I didn't even know that Metacritic bothered curating troll reviews.įortunately, it looks like both of the games in question have had their user reviews wiped today. I had checked in yesterday and seen the review bombs in progress, and now things are back to normal. Note: The Damage of each Rocket counts as melee damage. Slamming launches 9 homing rockets that deal Non-Elemental Splash Damage. I had assumed you had meant user reviews because you had mentioned the move to Epic as a way of sidestepping them.įortunately, it looks like both of the games in question have had their user reviews wiped today (probably just removing those posted after the review bombs started). The Legendary Artifact Launch Pad is manufactured by Eridian and comes from the Borderlands 3 Base Game. I also meant critic reviews which will probably be up at least 24 hours before the game launches A few of them were 'Loved the game 10/10.' The best thing about the Astral Chain thing is I heard about it yesterday and looked up the reviews. We made a rod for our own backs by abusing the system as a way of being heard. The attempted phasing out of user reviews is unfortunate, but it's also justified. And that's completely unjustified, because both are great games and only a damn simpleton would rate the latter any lower than a 9. They've become a political or punitive tool, and games get arbitrarily punished for factors that may have nothing to do with game quality.Ĭase in point, two Switch exclusives, Astral Chain and Fire Emblem Three Houses, are currently being review bombed with 0/10 scores just for being Switch exclusives, bringing the average down to a 6.x/10. Problem is, user reviews are no longer fit for purpose. They have a feeling that once reviews drop people will steer away. Unless that speaks to the quality of the game. I doubt anyone under the age of 30 is even going to care. Shenmue 3? I think I saw a video of people freaking out about it last year and since then it has been non-existent to me. I mean, is it hyped to 11 though? I went traveling last week and Borderlands crap was everywhere. In terms of things that were hyped to high heaven and will probably fail, I'm calling Shenmue 3 flopping. It would be different if it was their own store, but Epic must have given them an incredible amount of money to have them switch over.Īlso, I'm personally hyped for B元 because I love BL2, but I think that will only make me more critical of it. I'm watching them take a risk on sales numbers when they just plain don't have to take any risk. I have no clue whether B元 will be any good, but I'm willing to bet it sells a ton of copies.Īs an aside, this is why the Epic exlusive is so confusing to me. I just think that even when average games get insanely hyped and have some pedigree behind them, there are going to be a massive amount of people that buy them. I wrote that because I could have sworn their were a few I could name and I have been raking my brain for a while trying to think of one. Their are plenty of examples in recent memory of things that were hyped to death on the internet that crashed and burned because the vocal people on the internet where not the majority. I am curious to see how Borderlands does in this day and age.

This is going to flop.you can tell by how hard it's being 's the same as it ever was

Borderlands 3 alaunch paid