Current Events > According to GameFAQs, Mass Effect 2 has the highest Metascore as a RPG

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I would never have guessed that, I was curious when using advanced search for RPGs.
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I wrote a review for it

The review is total crap lol
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And when just searching for the Metascore without no genre specified, Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time attained 99 and rated the highest of all titles.

There is a two troll titles at 100, so they don't count whoever did that.
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ME2 was hated at the time, which is kind of funny, though. I still hate that game. I usually skip it and just go from 1 to 3.
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kinetika_ posted...

ME2 was hated at the time, which is kind of funny, though. I still hate that game. I usually skip it and just go from 1 to 3.

I recall nothing but praise for it when it came out
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That's disappointing since it was a disappointing game.
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However I noticed a problem with the metascores, I'm very positive a lot of these titles are supposed to be rated higher besides OOT.

I wonder if new generations of gamers are messing with perceptions.
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Doom_Art posted...

kinetika_ posted...

ME2 was hated at the time, which is kind of funny, though. I still hate that game. I usually skip it and just go from 1 to 3.

I recall nothing but praise for it when it came out

No, there was quite a bit of hate for it. You might recall that because maybe you like the game, but it was heavily criticized by ME fans. Complaints of it being watered down vs ME1, the entire game not actually advancing much plot-wise, and the whole Kaiden/Ashley thing. ME3 tried to undo a lot, and though the ending was underwhelming, 3 was the best of both worlds.
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kinetika_ posted...

ME2 was hated at the time, which is kind of funny, though. I still hate that game. I usually skip it and just go from 1 to 3.

Really? I remember people loving Mass Effect 2 and hyping it to shit, especially over the jank of the first game. The real backlash came with 3 from what I saw, and 2 has started to come down in opinion as people claim that the Mass Effect games were never that good.

Like I can see its hype leading to some sort of backlash at the time, because as far as modern RPG-type titles to, ME2 was pretty big. I can also see a backlash over it being a shooty space military series rather than a geek-safe RPG concept, people referring to it as a shallow CoD type game with face-value RPG aspects because they were pissy about the gun combat. But I don't remember seeing people trash ME2 at the time - for all intents and purposes, in my experience anyway, the game was pretty well received at the time.
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Kaliesto posted...

However I noticed a problem with the metascores, I'm very positive a lot of these titles are supposed to be rated higher besides OOT.

I wonder if new generations of gamers are messing with perceptions.

I think so. We've come a long way as an online community, players are more critical and willing to rate something good on a scale rather than just go "omahgeh best game evur!!!" and say it's a truly great title. You also have people who are more willing to dissent from the hype, look at how big Undertale got and how buttmad GameFAQs posters got over its fanbase, or how Breath of the Wild started to get sunk by people who call it shit like Bore of the Walking or say it's a walking simulator - if the online space was as big as it is today when Ocarina of Time came out, you can bet that it would inspire division among the fanbase. Like pretty good 3D introduction to the series, sure, but you'd get 2D Zelda fanboys blasting the game and you'd have people who just don't take to the gameplay that well. The game wouldn't be a 99, and people would be more willing to state its flaws that come about due to its age while still praising the aspects that it got down pretty well.
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Deservedly so
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*Betascore
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Doom_Art posted...

I wrote a review for it

The review is total crap lol

Just read it. Lmfao
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