• CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Eh, I don’t love IGN but it seems like at this point nothing they do makes people happy. I remember when they gave Starfield a 7 people rioted lol, even tho the score was entirely deserved.

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      6 months ago

      Were people angry because it was low or high? I’d give it a lower score personally, though I’ve still seen some people argue it’s a perfect game

      I’d say it deserves a perfectly mediocre 5. Everything it does is better in other games, and the one thing it’s supposed to do (exploration) is better in their other games. I live sci-fi so I was willing to overlook a lot of issues, but I think the biggest letdown is that the sci-fi stories it tells are boring as hell and don’t actually make use of the genre. If they really wanted to make a sci-fi game they should have been ready to tell interesting sci-fi stories. Instead they gave up all the strengths of their other games to tell uninteresting stories.

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      6 months ago

      Bethesda should have put “Mario” or “Zelda” in the title if they wanted better scores from IGN.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      A seven is VERY generous for Starfield… but I know game review scores are BS and only go from 5-10.

      • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        Totally agree, tbh I even felt 7 was a bit too high. But people were pissed that it was that low.

        Dunkey actually made a great video showing how any game that gets below an 8 gets slammed, regardless of the title. Was kind of funny tbh, albeit a little sad.