Crytek's Ryse 2 canned as financial struggle spreads to Shanghai

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Mr Puggsly said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Metacritic is part of the argument because it is an aggregate. It backs up my point that the based on an aggregate of respected gaming opinions Ryse was just above average. Literally. Too Human was considered slowly higher on an aggregate. The user aggregate was 5.9 which means the fans were more or less aligned with media reviews. This is also the same reason MS barred media from showing reviews of Ryse, because they KNEW IT SUCKED. Everyone in the media was talking about how fishy it was for MS to be barring reviewers from releasing their reviews for ryse. It was to stop people from stopping their preorders in time because reviews affect public opinion.

Ryse sold well because it was a launch title. 

My worthless opinion? At least I had the class to bill something as your opinion and leave it at that. How you feel about a game is how you feel about it.

Yeah, Metacritic is still useless for this discussion. Sales has more impact on continuing an IP than Metacritic.

I agree, Ryse being a launch title helped make it a success. But that's isn't the sole reason it did well. Look at Knack, that was a launch title available to a bigger audience. Yet Ryse sold better than Knack (excluding Japanese bundle of Knack).

Hah! "I had the class." If you had class you wouldn't do so much MS bashing. You just annoy people with that crap, that isn't class.

Metacritic is not useless to the discussion because it is an aggregate as I said before. If Microsoft believed review scores were useless they wouldn't have barred reviews until the release date of Ryse instead of letting them come in a week earlier. They know review scores affect sales which is why these days people have been accusing companies of paying off reviewers (namely IGN). Sales impact the continuing of an IP, but reviews and aggregates tell the opinions of the people who played the games and Ryse was a slightly average game based on user aggregate and media aggregate. Its better that first party fails than paying a third party to make crap for you. Just shows how much Microsoft pays attention to the track records of the companies they pay.

In your situation between you and me I respected your opinion. I don't care about what you think of between me and a group of people. Thats a pretty sad way to think.