"And that's just games with know release dates through February and not even a complete list."
Just on the PSVR2 side:
Alvo: (Today!) ($5 upgrade.)
Border Bots: (9/28/2023)
Broken Edge: (9/19/2023)
Down and Out: (Today!)
Hellsweeper: (9/21/2023)
Madison VR: (Fall 2023)
Ovrdark: a Do Not Open story (2024) (included because it appears to have been added on the store today.)
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Something that stuck out to me during the Nintendo show, which I didn't think would change with this State of Play, is that Sony could stand to leverage their popular IP the way Nintendo does to supplement their bigger releases with smaller titles that nonetheless gain attention because of the franchises associated with them.
It's a bot. While you're in that comment history, pick out the comments that look like responses rather than advertisements. Then, run a search for matching comments in the comment section where it was posted.
Bot account or alt account with the person behind it slipping up and accidentally posting the same thing across multiple accounts? This is at least the second time it's posted the same comment as Julion.
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It seems the argument you're trying to make is that review codes not being sent to certain outlets could not be an attempt to influence the Meta score if the codes were withheld from an entire region. Manipulation can be done this way. The manipulator would base which regions to include and exclude based on their predictions of how the reviews from the regions will impact the score. Those predictions could be based historical record (prior reviews) and some knowledge of the weight Meta as...
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"Yet his opinion doesn’t hold weight but I’m guessing your opinion does? 😂 y’all funny"
You get mixed up about which account to post that from?
You like what you like, and good for you if you like what you like regardless of whether your opinion aligns with reviews, but posting what you did in response to this review, without any attempt to address the review, smacks of the type of speak-it-into-existence, desperate, propagandizing that has become too common.
I read the review and saw no such admission. I did see where you may have misread what was written and confused accolades (such as "best exclusive on Xbox Series X") for the review score.
"The software situation on Xbox is considerably different than the Switch though and Hi-Fi Rush has not been ignored. Which is a good job because it’s the best exclusive on Xbox Series X.
"Admittedly, that’s not saying much, given this is also the fir...
"Even if it’s final score is 80, does that make it a bad game?"
A Metacritic score can't MAKE a game good or bad. A single, individual critic score is at best a reflection of how the game would be popularly received by the reviewer's target audience. A Metacritic score is determined using an inherently flawed process of curating outlets to include for reviews, assigning different weights based on the outlet doing the review, sometimes converting scores to ...
It's 84 now. The Meta still had the Metro review as pending at the time of your comment.
I have a feeling many of them spend a portion of their day unironically portraying other people as mentally fragile.
What exactly did I say that requires trust rather than going to look at the two sources I spoke on, the article and Metacritic? A two comment account created to reply to me talking about trust. That's ironic.
"How petty can playstation community be? I have ps5 and psvr2 myself but i dont want to be a part of this community mentality. It only prove how frustrated your are of not getting starfield."
Was the PS community so frustrated they review bombed the wrong platform?
A greater percentage of user reviews on PC are mIxed than on Xbox.
A greater percentage of user reviews on PC are negative than on Xbox.
A greater number of user r...
"I mean you can obviously tell when a review is bombing. 0 is 100% one."
Incorrect, but that's beside the point. The article didn't attempt to make that point. The article did nothing at all beyond make the accusation to substantiate the claim.
From the article:
"Unfortunately, the game’s limitations and exclusivity on Xbox and PC systems, have prompted numerous gamers to start review-bombing it on Metacritic as ...
You could try rising to the level of conversation rather than stooping to straw-man arguments. Do that and you might notice that I didn't offer my personal opinion on the legitimacy of the negative reviews.
I pointed out that the article does more to suggest the criticisms are valid while making no attempt to substantiate the accusation of review bombing. What is it that I actually said that you take issue with?
In fairness...
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I think it's a stretch to call this news when no supporting evidence is offered to substantiate the major claim. Definitions of review bombing vary, but most, if not all, involve an attempt to coordinate multiple reviews to affect an overall score or impression.
The article does more to suggest the criticisms are valid while making no attempt to substantiate the accusation of reviewing bombing. Instead, we get gems like "most of the scores left by disgruntled game...
We don't have a moral obligation to throw money at devs and publishers. The increase is over 33%. PS+ is a secondary revenue stream for the vast majority of titles on it. Despite my misgivings about Game Pass, I will say, and have said, developers or publishers are paid by MS to put their games on there. What things will look like for them or gamers in a world where GP is the dominant model is a separate conversation.
Please don't take anything I have said as an in...
It should also make people consider what can happen if subs weaken or eliminate other options. These increases would be less of an issue, and possibly something Sony wouldn't have attempted, if there was still the ability to play online without a subscription. They are leveraging the elimination of that option to implement these price increases.
The keyword in that headline is "team." BG3's Director of Publishing defended the "average developer at Bethesda," against the suggestion that they lack passion, placing blame on leadership instead. That is not the defense of the quality of the game that you're trying to spin it into.
It's wild how many people on this site overplayed the Starfield card in their hand because they desperately need bragging points in the console war. There hav...