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Reading Player Reviews

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I've read a couple of player reviews there were low on metacritic and it seems that people think because the races have similar looks that they're the same and that since your settlement gets attacked if you don't protect it and you lose that the game is bad. I don't really get it, maybe it is just because I really enjoy the game and I have a lot of fun - but I don't want to see people rating the game low after 2 hours when this game takes at least 4 or 5 games to get the basic mechanics down. Is this a consequence of the new 'CoD' generation of gamers? What is the average play through of a single player game - all three of them left (joke, joke)? 5 or maybe 10 hours? Hell, I have 5 hours in on a single map of FE and I might be 1/4 of the way through the game. I personally don't care about the graphics of a game as long as the game play was solid. I love dwarf fortress (when playing with a tileset as ASCII gives me a headache from hell).

 

Also, and I was guilty of this with WoM, people think this game is supposed to be MoM with better graphics. 

 

What do you guys think of this?

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Reply #76 from Elemental Forums Top

For me, I find that user reviews tend to be much more in line with my own opinion of games than "professional" reviews.

 

The only "problem" is it's possible for developers/publishers to do something to piss large amounts of their playerbase off, which will tank their user score, such as in the case of Diablo III.  Is this a bad thing?  I don't think so.  Companies shouldn't be doing stuff to piss off a huge enough amount of their playerbase that they end up with a 3.0 user rating in the first place.  The most sad thing is that most of those people pissed off and disappointed with the game already bought it, so the game sold millions and is considered a huge success despite its massive flaws and alienation of long-time fans.

 

Developers have the internet as a powerful tool to get feedback from their customers and see what they did right and what they did wrong.  It is foolish for developers to dismiss user score as "useless" when a low user score should be a red flag that something about the game really upset or disappointed the players and should be avoided in future games.

 

 

Reply #77 from Elemental Forums Top

There are a few metacritic reviews which seem out of step with the scores given but in general most of the reviews, both high and low scores, seem to have had at least of a modicum of thought put into their critique of the game. We'll see how further press reviews go but right now the user reviews are about what I expected. The core game is pretty good  but it needed to be more polished (less bugs, better balance, some of the weaker UI elements revamped and perhaps a bit more content) to get a metacritic average > 80. I'm still deeply puzzled why Stardock wanted to push it out the door now, it completely didn't gel with the claimed position that money wasn't an issue and they were going to make sure they got it right this time.

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