Regardless of how dumb Gamespot is, their score is still contributing to the Metacritic average. There are plenty of people who just look at scores, or read a couple reviews and look at scores. It's hard to say just how much that works out to in this case (non-transparent weighting), but its probably around 2% (lower Metacritic rating). That is pretty lame.
I was more offended by the literary incompetence than the supposed content. There are so many possible responses to it, but a lengthy item by item response seems to give it far more credit than it deserves :(
Settle seems like the wrong word somehow... but me too!
The only thing I think Bethesda has consistently done brilliantly is their world design. So I wonder, where does this fear come from?
Depends on whether you are talking about Age of Wonders or ancient Greek government. Seems like it would be closer to the latter in SK.
There are two parts of that review that really stood out as high praise. The first is that Stardock did something different and did it well. The second is the effort that went into writing the narrative and characters.
@ChungasRevenge Apparently I was being too obtuse. I was paraphrasing part of Stardock's Gamer's Bill of Rights. It is a far more reasonable standard than some convoluted appeal to intuition and relativism. Conveniently enough it also has an item relating to support and updates after release, which is that it is reasonable for someone to expect them (again, paraphrasing). Releasing a finished game and supported a released game are not the same thing.
I remember, in the halcyon days of yore, when expecting a game that is released to feel finished was considered reasonable. Apparently that is no longer so for fanboy apologists (if it ever was).
Consoles have had patches and dlc for quite a while now, adding mods to that should be technically trivial. But that really does seem to be the issue RavenX. I suspect the data gathering would be more of a bonus on their giant rent farming (subscription of some kind required) content hub. Also, I'm surprised you bought into press speculation and twitter response from Bethesda. It sounds like Native Resolution hype got conflated with PC and mixed in with a
[quote who="cardinaldirection" reply="2" id="3568386"] which games are you referring to? [/quote] Civ, for example. The linked thread presents as an observation, but it (that thread) is really about save scumming, not random seeds. If you don't do it, then it isn't an issue (or at least not much of one, since a game can crash or you quit without saving, etc.).
[quote who="RavenX" reply="36" id="3566708"] 30 fps on Every system? That seems a bit...odd. I wonder why that is. Skyrim runs faster than 30fps on PC. I wonder if that's a hard coded cap? [/quote] I'm guessing it was meant as a minimum. It's not much of a claim really, since it is a compliance requirement for consoles and nigh impossible to guarantee for PCs (compatibility is a nightmare).
I'd like to know as well. Your enthusiasm must be contagious, since I'm reinstalling FO3. I don't think I've played it modded yet, so there should still be much fun to be had this time around. I watched the FO4 presentation a second time and am pretty excited for that too. There was a bunch of mechanics stuff that I'm curious about now (like how skills and perks will work, and getting xp from crafting).
[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="22" id="3564645"] One concern: Wish I knew what PC specs are necessary to play Fallout 4 with he same graphic settings we see in the previews. [/quote] This one is tricksy, since unless a demo shows clearly that it is running on a console it is probably running on a PC (and a very powerful one at that). I don't think it is common any more to run demos on a dev kit (huge risk and first parties put in the contract that dev kits wi
[quote who="OsirisDawn" reply="2" id="3560539"] And since they cant mess it up with GfW, i am ... Excited !!! [e digicons]:drool:[/e] [/quote] Sure they can't mess it up with GfW, but it still has to go through microsoft and sony submissions for the console versions. It's not that dissimilar, and since one of those will be the lead sku us poor PC users will likely get rubbish
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="48" id="3558781"] the amount of psychoanalyss going into a 1 line quip is impressive here. I was not referring to any particular review or any particular game. I simply think it's poor form for someone who's played a game for many many hours to go and take the time to crap on it in the steam reviews. Clearly, not everyone agrees. That's fine. I'm not looking to convince anyone. However, strangers breathlessly
The generous side of me sees the OP as a statement of disapprobation. The cynical side of me sees a spoiled developer who (apparently) thinks they are entitled to positive reviews. The twist isn't interesting. The logical side of me sees a the OP as disingenuous and manipulative. Voting and aggregation don't work that way (assuming they work at all), nor should they.
[quote quoting="post"] I wish there was a way in Steam to filter a not show any Early access games. [/quote] You mean like the filter found when you click on the "customize" buttons? It's not perfect, or global, but it should help.
[quote who="Jafo" reply="16" id="3541144"] The 'mono' in 'monopoly' means 'one'....not four. I always thought accountants danced to their own tune...[e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] Amusing, but unfair. Pretend they said monopolistic, rather than monopoly. It's like mochi being glutinous, even though it doesn't contain any. They do! The basic assumptions of accounting are pure fict
What a scam! When I first heard of this I was filled with revulsion and it only increases as more and more problems become apparent. Just one simple example among many, SkyUI is the most popular mod for Skyrim by far. It takes the atrocious console interface and makes it somewhat PC friendly. It's great that this mod exists, and a travesty that it has to. Now it can be put behind a pay gate that generates more revenue for Bet
[quote who="Jafo" reply="23" id="3527611"] though it was written and ergo - libel [/quote] It looks like it was a poorly thought out, and poorly written, attempt at sarcasm. Still libel though. There was actually some discussion about the topic before that. The next post is also quite bad, being analogous to "if you don't agree with me you are big dumb dummy head." Yay for derailment?
[quote who="Stanley Tarrant" reply="10" id="3526514"] But it honors the female form! No one bats an eye when there are heavily muscled and shirtless male barbarian characters in games. [/quote] It would have made your point much better to have followed up with the character art Froggy provided for one of the SK minor factions a while back (I think it was Swamp Giants, or something like that). The trollish followup that was given instead doesn't help anythi
What a strange melange of Stardockian, Shakespeare and Mr. Burns!
[quote who="Campaigner" reply="5" id="3520726"] You must be one of those "like the original or NO!" guys. You should be happy for what you get and hope for better. Did you find Xenonauts as great as the original? [/quote] Hardly, but since this appears to be a trick question (well, statement), I'll respond to both parts. Branding fills me with ennui, not passion. I'm quite capable of looking at a game on its own (most people can, suggesting
So much hyperbole and slippery slope! I haven't played the Firaxis abominations, but the original is okay. Have you tried Xenonauts? I found it worth buying and enjoyed playing.
[quote who="Borg999" reply="10" id="3514594"] It has been my personal experience that most company's that claim to be meritocracy are in reality operating under the same old company politics as usual. It's just something they put in their marketing/PR material [/quote] Probably because that's what's going on. A corporation is awfully close in structure to a dictatorship, and far from anything-ocracy. The part in the quote I would take issue w