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[cyborg2501]

Perhaps the major reviewers know something that we don't.

[Sir MOI]

www.jeuxvideo.com/articles/0001/00016644-mass-effect-3-test.htm
A test by jeuxvideo.com (probably the most important french game website)
It got 18/20 overall!

Modifié par Sir MOI, 13 mars 2012 - 11:33 .

[Carnage752]

They probably bribed every single review site, especially the ones no one has even heard of.

Right?

[LinksOcarina]

Carnage752 wrote...

They probably bribed every single review site, especially the ones no one has even heard of.

Right?

No, if anything my own stuff is proof of that.

www.blisteredthumbs.net/2012/03/mass-effect-3-review/

[Starchs]

Paid Reviews: Critics or Conmen?

Mass Effect 3 in Nut Shell

[Sir MOI]

Mass Effect 3 in Nut Shell

Dam! This song is from a Cyber Metal called Sybreed "A.E.O.N"! Great one

[_IDontcare_]

This has to be a record for the largest discrepancy in Professional vs. User reviews in gaming history.

http://www.metacriti...0/mass-effect-3

[ticklefist]

Starchs wrote...

Paid Reviews: Critics or Conmen?

Mass Effect 3 in Nut Shell

Some excellent vids there.

[StowyMcStowstow]

Man, that's a lot of 9/10+ reviews. Were they all on drugs? Because I think we played different games.

[ticklefist]

The only review blurb I've read that is both honest and spoiler free came from PC Gamer.

The end of the series is a mixed bag. Satisfying in some ways, nonsensical in others, and ultimately too simple. But the sheer scale of the adventure it's ending – and the music, which is gorgeous throughout – gives it an emotional impact that goes beyond its plot payload.

Their score of 93/100 was a bit generous. 70-85/100 seems more honest and accurate to me. Anything above that is just a reviewer that got swelled up in the hype and job perks.

Modifié par ticklefist, 14 mars 2012 - 03:23 .

[StowyMcStowstow]

LinksOcarina wrote...

Carnage752 wrote...

They probably bribed every single review site, especially the ones no one has even heard of.

Right?

No, if anything my own stuff is proof of that.

www.blisteredthumbs.net/2012/03/mass-effect-3-review/

I'm sorry, but that game doesn't deserve a 8/10. At all. It's not even the graphics or the endings. The game simply was not as good as ME1. Heck, the VOA's for the epilogue stargazer and child were atrocious. I don't know who they are, but they need practice. If you were to play ME1 as a standalone game, disregarding ME2 and 3, it's an amazing game, minus the Virmire mission. It ends on a high note, making you feel like a BOSS and LIKE YOU ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING. 

Also, that kid, that gave Shepard nightmares? I never game a single damn about him. It was the most forced and contrived emotional attachment anything has ever tried to force upon me in the history of gaming. I am not kidding. It actually began to ****** me off, because I gave nary a damn and the game kept telling  me "Shepard gives a damn! Look at how much YOUR Shepard gives a damn!" when MY Shepard stopped giving a f**k the nanosecond the kid ran away into the air duct. Also, I like how fudging useless the Rachni queen was. Yeah, great story arc there, Bioware. Turning a potential ally and an extremely interesting creature into cannon fodder for vaguely explained and wholly stupid reasons? GOOD MOVE BIOWARE.

[Killjoy Cutter]

Kid ran off, sad but at that point what can Shep do?

I hate it when games try to tell me how my character feels or what my character thinks.


Rachni Queen?  Wasted.

TIM?  Wasted. 

Udina?  Wasted.

Kai Leng?  Pathetic character, Villain Sue dragged in from halfarse outside media. 

Etc, etc, etc. 

Modifié par Killjoy Cutter, 14 mars 2012 - 03:41 .

[Blablabla79]

There is only one review with under 80% and it is the most believable in Germany. Kudos to 4players.de.

[piezor]

Blablabla79 wrote...

There is only one review with under 80% and it is the most believable in Germany. Kudos to 4players.de.

They probably managed to escape the indoctrination.

[XDRonin]

Lets be clear, the only review that ultimately really matters is that of the ME fans. Not that of some pay writer, who most likely never played the previous games before and only play a couple of hours (1 or 2 missions) of ME3... And now the same so called "Experts" can not understand why so many of ME fans are angry & disappointed, even after they gave ME3 their highest rating possible, 10outof10/5stars/etc. HA! what a joke.

