Board 8 > BioWare is kill

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Wow, it's like it's not a good strategy to fire your talented workers and replace them with SJW hacks!
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i'm glad these reviewers could be honest about how bad Andromeda is instead of dishonest like when they said how good Zelda is
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Like Zelda, Andromeda is not nearly as good as the reviewers said. User score is barely above 4.

Even "professional" game journalists can't call a turd solid gold.
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the game isn't even out yet

I have a feeling these user reviewers may not have played the game.
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Mar 21, 2017
Bioware hasn't made a decent game since Mass Effect 2, and that was nearly 10 years ago. At this stage, I'm just going to write them off as a hack development studio that pushes out social justice nonsense for tumbrites rather than great RPGs for gamers.

At least CD Projekt Red exists, and they've surpassed EA's hack dev team years ago. Collapse

0/10 from this guy who definitely played the game
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Vlado posted...

Like Zelda, Andromeda is not nearly as good as the reviewers said. User score is barely above 4.

are you implying that there is a general score inflation with professional reviewers or that these are outliers?
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Kenri posted...

Vlado posted...

Like Zelda, Andromeda is not nearly as good as the reviewers said. User score is barely above 4.

are you implying that there is a general score inflation with professional reviewers or that these are outliers?

Implying? It's pretty well known that there is. >_>
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There are two types of blatant outliers:
1. Companies that pay a good buck for advertisement
2. Companies/series the "journalists" are blind fanboys of
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There are two types of users:

1. Ones that people give a f*** about
2. You
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IIRC Andromeda was made by the Montreal team, while the Edmonton team basically did all the games Bioware is known and loved for (Mass Effect 1-3, Dragon Age, KotoR, etc)
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In Bioware's defense, the girl lied on her resume.
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Jesus Christ. Shut the hell up and form your own ****ing opinion. Are you really so pathetic as to not even being able to afford a single current gen console so all you can resort to is b****ing and moaning about games you can only dream of playing.
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There are two kinds of spurs.

1. Ones that came in through the door
2. Ones that come in through the window
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Axl_Rose_85 posted...

Jesus Christ. Shut the hell up and form your own ****ing opinion. Are you really so pathetic as to not even being able to afford a single current gen console so all you can resort to is b****ing and moaning about games you can only dream of playing.

Your rage is pretty sad, but anyway, we are talking about a PC game here. And if you believe any post-PS3 console (except maybe Switch if you're a huge Nintendo fan) is worth owning when you already own a decent computer, then lmfao.
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Vlado, there's this thing called metabombing...
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BioWare is kill

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OFFENSIVE (Do I still have to warn about that?)
http://www.metacritic.com/user/AnthonyBurch01
This is someone who actually wrote a "review". A lot of them just clicked a number.
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paperwarior posted...

OFFENSIVE (Do I still have to warn about that?)
http://www.metacritic.com/user/AnthonyBurch01
This is someone who actually wrote a "review". A lot of them just clicked a number.

"Life Of Black Tiger
Average User Score: 7.6
Mar 3, 2017

Life Of Black Tiger
Better than Breath of Wild by far Better than Breath of Wild by far Better than Breath of Wild by far Better than Breath of Wild by far Better than Breath of Wild by far Better than Breath of Wild by far Better than Breath of Wild by far Better than Breath of Wild by far Better than Breath of Wild by far"

seems like a serious and objective reviewer to me
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lmao, look at these people cherry-picking as if that means anything.
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I should've preempted that. I did pick one that looked particularly bad as an example of my point, but I didn't have to look very hard. Besides, I should make it clear that I'm not defending this Mass Effect. It looks pretty bad. I'm just saying that Metacritic has a questionable userbase and not much curation.
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Now, when users rate something higher on Metacritic, I'm more likely to take them seriously. This generally doesn't happen with AAA, because they're usually high-rated by reviewers and metabombed by fanboys. Sometimes professional reviewers fail to see the greatness in a game overall, like the one in my sig. You should note that MC is also weighted towards the big review sites. It could help your point.
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There is no question that there are lots of trolls on Metacritic, but they can't change the big picture so much. If we look at games both rated high and beloved by fans, there is no such difference in scores. Such huge differences arise when a game is overrated by paid and/or biased "journalists."
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Bioware has been s*** since being bought by EA in 2007. WRPGs were dumbed down to hell last gen.
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Vlado posted...

