The official "Where we review Mass Effect: Andromeda" thread *spoilers*

BigGuyCIA said:
Do you have a specific scale/metric that you use when rating games?
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Yeah, on a scale of 1-10, how good is this game in terms of entertainment value?

5=completely bland

6=Okay

7-8=Good

9-10 Fantastic

Generally, if a game can keep me entertained for 40+ hours, it deserves a ten out of 10.
 
Millim said:
Is anything below a 5?
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Yes, shitty games.

Rise of the Tomb Raider (5/10): http://unitedfederationofcharles.blogspot.com/2017/02/rise-of-tomb-raider-review.html
Call of Duty: Ghosts (5/10): http://unitedfederationofcharles.blogspot.com/2016/05/call-of-duty-ghosts-review.html
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (5/10): http://unitedfederationofcharles.blogspot.com/2017/01/deus-ex-mankind-divided-review.html
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (4/10): http://unitedfederationofcharles.blogspot.com/2016/05/call-of-duty-advanced-warfare-review.html
Halo: Guardians (2/10): http://unitedfederationofcharles.blogspot.com/2016/04/halo-5-guardians-review.html
Dead Space 3 (5/10): http://unitedfederationofcharles.blogspot.com/2016/02/dead-space-3-review.html
Resident Evil 6 (3/10): http://unitedfederationofcharles.blogspot.com/2012/10/resident-evil-six-review.html

Mind you, I rarely WANT to review shitty games and it takes a game which pisses me off actively to want to share why I was disappointed in it.

Games I haven't reviewed which I hated because I just didn't want to get into them were:

Telltale's Batman
Far Cry: Primal
Star Wars: Battlefront
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
Mass Effect 3

I'm curious about your incredulity, though. Why would you think I wouldn't have games I disliked?
 
It was more of an observation tbh, I noticed you hadn't got anything below a 5 on how you review things and so I thought I would make a wise crack about it.

It doesn't help that we review things with different ideas in mind. I prefer to rate things on overall quality which is why a game like New Vegas gets a 7, even through it's up there in my favorite games of all time.
 
Millim said:
It was more of an observation tbh, I noticed you hadn't got anything below a 5 on how you review things and so I thought I would make a wise crack about it.
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Yeah, I hate giving negative feedback so I try to talk about the games I like.

It doesn't help that we review things with different ideas in mind. I prefer to rate things on overall quality which is why a game like New Vegas gets a 7, even through it's up there in my favorite games of all time.
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Well, for me, it's a matter of form versus function.

For me, a game exists to entertain.

So why Portal may be tiny and without much story, I give it a ten.
 
CT Phipps said:
Telltale's Batman
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Not to derail, but making Thomas Wayne a horrible person and sticking to that which forced Bruce to deal with it privately and publicly was one of the most interesting things that's been done with that IP in a long time. They were also able to do something interesting with Vicky Vale despite her arc's cliche climax. It's one of the better TT games released in recent memory despite being buggy as fuck.
 
Portal was impactful in gaming as a whole, timeless visuals, is polished to near perfection, it has a good story that is deeper than it looks like... All Indie puzzle games since then have tried to emulate it, and it' wasn't just for popularity. If there were videogame museums, it'd have its own room, like Nefertiti's bust. People from the future would be surprised to see how did we make that with our technology and experience, and study and look up to it. People still make essays now and then about it.

ME2? T'was alright. In this theoretical museum it wouldn't be more than a little piece of the halls' mosaic.

This is the difference from a 7-8/10 to a 10/10.

A 10/10 or even 9/10 is something that every person that likes video games as a medium should give at least a try in experiencing. They alla re potential favourites. They belong in this museum. Sometimes they have the leverage of pushing something ahead, like a genre or the whole damn medium. And others they are just so good.

Of course, games that are trying to be movies, books, anime or TV shows are rejected ipso facto

That's why I wouldn't rate none of the games I've ever played so high when asked an objective rating. Only FTL; for creating a subgenre, and Dark Souls (after a looong debate of which one); for making the medium strap its balls back on, I would even have the idea to consider.
 
