It's just a constant litany of clearly fatal flaws interspersed with "great game though!"
"It may not be the most impressive technical achievement and it is certainly cursed with a lack of enemy variety ..."
"... Legacy's plot has more holes than a fishnet stocking and sorta just expects you to accept that its magical world makes no sense."
"If you're like me, you'll roll your eyes during moments when you're introduced to 100 years' worth of dead characters lecturing you from paintings ..."
"... a not-too-convoluted good-guys-versus-bad-guys conflict that ends up being an enjoyable tale, even if it's not particularly profound or original."
"... Legacy's dicey performance ... suffered from just about every issue that makes IGN's performance review team cry ... framerate inconsistency, weird issues [with] the lighting ... aggressive pop-in, and more ... every door in Hogwarts has a brief loading screen ..."
"... a fairly glitchy adventure in general ... You'll probably fall through the map a time or two, or see a character or object get caught in the environment, or maybe even have the person you're talking to just up and walk away ... leaving you to speak with the empty spot ..."
"... the creatures you fight soon run out of tricks up their sleeves ... the enemies Legacy throws at you wear thin pretty quick. ... there's practically no variety ..."
"... Quidditch is nowhere to be found. The lore reason ... feels like an attempt to paper over the absence of a major aspect ... that the developers must've just not had time to include."
"... you'll be painfully disappointed in Legacy's abysmal inventory space ... it never stops being a major pain in the cockatrice ..."
"It's certainly weighed down by technical issues, a lackluster main story, and some poor enemy variety"
Verdict: 9/10 (Amazing; "We expect to look back at it as one of the highlights of its time and genre" — not quite the impression I got from the review!)
For perspective, games given a 10 by IGN include God of War, The Last of Us, Breath of the Wild, and GTA V. Other 9s include Batman: Arkham Knight. 8s include The Outer Worlds.
I had a different take on it. I thought it was a pretty fair review. With IGN review scale he can only choose a whole number for the score. To me it reads like a 8.5-8.7 review that got rounded up because he had to pick either 8 or 9.
:michael-laugh: Imagine reading an article and then going "yeah...this feels like Eight Point Seven. actually maybe Eight Point Six. could even be Eight Point Five." Review scores have broken everyone's brains
The reply to that one is hilarious:
According to IGN's documentation, a 9 should be "an inspired new idea or an exceptional take on an old one." This should get a maximum of a 7: "lacks ambition, is too repetitive, [or] has a few technical bumps in the road" is literally more or less a summary of the article.
i'm waiting until game reviewers decide to revive the 1-10 ranking by assigning 9.1-10 scores and the new ign scores are between 9.7-10
Scores like 8.7 are so dumb, just do it out of 100 at that point. And if you're doing it out of 5 don't do fucking 2.5 or some shit, just do it out of 10
Love me a "I hate this fucking game 9/10" IGN review.
every door in Hogwarts has a brief loading screen …
that's extremely embarrassing in 2023
"Ethics in game's journalism" when game's journalism never pretended to have ethics.
IGN gave FO:NV an 8.5, the main complaint being how buggy it is, I'm not going play friekorps wizard simulator so IDK but I doubt it's good enough to be better than FO:NV.
I’m not going play friekorps wizard simulator
Fucking gottem
related: # Review: This Loaded Gun Pressed Against My Temple Is a Flawed 9/10
https://hard-drive.net/hd/reviews/review-this-loaded-gun-pressed-against-my-temple-is-a-flawed-9-10/
Reminder, this behavior is what #GamerGate claimed to be against. Well? Where are they now?
Where are they now?
Buying garbage games that they won't play to own the ebil leftists
In the comments praising this review as a beacon of unbiased games journalism lol
IGN gave Hi-Fi Rush a 9/10 and that game ACTUALLY deserves it. Play that instead of more TERF trash. I actually can't believe it has to be in the same convo as this now
https://www.ign.com/articles/hi-fi-rush-review
if i cant play as a female character, ill never play it :shrug-outta-hecks:
that's fair, its why i wont play Deep Rock Galactic but idk here it felt different
also i got to meet my new aesthetic goals
peppermint my beloved
Relevant question: do you know of any VR games with a female protag? I was just playing RE4 VR recently and the moment the brief section where you control Ashley started and I saw her hands as my hands my brain kinda broke because @$%#%. If only they had adapted Ada's campaign...
Anyway, the only other one that immediately comes to mind is Half-Life Alyx, which I've played and enjoyed but didn't have the same feeling for whatever reason. Maybe it's because she's wearing gloves? Or because I've only ever played it around friends and I've never talked to them about this stuff so maybe I was more guarded. Idk.
(also I know I could just go into VRChat but I'm looking for more of a game-y game)
Warhammer 40K: Battle Sister. It's a lot rougher than Half Life: Alyx, but when it works you're an unstoppable badass with a sword and a gun that everyone calls "sister".
Played the first few levels on my Quest 2 and really dug it! Definitely a bit janky at times, but not to a deal-breaking degree. I also love that you can see your whole body. I know some people don't like that because inevitably your arms are gonna get twisted in some unnatural way, but it really makes me feel transported in a way that being formless doesn't.
I don't generally like beat-em-ups, but I also don't generally like roguelikes and yet I loved Crypt of the Necrodancer, so I'll have to check this out
Oooh i love me some cell shaded graphics, i'll pick this up when it goes on sale at some point. Thanks for the rec!
the old joke about IGN is that all their reviews boil down to "pretty good, 7/10", but i guess in the millennia since that joke was common, 7 because the new mediocre dogshit grade so evetything is "pretty good, 9/10" now
Hot take, Arkham Knight was awesome.
I'll die on this hill.
it was fine? i guess? other than the PC port being shit, the bat tank was pretty stupid and the riddler stuff was padded into unplayability.
No that's Gotham Knights - the game where they decided that what the fast paced and satisfying gameplay of the Arkham series really needed was level grinding and less environmental variety.
Grindy bullshit is a resource cheap way to enlengthen player engagement. Forcing players to level up costs almost no dev resoureces but keeps them in game longer which increases mtx sales.
Welcome to videogame reviews - it's been like this since the days of Zzap64 etc. Game is certified garbage and everyone knows it, so to try and flatten out the incoming bad word-of-mouth a few outlets are paid to write favourable reviews - not going overboard enough to say it's the best thing since fried gold but just enough to make it appear decent. Reviews with scores are trash and a convenient shortcut - folk see the game title, read the opening paragraph and skip to the score. Sorted.
Duke: Why the hell do you have to be so critical?
Jay: I'm a critic!
Duke: No, your job is to rate movies on a scale from "good" to "excellent"!
Jay: What if I don't like them?
Duke: That's what "good" is for.
