>>730647942
>Gitbad Journalists and Bots
>vs
>People who paid for and played the game
Gee, I wonder.

The game is heavily designed to appeal to the most autistic gamers and could not possibly review well critically
Non autists won't even purchase it, heavily curating the list of people even capable of leaving a review

>>730648143
I haven't played it. The only shit I know about it is that it's a rougelite FPS and that they broke out the big bucks for VA cast + they got that youtuber in there. Not exactly an autistic combo.

>>730648309
>The only shit I know about it is that it's a rougelite FPS
You couldn't be more wrong

>>730648143
So it's like Factorio?

>>730648309
it's not a roguelite
It's more like a puzzle platformer

>>730647942
Between reviewbombing, consolewar faggotry and /pol/shit, reviews are worthless now across the board. People can't have a good thing without running it through the dirt.

Reviewers just play a game for a few hours to a deadline and don't critically think games through long term. Back in the magazine era they used to treat some reviews of small budget games as jokes and gave them joke scores. See the reviews of budget N64 games like Crusin' USA for example.

>>730648437
>>730648530
Thanks for the heads up, just going on what the doggo journos told me.

I'm a simple man

I see crazy fat woman (violet) I say no
I see perfect wife material (red) I say yes

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>>730648630
>While people still exist on /v/

people only bought this because the MC is Spike (cowboy bebop).

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>Reviewers shit on a game just because it's "too hard"

>>730648703
Actually, I only like this game because I enjoy aiming for the heavens

Gee I wonder, maybe because you can only a binary system of liked or not on Steam and reviewers give scores from 1 to 10.
In the end Steam reviews are better to know if the game is "stable" and "working'.

>>730648551
>See the reviews of budget N64 games like Crusin' USA for example.
Cruis'n USA is a joke of a game, though. And no one with any standards takes that piece of shit seriously.

Steams rating doesn't work the same way a Metacritic average works.

On Metacritic or opencritic anyone can review a game. Some people play a game - or claim to have played a game - don't like it - and they give it a bad score. But the same rule doesn't apply to the Steam ranking.

Having a 99% rating on Steam meanwhile doesn't mean the same. Cause Steam doesn't let players score games. You just rate it positive or negative. 99% approval can mean that pretty much all players love it and consider it a 10/10 - but 99% can also mean that most consider it to be a decent 7/10 experience.

>>730647942
i don't understand what people like about neon white. it's a speedrun autism game where the schmovement sucks.

steam """reviews""" are retarded shit for retards

>>730649105
And they're still the best reviews we have.

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>>730647942
Is the mediocre rating in the room with us right now?

AIM FOR THE HEAVENS

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A positive rating on steam usually means a lot of people can run the game well and it doesnt have a lot of features or mechanics that thet dislike. It doesnt actually curate how the game is on a 1-10 score. It just means a lot of people like it and/or can run it well with little issue.
Case in point, where winds meet. A maybe 7/10 open world online game but has an 88% score on steam.

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>>730647942
People only ever bring up a journalist's review for shitposting purposes.

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>>730649274
currentYearScore = (n - 8) * 5

>>730649732
>People only ever bring up a journalist's review for shitposting purposes.
Because that's all they're useful for.

>>730650305
This. Prime 4 scoring worse than Other M has been fucking hilarious.

>>730647942
Some years ago the most positive reviewed game on steam was nepshit.
Pair this with steamie hut junior not having reviews and instead only facebook thumbs up for GAME OF THE YEAR ALLY EAR or facebook thumbs down for BLUNDER OF THE CENTURY and you got yourself the shitshow that no one would defend if it wasn't done by the monopoly company.

>>730649064
The movement isn't anything special but being able to shoot bullets for additional speed gives a pretty much infinite ceiling for bullshit

>>730650383
Prime 4 is insanely bad, it really shows how even bad games are given "good" scores just because journalists are scared to give a bad score to hyped up games.
It has so many design decisions that go completely against what metroid prime as a series is and even straight up lies to the player about what they are allowed to do. Even if you ignore the complaints about it not really being a metroidvania, it still sucks as a first person shooter too. All it manages to achieve that isn't trash is look pretty (and even then that falls apart with the desert too)

>>730650574
But as far as I know it's still the only review system that requires reviewers to own the game, so it's still the only one that isn't complete shit.
>Muh redeemed game codes
Not counted in the score.

>>730650574
Name a better system.

>>730650857
I rate the game and my rating is the only one visible on the store page

>>730650574
>only facebook thumbs up
this is the correct way to do it though
if you want details, read the post of someone who wrote an essay, but the ultimate question a player reviewer should be answering is "do you recommend it"
instead of just giving every game an 8/10, you're making people choose whether or not to say the game is worth buying

>>730648309
You have to get an A rank to progress sometimes and that means finishing the game with a low clear time thats not something the average person would bother doing

>>730648143
I wish it was actually designed for autists. It's way too on-rails.

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>>730648704
>Boobs on the physical cover
Those were the days, we had it all

>>730651681
Only if your objective is red medals, which are relatively easy to get
The autists are concerned with the leaderboard not just beating the dev, and for that exceptionally autistic precision aiming is required

>>730649064
That's why it works. They made speedrunning user friendly enough so that almost anyone can feel good about their performance.

>>730647942
PC retard race has shit taste

>>730648309
>The only shit I know about it is that it's a rougelite
indie scene is so fucked that people automatically assume every game is a roguelite

>>730648309
It's one of those speedrun game's that has been making the rounds the last few years.

Like Mad Jack but less cancer.