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[Zinegata]

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey review

Our Elite Dangerous: Odyssey review explains why an expansion which adds on-foot exploration to the venerable space sim is both buggy and boring.

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I think they waited for the patch to drop - and saw it didn't really change much - before finally publishing this.

But hey, all games media critical of Elite are just angry Internet people right?

 

[Stamford Rider]

all games media critical of Elite are just angry Internet people right?

Well, in a sense, yes. They don't have any particular expertise over anyone else, so their opinion is as valid as anyone else's, and no more so.

 

[CMDR Sophie Joanne]

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey review

Our Elite Dangerous: Odyssey review explains why an expansion which adds on-foot exploration to the venerable space sim is both buggy and boring.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

Not at all the experience I've had with Odyssey - 3/10!

 

[fourrunes]

They also wait to see what most of the public/community thinks then say something along those lines...

 

[Captain Willard]

The majority of game reviewers need to go back to the day job they are good at.
Sacking groceries.

 

[jackoisinthehouse]

He's not lying, some of the facts re true. Odyssey needs some Love, we re still in an alpha, even after release date. Sad, but true.

 

[Slange Lands]

The majority of game reviewers need to go back to the day job they are good at.
Sacking groceries.

Steam right now has 1509 positive and 3205 negative reviews for Odyssey. I doubt that the great majority have ever worked at a grocery store. Retail maybe.

 

[Crumly]

I made it about halfway into his story about scanning mold, saw there were several more sentences about it, and closed the tab.

 

[Slange Lands]

They also wait to see what most of the public/community thinks then say something along those lines...

Many game publishers purposefully give free game codes to important reviewers far in advance of launch day, so that reviewers can publish their reviews on launch day. If publishers actually give the actual entire game to reviewers to play through thoroughly, this is great for consumers.

It means that publishing companies are confident enough of their product that reviewers opinions are mostly of personal preference and not myriad bugs, performance issues and crashing.

Ofc, there are great reviewers and poor ones. The great ones will always show you in gory detail why they feel the way they do.
Here in the USA we have the FDA to insure that that the drugs we have access to are not quackery.
I use game reviewers as a tool to make a more informed decision about a purchase.

And so do the investors and financial analysts who specialize in financing the gaming industry, thank goodness.

 

[Montgomery Dog]

I know that many don't want to hear it - but that's hardly an unfair review.

 

[Slange Lands]

What I find unfathomable is that there are people who automatically judge an opinion as unworthy just because they are not in agreement with it.

They automatically dehumanize and dismiss those with whom they disagree.

Is an opinion more important than a person's humanity?

[EDIT: I am guilty of this myself, too. I am working on it.]

 

[babelfisch]

Is that a review or a joke? Criticism is justified in many areas and he managed to spot a few, but he completely fails to mention anything about the gameplay in Odyssey. As a post on a forum that might be OK, but he gets paid to test games, right?