There is no question that there are lots of trolls on Metacritic, but they can't change the big picture so much. If we look at games both rated high and beloved by fans, there is no such difference in scores. Such huge differences arise when a game is overrated by paid and/or biased "journalists."

See, I know there's some truth in that, perhaps due more to hype, expectations and the question of how you'll be treated by the devs (Jim Sterling has talked about this, specifically with the sending of advance review copies) than literal monetary bribes. But I think you're looking for justifications to not like what you don't like. You're entitled to as a human being. You don't need to be vindicated by the masses or the pros.
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There are two types of Vlados

1. The Vlado that Vlados all the time
2. The Vlado that opts not to Vlado but is still in fact Vlado and can't escape the truth
3. There is no three and I made you look
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And if there's anything you can say about the trolls, they have numbers, even if they have to make alts. There's also the issue of non-trolls voting 0 or 10 to sway the average more. If you're giving a textless rating and feel strongly about it, that's how you can make the biggest difference.
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Metal_DK posted...

Bioware has been s*** since being bought by EA in 2007. WRPGs were dumbed down to hell last gen.

True, true... Even the first Mass Effect, which was by far the most WRPG one of the series.

paperwarior posted...

See, I know there's some truth in that, perhaps due more to hype, expectations and the question of how you'll be treated by the devs (Jim Sterling has talked about this, specifically with the sending of advance review copies) than literal monetary bribes. But I think you're looking for justifications to not like what you don't like. You're entitled to as a human being. You don't need to be vindicated by the masses or the pros.

Yes, I agree completely.
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Hey Vlado have you played this game Y/N

You have to stop attacking games if you haven't played them that's not very good game journalism IMO. Losing views to your blog
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I'm attacking BioWare in this case. The game being s*** is only a natural consequence of their idiocy.
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Vlado posted...

Wow, it's like it's not a good strategy to fire your talented workers and replace them with SJW hacks!

The "SJW hack" didn't actually lead the animation team, it was a lie.

Once again, Vlado is #fakenews
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Vlado posted...

if you believe any post-PS3 console (except maybe Switch if you're a huge Nintendo fan) is worth owning when you already own a decent computer, then lmfao.

You're missing out on a lot of great titles, friend. My ps4 has seen far more play than my ps3, and i enjoyed the ps3 quite a bit.
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Important question. Have you played the game? If you have and played it to decent length, then I rest my case.
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There are two types of people in this world.

1. Those with loaded guns
2. Those who dig. You dig.
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vlado continuing to be the worst journalist on b8
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There's only two types of people in the world

1. The ones that entertain
2. The ones that observe
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There are 10 types of people in the world. People who understand binary numbers, and people who don't.
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the title of this topic is grammatical trash. is it meant to be edgy? is vlado more prone to misuse words than I've noticed before? I mean "journos" was embarrassing enough, but I just kinda half assumed he did that because that topic title was fairly long so maybe he had to cut back on a few characters, but that is clearly not the case here.
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FigureOfSpeech posted...

the title of this topic is grammatical trash. is it meant to be edgy? is vlado more prone to misuse words than I've noticed before? I mean "journos" was embarrassing enough, but I just kinda half assumed he did that because that topic title was fairly long so maybe he had to cut back on a few characters, but that is clearly not the case here.

It's a meme.
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FigureOfSpeech posted...

the title of this topic is grammatical trash. is it meant to be edgy?

Lmao, look at this normie scum. :->)
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Anagram posted...

FigureOfSpeech posted...

the title of this topic is grammatical trash. is it meant to be edgy? is vlado more prone to misuse words than I've noticed before? I mean "journos" was embarrassing enough, but I just kinda half assumed he did that because that topic title was fairly long so maybe he had to cut back on a few characters, but that is clearly not the case here.

It's a meme.

you dip
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Breath of the Wild is a great game.
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is journos a meme too or just this topic title?
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FigureOfSpeech posted...

is journos a meme too or just this topic title?

It's not a meme.
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ugh, well regardless of what is or is not a meme, vlado sucks
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Vlado is not a meme is a meme
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GOATTHlEF posted...

I found the action parts enjoyable, but the dialogue is written by robots. It's just so wooden and disjointed nidoran female

What
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why are you saying random Pokémon names in your posts
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Is this a gimmick

Why are we still doing gimmicks in 2017
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