Mostly negative review rating? WTH?

[Serulean]

I was going to buy this after looking at the official reviews (all 9/10s) but then I saw the user reviews... what in the world?

[Ratch]

..... You didn't bother to read the reviews?

Why the ♥♥♥♥ would you ask when you can read the reviews yourself?

[DankWestern]

Sheep/herd mentality.

They're triggered that there's microtransactions to get the pre-order bonuses, and $0.99 for 5 seconds worth of rift crystals.

They're also big mad that, despite having SO MANY DAYS with the character editor before the game came out, and they managed to donk their save up so badly that they need to start a new game, but they can't because the option does not exist.

I can kind of understand that aspect, but seriously,, how you going to irreparably destroy your save within 5 seconds of getting your hands on the game?

Other than that, it's just herd mentality hate, lots of people are triggered by the price tag too.

The first Dragon's Dogma cost $120USD before taxes because they made the game first, then when Dark Arisen came out, you had to re-purchase the entire game to get it since it was only available on a disk.

The price is asking a lot, but that's just the reality of the gaming world we live in modernly, and MTX are a given in almost every game. Be thankful we don't have to sit through adds to get 10 rift crystals or something.

Nobody complaining about this game has any clue what the first game was like, and it all could have been easily avoided with a pinch of awareness... outside of the whole 'no new game' option thing....

But- even then, there are NPCs in the game that let you redo your character, they're just too triggered and full of RRREEEEE's that they can't play enough to get there, which isn't that hard by the way.

It's a self report that they couldn't have been satisfied with this game no matter what it was because they went in completely unprepared and just went with the herd when it comes to dunking on the game, and although the solutions are all there before them, they are blinded by their rage, and cannot be bothered to help themselves.

[Grilled Cheese]

Originally posted by DankWestern:

Sheep/herd mentality.

They're triggered that there's microtransactions to get the pre-order bonuses, and $0.99 for 5 seconds worth of rift crystals.

They're also big mad that, despite having SO MANY DAYS with the character editor before the game came out, and they managed to donk their save up so badly that they need to start a new game, but they can't because the option does not exist.

I can kind of understand that aspect, but seriously,, how you going to irreparably destroy your save within 5 seconds of getting your hands on the game?

Other than that, it's just herd mentality hate, lots of people are triggered by the price tag too.

The first Dragon's Dogma cost $120USD before taxes because they made the game first, then when Dark Arisen came out, you had to re-purchase the entire game to get it since it was only available on a disk.

The price is asking a lot, but that's just the reality of the gaming world we live in modernly, and MTX are a given in almost every game. Be thankful we don't have to sit through adds to get 10 rift crystals or something.

Nobody complaining about this game has any clue what the first game was like, and it all could have been easily avoided with a pinch of awareness... outside of the whole 'no new game' option thing....

But- even then, there are NPCs in the game that let you redo your character, they're just too triggered and full of RRREEEEE's that they can't play enough to get there, which isn't that hard by the way.

It's a self report that they couldn't have been satisfied with this game no matter what it was because they went in completely unprepared and just went with the herd when it comes to dunking on the game, and although the solutions are all there before them, they are blinded by their rage, and cannot be bothered to help themselves.

bc people like to experiment before they full begin? like most RPGs? look at pathfinder kingmaker/WOTR . do you think most people characters were what they wanted when they first started? no. most people restarted or respec within a few hours. that is a RPG basic. this is , as it claims to be, a RPG.

[DankWestern]

Originally posted by Grilled Cheese:

bc people like to experiment before they full begin? like most RPGs?

Yeah, they made a character creator separately from this game DAYS and DAYS before the game came out, you could create and experiment for ages.

Originally posted by Grilled Cheese:

do you think most people characters were what they wanted when they first started? no. most people restarted or respec within a few hours. that is a RPG basic. this is , as it claims to be, a RPG.

Also, you can just fluidly change your class any time you want really, that's something you'd know if you'd ever played the first one.

[Argador]

Missing ground textures

[The Ohio Question]

Its day one,4 hours out. the people who actually like it are playing, the people who dont spam the reviews and forums.

Fairly common thing to happen, itl be mostly positive by the end of the weekend lol.

[Lil Grandpa]

Isn't it mostly about optimization? There's your reason why. You can ignore micro transactions -- but not poor performance.

[Ratsplat]

"People hate on popular games."

Must be why the popular games that are actually good tend to have actual high ratings...

[SSSExpert2023]

Can't you corrupt your save file so that the game has no choice but to create a new one?

[DankWestern]

Originally posted by Unyielding Sarcasm:

Its day one,4 hours out. the people who actually like it are playing, the people who dont spam the reviews and forums.

Fairly common thing to happen, itl be mostly positive by the end of the weekend lol.

And then there's me, stuck at work. The game came out about 2 hours into my shift, and I've been sneaking bits and pieces on my Steam Deck, I wanted to save the experience for my main rig when I get home and figured I'd check out the discussions page.

[Akarin]

Now i get capcoms stance against modding, they damn well knew people would mod out being locked to only one character unless you paid 2 dollars, mod out the pay to win items ect ect.

[Harriet]

The game is unoptimized garbage, most negative reviews about that.

[DankWestern]

Originally posted by UnrealExpert2023:

Can't you corrupt your save file so that the game has no choice but to create a new one?

No, that's from people who blindly rushed in without utilizing the character creator and got ugly characters only to find out that there's no option to start over.

Sure, they could just go to the NPC that allows you to remake your character, but why would they bother doing that when they can get triggered instead.

[Lancenig]

This is how it should work...
Company chooses to make a full priced $70 single player game and then figures they could easily gouge more out of impatient gamers with low dollar value micro transactions.
Just so happens the consumers are sick and tired of these tactics...
Consumers react.

This is called cause and effect.
Hopefully these game companies are paying attention...we as gamers have quite frankly had enough.

[Lord Badong]

Originally posted by Akarin:

Now i get capcoms stance against modding, they damn well knew people would mod out being locked to only one character unless you paid 2 dollars, mod out the pay to win items ect ect.

I imagine that's what the denuvo is there for.