A 7/10 is basically a complete failure, so why didn’t reviewers take my feelings into account before publishing their scores?
A 7/10 is basically a complete failure, so why didn’t reviewers take my feelings into account before publishing their scores?
Didn’t expect an article this good from the website that brought us my laptop’s SSD is too small and that’s other people’s fault.
Game reviews are wild. Just try rating “Zelda: Breath of the Wild But With Crafting” anything but 10/10 and you’ll have fans attacking you from every direction, confused by the narrative that other people don’t like the thing they like.
Everyone around me seems to be enjoying Starfield immensely but people are still raging about it for reasons I can’t be sure about. Some shitheads are mad that you get to pick pronouns but there are people outside thst group thst are also partaking in the review bombing.
I think it’s the same thing that happened to Saints Row. It was a pretty meh game, especially for the price, but it wasn’t the terrible torture that other people made it out to be; it really was just “another Saints Row game” but with better characters. However, once game media started making fun of it, Gamers with a capital G wouldn’t shut up about it. For a while you couldn’t stream the game without getting a chat full of people who needed to make sure you knew the game you were enjoying was actually a bad game.
Now, the Gamer with a capital G has run into a problem: they really like Starfield but all of the websites they read say it’s bad. The cognitive dissonance is scaring them, and in their confusion, they lash out against anything they can find. Obviously the game is Bad because they were told it was Bad, but the game is actually fun so the reviewers are terrible people who should die for giving the game a score that’s too low.
It’s hard being a Gamer; you have to work so hard to show the world how good of a Gamer you are!
This is sarcasm, right? If it were even close to that we all would’ve loved it. To me, it felt like the worst parts of later SR games mashed up with a desperate attempt to replicate Watch_Dogs 2’s vibe. I don’t play Saints Row to play as a dude trying to pay off their student loans while fighting “gangs” that have access to random bullshit technology like neon batons that spin real fast and deflect bullets. That’s the type of stuff that should’ve stayed in Agents of Mayhem with its far less grounded setting.
Eh, I found the original Saints Row characters all annoying. The player character and the wacky missions were all that ever interested me, I honestly didn’t give a fuck about Johnny Gat or anyone around him. All I wanted was to rule the gang and have fun on the missions. If I wanted a realistic open world game that mostly takes itself serious, I’d play GTA V again.
Bullshit tech was introduced in SR3 and only got worse from there. If anything the remake toned it all down a little. Saints Row is best when it balances its GTA parody style and its gritty storyline, and in my opinion the worst parts are where you’re supposed to take the game seriously.
The student loan/millennial relatability pandering was a tone shift for sure, but once you left the introduction and got to the game, that stuff all faded to the background.
Way to deliberately miss the point.