Gaulish Gaming Banquet: general

adrientd

But "luckily" Asterix games are not that much known that they don't have a score on MetaCritic :LUL:

thewitheredstriker

game journalists are unreliable for a wide plethora of reasons

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some examples being their homogenous nature (i.e. lack of diversity, especially in genre taste) and their disinterest in actually playing video games (most only play small chunks of games so that they can shit out an article as fast as possible with as little effort as needed)

thewitheredstriker

as a result they often tend to suck ass in gaming too, hence leading to the "IGN playing 1-1 in Super Mario Bros." meme

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but perhaps the best example is GameSpot failing to get past the Bubble Bowl "puzzle" in Mermalair in Battle for Bikini Bottom: Rehydrated

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critic reviews and player reviews are also commonly the full opposite

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for example, player reception to TLoU Part 2 was highly negative, but critics gave it perfect scores

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by contrast, BfBB: Rehydrated was lambasted even though players loved it

adrientd

It's true I don't look at reviews that much, especially when I rarely buy games nowadays

thewitheredstriker

I also notice that critics always praise and lambast the same genres on average

thewitheredstriker

Narrative heavy first-person action-adventure games, kinda like what Sony barfs out en masse, tend to almost always be loved by critics

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by comparison, platformers are a very hard sell on them

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it's really just the tip of the iceberg on why game "journalists" are literal jokes and should not, in any possible way, shape or form, be taken seriously

thewitheredstriker

user reviews are what matter

pegperegogaucho

https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-5/asterix-obelix-xxxl-the-ram-from-hibernia

adrientd

maybe narrative games are easier to enjoy when you suck at gaming, hence why journalists like them :LUL:

adrientd

Oh 65 lol

adrientd

Everyone give 64/65

pegperegogaucho

This guy put it very well

pegperegogaucho

unfortunately his review seems to be only one of the pages (for some reason different platforms have different pages)

#general