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ghettoglamour said:
If watched the Gamespot's review on youtube yesterday. It sounded like a 6, maybe 7 out of 10 during the review, then it still gets an 8. I was pretty surprised.

According to him many important fighting mechanics, such as healing, aren't properly explained.
The story overall is weak.
You are forced to grind to progress the story.
The side quests are pure filler.
Characters are uninteresting (and poorly modeled and voiced, at least the first woman you meet)

This doesn't sound like a great game at all.

But well, I guess the review was bad overall. He kept saying that despite it short comings, your patience will be greatly rewarded. He failed to explain how it rewards you though.

Not that gamespot didnt have some fair points, but it wasnt a good review.The side quests arent pointless.Sure, like all RPG, there are many quests that are there jiust to help you explore the world and lvl up, but many side quests have story elements on them, enhancing the lore and backstory of carachters, or exploring themes like religion and racism.I have seen alot of reviews, but the ones that complain that you need to grind are the same ones that complain that the game is too dificult to understand.In other ones, are the ones that either dont like the genre or that didnt dedicate long enough to try and understand the game(not all of them of course, just many that i saw).And again, the carachters flesh out during the afinnity missions, the side missions, and dont flesh out that much during story missions.You really need to get involved in the game to experience it full.I dont know, there seem to be many reviewers that apparently just rushed through the story to make the reviews



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

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Why do people say a game "deserves" a certain score? Aren't reviews all subject to opinion? Also, what's with the "boo hop they're picking on Nintendo" threads? Is Nintendo supposed to be immuned to criticism now?



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Goodnightmoon said:
Faust said:
Or maybe just MAYBE, the game isnt god?


In what reality a 84 means a game is not good?


Apparently this one. Because no one complains about a good score. 



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FentonCrackshell said:
Goodnightmoon said:


In what reality a 84 means a game is not good?


Apparently this one. Because no one complains about a good score. 


again, i said god as in the bible, not good as emhh not bad(?)



Faust said:
FentonCrackshell said:


Apparently this one. Because no one complains about a good score. 


again, i said god as in the bible, not good as emhh not bad(?)


I get what you said. I'm replying to the person who quoted you. He's saying that 84 is a good score. But "good" scores don't get complained about. I guess 84 isn't good at all. 



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Xenoblade Chronicles is a JRPG.
Can´t expect a JRPG to get fair reviews from western writes today.



If you are waiting for the game to arrive you can watch the title screen trailers (with some potential huge spoilers) already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaOiDv0KNKg .



FentonCrackshell said:
Faust said:


again, i said god as in the bible, not good as emhh not bad(?)


I get what you said. I'm replying to the person who quoted you. He's saying that 84 is a good score. But "good" scores don't get complained about. I guess 84 isn't good at all. 

So is a 84 (85 now) a good or a bad score for you? Because is good for me independently of anyone that complains about it. I have played tons of amazing games with a similar score. And now that critics are more demanding than last generation is even better.



Xenoblade X is now at 85 on metacritic putting it just ahead of fallout 4



Goodnightmoon said:
FentonCrackshell said:


I get what you said. I'm replying to the person who quoted you. He's saying that 84 is a good score. But "good" scores don't get complained about. I guess 84 isn't good at all. 

So is a 84 (85 now) a good or a bad score for you? Because is good for me independently of anyone that complains about it. I have played tons of amazing games with a similar score. And now that critics are more demanding than last generation is even better.


I can think of a few 7s that I've played and loved. Heavenly Sword and Rise of The Argonauts are 2 of them that I can remember off the top of my head. I think the only game I've stayed away from due to review scores is The Order: 1886. But that's more due to the fact that I'd been playing Dragon Age: Inquisition and The Witcher when The Order had been released. 



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