That review was certainly terrible but then you have 10/10 reviews which also most likely don't reflect the game either.
It's not about the score though. Well, not for me anyways.
That review was certainly terrible but then you have 10/10 reviews which also most likely don't reflect the game either.
I tweeted at the Financial Times guy. I know I shouldn't, but as someone who does reviews for a living, it bothers me that he put up a review and gave a score to a game he half played—whatever his opinion on it is.
Yeah, how dare this game takes your precious time away from another game
50% seems a little low. What was the last game they gave 50%?
That review was certainly terrible but then you have 10/10 reviews which also most likely don't reflect the game either.
His review has loads of interesting points and plenty of good intentions, but nothing sticks. It's like it was written by a man with a super short attention span. He'd come up with a good point, carry it half way, and then get distracted by another thought, and do it all over again until ending up with an unfocused, unsatisfying, incomplete review.
Yeah, how dare this game takes your precious time away from another game
y'all need to chill out. Lol. I love Nier but spamming the guy on twitter and emailing metacritic is insane. A score is a score. Uncharted had a 4/10. Horizon had a 5/10. It just happens. It's why I don't take metacritic seriously lol. I feel like anyone's score gets put on that website.
I write about games for a living and I say these kind of things in fun joking ways all the time. It's the not finishing the game or even giving it a fair shake that fucking sucks; mining his twitter account for things that can be construed in a few different ways, some of them bad, is really... unnecessary. The evidence for why it's not a great argument/justification for its score is right there in the review.
Without the 50, the MC would be 90.1273.
With the 50, the MC is 89.4107.
If EZA gives it a 100, the MC will be 89.5965.
Yeah, this is ridiculous.
Though, wasn't the 4/10 Uncharted 4 one a joke review that was changed later, but Metacritic never updated it? I remember reading something like that. And I really disliked that game, so I'm not even particularly interested in how well received it is.
I actually don't mind it at all. If someone finds it unbearable to continue a game after a few hours, I see no reason why they should continue subjecting themselves to it. It's not as though playing more will raise the score or anything.
Without the 50, the MC would be 90.1273.
With the 50, the MC is 89.4107.
If EZA gives it a 100, the MC will be 89.5965.
Without the 50, the MC would be 90.1273.
With the 50, the MC is 89.4107.
If EZA gives it a 100, the MC will be 89.5965.
Shame a "reviewer" can post that, not finish the game, blast it, give it a 5/10, block all the people asking why he didn't finish it, and then sit there saying...
It's more adoration towards Zelda that he wants to keep playing that than it is coming into NieR's review with the intent to dislike it.
Yeah, how dare this game takes your precious time away from another game
Ah, so a 90 is now off the cards right?
Even if both Easy and Jim gave it a perfect score (which is highly unlikely)?
That review was certainly terrible but then you have 10/10 reviews which also most likely don't reflect the game either.
Yeah, how dare this game takes your precious time away from another game
If you review games as a job, it's best not to involve other games into the process. Saying this game took time away from his precious Zelda is bullshit.
Sigh the 50/100 strikes again...
I'm pretty sure he was kidding... The review wasn't garbage, it was actually written well though it did seem he was just intent on not liking it.
If you only watch one third of a movie and then publish an article complaining about things being unfinished and meaningless, then yes, your review would be garbage.
I don't see why this changes when it comes to videogames.
Hey let's turn the burner waaaay down on this. The review is bad. Laugh about it and move on; angrily contacting the writer or MetaCritic just looks incredibly petty. Take the article for what it is and continue enjoying Nier. The green number on the dumb website doesn't matter. I'm going to lock the thread if it's just going to turn into a shark pit for the inevitable negative reviews.
Oh wow he blocked me.
Please stop "raiding" people on twitter for not liking NieR.
That makes him a good reviewer.He doesn't even try to hide his biases.
It's not his job to take it. It's his job to give it.Same here. Cowardly to just run away from criticism. How ironic? He can deal it out but can't take it.
That makes him a good reviewer.
I mean, I understand not liking a video game.
I understand even not finishing a video game even as a reviewer.
But the onus is on you to at least see what else the game has to offer (in this case, it doesn't take much of an effort to ask "hey, I have to play 9S through the story again. Does the game substantially change later or is this it?").
If you can't even do that much, and still want to note that the game feels incomplete when you have not even bothered to perform basic competence in verifying that statement, you can't complain when people call you out for cutting corners when in fact you cut corners.
Is that really happening? It's just a score.. I hated the USgamer review for Horizon but it was her opinion and I respected it. Same with this one. We can't start harassing people just because they didn't like our favorite games.
That makes him a good reviewer.
It's not his job to take it. It's his job to give it.
Personally, I would still be all up in this game even if it got Drakengard 3 scores, as long as those scores were based on finishing the damn game.
And I loved D3 despite the horrible technical flaws (thanks Deadly Premonition studio!)
The reason I care about the metascore at all this time because I actually do know people who would buy this game if it was 90 instead of 89 and I want more people to get into what I'm into. I want more people to talk about the Drakengard/Nier universe with that got into it through this game.
The movie isn't 50+ hours long.... You can finish a movie in one sitting. RPGs, sometimes not so much.
He didn't though, he didn't finish it. He didn't do his job. It's a job, you are forced to do things for monetary value, one thing you don't like doesn't mean you can half ass your job.