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It depends whether you consider a 10 out of 10 legendary or "great."

That's just my thoughts.

Basically, you don't give 5 stars on Amazon for the best book of all time but if you think it's really really good.

That's just how I view it, at least.
 
CT Phipps said:
It depends whether you consider a 10 out of 10 legendary or "great."

That's just my thoughts.

Basically, you don't give 5 stars on Amazon for the best book of all time but if you think it's really really good.

That's just how I view it, at least.
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Depends on the context you're rating. To say that it's PERFECT requires some more thought. To say that it's perfect for you, aside objective, is a whole 'nother thing.

Is it "good on its own thing"? Or is it a paragon of game design?

It's something we should work on. Not staple a number and bugger off. It's what implies making this medium recognized as the 8-9-10-11th Art.

I prefer a reccomended/very/not and why for practical terms.
 
So far have only 3 hours in it so not reading anything else right now in this thread.

But besides the animations its more or less a good more open mass effect.

So if you liked mass effect 1-3 and inquisition like I did you will probably like this.
 
Very few games I would consider perfect, with Tetris being the best example.

For me, a 10/10 is flawless, which not many games can do.
A 9/10 has to have a few flaws, but not too many to really set it back.
 
I judge games on what they have to offer over the previous ones.

Fallout 1, great game.

Fallout 2, gameplay wise much better, story is argurably worse, but it has so much stuff added to it, it is at least just as good.

Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 3, but not shit, and with actual canon weaponry, just as good as Fallout 1-2, but perhaps not in every single way.

ME1-2, good games, not amazing, but not shit.

ME3, shittier than ME1-2, so worse score.

ME:A, nothing over 1-2-3, so ergo also worse score.

Why should I get ME:A, if ME1 is cheaper, runs nicer, and isn't funding EA Hitler?
 
@CT Phipps

I could have sworn you gave Deus Ex MKD a 3/10.

joevonzombie said:
Not to derail, but making Thomas Wayne a horrible person and sticking to that which forced Bruce to deal with it privately and publicly was one of the most interesting things that's been done with that IP in a long time. They were also able to do something interesting with Vicky Vale despite her arc's cliche climax. It's one of the better TT games released in recent memory despite being buggy as fuck.
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Speaking of which, is the Telltale Batman worth poring into?
 
So 8 hours in now and...Yeah its pretty much inquisition but mass effect this time around. All of the same problems with some added new ones. But at least the combat is better than Inquisition.

Animations and lack of manual save are some real negatives.

So far like it less than mass effect 2/3, but maybe more so than the original.
 
Only in todays gaming a game like Mass Effect can be seen as a deep role playing game.

ME is sure a fun game, but I question what ever if it's really a huge RPG. It has some depth with the story - but so do many games, which are NOT considered RPGs - but in my opinion ME was always just using the MINIMUM of what qualifies as RPG.

0wing said:
It's true. Bioware themselves are busy with something "completely new", whatever would that mean.
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A new open world game with your holywood-esque plot.

I mean, gaming has never seen anything like that before!
 
I kinda feel sad for people who get into franchises and such.

We all love fallout, and we all know how hurt we were when Bethesda bought it, and run it into the ground.

ME is no different.

Nowadays I don't try to buy into franchises and such, there's no point.

You'll get your hopes up, and big corporations will smash those hopes into a million pieces, just to make a quick buck.

An idiot is born every minute...And AAA devs know this.
 
ThatZenoGuy said:
I kinda feel sad for people who get into franchises and such.

We all love fallout, and we all know how hurt we were when Bethesda bought it, and run it into the ground.

ME is no different.

Nowadays I don't try to buy into franchises and such, there's no point.

You'll get your hopes up, and big corporations will smash those hopes into a million pieces, just to make a quick buck.

An idiot is born every minute...And AAA devs know this.
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Or you get more of the same, which is what plenty of us want.

I'd rather have a dozen mediocore sequels than one game which is done then over.
 
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