RycheMykola Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Warhammer online got a 9/10 also. http://pc.ign.com/articles/918/918335p2.html 4/5 stars for Warhammer online: http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/reviews/41763/Warhammer-Online-Review-1-20 http://warhammeronline.com/reviews/index.php Look at all those high scores and awards!! http://warhammeronline.com/awards/index.php Where is the game now? In the toilet and oh how the reviewers are singing a different tune once it flopped. Reviews by so called professional journalists are utter trash and should be taken with a grain of salt. ^^^^^ This. I loved the video review I think Gamespot did, they played "extensively", but didn't even know the sides: Red Side Horde and Blue Side Alliance they called it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkerus Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 They cancel out the fanboys giving games a perfect 10. Which it doesn't. Since average is considered somewhere in the range of 70-85, all those BS 0 scores from first time accounts and trolls kill the meta score more than a 10. Everyone knows that meta critic scores are mass trolled anyway. If a certain group of people don't like the game, they score bomb it on purpose with dupe accounts, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mannic Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 (edited) Why do we, people who have been actually playing the game for weeks or months now, care about a review two months after launch anyway? "You know, I thought TOR was disappointing and I was going to unsub, but now that I've seen this review..." Edited February 16, 2012 by Mannic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethality Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Just picked up the latest Issue of EGM; huge in depth article about TOR.....they seem to be very happy with the end result; I haven't seen them give this high of a Score for a MMO since WoW...usually EGM is the magazine that rakes games over the coals and it was the review that a lot of people who don't like the game were waiting for. You can tell the Reviewer spent a long time with it he covers Warzones, Ilum, Operations....the works. Overall it's a good read and worth the price of the cover. Their opinion is valid. As is everyone else's. And that's the point - it's their opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPowerYo Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 (edited) The game is good, its the second best mmo on the market after WoW. But its nowhere near 9/10. Its 7/10 at best. There are just too many things wrong/lacking. What really blows my mind is why no1 of these so called "proffesional" reviewers mentioned ability delay or Ilum/fleet performance. When I got this game and created my first character, I went outside cantina and used snipe on the first encountered mob, I was like "W*F is this s**t, it must be lag". Then I realized that its not lag and not only on snipe. How could every single one of them miss such enormous and gamebreaking issue? They are either: a) noobs with no idea how a game should work b) being paid Both of those points discredit them as reviewers in my eyes. Their opinoin on games is worth as much as an opinion of a gas station clerk on qantum physics. And i dont mean it just in swtors case, thay are generally not to be trusted. Edited February 16, 2012 by MaxPowerYo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeda Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Yeah just wait until they found out it won a very prestigious award from the academy of interactive arts and sciences. Is it really GAME of the year when they give 4-5 games that award? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldBenSmokin Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 I like fish tacos. Some people don't. Let's argue about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kourage Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 I like fish tacos. Some people don't. Let's argue about. Some people say a cucumber tastes better pickled? Are they wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supercracker Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Warhammer online got a 9/10 also. http://pc.ign.com/articles/918/918335p2.html 4/5 stars for Warhammer online: http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/reviews/41763/Warhammer-Online-Review-1-20 http://warhammeronline.com/reviews/index.php Look at all those high scores and awards!! http://warhammeronline.com/awards/index.php Where is the game now? In the toilet and oh how the reviewers are singing a different tune once it flopped. Reviews by so called professional journalists are utter trash and should be taken with a grain of salt. You know whats even worse....warhammer had all the things in that game that all you so called "know it alls" want.....but it didnt have story. This game is pretty good....I think your all going to be butthurt when they put in ranked pvp and LFD tools. You do know SWG just closed shop....and that was only cause this game. This game also has alot more money behind it then mythic had for warhammer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalDreamz Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 This game also has alot more money behind it then mythic had for warhammer. Which is going to make the impending failure all the more entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barracudastr Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 I like how all reviews focus on the same things. Story, story, story, story, story more story and finally story. They dont touch on anything else. Its easy to give a game a 9/10 when you focus on the only thing it did well lol. If they had talk about graphics PvP and delays UI functionality World PvP Operations You know all the things that make a mmo an mmo.... what these reviewers are looking at is strictly story and the single player aspect if they covered what an mmo is in their reviews it would not be a 9/10 it would not be all praise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jett-Rinn Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 Is it really GAME of the year when they give 4-5 games that award? Is it really game of the year when different reviewers vote on different games? And can you grasp at straws harder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barracudastr Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 An honest review would be the truth. Bioware did an amazing job on story blah blah blah tons on story. However they tricked their customer base with shiny images and high res beta gameplay only to yank it out at release and rename the graphic setting from medium to high stating it was a bug. The game also suffers severe performance issues in pvp scenarios where its almost unplayable at 10 fps or lower on the main pvp planet ilum. PvP is known to suffer from ability delays where competitive pvp isn't really an option at this time. Many players were unable to complete class quests the first month of release therefore not progressing their single story line. The game also seperates players it feels very much like a single player RPG with a chat room rather then a mmo. There is no global chat feature so finding groups can often be difficult for content and requires you to spam chat in fleet or just skip the grouped content in regards to flash points. There has also been an abundance of hackers using what they claim to be easy hacks that most games dont allow such as using cheat engine for speed hacks and not being detected, many have seen this in warzones and many still see it daily due to non action from bioware. ----------------------------------------------- Now thats what a review should include.... the good the bad the ugly not just omg the story the story its amazing the story omg.... