Wow! Telltale is REALLY not doing well!
Put together PC reviews of indiviual episodes. Telltale really seems to be struggling to get good reviews these days
What do you think?
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Put together PC reviews of indiviual episodes. Telltale really seems to be struggling to get good reviews these days
What do you think?
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I really hate that metacritic made low 7's yellow now. Stupid modern review ratings "If its not a 9/10 its shit durrr" bullshit.
If it doesn't automatically appeal to the brain dead COD types who view a solid game as 'does it have multiplayer I can call everyone a newb on?' then I honestly don't care. Telltale Games appeal to particular people and it's all good. Besides which the last few episodes they've pumped out have been fantastic, outside some recent issues with Walking Dead and its handling of the Clem arc.
Makes me mad that "Ties That Bind" is rated better than "The Enigma" because...TWD bias and literally nothing else that I can think of. One of the worst Season premieres Telltale has ever done, but it's Telltale and The Walking Dead, so obviously it's good.
They really fucked up thinking they knew better than the fans for so long
Yeah, if that's anything, it's probably best to take this with a grain of salt. Above The Law was the best ANF episode.
Actually, I'd say Thicker Than Water is the best episode because Episode 3 was nothing but a cutscene simulator (With the exception of having control on Javi at the moment where we try to open the door at the factory).
HOW IS TWD ANF EPISODE 1 & 2 BETTER THAN BATMAN TEW EPISODE 1??!! Those critics forgot what made TWD Season 1 so successful.
Hm. I suppose we got our different opinions.
I really liked the character stuff in 3.
You should see what will happen after release of S4 of TWD, They'll definitely lose a lot of fans AND will get bad reviews of their other games because of that.
Course we do. Just saying it.
Thanks IGN.
3/10 too much water
Dat feel when a 7 is considered a bad score nowadays.
To be fair, if Tales From The Borderlands Ep5 is an 86, then the rest aren't doing too bad by comparison.
Since we're on the topic of metacritic, I want to hijack this thread to bitch about something that irks me:
Why do games, and only games, have a separate grading scale from everything else? And why do games have a harsher grading scale, in comparison to the other entertainment mediums that are generally taken far more seriously?
Like really, why does a movie that gets 65 get to still sit in the green, but a game that hits 74 is considered 'mixed'?
I just don't fully understand it personally.
Because Metacritic is a scam...they get paid by the studios to slant the narrative against the Videogame industry because Hollywood is out of ideas and cannot compete with games.
No surprise. Telltale games tend to fare worse on PC.
Metacritic Reviews? Ewww... they're far far far less reliable than Steam reviews and on Steam:
The Walking Dead - Overwhelmingly Positive
The Walking Dead: Season 2 - Overwhelmingly Positive
The Wolf Among Us - Overwhelmingly Positive
Tales from the Borderlands - Overwhelmingly Positive
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier - Mostly Positive
The Walking Dead: Michonne - Mostly Positive
Game of Thrones - Mostly Positive
Batman - Mostly Positive
Minecraft: Story Mode - Mostly Positive
Minecraft: Story Mode: Season 2 - Very Positive (Likely due to recent release)
Batman: The Enemy Within - Very Positive (Likely due to recent release)
Guardians of the Galaxy - Very Positive (Likely due to recent release)
Again, we can't rely on reviews or site ratings to determine how much of a success a game is, but from the stats, it seems that Telltale still has a large following and their choice-based narrative games are all getting positive reception.
Edit: I really don't like those ratings, sure Minecraft isn't as mature a game but it's not as terrible as to deserve such a low rating and I really dislike Guardians of the Galaxy's ratings too, as well as Batman: The Enemy Within's.
Steam reviews are far from perfect, but I check those more often than Metacritic. I'm sure I heard that reviews can't be edited (ones from critics that is). So if a game has poor optimization at launch, Metacritic will harm sales even if said game is updated and ends up running well.
Metacritic doesn't deserve to be held in a high regard. Check steam reviews or listen to YouTubers you trust. ACG (who are unbiased) have a good system where they determine a games value through whether you should "Buy, Wait for sale, Rent, Never Touch?".
Seriously, fuck Metacritic.
Minecraft Story Mode Season 2 Episode 1 got a 1.3!?
It deserves way better than that...
Well its user reviews for a minecraft game filled with salty wolf and walking dead fanboys, its the norm.
I prefer Steam reviews as well. Mostly because it's become popular to just pick out the positive points if they like it, or the negative if they don't. Eventually, I see either a selling point or a breaking point among them. I like numerous opinionated reviews more than a handful of wishy-washy reviews on most sites.
...so the 70-79 range is considered bad, now?
Mediocre... but to be fair, if we're talking about IGN, then that is their range for mediocre.
Ah shit you're right. I remember IGN reviewing episode 4 of Tales from the Borderlands and the reviewer called it hot garbage despite giving it a 6 (which should be an average score).
Not a video game but it's a pretty good example of people being too strict with their scoring. I remember reading a review of a movie (Winter Solder I think) and the guy completely trashed the movie. But he gave it a B- and said that the studio should be thankful that he's even giving that.
You want to know what I think? Firstly: A lot of those reviewers aren't exactly "true, hardcore" fans like us who follow the games regularly. We know a lot of the story, we know the "Telltale tricks". They're kind of a bit too generous for some titles (Like ANF) and much too harsh for others (Like MCSM EP2)
Secondly: I think I like these new episodes! That's what I think!
Those reviewers can think what they like, but many of these titles are much higher in my book.
Plus, seeing these titles get ratings in the 70s isn't bad at all. a 7/10 is still great. People and their ratings these days.. sheesh.
To be fair, even I would call a 6 "bad". But, I think that implying a 7/10 is "bad" or "concerning" instead of mediocre is a tad overkill, unless it was supposed to be some triple A game.
How ratings work now:
It boots up - 1/10
Things happen when I push buttons - 2/10
I know what said buttons do - 3/10
I can play it - 4/10
I can complete it - 5/10
Then the real ratings start.
I would not say a 7/10 is "great" but I would not say it is "awful" or "bad" either.
Right.
7/10 can still be enjoyable.
Its surely good at the very least. Solid, decent, worth looking into.
Lmao never trust user reviews. Corey in the House for the DS got a 9.6
If that reviewer actually meant what he said he should have just given the episode a 3 or 4. A 6 might be a "bad" score but it definitely doesn't mean hot garbage.
Personally I would call a 6 just about average.
But then with 6/10 it seems to be "This is terrible, never buy it!!!", 7/10 - "It's okay, needs more stuff tho"
for good reason obviously
I agree. Terrible adaption. I mean, they completely butchered the story arc where Cory defends the president from the attack on the whitehouse by the main antagonist group and just made it a CoD clone level. They cut out the budding friendship and trust he gains from the president to get to the action too quick.
Minecraft was terrible. But it sure knows what the fanbase wants and appealed to it well.
My guess is that the reviewers gave the first episode"s" a good rating either because they themselves actually believed Telltale's TWD was without fail or else because they didn't like it, but didn't want to piss off the fanbase. Once they realized that generally speaking, even the fans were really negative about the game, they adjusted their ratings for the following episodes to match expectations. That's business for a lot of big review sites, telling people what they want to hear rather than what the reviewers actually believe (of course not true for every single journalist out there). I mean, do you think many of them would have the balls to rate Uncharted 4 anything lower than an 8 even if they hated it, or No Man's Sky a high rating despite genuinely liking it? No, because generally speaking, reviews sadly have become the equivalent of advertisement and echo chambers, best illustrated by Telltale's Twitter after catastrophes like "Ties That Bind".
7/10 scores are not bad scores you fool.