, things that can't be analyzed in a handful hours.

My hope is that they move away from pure pvp extraction and find a way to make it pve. Would buy it immediately.

They could easily do it by implementing an option to choose if the enemy runner teams are controlled by other players or by CPU.

They could reuse these bots in the future once the playerbase gets too small and need to fill some slot in the matchmaking with a player of a certain level or ping. Or even to let the game live permanently once servers will get shut down.

Because other than this, particularly in the solo mode, already feels like a SP campaign with the current story, tons of small lore texts, many different missions and many progression unlock trees and XP types to progress.

 

[Loomy]

Oh, I absolutely agree. But, it doesn't make one side automatically right and the other side worthless.

Nah, in this case it's pretty much worthless. This is pretty much a review bomb. Just look at these 2 reviews.

2 hours is also the cutoff for Steam refunds, so people bought the game, played it for 2 hours, decided they didnt like it, wrote a review, and refunded.

It's totally legitimate.

Yeah, Steam reviews are definitely legitimate for that reason. Hell, filter by "more than 1 hours", and look at those reviews. That's still fair. The only way it could be more fair would be if they shared user HW specs, or if they could dress it up to say "System meets minimum requirement for this game" or "System meets reccommended requirement for this game". Especially if your review calls out performance issues.

 

[Mengy]

Several reviews that came out can be summarized as a skill issue lol

Probably. I know that's my problem with Marathon, I'm just not sweaty enough for a game like that, it ain't for me. I'm sure I'm not alone in that sentiment.

 

[calico]

Have the 'bigger' reviewers actually cucked to the 'request'?

 

[Karma_Games]

Have the 'bigger' reviewers actually cucked to the 'request'?

Yep, they are getting the "Return of Bungie" scripts ready.

 

[nowhat]

It's not for you.

The Adventures Of Twisp And Catsby - Penny Arcade

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

www.penny-arcade.com

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

 

[L*][*N*K]

Just so we are all on the same page major publications are still not publishing their reviews almost 7 days after release because Sony asked them to, this should be a bigger story but no one seems to give a fuck since it is not Ubisoft or Microsoft who is doing it.

 

[LyricalShrike]

Just so we are all on the same page major publications are still not publishing their reviews almost 7 days after release because Sony asked them to, this should be a bigger story but no one seems to give a fuck since it is not Ubisoft or Microsoft who is doing it.

Journos don't want to be blacklisted by Sony for breaking rank. Games journalists would die without preferential access.

 

[L*][*N*K]

Journos don't want to be blacklisted by Sony for breaking rank. Games journalists would die without preferential access.

Yeah how is this not the front page of every so called webiste how haven't these "journalists" made this more public than it actually is?

 

[LyricalShrike]

Yeah how is this not the front page of every so called webiste how haven't these "journalists" made this more public than it actually is?

Mainstream journalists don't care about trade press and major gaming outlets aren't going to make a big deal about it because it could hurt them. Games journalism is dead because it's little more than marketing for large publishers.