[Tonymac]

The point is that you cannot trust the critics. If they say a movie is bad - then go see it. If they say its great -avoid it like the plague. Thats how you find gems like the movie Snatch (its about gangsters and robbers, so don't think its xxx)

Mass Effect 3 is not a bad game, per se - I liked a lot of it. But I did dislike the ending(s). I'm not sure if thats because of the amount of time that I spent playing it, or the attachment that I felt to my characters, or the level of immersion or what.

I have the sneaking suspicion that if I had not played any of the mass effect before this game then I would have been ok with the ending. However, the experience becomes different when you ARE Shepard. When you play it like we the audience do, everything takes on a different light. Then the ending is unacceptable.

I guess thats the difference between the guys who make the movies and the audience. If we were actors in Lord of the Rings, then the trilogy would not be the same experience as it would for everyone else.

[Ravenmyste]

grats bioware it is a really good game

[instantdeath999]

Honestly, though I rarely agree with the critics, in this case they are giving much more balanced reviews than the fan "reviews".  To say that they are paid for is simply laughable, and extremely immature. 

The fact is, though ME3 is a story based game, these reviewers need to look at the game as a whole.  As a whole, ME3 is a very well constructed and very polished game; those that say a bad ending should reduce the games score to a 7/10 or below clearly have no concept of fair criticism. 

If the ending were better, and the quest log wasn't so clunky, the game would likely be getting perfect reviews across the board. 

Modifié par instantdeath999, 14 mars 2012 - 03:11 .

[Killjoy Cutter]

As a whole, ME3 is subpar, and that's without playing it to see the flaws in detail.

A lot of goofy fluff has been added to combat, notably the "combat roll".

The story goes from mediocre throughout, wasting characters and full of tired cliches, to a set of "choose your bowl of crap" endings.

Etc.

[Blablabla79]

instantdeath999 wrote...

Honestly, though I rarely agree with the critics, in this case they are giving much more balanced reviews than the fan "reviews".  To say that they are paid for is simply laughable, and extremely immature. 

The fact is, though ME3 is a story based game, these reviewers need to look at the game as a whole.  As a whole, ME3 is a very well constructed and very polished game; those that say a bad ending should reduce the games score to a 7/10 or below clearly have no concept of fair criticism. 

If the ending were better, and the quest log wasn't so clunky, the game would likely be getting perfect reviews across the board. 

7 out of ten means it is a good game. So what is bad about it? I personally like it when critics use the entire spectrum of their testing system and not just everything above 8. 

People don't think the critics are bribed! But every critic knows how dependent they are on the publishers for every report that happens BEFORE the game is released. Without the expressed allowance from the publisher there will be no visits to the developers, no pre-release playing of the game, no test version. So pissing the publisher off, particular if it is the second biggest of the world, will hurt your magazine and help the sales of the other magazines in the same country. Pretending that critics don't know that is crazy. They depend much more on the publisher than the publisher depends on them. 

ME is a story based game series, so why does a bad ending to the story not effect the score? Is it that unimportant to critics?

Modifié par Blablabla79, 14 mars 2012 - 06:15 .

[Blablabla79]

I am pretty sure I pressed the edit button.

Oh, wait, no sorry. I actually didn't. I accidently used the quote button. So please delete this post and NOT THE OTHER ONE. 

Modifié par Blablabla79, 14 mars 2012 - 06:16 .

[Aedan333]

Up till the last 15 minutes I would give it a solid 9.5 then I started beating my face against the wall as I tried to brain out the ending.

[BuffPhantoms]

cyborg2501 wrote...

Perhaps the major reviewers know something that we don't.

That you don't downrate a game from 9.5 to a 2.0 just becasue of the ending.

If reviewers did thsi,  both Half life and Deus Ex would have been super flops.

[Killjoy Cutter]

Blablabla79 wrote...

People don't think the critics are bribed! But every critic knows how dependent they are on the publishers for every report that happens BEFORE the game is released. Without the expressed allowance from the publisher there will be no visits to the developers, no pre-release playing of the game, no test version. So pissing the publisher off, particular if it is the second biggest of the world, will hurt your magazine and help the sales of the other magazines in the same country. Pretending that critics don't know that is crazy. They depend much more on the publisher than the publisher depends on them. 

Exactly. 

It's not that they're bribed, it's that their publications and their jobs depend on the good will of the game publishers.  

[AlanC9]

StowyMcStowstow wrote...
 If you were to play ME1 as a standalone game, disregarding ME2 and 3, it's an amazing game, minus the Virmire mission. It ends on a high note, making you feel like a BOSS and LIKE YOU ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING. 

Huh?