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldBenSmokin Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Some people say a cucumber tastes better pickled? Are they wrong? What's Metacritic say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MajinEddie Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Yes the game needs some work. I am enjoying it so i will stick around and give them the time to fix problems and add to pvp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewser Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 An honest review would be the truth. Bioware did an amazing job on story blah blah blah tons on story. However they tricked their customer base with shiny images and high res beta gameplay only to yank it out at release and rename the graphic setting from medium to high stating it was a bug. The game also suffers severe performance issues in pvp scenarios where its almost unplayable at 10 fps or lower on the main pvp planet ilum. PvP is known to suffer from ability delays where competitive pvp isn't really an option at this time. Many players were unable to complete class quests the first month of release therefore not progressing their single story line. The game also seperates players it feels very much like a single player RPG with a chat room rather then a mmo. There is no global chat feature so finding groups can often be difficult for content and requires you to spam chat in fleet or just skip the grouped content in regards to flash points. There has also been an abundance of hackers using what they claim to be easy hacks that most games dont allow such as using cheat engine for speed hacks and not being detected, many have seen this in warzones and many still see it daily due to non action from bioware. ----------------------------------------------- Now thats what a review should include.... the good the bad the ugly not just omg the story the story its amazing the story omg.... lol Doesn't sound like the game I am playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtfone Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 (edited) I dont know man. SWTOR is a good game but the cons for me are - poor fps/performance on a good machine e.g. i7 860, 8gb ram, gtx295- poor ui and customization- poor graphics textures- too many loading screens- game engine is not optimized I would give it a 7.5 Edited February 16, 2012 by jtfone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_Failure Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Videogame reviews in magazines/big sites mean absolutely nothing, they are all bought. Metacritic user score: 5.9, thats from players. Which is pretty bad since players usually over-rate games. EA almost certainly paid reviewers. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a terrible movie. It got an 80% user review on Rotten Tomatoes. That means it's one of the greatest movies of all time and respected, educated critics are wrong. Your logic fails. F-, apply yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkerus Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 (edited) /Thread Torpedo hit! By your logic... A game that got a good review and ultimately failed... Invalidates all good reviews? So all reviews for SWTOR are bunk? Every one of them? WAR was a decent game but got killed in the market because they didn't fix the issues and abandoned ship after a month. I still cringe thinking about it. I love how trolls like to point out evidence that supports them...but when shown otherwise its just fanboy press. SWTOR has one major difference from WAR. WAR had major issues with zone loading. The game would literally freeze, chug, freeze chug crash. Some forum trolls might claim that is happening to them but the truth is that SWTOR doesn't have any game destroying bugs. You can get to end game and you can beat end game. It also doesn't feel odd or clunkly like WAR. Yes, it straight up used a system like WoW but at least its functional. WAR has major issues in that department. Edited February 16, 2012 by Arkerus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewser Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a terrible movie. It got an 80% user review on Rotten Tomatoes. That means it's one of the greatest movies of all time and respected, educated critics are wrong. Your logic fails. F-, apply yourself. No, it means Paramount and Dreamworks paid those reviewers like EA paid off all their positive reviewers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_Failure Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 No, it means Paramount and Dreamworks paid those reviewers like EA paid off all their positive reviewers. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/transformers_revenge_of_the_fallen/ So, what you said means one of two things: a) Paramount and Dreamworks paid critics to hate their film, leading to RT score of 20%, one of the worst scores in recent years. b) They paid audiences to give good reviews. This means that by association the user reviews for SWTOR are equally wrong because Blizzard could have paid for bad reviews there. Since option A is completely idiotic, you have no choice but to take option B. Option B invalidates SWTOR's bad user review. Nice try, but you still lose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JansanRuno Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 (edited) Videogame reviews in magazines/big sites mean absolutely nothing, they are all bought. Metacritic user score: 5.9, thats from players. Which is pretty bad since players usually over-rate games. EA almost certainly paid reviewers. Metacritics user ratings are worthless. Dominated by 0's and 10's. Over time they all migrate toward a little above 5. Latest WoW rating is 5.1. Plus it's an 11 point scale - 0 to 10. You can't rate a game 11 so it takes more 10's to offset a 0. Edited February 16, 2012 by JansanRuno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredspekvet Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 And rightly so. this game is abolutely the best MMO experience i've had in the past 15 years. and i'm not kidding. If you go back to any other mmo you'll die of boredom within 10 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buur Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 This game is pretty bad right now. Hopefully they can right the ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poisonsenvy Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 A million a+ reviews won't change the simple this game sucks to any real mmo're that still playing. This game is MMO lite. You get this for your kids and have something to do with the family. SWTOR should of been released for the nintendo WII. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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