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[Chrispy_]

Dragon Age Veilguard got a 9/10 on IGN

and

Life is Strange Double Exposure also 9/10 IGN

nice to see some high scores again, it's been awhile, I think Dragon Age will be a lot of fun personally, but then again, I am one of only like 15 people on the planet that enjoyed Dragon Age 2, so don't go by what I say

IGN are one of the review sites that didn't get bribed by Bethesda to give Starfield a perfect score.
IGN gave starfield a rather generous 7/10 caveating that with, "the first few dozen hours were boring, I'm 70 hours in and it's starting to get good but I haven't finished it at the time of this review"
So, as far as I'm concerned, IGN's scores aren't total BS.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Asteroids and Cavern of Mars are the best looking ones to me.

Berzerk was one of my favs. Got really good at it!

 

[Kapone33]

Berzerk was one of my favs. Got really good at it!

I don't even know how many quarters I burned on that Game. Of course nothing ate Quarters like Asteroids though. Well maybe Moon Patrol or Area 88.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I don't even know how many quarters I burned on that Game. Of course nothing ate Quarters like Asteroids though. Well maybe Moon Patrol or Area 88.

I never played it in the arcade. Asteroids and Area88, yup! Quarter munchers indeed! Berzerk was on my 2600 at home. It was nothing like the arcade version, but still decent and enjoyable.

 

[Kapone33]

I never played it in the arcade. Asteroids and Area88, yup! Quarter munchers indeed! Berzerk was on my 2600 at home. It was nothing like the arcade version, but still decent and enjoyable.

Yeah I had that for my Atari 2600 as well but the Arcade was where I spent everyday after school from Grade 6-8. The Bowling alley was on the way home from school and there was one at the next major street that had tons of Games. In High school I did not play as much but every Friday I used to hit Yonge St. in Toronto and wow. Gyruss, Outrun, Defender.....The best time I ever had though was when I went to Columbus Ohio for a Track meet in the summer and there was an Arcade across the street from the Ohio State stadium that had more shumps than I have ever seen. I finished Rygar and have the art of skilfull dodge for finishing Raiden 2 on 2 quarters with a buddy of mine. By the time we were finished at least 20 people were watching us (Everyone in the Arcade). I actually wish we had social media back then so that so many of us Pure Gamers could be getting together every Friday. Covid really killed a lot of the the good things about being into PC Gaming. Yes I have been drinking again.

 

[nomdeplume]

Should be fun to see how RT looks since nothing else I'm likely to play has it. Of course I could load free EGS copy of Deliver Us Mars (visuals, much else sounds awful).

 

[Flogger23m]

Six Days in Fallujah. Waiting for the November updates which will include fire team AI, right now it is quite bare. Like some of what I see though.

 

[Chomiq]

RE4 remake.

 

[lilhasselhoffer]

Armored Core 6.

It's mecha Dark Souls, with Valve style blue-balling content, and on your first playthrough you'll curse them for making some of this game. That said, I want to beat things, and the second you stop getting strangled the game feels amazing. There's nothing quite like ending with 210 AP our of 12000 and releasing the death grip you didn't know you had on the mouse.

 

[nomdeplume]

 

[Dr. Dro]

IGN are one of the review sites that didn't get bribed by Bethesda to give Starfield a perfect score.
IGN gave starfield a rather generous 7/10 caveating that with, "the first few dozen hours were boring, I'm 70 hours in and it's starting to get good but I haven't finished it at the time of this review"
So, as far as I'm concerned, IGN's scores aren't total BS.

I sincerely believe that there are no trustworthy professional reviews for video games anymore. None of the gaming magazines and publications have a shred of honesty, ethics or decency left at this point, the likes of IGN and Eurogamer included. This has been going on for a very long time - but Dragon Age Veilguard's reviews were the last nail in the coffin for me, it was so blatant that it brutally exposed game journos for what they really are by taking this dishonest manipulation to a new height. Look up the "return to form" controversy and how pretty much every single publication has released a review that's almost identical with each and every one of them containing this passage verbatim. The trust for me has been broken, it just isn't there anymore.

