Most Cs suck unless titties.
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And you know what I mean.
Everyone who plays games and reads reviews does.
You have to scale downward with modern review scores because they are often weighted upwards, for fear of publisher retribution.
Lol what
There’s no way anyone can convince me that an 80 is less than a B. The very notion is ridiculous to me.
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80 is the very bottom of a B-, on the standard U.S. scholastic scale.
If you think modern reviews aren’t inflated for profit, then you haven’t been paying attention for a very long ass time.
I don’t give a fuck about reviews personally. I can make up my own mind when it comes to games.
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I agree.
And that’s not the point.
Not sure why it matters all that much, anyway. Anyone who likes the Yoshi games is probably going to pick it up regardless of review scores. And I’d venture there are quite a few Yoshi fans- enough to make it a success. Especially since the Switch is so popular.
Review scores are such a funny thing. Yeah, it’s nice to feel justified when a game you really like gets a great score. But I’ve never really let the score alone influenced whether I purchase a particular game or not.
Look at Destiny. I bought that game in 2014 before even reading any reviews of it. It wasn’t until I had already had a lot of fun with the game that I thought, “Hmm, I wonder what IGN and all those hilarious internet nerds are saying about this game.” So I checked and saw that it was scored in the mid 70s I think. Made me chuckle. Then I went back to level up enough to do Vault of Glass, the first Destiny raid. And that is still the most intense experience I’ve ever had in a FPS game.
That was never my point, no matter how hard other people might try to skew it.
On an unrelated note, as per your post, I love Yoshi.
I reserve judgement until I see gameplay, myself, these days.
Official reviews are bought and paid for, and as such really fun games and really shite ones get lumped into the qua of 70~80%.
But y’all know this.
Which is why you make up your own minds irrespective of modern review sites’ scores.
80 isn’t NES Contra 2, anymore, and modern sites ain’t Sushi-X tier EGM.
Ahh, gotcha. Your point was about the score itself, and how an 80 is perceived as a mediocre score these days. It wasn’t about the value of review scores in general, as they pertain to influencing our (as in we in this conversation) opinions, as I think we all agree that review scores are flawed, anyway.
That’s usually how I decide if a game is worth my time. I’ll check out a YouTube vid of gameplay and if it looks fun I’ll pick it up.
There are obvious outliers, of course. There’s no way in hell I will NOT be getting Super Mario Maker 2. But that goes without saying.
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I don’t really give a shit about scores for reviews at all. I read reviews for context and objective opinions and also read about bugs, trends between them, etc.
But it was weird because reading the two reviews I did (IGN and GameSpot) they read as though they were going to be scored at 90+. Like they were pretty much raving about the game for the most part. Then you get to the bottom and it’s an 80. It was just odd.
Searching now too, the metacritic score is 78, so that is C territory in pretty any grade scale you use. And C = average = mediocre as I stated.
Either way it wasn’t going to sway me. I had it preordered since like January.
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I’m only skipping on this Yoshi because of cardboard. I need my Yoshi to be soft and snuggly, such as Wooly World. With the bump in powers that Switch is capable of, I would’ve preferred they made this Yoshi even that much more soft and snuggly.
That is one of the dumbest reasons for not buying a game I’ve ever read.
It’s cardboard dude. Nothing soul-soothing about it. I made an exception for Labo but even that took me a little bit to come around too.
I’m not crazy right? He is making fun of a certain other poster right?
It ain’t about a name brand fabric softener.
The number is the most unimportant, irrelevant part of a review and you should ignore it completely.
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Totally, 3.5 Thumbs up
I couldn’t pick up Crafted World on release day but I still plan to get it next paycheck where I don’t have to pay rent.
Guns of Mercy: Ranger Edition is my new favorite twin stick shooter on the Switch. Multiple characters, upgrades, mechs, I freaking love this game.
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