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Platina on 26 August 2015

Played the demo a bit and it's a lot harder than it looks when you first pick it up..

It's fun, but nothing really over the edge for me..



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KLAMarine on 26 August 2015

If only I could find the time to play more video games. Argh!



Never on 26 August 2015
Goodnightmoon said:
Never said:


One problem I have with this is some indie games are genuinly great to my mind and worthy of great scores equal to quality full priced games. If you're going to inflate scores because of the price how will you distinguish the truely great indie games from the ok ones.

I'm not saying price and value shouldn't be considered at all in a review but the balance reviewers are striking seems wrong.

If the game is good is rated as a good game, but when a game costs 15$ it doesn´t need to have high production values or 200 hours of gameplay, as good as Shovel Knight is, it wouldn´t have the same score if it was a 60$ game, because the production values don´t fit the price at all, does it makes Shovel Knight any worse? Of course it doesn´t. And if the game is bad it doesn´t matter if it costs 2$, it has bad reviews, Devil´s third would have bad reviews even at 10$, because it has content but not quality.

By current reviewing methoids, if shovelknights was 60$ it would have mediocre metacritic score. I'm not saying that value shouldn't be considered in a review. But Shovel knights would still be a great game even if it was overpriced and reviews should utermatly acknollage that.

Reviewers only judge value relitively, based off what the other games of similar scale and scope are charging. For the final score reviewers are combining two very diffrent things. Your opinion on the quality of the game and the percevied value of that game and there is no standard methoid for how you combine those two figures into one. Every reviewer will do it diffrently. A seprate score for value would make more sense.



Samus Aran on 26 August 2015
Never said:
Goodnightmoon said:

If the game is good is rated as a good game, but when a game costs 15$ it doesn´t need to have high production values or 200 hours of gameplay, as good as Shovel Knight is, it wouldn´t have the same score if it was a 60$ game, because the production values don´t fit the price at all, does it makes Shovel Knight any worse? Of course it doesn´t. And if the game is bad it doesn´t matter if it costs 2$, it has bad reviews, Devil´s third would have bad reviews even at 10$, because it has content but not quality.

By current reviewing methoids, if shovelknights was 60$ it would have mediocre metacritic score. I'm not saying that value shouldn't be considered in a review. But Shovel knights would still be a great game even if it was overpriced and reviews should utermatly acknollage that.

Reviewers only judge value relitively, based off what the other games of similar scale and scope are charging. For the final score reviewers are combining two very diffrent things. Your opinion on the quality of the game and the percevied value of that game and there is no standard methoid for how you combine those two figures into one. Every reviewer will do it diffrently. A seprate score for value would make more sense.

Shovel Knight doesn't have enough content to justify its current price tag. It was only around 5 hours.

Yoshi's Woolly World was $50 and I played it for 55 hours.



Goodnightmoon on 26 August 2015
Samus Aran said:
Never said:
Goodnightmoon said:

If the game is good is rated as a good game, but when a game costs 15$ it doesn´t need to have high production values or 200 hours of gameplay, as good as Shovel Knight is, it wouldn´t have the same score if it was a 60$ game, because the production values don´t fit the price at all, does it makes Shovel Knight any worse? Of course it doesn´t. And if the game is bad it doesn´t matter if it costs 2$, it has bad reviews, Devil´s third would have bad reviews even at 10$, because it has content but not quality.

By current reviewing methoids, if shovelknights was 60$ it would have mediocre metacritic score. I'm not saying that value shouldn't be considered in a review. But Shovel knights would still be a great game even if it was overpriced and reviews should utermatly acknollage that.

Reviewers only judge value relitively, based off what the other games of similar scale and scope are charging. For the final score reviewers are combining two very diffrent things. Your opinion on the quality of the game and the percevied value of that game and there is no standard methoid for how you combine those two figures into one. Every reviewer will do it diffrently. A seprate score for value would make more sense.

Shovel Knight doesn't have enough content to justify its current price tag. It was only around 5 hours.

Yoshi's Woolly World was $50 and I played it for 55 hours.

Shovel knight was one of the best games of 2014, it is 8 hours long and it has free DLC that expands the game a lot. It justifies its price completely, let´s not downgrade a great game just to highlight another.



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Goodnightmoon on 26 August 2015

I found this funny

"The developers also added so many small nuances to make the Runbow experience as funny and enjoyable as possible. For example, after every death, the game makes a humorous remark at the expense of the player, the game has told me phrases such as…

“My grandmother beat that level”

“I think you are supposed to jump”

“This time try to complete the level” 



zippy on 26 August 2015

This game is getting great scores, yet this news will fly under the radar whilst the negative Devils Thid reviews will dominate the gaming sites ;)



FunFan on 26 August 2015
zippy said:
This game is getting great scores, yet this news will fly under the radar whilst the negative Devils Thid reviews will dominate the gaming sites ;)


Is this even a WiiU exclusive? Don't really know much about it. Sorry.



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zippy on 26 August 2015
FunFan said:
zippy said:
This game is getting great scores, yet this news will fly under the radar whilst the negative Devils Thid reviews will dominate the gaming sites ;)


Is this even a WiiU exclusive? Don't really know much about it. Sorry.

Yes, its exclusive.



zippy on 26 August 2015
RolStoppable said:
I... I don't know what to say...

The demo was underwhelming. Reviewers must have been high. They probably handed out lots of bonus points because so many of their beloved indie games are represented.

Or they played it after Devils Third?