The Order: 1886 Dev Defends Bungie's Destiny: "Review Score Under 8 Is Ludicrous, Deserves More Just For Scope And Art"

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Burek said:

That guy on GAF was correct.
If Destiny is barely managing to cling onto 75 meta, given the amount of negativity following The Order throughout the months, it is dangerously approaching Knack territory.

It's actually absurd to put Destiny and The Order together considering The Order has little hype right now. What is more likely is that The Order will come as a bit of a pleasant surprise, i.e. is better than expected, and so reviewers will give it pretty good scores and it too will end up in the high 70s - low 80s. At least i hope so. It is unlikely to suffer from the disappointment factor because expectations seem to be relatively low.

The Order will hang on its story, if that is tight and engaging then generic gameplay will be mostly given a pass and won't affect scores too badly, as long as it's not broken gameplay.

As to what the guy says, that Destiny "deserves" at least an 8, all I can say is that a comment like that feeds into all that is wrong with the game review system, being a game is generally regarded as trash if it metas below 8. The RAD guy should have said that a.game that averages over 7/10 is still a very good game and  is worth buying and playing for anyone who likes FPS. The only thing about a game in that range is that it probably won't appeal to people who don't particularly like the genre. And I must say, as a person in that camp not much about Destiny appeals to me. If reviewers had said "story as deep and engaging as Bioshock or Halflife 2" I may have become interested.