Gamespot: Dragon Age review (8.0)

[Scoobes]

TRios_Zen said:

Scoobes said:

TRios_Zen said:

Dragon Age 2 has a metacritic score of 84 and a game rankings score of 83 (I looked at 360 scores).

IF this was school, this is a "B" student, if this were a job performance evaluation, this employee gets their yearly bonus...and yet you would think by the comments here, that this game is in the running for worst game of the year. 

HAHA, reading comments like these make me glad I don't live in the same gaming world as some of you folks do!  No offense, but I have no need for an "elitist" or "hardcore" attitude.  I'll buy and play Dragon Age II and it will succeed or fail in my mind based upon my experience with it, not because some dude thought it was "dumbed down for the casual audience".

You know, some people actually read the text rather than looking at the final score... it's a lot more informative.

And what makes you think I didn't?  Just because I came away with a different conclusion then you?

I've read multiple reviews, including IGN (85) and this Gamespot (80), and NEITHER the score nor the text is representative of a BAD game.  Do you refute that?

You mentioned review scores specifically in your post but that's not what I'm talking about. A reviewer can give a positive impression (and score) of a game but someone can read and know they won't like aspects of the game. Alternatively, a review can be negative but can still give enough info for people to decide that they may actually like the game.

In this case, myself (and a number of others) know that even with positive reviews, that many of the mechanics described have been simplified or altered to a point where we see it as detrimental.

Take the PC Gamer review which gave the game its highest review so far (a 94). From reading the details in the reviews I know there are aspects of the game I'm not going to like, even though they had a hugely positive review.