Mass Effect 3 review bombing

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Shoggoth2588

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I don't think it really matters at this point: Mass Effect 3 is one of those games where about 99% of the people who bought it today knew they were going to buy it way back when the first teaser was revealed. This is one of those things that you could have seen coming anyway considering how many people bitched, pissed and, moaned after each news story about the third Mass Effect. It may turn new players off of the third installment but I don't think that'll be much of an issue for this game.
 

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hazabaza1 said:
Adam Jensen said:
Now I'm not going to say you're wrong or anything, but I could've sworn that in various threads you mentioned that you weren't going to get it because of Origin and EA. Or was that somebody else?

OT: Yeah, any game getting various overwhelming negative or positive reviews on launch day when I'm pretty sure it'll take more than a day (for the average person) to finish is one I'll judge by myself.
I wasn't going to get it because of DLC. But I decided to get it anyway, I'm just not gonna bother with any DLC pack, no matter how "essential" they say it is. I'm done with DLC, and from this point on, I'm done with Bioware as long as they remain a part of EA.

Fappy said:
hazabaza1 said:
Adam Jensen said:
Now I'm not going to say you're wrong or anything, but I could've sworn that in various threads you mentioned that you weren't going to get it because of Origin and EA. Or was that somebody else?

OT: Yeah, any game getting various overwhelming negative or positive reviews on launch day when I'm pretty sure it'll take more than a day (for the average person) to finish is one I'll judge by myself.
Lets put it this way, I have a nasty habit of not liking a new game right off the bat if I am not familiar with how its works and feels. I did not have this problem when I started playing ME3, but that isn't to say plenty of things have nagged and bothered me. Adam has some fair points but at the end of the day I think those with tempered expectations will cash out and it will recieve a generally good response. It's not DA2, but it isn't a masterpiece either (at least not so far).
My opinion will most likely change once I get in touch with some more familiar characters. I'm still very early in the story. I need Garrus and Tali to make me feel at home in this game. Or at least I hope it will change. I really want to enjoy this game. And they need to patch it right away. I experienced pretty frequent fps drops. Now I have to go find Garrus, or I'll drown in sorrow. I will forgive his sudden southern accent.

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I wonder what that could mean since I'm single. IS it horizontal or vertical?
 

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Adam Jensen said:
hazabaza1 said:
Adam Jensen said:
Now I'm not going to say you're wrong or anything, but I could've sworn that in various threads you mentioned that you weren't going to get it because of Origin and EA. Or was that somebody else?

OT: Yeah, any game getting various overwhelming negative or positive reviews on launch day when I'm pretty sure it'll take more than a day (for the average person) to finish is one I'll judge by myself.
I wasn't going to get it because of DLC. But I decided to get it anyway, I'm just not gonna bother with any DLC pack, no matter how "essential" they say it is. I'm done with DLC, and from this point on, I'm done with Bioware as long as they remain a part of EA.

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I wonder what that is.
who said the DLC was Essential?

Aside from some people that have derided EA/Bioware that they cut out part of the game and sold it as DLC, I havent seen any instance where anyone claims its Essential.
 

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Fun "Fact": Zeel posted 80% of those reviews.

Anyways, EVERY big new game gets review-bombed. Heck, even some SMALLER ones (like Bastion) got review-bombed. Metacritic is getting better at unbombing them, though, so I'll give them a bit of time.
 

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zombieshark6666 said:
Gerishnakov said:
Kahunaburger said:
Gerishnakov said:
We should just pay attention to ME3 having 26 overwhelmingly positive critic reviews (so far).
Yeah, because game journalism is a shining beacon of critical integrity.
I'd trust them over the user reviews any day.
Dragon Age 2 is a five stars effort.
That reviewer then went on to put DA2 in his Top 5 Games Of 2012, so maybe he just REALLY LIKED THE GAME and wasn't payed off. Sometimes, people just like things. That's why you read more than one review.
 

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How is that even possible? The game hasn't even been out for 16 hours yet and Bioware promised that a play through would take 20 hours at the very least. They could only have played the game if they bought it at midnight and ground through it religiously, skipping pacifically all of the side quests, leaving them with an incomplete experience.
 
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Considering the user reviews were at 35% when I looked at Metacritic about half an hour after the game was "officially" released I put this down to review bombing.
 

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distortedreality said:
If Bioware are smart, they'll ignore, just as everyone else should.

