Places your bets: Fallout 4 Metascore

[Sykar]

Lol, it's fallen to 89 and this is on release day.
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/fallout-4

I told you so.

Anything above 60 is too much, and I am being generous here, so this is just a drop in the vast ocean of retardation that is mainstream gaming.

 

[Minttunator]

The 89 (as it currently stands) Metascore isn't that surprising - this is a Bethesda game, so it was always a going to get 9/10 scores from most major profeshunal journos. What is somewhat surprising, however, is the 5.7 user score (Skyrim's is 8.1, for example) - maybe the general game-buying audience isn't as hopeless as we thought?

 

[Sykar]

Someone needs to sacrifice himself and play this 7 times for a complete review.

There is no one who could survive this. It would kill your brain several times over.

 

[msxyz]

The 89 (as it currently stands) Metascore isn't that surprising - this is a Bethesda game, so it was always a going to get 9/10 scores from most major profeshunal journos. What is somewhat surprising, however, is the 5.7 user score (Skyrim's is 8.1, for example) - maybe the general game-buying audience isn't as hopeless as we thought?

From there the score can only go down. The professional whores journalists have their advertising pieces ready for the embargo lift because day zero sales are important to publishers. Minor media outlets, less likely to receive generous offers attention by the publishers still have to put their reviews out and they're less inclined to bootlicking as they don't earn shit from it.

Anyway, I'm also noticing a recent trend in the user scores being less and less forgiving. Unless you believe they are all 4chan party poopers, it's a small sign of incline as any.

 

[CrawlingDead]

The user score is a 6.4 right now on the PS4. Told ya betches the game would flop.

The negative consensus is bugs, bad storyline compared to FO3 and New Vegas, bad frame-rate, simplified. Even casualtards think this shit is too simple.

 

[Irenaeus II]

Told us? When?

 

[Jezal_k23]

bad storyline compared to FO3

Is this even possible? No, seriously.

 

[Doktor Best]

I see 2 reasons for this:

Bigger competition:

-Witcher 3. Its a mainstream rpg yes, but still a really fucking well done one. It showed a very large audience that a big open world can easily be tied to gameplay with decent questdesign, choice and consequence, well written story. Also it fucks Fallout 4 in the ass graphics wise
-Fallout New Vegas: Many Fallout3 fans bought it, many liked it. As most of them still think that New Vegas was also done by Bethesda they naturally see Fallout4 as a step down
-The first kickstarter wave brought along some incline crpgs, flawed ones but still incline. And they reached a substancial amount of customers due to the free PR kickstarter brings along with it. Especially Divinity had alot of attention also in the mainstream gaming journalism

Bethesda vastly profited from the lack of crpgs when they got their first major hits. They had all the attention because other crpg developers either went extinct or were lacking behind technically. This attention is now divided among several other, more competent developers. The market is more sated.

Dumbing down only works so far:

Even mainstream players grow fed up with reduced gameplay elements at some point. Bethesda has simply overdone it because they kept repeating their old formula of success (dumbing down) on and on, because they dont know what the fuck theyre doing.

 

[Sykar]

Is this even possible? No, seriously.

Same level of turd imho: find daddy to save the wastes or find son to save the wastes. Bethderp showing their creative potential here.

 

[CrawlingDead]

Is this even possible? No, seriously.

Well, these people seem like casual fans who started with FO3, so they wouldn't know a good story anyway, but it's still pretty funny. The score might go up. I think on the PC, it's like a 5.9 user score.

If this game turns belly up, I wonder what that means for Bethesda. Maybe they'll realize the error of their ways, and start making decent RPGs again, probably not though.

 

[Zeronet]

Fallout 4 main quest is terrible, after the quality of New Vegas it was like having a turd dropped on my face. Bethesda can't string together interesting characters and plots. CD Projekt must be a little salty that Bethesda can put in so little effort and get as much praise. Witcher 3 has high meta and user scores as do a lot of the other top games. Fallout 4 userscore is tanking across the board.

 

[CrawlingDead]

Fallout 4 main quest is terrible, after the quality of New Vegas it was like having a turd dropped on my face. Bethesda can't string together interesting characters and plots. CD Projekt must be a little salty that Bethesda can put in so little effort and get as much praise. Witcher 3 has high meta and user scores as do a lot of the other top games. Fallout 4 userscore is tanking across the board.

Well, shit, it's almost unplayable at this point. I would rate it low too if I paid $60 for a game that didn't work. It's funny to see these guys calling it too simplified and too casual. I suppose FO3 was marketed to at least the casual gamers who have a liking toward light RPGs. It look likes this didn't even meet their expectations. People are calling this a bad shooter lol.

 

[Frozen]

 

[Irenaeus II]

Hooker Gamers

Btw, do I need to have the game (is that even possible to confirm) to review it? I would want to add a lolzy and madlib negative review to this shitfest.

 

[One-and-a-half-Ivan]

Hooker Gamers

Btw, do I need to have the game (is that even possible to confirm) to review it? I would want to add a lolzy and madlib negative review to this shitfest.

No one really checks that, so just do it. Shitnado is amusing.

 

[Gondolin]

Reading the Metacritic reviews I realize that Bethesda is in deep shit because right now dissing Fallout 4 gives you hardcore RPG player cred.

 

[Average Manatee]

Reading the Metacritic reviews I realize that Bethesda is in deep shit because right now dissing Fallout 4 gives you hardcore RPG player cred.

Can't wait for the influx of newfags who consider Fallout 3 a classic.

2016 will be interesting times.

 

[Nael]

Fucking DA2 all over again.

Gaming Journalism. Gaming Journalism never changes.

 

[Astral Rag]

The Guardian: Fallout 4 review – spectacular, messy and familiar 6/10

 

[Irenaeus II]

Better rephrasing of that: A familiar spectacular mess

 

[tormund]

So, has anyone with good handle of numbers ever tried to calculate exactly how much weight do reviews from various sites have in final score calculation on Metacritic?

 

[PlanHex]

So, has anyone with good handle of numbers ever tried to calculate exactly how much weight do reviews from various sites have in final score calculation on Metacritic?

Yes, but it was later debunked: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/189448/Metacritics_weighting_system_revealed.php

 

[rohand]

Is this even possible? No, seriously.

 

[Somberlain]

Metascore now 88 and user score 5.2

CRAWLING IN MY REVIEWS, THESE SCORES THEY WILL NOT IMPROVE

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Fallout 4 main quest is terrible, after the quality of New Vegas it was like having a turd dropped on my face. Bethesda can't string together interesting characters and plots. CD Projekt must be a little salty that Bethesda can put in so little effort and get as much praise. Witcher 3 has high meta and user scores as do a lot of the other top games. Fallout 4 userscore is tanking across the board.

This a hundred times. I hate Bethesda more for allowing Obsidian to do New Vegas. New Vegas was fucking brilliant, got raped in reviews, now game journos and people on the internet only ever talk about Fallout fucking 3 and Bethesda's Fallout 4 learned nothing from New Vegas, while declining on everything from Fallout 3.

They were determined to decline. Their goals when making Fallout 4 were to decline as much as they fucking could.