IGN review, not that possitive

[Ctrl Alt Elite]

I still hope this will be a hit, but my expectations are kinda diminishing the closer we get to the release.

https://www.ign.com/articles/kingdoms-of-amalur-re-reckoning-review

[Oliver T. Crowe (Michi)]

I mean, I never really trust IGN reviews. I recall them trashing some really good games or talking them up in their reviews just to give them a poor score.

As I mentioned in another topic, I don't tend to trust pre-release reviews because the people reviewing are normally paid to lean a specific way towards a game. Normally either to hype up a particularly bad game to make people think it's good and buy it, or to trash a good game and turn people away from it so they'll buy something else...normally one of those really hyped up bad games that those pre-release reviewers swear is the next big step in gaming and it turns out instead to be an escalator going down.

[Zephyrus]

Nguyên văn bởi Ctrl Alt Elite:

I still hope this will be a hit, but my expectations are kinda diminishing the closer we get to the release.

https://www.ign.com/articles/kingdoms-of-amalur-re-reckoning-review

who cares, game was amazing years ago and the little fixes and new dlc will make it more amazing and fun

[Skinker]

They loved the game when it was released, but now they rated it low because it is old.

[🥦Travar 🥦]

Dude reviewed the game as if it were a remake, not a remaster and because other games in the genre have innovated over the last few years and this one "stagnated"...

[khaychi]

Oh, so THQN didn't pay enough?

[TR1PLE 6]

Bah, don't take IGN seriously.

[Air Raider]

Imagine actually listening to games "journalists" in 2020

[Oliver T. Crowe (Michi)]

Nguyên văn bởi Cotheer:

Dude reviewed the game as if it were a remake, not a remaster and because other games in the genre have innovated over the last few years and this one "stagnated"...

Yeah, that sounds about right. I don't even know why they reviewed a remaster before the new expansion even came out. You'd think they'd want to wait at least just to review it as a whole with the new DLC and then make a judgement.

But eh, like I said, gotta kill it now and push up those reviews for bad games that you trick people into thinking are really excellent.

[Worldzworstgamer]

Are you seriously going to let an IGN review sway you one way or another? / rolls eyes

[Ctrl Alt Elite]

Nguyên văn bởi Oliver T. Crowe:

I mean, I never really trust IGN reviews. I recall them trashing some really good games or talking them up in their reviews just to give them a poor score.

No, me neither; but I looked up other reviews (albeit for the PS 4) such as Eurogamer.nl (for the Dutch speaking people)

https://www.eurogamer.nl/articles/2020-09-07-kingdoms-of-amalur-re-reckoning-review-cultgame-zoekt-betere-remaster

And Videogameschronicle

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/reviews/kingdoms-of-amalur-re-reckoning/

And they all tend to point out that the remaster is a lazy piece of work, and that the game deserves better. I am probably still going to purchase it, and install the old game to check if I can find differences which justify playing this over the old one.

[Oliver T. Crowe (Michi)]

Remasters in general are seen as lazy because, as mentioned, the reviewers tend to mix up "Remaster" and "Remake"

Even developers do it. I remember when Crash N. Sane Trilogy was being made and even when Spyro was being remade and the developers kept calling them "Remasters" despite them being full remakes.

[khaychi]

Your usual remaster gets some upscaled textures and some new resolution options/aspect ratios. Actually working on gamebreaking bugs, smaller issues and balancing is rare. How the game runs performancewise needs to be seen.

[VandalVortex]

I'm not sure why you're surprised. The game wasn't that good to begin with. Felt like a poorly written, hollow, young adult story. I can only remember the combat being good but quickly lost its charm as the game was easy and everything was a slay/fetch quest.

[Doomerang]

You know the saying, you can't spell ignorant without ign. I hope they and kotaku just go away

[Ouroboros]

IGN is useless. 4/10 not enough genders.