Roufianos
Member
Is it? How many AAA games a year score 60 on MetaCritic? Reviewers don't use the full scale.
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Banjo64
cumsessed
We all know that game reviews are basically;
10 amazing
9 really great
8 and 7 it’s ok
6 and below utter wank
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
I ended up down a wormhole thanks to that guy. I watched his "I accidently became a meme" video on youtube, now I can't help watching all the "I accidently became a meme" videos that get suggested to me.
Negotiator101
Member
Who's we? On a scale of 1 to 10 6 is not terrible.
KungFucius
King Snowflake
Why would toilet paper sales get butt hurt by this game?
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Kenneth Haight
Gold Member
or like good games lol
Shizumapower
Member
Interfectum
Member
For a major release a 6 may as well be a 2 or 3. It's terrible.
Sosokrates
Report me if I continue to console war
Go woke get broke.
Ravi_elite
Banned
Bragr
Banned
I can't speak into words the hate I have for these characters, I wanna put them into a blender. The game sounds like it's written by dogs, raving about overlords and debts and every political topic teenagers think they understand. It's incredibly low-brow low-effort.
Some games should not be made, I hate being this sort of person, but this game grinds my gears in the worst way.
Some games should not be made, I hate being this sort of person, but this game grinds my gears in the worst way.
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The Cockatrice
Member
You must be new to gaming and real life. Did you ever eat at a 6 out of 10 rated restaurant? Everything below 7-8 is dog shit.
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Isa
Member
As a longtime SR fan this is definitely a bummer. I'm the kind of guy that usually gives a game a fair shake personally to see if I like it instead of following big review sites and such. But even I cancelled my preorder a month or two ago. I know people are shitting on it bad and its warranted, but I think the claims that its gunplay was always this bad is wrong. The SR games have been pretty good in their time as a standard 3rd person shooter compared to the lock-on targeting of GTA imho. What's worse in this game is the weird hit boxes and registers, its so blatantly bad seeing invisible barriers and boxes being hit. Also npc interaction is terrible.
On the whole though I see this as a trend throughout most of the industry in the west right now. They don't have their priorities in order and just seem to be checking boxes and hoping for ESG score boosts. Not to mention releasing horribly buggy unfinished games where the customer pays for Alpha or Beta access. Imagine buying a car or plane that was unfinished, or more fitting for comparison a book, movie or album that was bugged or had some defect(s). It'd be recalled so quick to avoid litigation out the ass. How are games able to get away with this so frequently? The promise for patches and updates? I grew up with old ass buggy games with colossal issues that'd prevent me from even being to play a game but they were rare and earned refunds and notoriety for the developers and publishers. Many of which are out of business now.
Its funny, the final straw for me to cancel my copy was the change in naming. Rim Jobs and Freckle Bitch's are how they're known to me and how they'll always be. Stupid changes that don't appreciate the stupid humor. This game will definitely be heavily marked down around Black Friday and well any sale most likely.
On the whole though I see this as a trend throughout most of the industry in the west right now. They don't have their priorities in order and just seem to be checking boxes and hoping for ESG score boosts. Not to mention releasing horribly buggy unfinished games where the customer pays for Alpha or Beta access. Imagine buying a car or plane that was unfinished, or more fitting for comparison a book, movie or album that was bugged or had some defect(s). It'd be recalled so quick to avoid litigation out the ass. How are games able to get away with this so frequently? The promise for patches and updates? I grew up with old ass buggy games with colossal issues that'd prevent me from even being to play a game but they were rare and earned refunds and notoriety for the developers and publishers. Many of which are out of business now.
Its funny, the final straw for me to cancel my copy was the change in naming. Rim Jobs and Freckle Bitch's are how they're known to me and how they'll always be. Stupid changes that don't appreciate the stupid humor. This game will definitely be heavily marked down around Black Friday and well any sale most likely.
Sosokrates
Report me if I continue to console war
A big part of the problem is not even political with me, it's the fact that the main characters are just not diverse, it's 4 20-30 hipsters with similar fashion tastes.
Real diversity is real diversity not all the characters being the same age and similer social status.
Take GTA5 for example, the main characters in that are very diverse, you have the 45yr old white guy ex successful robber turned hopeless family man, the low income young black man in the ghetto who has a head on him and wants to progress in the criminal world, and the crazy veteran who's sociopathy and irregular lifestyle has progressed to severe levels. They all have a very distinct looks and characters, this new saints row really fails in this department.
0neAnd0nly
Member
Some of these reviewers are going to get notices regarding their social credits soon.
For real though, one of the reviews the reviewer legit implies he hasn’t finished the game.
“I’m having a great time in Saints Row”, not “I had a great time”.
Gaming journalism in 2022, friends. Just throw a non-extreme number on something after a few hours and your gold.
For real though, one of the reviews the reviewer legit implies he hasn’t finished the game.
