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

People got upset and butthhurt at the Fallout 4 scores while disregarding constructive criticism.

The annoying thing I found about most of th reviews I read where them sayig "only played 20 hours" or some such.

If ignoring everything but basically main story you are still only halfway done from what i've heard.  Seems just story is like 40 hours.

Then I heard that side characters have no depth. Yet real reviews i've seen say you do their "heart to heart" or whatever its called in this game and it fleshes them out insanely good and makes the game soo good. Of course those are "optional"   But that's reveiwers these days. They bitch about a game being too Linear, and then a game that isn't linear they bitch that they shouldnt'h ave to do side quests to experience something.

"And the shortfalls that you listed, while they are legitimate since its a matter of opinion, is divisive"

I don't think he denied this. Some reviewers may have liked all what the game had to offer, but others disagreed, to the point that many are criticising the same aspect.

Now, I disagree with you. You don't need to play 100 hours more to change your perspective on the story, after initially thinking it was bad; you don't need to complete all the side quests to establish that music doesn't fit with the game. I mean, some details about the aesthetics and narrative have been a common point of criticism among reviewers.

However, I know that you are talking exclusively about gameplay, where X supposedly fails by making the player repeat many things over and over, but that's the thing, actually. One reviewer put it nicely, I don't remember who was: "X has a lot of things to do, but they don't necessarily make up a great adventure". Even if you get your first Skell after 50 hours, if the process of purchase wasn't gratifying, then maybe the game doesn't deserve acclamation in that regard.

Still, don't take me wrong, I'm of those people who can tolerate hours of grinding.

To be honest, a lot of reviewers are looking at the very small things. A lot of reviews are saying the story is good and the soundtrack is great but takes time to get used to. Reviewers seem to either really like the game or really dislike it.

I've said it before, bigger isn't always better. Though i don't think that was the only issue here. But this score is in line with what i was expecting after the reception in Japan. A very good game, maybe even great but no masterpiece. And not as good as it's predecessor.

84 is an excellent score.

Ewww... 84, must be unplayable.

Seems like an interesting game, but I tend to get bored of games like this fairly quickly. If it only took about 20 hours to complete I might give it a shot. But 50 hours? No thanks.

i said god as in the bible not good lmao

Oh, sorry about that