Sam -stone- serious wrote...
Other than Retroldschool i dont see anyone else having an opinion as to why reviews are so "favourable" in their end scores. The game has some flaws, to some small, to others big. Where is that shown in their review?
When i see a review of 90%+ i expect to read the review of a near perfect game. The contrary is true for DAO in a lot of reviews from quite big gaming sites like IGN and Eurogamer. Mangle the game in the review, then go on and plaster a 9 on it. WOW wait, where did that come from?
I've said a few times, Sam, that I seriously dislike game magazines in general since most of them targetting teenage-immature-boy mentality of "everything sucks" : the reviews that rip incessantly on what they review, and then give a score that doesn't match the bashing half the time.
*cough* Game Informer *cough*
That said, there are reviews of the game which are glowing, point out somethings they think are flaws, explain why those flaws are far outweighed by the positives, and give a high score.
PC Gamer, for example, on the CVG site -
http://www.computera...e.php?id=226557Lemme show you what I mean (read the whole review though, don't just go on these few parts)
The major flaw according to the reviewer -
PC Gamer review...
However, in a game with few flaws, there's one flailing giant one when it comes to difficulty settings. The pop-up text suggesting that switching to Easy will remove the need for micromanagement during fights is lying. There are difficulty spikes at certain points where getting through a battle on Easy becomes stunningly hard, and requires frenetic fine-tuning. Similarly, if you choose to play a dwarf rogue, you'll find yourself forced to pick Easy during the opening moments of the game because you're simply incapable of surviving battles otherwise.
Later on, any class can hold their own with enough skills. But unless you're a mage with a cluster of healing spells, you must be prepared to spam health poultices to get through many tough encounters. Ideally this will be fixed with a patch, with a more realistic 'Easy' setting for those who want to play in a genuine real-time way, and a 'Normal' for those who want a reasonable challenge.
acknowledging that flaw, and a few others -
PC Gamer review...
Were the difficulty levels not so enormously silly, it would require sheer pickiness to find a major fault with this game. Importantly, overly difficult sequences can be powered through on Easy, but this doesn't excuse it being necessary. Despite the time and investment required to cultivate relationships with party members, these still feel a little clumsy, and despite my best efforts to have a gay relationship with one party member, I found myself surprised and somewhat confused to have inadvertently accepted the advances of another. Oh, and if we're listing faults, one appalling gaff is the failure to change family members' skin colour if you roleplay a non-caucasian. My main protagonist, a black man, lived as a sort of reverse 'The Jerk', where no one mentioned that his mother,
father and brothers were all white. Embarrassing.
A selection of his conclusions - again, go to the site for the full review and conclusion -
PC Gamer review...
But coming out the other end of an epic 80 hours' first playthrough, I leave with memories that feel like more
than simply events in a game.
(...)
I've not only been to huge cities, but I've learned their past, their present, and been involved in shaping their future. This hasn't felt like passing through a series of checkpoints, but having experienced a
world.
(...)
This is the most enormously detailed game world I've experienced, its history stretching back
thousands of years, its cultures vivid, beautiful and flawed, the battles enormous, the humour superb. Roleplaying games now have a great deal to live up to.
I think this is a well written review. Yes, it's glowing, but I believe that the reviewer really enjoyed it.
And he pointed out some flaws in the game, many of which are staples of this forum.
What's wrong with that review, Sam? Do you agree it's a well-written review even if you don't agree with it's conclusions?
I see it as very professionally written without any of the bashing or immaturity I dislike in so many (including Edge's style) of reviews.
Modifié par MerinTB, 14 décembre 2009 - 08:10 .
are more console style gamers that are just used to and prefer shorter games.
, we are not all knuckle draggers wanting to play nude-bikiini model-zombie-hack-n-slashes or drule over master chiefs hot new armor-of-super-death, like all PC gamers arent LoLzOrzzzOMg-jumping teamspeak WoW addicts or CS junkies :innocent: haha, but I see what youre getting at)
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