Who cares?
Seriously I don't give a flying <insert swear word> about what rating the game gets on some silly site.
Metacritic user score is looking good so far
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Who cares?
Seriously I don't give a flying <insert swear word> about what rating the game gets on some silly site.
lmao, so many 10/10 votes there, obviously not a great source of accurate critique. ED has a great base engine, superb sound and graphics, but as an overall game its half baked, so 5/10 is fair. Metacritic, ppppfffffffft.
EDIT: to be fair I am leaving plenty of room for FD to improve. In my book you don't go from a 10/10 to a 10/10.
You go from a 5/10 to a 10/10.
EDIT: to be fair I am leaving plenty of room for FD to improve. In my book you don't go from a 10/10 to a 10/10.
You go from a 5/10 to a 10/10.
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the thing is: a lot of 0/10 there too.
justified score maybe 8/10 or even 7/10. so the 10/10 are only 2 points away from the, the 0/10 are 8 points away from that and quite more ridicolous as the 10/10 imho.
So?
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Critic score: 81, User score: 5.5 - Is 5.5 a fair score? No, it isn't.
Dragon Age: Inquisition - Critic score: 85, User score: 5.8 - Is 5.8 a fair score? No, it isn't.
User scores are pretty much always way lower than critic scores on Metacritic and they usually fall downwards after a while.
It's also interesting to see all these user reviews describing the game as pretty decent, but still giving it a zero in terms of score. This applies to all games BTW, not just ED. Now the same critic can of course be said about people giving it a 10, but since a 10 will do much less in terms of raising the average in relation to it's "true score" compared to how a zero will drag it down there is no mystery why this trend can be seen on pretty much all games across the board.
Hahaha too true! So many 0/10 votes also. Both set of reviewers aiming to counter-balance the other, blooming pointless.
If I posted reviews to Metacritic (which I don't) I'd be rating ED a 8/10, as I love anything space-related and the exploration ED offers is mindblowing. Thoroughly enjoying what the Galaxy has to offer me so far combat wise too, CMDRs and NPCs. Any future improvements are a bonus! By the time the first expansion arrives I imagine I'd be rating ED a 9/10.
Yes take the average of a large number of estimates and you get pretty close the real figure.
This has been demonstrated with 'Guess the number of jelly beans in the jar' type competitions. The more people guess the closer the average comes to the actual count, often to within one jelly bean.
It's called the 'Wisdom of the Crowd" phenomenon.
I think 7.4 isn't a bad score for a new MMO so close to release.
We all know ED is lacking content at the moment and things are a little dull. If anyone says imagine you're 007 in the future. I'm coming to open to smash some imagination bubbles lol
Content will get added and it'll become a better game. There is a good foundation, it just needs the pretty bits adding. MMOs mature they don't hit the market with full bells and whistles. You need money coming in and the waters testing before you commit more resources.
We all know ED is lacking content at the moment and things are a little dull. If anyone says imagine you're 007 in the future. I'm coming to open to smash some imagination bubbles lol
Content will get added and it'll become a better game. There is a good foundation, it just needs the pretty bits adding. MMOs mature they don't hit the market with full bells and whistles. You need money coming in and the waters testing before you commit more resources.
It might not only be fanboys, the company itself has been found to embellish their own game scores with their own "reviews". Look at the amazon reviews of Fontiers game "Tales from deep Space":
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B00P73L20M/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt/280-1340164-8294717?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
Then google the names of the reviewers. Some of them are Frontier Dev employees who worked on the game or their relatives! For example Oliver de Vine (Fdev programmer) or Julie Stant, relative of James Stant, Senior Audi Designer of the game. (you can find them liking each others facebook pics).
Julie Stants review:
"What an enchanting game. Loved the graphics, adored the music and the sound effects. Great game. Buy it now!!!!!!" lol lol
Erm, you have just compared Elite to a jar of jelly beans.
The process of "rating" is quite different to the process of "guessing".
Much more like over/super-sampling an analogue signal with a low bit resolution analogue to digital converter.