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Warren Castille · **12-04-2015, 10:45 AM**

(12-04-2015, 10:36 AM)Vyce Wrote: The only Double Fine game I've played was Broken Age, and I'd actually very much like a sequel.

DERAILING TANGENT

Someone I follow on Twitter recently made a comment about how the metacritic scores between pro and consumer reviews can be night and day on the same projects, with the official reviews saying something is good and the consumer reviews tearing it apart.

It's not a matter of bribes, it's just how the process is done. A game reviewer will sit down and play a game, and review it in a bubble (hopefully). They look only at the game itself, and post a review based only on the successes and failures of the game.

Consumers do not. We're the people being advertised to. We're the ones being told "Yeah, Fallout 4 is done, we're just bug-fixing it now for launch in six months." So when we finally get our hands on the new hotness and the AI is braindead and causes you to get murdered because they have no self-awareness? We remember being told "the game is done!" When someone stands on a stage and says "You can do ANNYYYTHIIIING" we remember that when we hit invisible walls. When we get advertised to, we remember. So we go into these new games with expectations that cannot possibly be fulfilled, because we were told they would be, and then we're mad that we bought the bullshit again.

I've heard Broken Age is completely fine as a product, but if you were a part of the on-going saga to even get it released, you waited three real-life years only to be told your game wasn't done, so here's half, and we'll give you the other half later, and yes, we know it came out late and yes we know we asked for more money, but here it is, it's done now, well, half of it is, but just give us 20 more dollars and a few more months and then, nearly four years after introducing you to this product you can have it finally so please like favorite and subscribe, oh, also, while we weren't finishing this game, we also kickstarted a second game but don't worry we're not using that money on this game, and no, we're not losing resources to that game, but trust me, it'll be great, once we finish it, later.

We remember all of this stuff.

/tangent off

AND ANOTHER THING edit: Just look at the reaction to Player Housing. It's serviceable, but it's not what was promised, so the peasants revolted.

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