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Ryuu96 said:

VersusEvil said:

Not on Meta :)

Why do you guys focus so much on Meta though? It literally has half the reviews of Opencritic, Lol. Aside from Ice and Spade's bet, I don't know why we're focusing on it so much. 88 is still a brilliant score but most important is what your personal opinion is. We're talking like 88 or even 86-87 is a bad score, it isn't, even with some reviews dragging it down.

I think there are definitely some questionable reviews happening, Jim's recent one for example doesn't feel like it's really about Starfield but other dramas surrounding Bethesda, especially since they gave Fallout 4 a 9.5/10 but then in the Starfield review was basically saying Bethesda's been shit since Fallout 3, Lol. I also think some are loving the drama and clicks this is generating.

I think some reviewers are reviewing it based on what they thought it would be, rather than what it actually is, they're reviewing it based on expecting things that were never promised nor shown and that is causing them some disappointment. I find some complaints a bit opportunistic in the sense of "Starfield isn't as good of an RPG as BG3" when we never saw these complaints about Skyrim despite numerous RPGs being far better "RPG" than it. If we're being honest, Skyrim is an RPG-lite and Starfield is the deepest RPG that Bethesda has put out since Morrowind.

I think there's a huge expectation on Starfield as well thanks to Xbox not having a major AAA exclusive since Halo Infinite, alongside Bethesda having to "make up" for Fallout 76. It's kind of the "cool" thing to mock Bethesda lately. So expectations were sky high and impossible to deliver on for some. Like when IGN said it has to be an 11/10 to basically save Xbox (which is another thing, we're seeing a lot of console wars and journalists complain about the console wars but some journalists like IGN very much feed it).

Starfield definitely has some issues and won't be everyone's cup of tea. But at the very minimum, if it was multiplatform, we wouldn't have this console war nonsense surrounding it. I don't know about bias but some reviewers set it up to fail from the very start (like PC Gamer were trashing it before it had even released or reposting negative Fallout 4 articles days before, Lol or IGN who put ridiculous expectations on its shoulders).

Outside of Starfield's reviews though, I am starting to believe there's an unconscious bias against Xbox from some publications, largely those in the European area, who have grown up primarily around PlayStation so Playstation is their preference. Especially when you see stuff like "Bethesda is niche" Lol or constant double standards against Xbox, anger at Xbox trying to be a stronger competitor, etc.

Even so it's sitting at an 88 and a huge success, so ultimately, who gives a shit?

Cause I'm going to win a bet. 

Also lol didn't read, cope harder.