IGN gave JWE a bad review,worth a read...

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VR Jay Le Chardon

VR Jay Le Chardon
While I know there was recently a lot of cool stuff for Elite revealed at Lavecon this past weekend, I caught a forum thread on the JWE section of here (it was the most recent topic when I went to forums.frontier.co.uk) which was discussing the kicking of a review JWE took at IGN's hands. While I'm less interested in playing the Digital Dinosaurs game than I would be in a subscription to a weekly journal about paperclip collecting, I read the review to see what criticisms were levelled at JWE, as a cynical Elite player, I have to say the criticisms were all too familiar, I'll let you read the review and discuss it below...

IGN's Review of Jurassic World Evolution game - 4.8/10

the process of unlocking and improving their genomes is painfully dull and repetitive, and doing it 42 times is a special kind of tedium.
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And then you repeat that cycle, dozens and dozens of times, until you’ve done them all. I don’t know if this is intended to replicate the real paleontology work of scrubbing an unearthed fossil with a toothbrush, but if anything it’s less fun.
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there’s no avoiding playing the boring part of Jurassic World Evolution
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Once you’ve unlocked a dinosaur, you have to roll the dice to see if you get to create them.
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in a game where you’re effectively gambling with having to spend more time playing a dull game to get what you want, losing that bet is just depressing
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if you’re making $100,000 per minute and you want to incubate a dinosaur that costs $1,000,000 and has a 70% chance of viability, that’s 10 minutes of gameplay (in which you spend no money, so you’re doing basically nothing) you’re wagering against a 30% chance you’re going to have to spend another 10 minutes doing very little
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It all feels extremely artificial.
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the process of unlocking new species is beyond tedious
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actually running the business is shallow and quickly gets stale.
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Pville_Piper

Pville_Piper
I skimmed the review... One of the complements, the dinos are awesome... 2 of the complaints... Little variation in islands and really repetitious gameplay in unlocking things... Do we see a trend here or what.

Kinda sounds like another game I know of... Now which one was that?
 

zimms

zimms
I don't think that's a good review. So far all other reviews were between 7-8/10 and only IGN is rating it that low.

This guy seems to have more of a problem with the game's genre, than the game itself. Fossils really aren't lootboxes.

"No tanks and nothing like Fortnight. 0/10"
 

Goose4291

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Goose4291
Frontier... dull repetitive grind gameplay criticism?

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Cosmo

Cosmo
The score is rediculous, because They let someone review it who doesn't play many Park Management games. He gave it a lower score than Goat Simulator 8/10, and lower score than the original Jurassic Park Operation Genesis 5.9/10.

Frontier should demand that IGN lets another more suitable person review it.

That said Frontier should learn by now to add DEPTH to games. It looks like they learned with Elite Dangerous' Beyond updates. But obiously if you want an instant 9/10, 10/10 classic rated game, then Frontier must release a game with enough DEPTH from the get go.
 

Lightspeed

Lightspeed
Jayridium said:
While I know there was recently a lot of cool stuff for Elite revealed at Lavecon this past weekend, I caught a forum thread on the JWE section of here (it was the most recent topic when I went to forums.frontier.co.uk) which was discussing the kicking of a review JWE took at IGN's hands. While I'm less interested in playing the Digital Dinosaurs game than I would be in a subscription to a weekly journal about paperclip collecting, I read the review to see what criticisms were levelled at JWE, as a cynical Elite player, I have to say the criticisms were all too familiar, I'll let you read the review and discuss it below...

IGN's Review of Jurassic World Evolution game - 4.8/10
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Reading the comments underneath suggest that IGN are the exception in their poor review. Maybe he is a retired ED player who has given away his stuff?
 
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