Aren't you tired of these blind positive reviews?

[Pugs]

I purchased my first VR headset in 2018 and if there is anything I have picked up from our community, it's that we can be easily impressed. Sometimes to a complete fault. Nothing has been more apparent to me than the barrage of incomplete, early access titles, from indy developers with no record, who built their products on hype, that are hyped further on YouTube as THE NEXT BIG THING, or ALMOST PERFECT! VR game...just find it to be another dud worth a few hours of my time.

I know Into the Radius does not fall into the category. Let me say it again for the idiots in the back who have already decided how this topic is going to go - I know Into the Radius does not fall into that category.

I loved Into the Radius 1 - it was a great game, but not without it's faults. I am not a guarantee for Into the Radius 2. I am interested, yes, so I read the reviews. Question - what in the **** are you all doing?

The amount of reviews under 1 or 2 hours is just mind blowing. Like yo, can you guys actually play the game and give a legit recommendation instead of playing for .5 hours and calling it the best game in your library?

Our community is like...positively toxic, again to a fault. It's so annoying and I can barely rely on these reviews anymore.

[-OrLoK- Слава Україн]

I disagree that the community is "toxic" but I will say that Steam Reviews should never be relied on alone to inform one's purchasing decisions.

[Shalash]

Positively toxic is different from "toxic" imho. Like it's a great community but not without it's faults :)

[Floor dog with a RTX 3060]

This man just pulled a Mr. VR Voice.
And I completely agree, people need to actually try the game, and formulate a proper opinion before just leaving a review along the lines of
Recomended

THIS IS THE BEST GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED
BETTER THAN GTAV
BETTER THAN CRACK COCAINE!
YOU NEED TO BUY THIS GAME RIGHT NOW!
BUY IT 500 TIMES!
SELL YOUR NEWBORN SON TO BUY MORE COPIES!

People, please
For the love of god
do research before leaving a
Thanks!

[Wiggly]

I can't wait until the honeymoon phase is over for this game so that people can start thinking about what this game provides critically. It's a bit disappointing to see valid criticism disregarded by the community when criticism is critical for this part of the games life cycle.

[ikeaman]

To be honest there isn't much content yet so someone with like 2 hours probably has seen all the enemies and all the maps so they have a good idea of the performance and if they think the game is good or not even if they didn't explore everything yet and haven't got all the guns etc.

[Jarilo]

It's nowhere near as good as the original yet and a lot of content is clearly cut out. I've refrained from writing any review yet. I think the reason why you see them so early is because people want to be first so their review can be either liked or at the top, I don't know, just a theory.

[Pugs]

Originally posted by Jarilo:

It's nowhere near as good as the original yet and a lot of content is clearly cut out. I've refrained from writing any review yet. I think the reason why you see them so early is because people want to be first so their review can be either liked or at the top, I don't know, just a theory.

I think a big piece of it is also who can throw the funniest one liner together to rack up awards.

[Spark]

I'm actually tired of the opposite. So many people buy early access games and instantly leave a negative review talking about how stuff is buggy or certain elements are incomplete. If you didn't want to play a game that was buggy/incomplete, then don't buy an early access game that's recently come out...Sure if it's still a mess 2-3 years out then go ahead and leave a negative review, but some people are just absolute idiots with WAY too high expectations.

It's especially worse cause a lot of these people don't end up changing their reviews when a game gets better. Which just leaves the game with a permanent negative stain on their record and could dissuade people from buying it in the future.

[Thomas o Kawaiiness]

I do agree, no one should be reviewing this game yet, it's the first few hours of early access.

I don't think it's this game or this game's community though, I think it's VR players. A lot of people who play VR are overly positive on a lot of games that aren't really that good. Ironically, games that don't measure up to the standard of (for a perfectly good example) Into the Radius. A lot of VR games are usually just empty tech demos with 20 minutes of gameplay, and then because they don't make your headset explode and shoot molten glass into your eyeballs, they get overwhelmingly positive reviews. Then the actual good VR games end up not able to stand out as much because they're right there next to a bunch of generic tech demos.

I also think there are a lot of people just desperate to be first to make positive reviews though. "I played it for 5 minutes, let me review it, so I'm the first one!" I was tempted myself to be honest, but I haven't played it yet and I don't know if it will really run properly on my rig.

[Jarilo]

I think people being nice to VR games just because they are VR and a niche are over, I do remember all of that very well though. lol A lot of games today that suck when they release get completely and utterly trashed in the reviews, specially bad straight Quest mobile to PCVR ports.

[ikeaman]

Originally posted by Espionage724:

My main question with any VR game is whether it has a sandbox or endless mode. If it's just a linear story, I'll likely pass as I've done more than enough of that flat :p

If it has such a mode, then I'll either buy it on the spot if I like what it looks like, or consider whatever reviewers say first if it's multiplayer.

haha, it's the exact opposite for me.. tired of sandbox and endless modes I want a campaign. You're lucky because it seems there's way more of your kind of games

[Jarilo]

Yea , I usually pass anything with out a story or lore. Sand box and wave based stuff just feels like 2016 VR tech demo territory.