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Forums - Nintendo - SSBU Reviews, Metascore: 93 (27 Reviews)! [4 Perfect Scores] [23 Reviews Over 90!] Cons= "Too Much Fun"

Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 19 November 2014
tak13 said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Darn, oh well! Btw, people should read that low review... its pretty wtf worthy


This was a review?WOW,i thought that it was a comedy script!

Yea loll. In the review, he says the online is smooth... But the online doesn't go up until tomorrow.. I feel like the credibility of the review should be in question



                  

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Materia-Blade on 19 November 2014
Seihaku said:


Fair, I haven't played this one yet, but I wasn't overly impressed with the jumps from 64 -> GC -> Wii versions of the game, they just weren't substantial enough. Plus I may have killed the game back in the 64 days. It's been recycled the least number of times, but honestly is the most similar to its original iteration which kind of makes it the most recycled.

To note, I think annual releases are a mistake and a ton of franchises have worn thin for similar reasons.  Likely why Wii Sports was so big (it was hugely different at the time), and why (imo) Splosion Man is one of the best games of last gen. I also never understood the re-purchasing of sport games every year, but then I'm not a big fan of em to begin with.

smash isn't recycled at all. there's a lot of effort put into balancing it and adding content.



tbone51 on 19 November 2014
Materia-Blade said:
Seihaku said:


Fair, I haven't played this one yet, but I wasn't overly impressed with the jumps from 64 -> GC -> Wii versions of the game, they just weren't substantial enough. Plus I may have killed the game back in the 64 days. It's been recycled the least number of times, but honestly is the most similar to its original iteration which kind of makes it the most recycled.

To note, I think annual releases are a mistake and a ton of franchises have worn thin for similar reasons.  Likely why Wii Sports was so big (it was hugely different at the time), and why (imo) Splosion Man is one of the best games of last gen. I also never understood the re-purchasing of sport games every year, but then I'm not a big fan of em to begin with.

smash isn't recycled at all. there's a lot of effort put into balancing it and adding content.

Compare SSB franchise to every other fighting franchise.... Whats recycled now??? :)



Curmudgeon on 19 November 2014

IGN benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) also has a 'review in progress' but the reviewer actually praises Smash Tour (and they didn't like smash run). Good to read some people are positive about it as well. Seems to be a divisive feature among reviewers.



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Zekkyou on 19 November 2014

Still debating on if i should pick up a copy of SSBU when i get a WiiU. I wasn't keen on SSBB, but that was back in 2008.

I'll probably emulate SSBB for an hour or so and see if the series has grown on me since then. I'm sure Nintendo won't mind if it potentially leads to a sale



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Seihaku on 19 November 2014
tbone51 said:
Materia-Blade said:
Seihaku said:


Fair, I haven't played this one yet, but I wasn't overly impressed with the jumps from 64 -> GC -> Wii versions of the game, they just weren't substantial enough. Plus I may have killed the game back in the 64 days. It's been recycled the least number of times, but honestly is the most similar to its original iteration which kind of makes it the most recycled.

To note, I think annual releases are a mistake and a ton of franchises have worn thin for similar reasons.  Likely why Wii Sports was so big (it was hugely different at the time), and why (imo) Splosion Man is one of the best games of last gen. I also never understood the re-purchasing of sport games every year, but then I'm not a big fan of em to begin with.

smash isn't recycled at all. there's a lot of effort put into balancing it and adding content.

Compare SSB franchise to every other fighting franchise.... Whats recycled now??? :)


No arguing that for the most part, the only franchise that has made any stride forward has been Mortal Kombat's single player mode (the story integration was great, and well borrowed by Injustice which was, I dunno, alright.), one of the reasons I more or less stopped buying fighters a decade ago. Well that and I kept going back to MvC2.

But obviously the Smash love is alive and well these days, I'm sure a lot of people will have a blast with it.



tak13 on 19 November 2014
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
tak13 said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Darn, oh well! Btw, people should read that low review... its pretty wtf worthy


This was a review?WOW,i thought that it was a comedy script!

Yea loll. In the review, he says the online is smooth... But the online doesn't go up until tomorrow.. I feel like the credibility of the review should be in question


Just see the reactions under his review!I m not annoyed with the 80 score but with his rationalization lol!That guy is...no comment ;)

At least he became famous!



HintHRO on 19 November 2014

I saw a few complaining about the stage builder. What's wrong with it?



Materia-Blade on 19 November 2014
tbone51 said:
Materia-Blade said:

smash isn't recycled at all. there's a lot of effort put into balancing it and adding content.

Compare SSB franchise to every other fighting franchise.... Whats recycled now??? :)

Street fighter is more recycled in a single iteration than smash in it's 16 years :D



HylianSwordsman on 19 November 2014
Zekkyou said:

Everyone has different expectations, preferences and standard. If out of a sample size of less than 100 there's one or two reviewers that believes the lack of a story mode is a worthwhile criticism, then you can be sure it will be a criticism that many others will share. Metacritic is not a direct quality metric. It's the averaged view of a generalized blob person. It has to take into account all extremes, biases and points of praise/criticism, or it's a pointless circle jerk.

If you don't trust reviewers, then don't use metacritic. It's pointless for people to spend all day cherry picking which reviews they do and don't agree with. It's curious we never see anything disagree with a 10/10 review for games they're looking forward too, but they're quick to jump on anything below their personal expectations.

Well I sure as hell don't trust the Toronto Sun, whether they give it a 100 or a 0. Not that it matters much with upper outliers, since they impact the score of decently scoring games less than low outliers for mathematical reasons. You can only score 10 above a 90, but you can score 90 below a 90. So overly critical 60s are a bigger problem to metascores than under critical 100s. And I don't trust metacritic scores. I use metacritic as a hub to find the reviewers I do trust, those that like the games I do but aren't afraid to give just amounts of criticism. The only reason the overall score matters to me at all is because it matters to the gaming community as a whole, and thus has a significant impact on the future of games. So for example if a new IP from a relatively unknown developer gets unjustly shit upon by reviewers because it doesn't have the pedigree of a known IP or a known developer, it can be shot down before it has a chance. When popular IPs from popular developers get shit on by reviewers because even the reviewers buy into the console war rather than giving unbiased reviews, it perpetuates that kind of bullshit and good games get less recognition than they deserve. Of course in the end, that mostly averages out into metascores being significantly lower over time as the industry grows, the reviewing industry grows with it, and more reviewers means more outliers and negative outliers have a bigger impact mathematically. Cherry picking certainly isn't the answer, but having some accountability for reviewers would be nice.