“I’m having a great time in Saints Row”, not “I had a great time”.
Gaming journalism in 2022, friends. Just throw a non-extreme number on something after a few hours and your gold.
DragoonWalker
Member
Ah shit, I just want a fun new Saints Row game, without all this drama. But they went too hard left on this, too hard zoomer, from bashing old fans to what seems like try hard writting. At the end of the day none of that matters really, just whether or not your game is good.
Anyway, I care less about the numbers but the things reviewers are saying in the reviews seem worrying. Even the ones that are usually pretty positive aren't so. But I'm a sucker for urban open worlds, and the picking are slim, so I'll give this a try eventually.
Anyway, I care less about the numbers but the things reviewers are saying in the reviews seem worrying. Even the ones that are usually pretty positive aren't so. But I'm a sucker for urban open worlds, and the picking are slim, so I'll give this a try eventually.
MatrixReloaded101
Member
The game didn’t look good from any of the previews I saw but I still think it will sell well because of the time they choose to release, there isn’t much new games to play at the moment.
splattered
Member
OUCH... wasn't expecting much and not surprised. Damn.
Arcadialane
Member
Thats what the devs get for the woke nonsense
digoutyoursoul
Member
Reeked of mediocrity from the first gameplay footage. I couldn’t care less for the politics, my issues are it’s copy and paste, uninspired, bland.
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
As much as I dislike taking pleasure in a game tanking (both critically and commercially), in a general sense. In this case, I'm all fucking in, because this shitshow should have been aborted long ago and the folks who dreamt up the concept within the dev studio should have been shunted off to work on fucking mobile games.
Soltype
Member
Unfortunately that is probably the case, at this point they haven't made a truly decent game in almost 10 years. It's a shame, the company was filled with talented people at one point, their games always had a unique flair.
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Reizo Ryuu
Member
Goddamit, for a second there I thought infinitecombo was back
Banjo64
cumsessed
Obviously reviewers use that scale if you need it explaining.
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eastcoastkody
Member
that dude that wrote the 95/100 review was really on one. called it the best open world city in a game? He said gone are the crackdown style super powers....but the reviews im watching show there are unlockable super type skills? Tight gunplay? every review i've watched say the gunplay on controller is bad
PumpkinPie
Banned
I thought by reboot they were starting from scratch with a new game engine, not just the same game with different characters.
Ravi_elite
Banned
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Saiyan-Rox
Member
The fact there's no other games out soon for me means I'll just keep it and play it anyway
ViciousAgenda
Member
If it's riddled with bugs then how are some of these reviews in the 80s and above?
digoutyoursoul
Member
Precisely. One of the reasons I don’t value reviews these days.
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
Bombs away.
nominedomine
Banned
Honestly, with how inflated game scores are even a game getting 8 and 9 still has a decent chance of being terribly mediocre.
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VN1X
Banned
Saints Row? More like The Antifa Tales.
You can tell exactly what type of people wrote this game. Honestly, the dialogue and subtext is so overt and on the nose... it's just sad to see a once great franchise reduced to this level. Even the humour seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Unreal.
You can tell exactly what type of people wrote this game. Honestly, the dialogue and subtext is so overt and on the nose... it's just sad to see a once great franchise reduced to this level. Even the humour seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Unreal.
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Bernardougf
Gold Member
Scores and awards are based now in "how many woke points did you score" and/or "how many promotion itens and access passes can you give me"
Reviews are now a industry of promotion/marketing and not anymore journalism....
Any video game or movie with the main character being some “badass” with a haircut literally nobody wears except for Karen’s and edgy teens that hates the cool kids and athletes in highschool paired with a basic ass leather jacket and the art form of style being completely lost on them, like Ralph Lauren or Balenciaga doesn’t exist to them…..
It will and always will be dog shit. If you expected anything else well, you have some great optimism my guy. Like I really noticed when devs go for the leather jacket and basic hair cut (2013 lara Croft is the ONLY exception, even then she had some drip lol) 9 times out of 10 the character itself is bland asf alongside the world it’s set in. Happens to many times to be a coincidence.
It will and always will be dog shit. If you expected anything else well, you have some great optimism my guy. Like I really noticed when devs go for the leather jacket and basic hair cut (2013 lara Croft is the ONLY exception, even then she had some drip lol) 9 times out of 10 the character itself is bland asf alongside the world it’s set in. Happens to many times to be a coincidence.
nominedomine
Banned
Awards are much better in that regard.
The problem with inflated scores is an old one and has nothing to do with games being woke or not, if anything scores are a little less inflated now. Your whole point about games getting good scores for being woke makes no sense, specially in a thread about Saints Row bombing.
Lets use Halo Infinite as an example, it got really high scores but it ain't going to win any awards (outside of the nonsensical Neogaf GoTY I guess). Cyberpunk got really good initial scores and hardly any awards as well. The time it takes for awards to be handed allows for some additional perspective.
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