It's really worthy of an FTC complaint against EA, since they've recently passed a rule against false testimonials and reviews. I'm not here to tell people what they can or should like to play, but really, if there's one thing I will stand for regardless of alignment is that consumers must be able to make a conscientious and informed choice... professional reviews are telling people what they're paid off by the publishers to say, and gamers are too busy bickering with each other to actually write something in good faith. Hopefully there will be a few honest user reviews on Steam and other independent platforms.

 

[TL Gamer]

Assassin's Creed Mirage for PC Not on Steam.

 

[Dixevil]

Metaphor: ReFantazio

 

[lilhasselhoffer]

IGN are one of the review sites that didn't get bribed by Bethesda to give Starfield a perfect score.
IGN gave starfield a rather generous 7/10 caveating that with, "the first few dozen hours were boring, I'm 70 hours in and it's starting to get good but I haven't finished it at the time of this review"
So, as far as I'm concerned, IGN's scores aren't total BS.

I sincerely believe that there are no trustworthy professional reviews for video games anymore. None of the gaming magazines and publications have a shred of honesty, ethics or decency left at this point, the likes of IGN and Eurogamer included. This has been going on for a very long time - but Dragon Age Veilguard's reviews were the last nail in the coffin for me, it was so blatant that it brutally exposed game journos for what they really are by taking this dishonest manipulation to a new height. Look up the "return to form" controversy and how pretty much every single publication has released a review that's almost identical with each and every one of them containing this passage verbatim. The trust for me has been broken, it just isn't there anymore.

It's really worthy of an FTC complaint against EA, since they've recently passed a rule against false testimonials and reviews. I'm not here to tell people what they can or should like to play, but really, if there's one thing I will stand for regardless of alignment is that consumers must be able to make a conscientious and informed choice... professional reviews are telling people what they're paid off by the publishers to say, and gamers are too busy bickering with each other to actually write something in good faith. Hopefully there will be a few honest user reviews on Steam and other independent platforms.

So...the reason for that quote appearing is the same as a lot of other ones between some reviews. Basically, the content is pre-written in the general terms by the PR people that buy add space for the reviewers. They are meant to incorporate specific phrases, which in human behavior generally reinforces something as though it were a fact. If enough people say a thing then it should, theoretically, enter the group conscious as fact. That fact is self supporting because you heard it from multiple sources, no matter how asinine of a truth it is. Cool little psychology 101 exercise, that most people view without immediately questioning things because if it's stated in dissimilar words then it feels like a conclusion of the zeitgeist rather than a personal opinion.

In less obtuse terms, somebody at Bioware or their PR firm wrote an outline and everybody finally got copying from the script (likely because they failed to alter their homework, likely because they had an editorial mandate for content and a required score range to find it...so why give a toss about just copying?)


Regarding the actual grading...I have a number of independent sources I check about 10-30 days post release before I even consider buying games. When voices I have trust with are often called racist, sexist, homophobic, and all the other slurs it's difficult to understand whether my opinion is all those same things. It's the old "if a Nazi likes what I like am I a bad person?" argument. The only problem is that the one getting insulted these days is so often proven to be under slander that it's hard to see the difference between those who claim slander and those who use it as a previously untouchable veil to couch their intentions that the words have virtually lost their meaning. That is the death of journalism...when words lose their meaning and the punch of the isms and ists no longer exists because they no longer carry the debauchery and vile nature they should.


Politics aside though, AC6 is worth it. The various balance patches basically mean that the game now is very different than before...and most of the cheese is gone. It's genuinely fun...more than a little frustrating, and immensely rewarding to finally put down that boss who's handed you your backside half a dozen times.

 

[dirtyferret]

I am one of only like 15 people on the planet that enjoyed Dragon Age 2

I enjoyed DA2 and thought it had a better story than the first one, not better game play or characters. Let us know what you think of the current DA

IGN are one of the review sites that didn't get bribed by Bethesda to give Starfield a perfect score.

PCgamer gave it a 75 and PCgamesN gave it a 70, what legit sites gave that game a perfect score?

 

[Mindweaver]

Metro: Awakening, Batman: Arkham Shadow, Tomb Raider I,II,III remastered bundle, Sub-Side.. I have a problem.. and it's going to get worse this month and next.. lol I'm a sucker for Steam sales and now Meta Quest Sales.

