A return to form

[Matt]

https://www.thegamer.com/assassins-creed-shadows-review/

Return to form bros, we eating good tonight!

[Hexenhammer]

Originally posted by Matt:

https://www.thegamer.com/assassins-creed-shadows-review/

Return to form bros, we eating good tonight!

Thats a paid review

[patrick68794]

Originally posted by Hexenhammer:

Originally posted by Matt:

https://www.thegamer.com/assassins-creed-shadows-review/

Return to form bros, we eating good tonight!

Thats a paid review

Why do you think that? Because it's positive?

[d1m]

Originally posted by patrick68794:

Originally posted by Hexenhammer:

Thats a paid review

Why do you think that? Because it's positive?

Same guys who repeatedly praised concord.
Bought journalism

[Gabriel Angelos]

Interesting that they actually mention that repitition and bloat sets in...reminds me of Valhalla. The only AC game I have never finished

[a x o]

Originally posted by d1m:

Originally posted by patrick68794:

Why do you think that? Because it's positive?

Same guys who repeatedly praised concord.
Bought journalism

source? I didnt found any reviews or statements from this guy about concord.
One 3/5 review on thegamer from another guy. Thats it.

Soooo, sound like a lie to me.

[Radgol]

Originally posted by Matt:

https://www.thegamer.com/assassins-creed-shadows-review/

Return to form bros, we eating good tonight!

I'm pretty sure they said this exact same thing about Veilguard and it was nothing like previous Bioware games.

[Budoshi]

after bioware return to form lies aka veilguard i was like no, there is no way they said that,,, and yup they did...

[Hentaika]

Originally posted by a x o:

Originally posted by d1m:

Same guys who repeatedly praised concord.
Bought journalism

source? I didnt found any reviews or statements from this guy about concord.
One 3/5 review on thegamer from another guy. Thats it.

Soooo, sound like a lie to me.

https://www.thegamer.com/concord-worth-a-chance/

'worth a chance', go ahead and give it a try, bro! It will get better, trust me!

Heck, someone who gave concord a 3/5 can be safely ignored. Since that was a POSITIVE review compared to reality for that specific game.

ALL remotely popular gaming reviews you will find on the internet are BOUGHT by AAA studios(either directly or indirectly). No, they will never outright give a 10/10 must play(only in desperate cases), but they will often tone down bad sides a lot while praising things one normally wouldn't care about.

Take even the AC review for instance.
They took long winded ass review about how pretty everything is(no debate, AC landscape artists are gods among gods that carry the entirety of the burden for last few AC games) and 'good story'(only people who don't know what a good story is can actually call any AC a good story. It's decent at best, always was. Interesting unrealised concepts never go higher than decent)

And then the review tunes down with small print that 'oh, actually the game is the usual grindy bland mess that bloats gameplay hours, but come on it's pretty, play it!'

[Shook Ones]

Veilguard

[magnumaniac]

This is my favourite metacritic rating for AC Shadows so far:

100 VG247 Mar 18, 2025
There are problems with Assassin’s Creed Shadows, for sure.

A rating of 100, and that opening line. Hahaha, gaming journalism at its finest.

[patrick68794]

Originally posted by magnumaniac:

This is my favourite metacritic rating for AC Shadows so far:

100 VG247 Mar 18, 2025
There are problems with Assassin’s Creed Shadows, for sure.

A rating of 100, and that opening line. Hahaha, gaming journalism at its finest.

10/10 or 100/100 doesn't actually mean something is perfect with zero flaws.

[NeoVICT]

"A return to form"
Seriously, them using this not ironically, after the Vailguard failure is hilarious to me.
Might as well buy a big sign to hang around your neck that says "Access Journalism"

[Seagrey]

Lmao

[Hermit]

"A return to form"

When they start using this line at the same time, I know what kind of game it is, and it's not a good one.

[Milkdust]

Originally posted by patrick68794:

Originally posted by Hexenhammer:

Thats a paid review

Why do you think that? Because it's positive?

Any score that is fed into Metacritic is bought and paid for.