@Lup I mean duh, of course it's subjective? That's what opinions, and reviews, are.
I am telling you, if you actually go onto youtube and watch some of the video reviews of this game, you will quickly realise that the vast majority of them are fair and unbiased reviews where the reviewer is criticising elements of the game such as writing, story, gameplay.
I am in no way denying that there are a lot of reviews that are just going "LOL Woke" et. al, but please, for your own sanity, do not take Steam or Metacritic reviews seriously. Go watch an articulate and intelligently presented video which makes fair points.
It is up to you as an adult to decide which reviews you think are being fair and balanced, and which ones are trolling.
@AverageJoseph what it "maybe" should be called is irrelevant. It is still, nonetheless, an RPG. The very title, role-playing game? Yeah, sure, your choices are Geralt are limited, but you're still playing a role. As a witcher. You are playing a game, as a role.
A game does not need to have a plethora of builds, nor does it need to have a vast array of decisions which each shape the game world in a drastic way in order to be classed as an RPG.
Regardless, the decisions available in the Witcher 3 have a fair bit more impact than 'illusion'. Your choice can determine, for in stance, whether a village is destroyed, or whether a bunch of orphans are eaten. Your choice of who to advocate for the throne of Skellige guides the future of the nation. You can also inadvertently release the catriona plague on an entire nation. And ultimately, your choices lead to Ciri's fate.
Choices in a game do not need to have drastic gameplay or game-world consequences to be meaningful. They can, for example, simply affect the epilogue, or result in certain characters showing up (or otherwise).
He does not play 'exactly the same' no matter what build you pick, but I will admit there is very little variation. A sign build may elect to use the sword infrequently and instead focus on laying Yrden traps and spamming Aard or Igni, or perhaps turning foes into puppets. There's also a build where you turtle with secondary Quen and let the reflective damage do all the work. These aren't huge differences, as your core gameplay loop is still swords, signs, and the occasional bomb or potion, but again, this does not detract from the reality: That it is an RPG.
Witcher 3 is no less an RPG than your typical Bethesda fate where the narrative is bare-bones and it is largely a case of "off you go, do stuff, explore!". One is simply a more sandbox-style and the other is a more visual-novel with gameplay elements style.
Anyway, on the topic of Veilguard: What I find most ironic here, is that you're typing all this to me, when Veilguard is one of the LEAST suitable examples of a game that respects your choices. Even if you want to actively be mean, the game won't let you, because the writers have decided to take the non-offensive option. You can literally only play the protagonist in 3 slightly-different flavours of 'nice parent figure'.
@Blastfemur if you don't understand why people bash at veilguard I suggest you watch one of the many insightful YouTube videos about the game. Some people claim they are just trolls or haters but I've found that not to be the case at all, with the majority of videos being very insightful, neutral and fair.
Comments 4 and 5 are the usual "people just being bigots". Like the majority of reviews aren't people being intolerant. They are fair reviews that justly criticise the writing, character development, and gameplay decisions. In short, the game itself.
@AverageJoseph Witcher 3 is an RPG. It may not be sandbox like Skyrim but it has meaningful choices that change the entire ending and various other outcomes. Even if Geralts story is largely set in stone aside from the ending, you are still roleplaying as him.
@RiverGenie it literally retcons the previous games and one of the developers who did the qun'ari lore even admitted they hadn't done their homework. The antivan crows are meant to be a horrible organisation that uses slaves and kills it's own members for failure, but they got turned into a happy club full of nice people.
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@Lup I mean duh, of course it's subjective? That's what opinions, and reviews, are.
I am telling you, if you actually go onto youtube and watch some of the video reviews of this game, you will quickly realise that the vast majority of them are fair and unbiased reviews where the reviewer is criticising elements of the game such as writing, story, gameplay.
I am in no way denying that there are a lot of reviews that are just going "LOL Woke" et. al, but please, for your own sanity, do not take Steam or Metacritic reviews seriously. Go watch an articulate and intelligently presented video which makes fair points.
It is up to you as an adult to decide which reviews you think are being fair and balanced, and which ones are trolling.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Dragon Age: The Veilguard On Xbox Game Pass?
@AverageJoseph what it "maybe" should be called is irrelevant. It is still, nonetheless, an RPG. The very title, role-playing game? Yeah, sure, your choices are Geralt are limited, but you're still playing a role. As a witcher. You are playing a game, as a role.
A game does not need to have a plethora of builds, nor does it need to have a vast array of decisions which each shape the game world in a drastic way in order to be classed as an RPG.
Regardless, the decisions available in the Witcher 3 have a fair bit more impact than 'illusion'. Your choice can determine, for in stance, whether a village is destroyed, or whether a bunch of orphans are eaten. Your choice of who to advocate for the throne of Skellige guides the future of the nation. You can also inadvertently release the catriona plague on an entire nation. And ultimately, your choices lead to Ciri's fate.
Choices in a game do not need to have drastic gameplay or game-world consequences to be meaningful. They can, for example, simply affect the epilogue, or result in certain characters showing up (or otherwise).
He does not play 'exactly the same' no matter what build you pick, but I will admit there is very little variation. A sign build may elect to use the sword infrequently and instead focus on laying Yrden traps and spamming Aard or Igni, or perhaps turning foes into puppets. There's also a build where you turtle with secondary Quen and let the reflective damage do all the work. These aren't huge differences, as your core gameplay loop is still swords, signs, and the occasional bomb or potion, but again, this does not detract from the reality: That it is an RPG.
Witcher 3 is no less an RPG than your typical Bethesda fate where the narrative is bare-bones and it is largely a case of "off you go, do stuff, explore!". One is simply a more sandbox-style and the other is a more visual-novel with gameplay elements style.
Anyway, on the topic of Veilguard: What I find most ironic here, is that you're typing all this to me, when Veilguard is one of the LEAST suitable examples of a game that respects your choices. Even if you want to actively be mean, the game won't let you, because the writers have decided to take the non-offensive option. You can literally only play the protagonist in 3 slightly-different flavours of 'nice parent figure'.
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@RiverGenie yeah, the Solas story is one of the ones they gave a satisfying conclusion. I know there are some things the game did alright
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Dragon Age: The Veilguard On Xbox Game Pass?
@Blastfemur if you don't understand why people bash at veilguard I suggest you watch one of the many insightful YouTube videos about the game. Some people claim they are just trolls or haters but I've found that not to be the case at all, with the majority of videos being very insightful, neutral and fair.
Comments 4 and 5 are the usual "people just being bigots". Like the majority of reviews aren't people being intolerant. They are fair reviews that justly criticise the writing, character development, and gameplay decisions. In short, the game itself.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Dragon Age: The Veilguard On Xbox Game Pass?
@AverageJoseph Witcher 3 is an RPG. It may not be sandbox like Skyrim but it has meaningful choices that change the entire ending and various other outcomes. Even if Geralts story is largely set in stone aside from the ending, you are still roleplaying as him.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Dragon Age: The Veilguard On Xbox Game Pass?
@RiverGenie it literally retcons the previous games and one of the developers who did the qun'ari lore even admitted they hadn't done their homework. The antivan crows are meant to be a horrible organisation that uses slaves and kills it's own members for failure, but they got turned into a happy club full of nice people.
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@Lup it's not "hated for the sake of hated"
The game has many huge flaws and frankly terrible writing that treats the player like a child.
Just because people don't agree it doesn't mean other people are trolling