 

[QuietBob]

Three cyberpunk themed adventure games on GOG for the grand total of $10 (including an artbook, a making of video, and two OSTs):

ENCODYA - Save the World Edition

The "Save the World" edition includes ENCODYA, the official ENCODYA soundtrack, a lovingl

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Lacuna - Save the World Edition

The Save the World Edition includes Lacuna and the game’s atmospherical soundtrack that

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Three Minutes To Eight

“I woke up feeling ████ ███ █████. It's another rainy evening i

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[FreedomEclipse]

For the archives.

 

[Tatty_Two]

I enjoyed DA2 and thought it had a better story than the first one, not better game play or characters. Let us know what you think of the current DA


PCgamer gave it a 75 and PCgamesN gave it a 70, what legit sites gave that game a perfect score?

I am now on about 46 hours with Veilguard, I like it and as I said before I am a great fan of all 3 of the games prior to this one, yes this one is very different but lots of Lore still there and a few of the old characters from DAO, 2 and Inquisition get some cameo's. Much of the criticism is well founded in terms of story and gameplay especially in the first 25 hours or so but the further you get the darker it gets and there is a degree of urgency.

Over time playing I just forced myself to just think about it as a separate entity and just smile when the lore and previous characters kicked in, still have not witnessed a single glitch but I would not give it more than 7/10 as a DA fan, if I had never played a DA game prior to this maybe 8 - 8.5 but we all like different things for different reasons. The player is even given regular updates (called missives) on the war that is spreading throughout Southern Thedas, Orlais and Feralden have fallen but my spoilers stop there.

 

[Chrispy_]

PCgamer gave it a 75 and PCgamesN gave it a 70, what legit sites gave that game a perfect score?

I wouldn't call them "legit sites" after giving Starfield a perfect score, because giving Starfield a perfect score immediately disqualifies them from being legit.

IMO it's a 6/10. Mediocre, but with some enjoyable moments hidden between the arduous grind, barren planets, and minimal-effort content in so many places. Even then my 6/10 rating is of the game in it's current, patched, state. At launch, it didn't even have basic features we expect like brightness/contrast or FOV settings. It was such a buggy, half-baked mess at launch - I lost count of the number of cutscenes ruined by T-poses, characters stuck in the floor or ceiling, levitating out of frame, rotating their neck more than 180 degrees to face the camera, or plain teleporting around the screen mid-conversation.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I wouldn't call them "legit sites" after giving Starfield a perfect score, because giving Starfield a perfect score immediately disqualifies them from being legit.

TRUTH!

 

[dirtyferret]

TRUTH!

I've never seen that add but it is surprising. There are some recognizable names in there but not necessarily sites I would go to (at least for game reviews). I've never played the game and see little reason to play it so I can't say much about it.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

Drova, steam

 

[Chrispy_]

I've never seen that add but it is surprising. There are some recognizable names in there but not necessarily sites I would go to. I've never played the game and see little reason to play it so I can't say much about it.

You don't need to play it. Your time is going to be much better spent of just about anything else. I played it because it was free, and I still want a refund.

If you've played Skyrim or Fallout 3 or 4, then you're going to be disappointed by Starfield at best, and more likely angered by the lack of agency and truly phoned-in elements all over the gameplay loops. So if you're familiar with The Elder Scrolls or the Fallout universe, you should avoid Starfield.

If you've never played Skyrim of Fallout, then for the love of all that is healthy, go and play one of those instead.

 

[dirtyferret]

You don't need to play it. Your time is going to be much better spent of just about anything else. I played it because it was free, and I still want a refund.

If you've played Skyrim or Fallout 3 or 4, then you're going to be disappointed by Starfield at best, and more likely angered by the lack of agency and truly phoned-in elements all over the gameplay loops. So if you're familiar with The Elder Scrolls or the Fallout universe, you should avoid Starfield.

If you've never played Skyrim of Fallout, then for the love of all that is healthy, go and play one of those instead.

ive played most of the elder scroll and fallout games. I figured maybe it was like outer worlds which I enjoyed but I do hear a lot of people stating the starfield is just boring