The big 3 for Shenmue lll (Metacritic, Sales, purchase)

[DonFerrari]

shikamaru317 said:

DonFerrari said:

There were 16 3 or less score with all claiming to be fan or paying for the kickstarter.

If the game is enough to get a 84 on fan then it should be at least some 60 meta, so the 40 and 50 are still lower than should. Will only be more certain when I play it.

I suspect that alot of the negative user reviews are actually from the Epic Games Store hater crowd, angry because Deep Silver made the game Epic Game Store exclusive for a year on PC. I've seen that crowd leave bad user reviews on other Epic Game Store exclusives as well, even on the console versions of those games. Some might be legitimate complaints from actual Shenmue fans, but it's always hard to tell on Metacritic, the metacritic user review system is well know for being a flaming pile of garbage most of the time. I tend to trust user reviews on the digital storefronts much more, because you actually need to own a game to review it on the digital storefronts like Playstation Store and Xbox Store, and right now on Playstation Store Shenmue 3 has 84 reviews on the standard edition and 69 reviews on the Digital Deluxe Edition, both at 5/5 stars (reviews on Playstation Store round up from the nearest half star, so that means that the average is somewhere over 4.5/5 stars or 9/10). 

Yes half of the bad scores were complaining about the Epic, even though it was the PS4 version.