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[Yount14]

Why no DAI review on gametrailers.com yet?

[Fredward]

Why no DAI review on gametrailers.com yet?

 

Or RPS. In fact RPS has been weirdly silent about DAI.

[azarhal]

Why no DAI review on gametrailers.com yet?

 

They are still playing the game last I heard. Kotaku too (actually in this case, the reviewer wanted to replay the game).

[veeia]

John Walker, the RPS guy that I would assume would be the go to DA reviewer, just had a baby, so that might be a factor there.

[SofaJockey]

Reviewers are a LOT tougher now than they used to be. Also who cares about reviewers

 

Many people care. There are plenty of news articles commenting about the fall in Ubisoft's share price, for example...

(not an invitation for a discussion on that which is certainly OT, but just saying)

 

This year has been somewhat of a year of disappointments, so to be riding high even in the face of EA/BioWare's past form is a great achievement.

[Elhanan]

Here is one that may have been missed: HardCoreGamer 5/5

http://www.hardcoreg...sition/116693/

Guessed I simply overlooked it on the OP. Sorry.

[ShinsFortress]

I don't see what the fuss is and am surprised that many people pay attention to professional reviews these days.  Since DA2 I don't put any credence in them at all.

[TheDarkShape]

DA2 has a 78% at Gamerankings.  That's pretty much exactly how I'd rate it.

[JeffZero]

DA2 has a 78% at Gamerankings. That's pretty much exactly how I'd rate it.

I'd say 74% or so, but not far off.

[Inresurrection]

I don't see what the fuss is and am surprised that many people pay attention to professional reviews these days.  Since DA2 I don't put any credence in them at all.

 

Hearing this is more disheartening than hearing about people who treat reviews like a religion. Yes, reviews are biased opinions. No, you don't have to agree with them. However, reviewers / critics take their job seriously and professionally. It is a slap in the face to many hard-working and passionate gaming journalists to say stuff like this. Reviews are professional opinions - you should treat them as such.

[Kel Eligor]

Hearing this is more disheartening than hearing about people who treat reviews like a religion. Yes, reviews are biased opinions. No, you don't have to agree with them. However, reviewers / critics take their job seriously and professionally. It is a slap in the face to many hard-working and passionate gaming journalists to say stuff like this. Reviews are professional opinions - you should treat them as such.

 

Not all reviews are written with the same degree of respect or professionalism though. Sometimes it's "Talk about high-level mechanics in the game, slap on score" with no depth or thought put into the review whatsoever. A lot of people accuse gaming journalists of such, especially with milked franchises a la CoD or AC, which have had many - many - iterations of the same game in the past half-decade with barely anything new between each title. Advanced Warfare seems to be breaking that mold, but from MW2 to BlackOps2, very little seemed to motivate the constant 9/10 those games have been getting when a lot of people were already bored with the formula in MW3.  

[Xeper84]

I'd say 74% or so, but not far off.

 

hmm I'am more critical i would have a hard time giving DA2more than 55%

Bad story

Bad graphics

bad Gameplay

ok companions

was buggy (pc)

74% is a decent game in my books 

[SofaJockey]

Instead of IGN or GameInformer

 

Would it really be so bad to have one DAI advert with the review score on it from ItsGWC:

 

9.99292929292/10 - ItsGWC

 

[JeffZero]

hmm I'am more critical i would have a hard time giving DA2more than 55%
Bad story
Bad graphics
bad Gameplay
ok companions
was buggy (pc)
74% is a decent game in my books

That's fair, of course! I do consider it decent, though, is the thing. Mind you, I don't play many games. But I really liked the companions overall, and felt more of a connection to them than I did in Origins. That played a large part in how much I enjoyed it.

[Mathias]

I was disappointed with DA2 like most people here.

 

But can I just say that the fact that Bioware made at least an enjoyable game, in one year, is pretty impressive?

[bEVEsthda]

There are two problems with this post.

 

The first is that you don't understand capitalism (also known as good business ) because the goal is to expand sales, not sell it to a small group of people repeatedly. You make less money. Origins sold what, 3.2 million copies? To contrast GTA 5 had 11 million sales within a week. Now you may go "Well they're not the same type of game" and you would be correct, but that's because you're not looking at games as a business. If you look at gaming as a business you always want to get more sales. So if Origins didn't sell well because it wasn't accessible you would want to change that in order to get more sales, which means more money, and means that the series will continue. 

 

The second is that if you only have RPG fans review an RPG then those reviews are heavily biased. The reviews would either be "THIS IS THE BEST RPG EVER!" or "THIS IS THE WORST RPG EVER!" which is statistically useless. You can't look at the outliers in order to make sense of the data.

 

3.2 million is really good for a first game in a franchise.  I believe it's a pretty solid figure for franchises that eventually go extremely big, like CoD and TES. The really big sales, 10-20 millions, comes later, sequel 3,4 or 5, if the franchise is well managed. So the comparison to GTA5 is not particular fair to make. GTA has worked up a considerable mindshare over the years. How many copies did the first GTA sell? I don't know, but I think the first GTA game that really got rolling was GTA3. As for CoD, I also don't remember clearly, but I think I remember original sales indeed were in the order of also 3 mill?

As for this compulsion that one must change things to make it "more accessible", I would have though Bethesda had already totally debunked that myth with their TES series. Overall, I'd say that games following 'mainstream' videogame paradigms and featuring 'mainstream' gameplay never become really good sellers. It's always the different ones, which eventually become the big franchises. God of War being the obvious exception, but it ran out of steam pretty soon, didn't it?

 

As for these reviews, I don't see anyone having said anything alarming. So calm down and let the game speak for itself.

The only criticism sofar have been that one reviewer thinks the game "is not like I expected/wanted it to be" and the next reviewer has a different "is not like I expected/wanted it to be", etc. Screw them. Let's discover what the game really is instead.

[MonkeyLungs]

I had a ton of complaints about DA 2 but I still played through it quite a few times. After awhile I adapted to the changes and the game became more about the characters for me.

[(Disgusted noise.)]

Dragon Age's Biggest Achievement Is It's Writing

 

http://www.polygon.c...-is-its-writing

[Wulfram]

Think this is new

http://www.gamefront...phant-return/3/

[veeia]

In case anyone still cares, since people (myself included) were wondering about RPS's review earlier, I asked and got word that they won't have a review up anytime soon, but it has nothing to do with the game nor their opinions on it/the studio, it was just some internal mix ups or whatnot. Bummer, since it was the review I was most interested in, but so it goes.  

[Eudaemonium]

As for this compulsion that one must change things to make it "more accessible", I would have though Bethesda had already totally debunked that myth with their TES series. 

 

Isn't one of he common complaints around Skyrim from TES players that they radically reduced the complexity from earlier titles? Either way, simply comparing Skyrim to Morrowind, it's pretty clear that they *did* change things to make them more "accessible", so I'm not sure what your point about this is.

[Wulfram]

The Guardian: a truly monumental game

[Coverage]

In case anyone still cares, since people (myself included) were wondering about RPS's review earlier, I asked and got word that they won't have a review up anytime soon, but it has nothing to do with the game nor their opinions on it/the studio, it was just some internal mix ups or whatnot. Bummer, since it was the review I was most interested in, but so it goes.

 

heh, maybe they just weren't given a review copy....or they lost the one they got.

[Chriagon]

German "PC Games" rates Dragon Age Inquisition 89%.

[Kirikou]

Or RPS. In fact RPS has been weirdly silent about DAI.

 

 

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