What EA will do though is anyone's guess.
Roll around in the piles of money this game will make them, I imagine.
 

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Edit: Whoops, multiple tabs = wrong post in wrong thread.

You can't trust reviews from average people OR professional critics. One group is full of jerks who will give something a 0 or a 10 on a whim, while the other group is full of jerks who are paid to give it 7-10 depending on how many rupees they're being bribed with.
 

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Aww bless them for thinking it matters. Nobody cares about user reviews on Metacritic because 95% of them are not written by thoughtful, intelligent human beings. I've only ever used Metacritic to scour through the professional reviews. And can people please stop saying that professional critics are paid off to give good reviews. To say such a thing is highly speculative and based on nothing. It also shows a real lack of understanding of what a review from a professional critic actually represents. But, most importantly, please stop doing it because it makes me and my friends cringe. I don't like cringe face :-/
 

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I liked it, i really did, kind of weird considering it's a very depressing game but it's very well done, the endings abit marmite though (or at least the one i got was).
 

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Dandark said:
Didn't a lot of people get pirated version of the game early? If so then they may be posting reviews of it. Also yes there will be hate filled review bombing due to how much EA/Bioware have annoyed some of their fans.
You can click to see if the people have reviewed any other games. Only 1 person that I have clicked that gave ME3 a low score also gave Portal 2 a 9. Its shit like that that make me not believe the reviews by users because if they only come out when they review bomb to raise or lower a score then they aren't to be trusted. Now if they had like 4-5 other reviews of games that are known to NOT have been review bombed it would be more believeable.
 

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Review bombing a popular game? No. Never!

Personally I'm having fun with the game. I know the ending will kill my fun, but eh. I'm all right. I have some minor annoyances that do occasionally detract from the fun, and there have been some odd moments, but I like it. I'm not too far in, though. Like... 7 hours. Maybe a bit more.
 

Aurgelmir

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User reviews on Metacritic should just be removed altogether. Sadly we have a large minority of gamers who are rather childish.
 

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The game itself is very good. It's more engaging so far than the other two.

Everything else outside it is fucking despicable. There should be absolutely no reason why I should have to pay 10 bucks to get an online pass when I own a console. It's a shitty scheme where because I have a brother who clearly liked the demo more than me, I ended up letting him use it.
 

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AstylahAthrys said:
Review bombing a popular game? No. Never!

Personally I'm having fun with the game. I know the ending will kill my fun, but eh. I'm all right. I have some minor annoyances that do occasionally detract from the fun, and there have been some odd moments, but I like it. I'm not too far in, though. Like... 7 hours. Maybe a bit more.
Turrets? Are you talking about turrets?

Because fuck turrets. They are the bane of my existence.

And I think I'm as far as you are. The only question I have so far is what the hell am I suppose to do with the war map thing?
 

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I have played Mass Effects 1 and 2 many times and thoroughly enjoyed them both. I shall play Mass Effect 3 and decide for myself just how good/bad it is.

I only ever read user reviews after playing a game so I can laugh at how invalid I find their opinion! /smug
 

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"In this letter I plan to cite some of Mass Effect 3's more topical crimes and let you, the reader, decide for yourself how to react. Although not without overlap and simplification, I plan to identify three primary positions on Mass Effect 3's bunco games. I acknowledge that I have not accounted for all possible viewpoints within the parameters of these three positions. Nevertheless, I must reach out even to my most ostrich-like readers and show them how I am interested in facts, not in paregoric for Mass Effect 3's spin doctors. That's the sort of statement that some people claim is soporific but which I believe is merely a statement of fact. And it's a statement that needs to be made because Mass Effect 3's biases leave much to be desired. An equal but opposite observation is that I'm tired of the worst classes of abhorrent ratbags there are. Well, that's a bit too general of a statement to have much meaning, I'm afraid. So let me instead explain my point as follows: There is something grievously wrong with those cankered insurrectionists who obstruct important things. Shame on the lot of them! If anyone should propose a practical scheme for carving solutions that are neither obstinate nor cold-blooded, I should be quite disposed to incur almost any degree of expense to accomplish that object. In the meantime, let me point out that Mass Effect 3 likes reconstituting society on the basis of arrested development and envious malevolence. That's the most damnable thing about him. It's also why Mass Effect 3's cause is not glorious. It is not wonderful. It is not good."

Pure gold.