What's going on with the reviews?

[Kyrandos]

Why is this game's reviews not astroturfed? This is published by Sony.

Suicide Squad on the otherhand is being heavily protected by steam, and it's published by Warner Brothers digital.

How does this review scamming work? What are the rules?!

[Pestilence]

Scamming? I left a negative review and it matches my feelings about the game. 100 bucks says this game is dead in a month or less.

[Captain Worthy]

I guess it depends on how heavily your company is tied to ESG and obeys them to the extent that the stories get sent to the commissars at Sweet Baby Inc. to be censored and changed to fit the agendas.

[Sticks]

Suicide squad is partaking in the culture war, its protection is politically motivated.

[Kyrandos]

Originally posted by Pestilence:

Scamming? I left a negative review and it matches my feelings about the game. 100 bucks says this game is dead in a month or less.

On Suicide Squad? You really don't think they are deleting negative reviews, and that it's really just mysteriously ridiculously well liked on Steam reviews but despised on metacritic?

[Don the Warlock]

Originally posted by Pestilence:

Scamming? I left a negative review and it matches my feelings about the game. 100 bucks says this game is dead in a month or less.

This, Suicide Squad is loaded with a large amount of clowns. I just wanna shoot shizz.

[PONPOKO]

The people playing Suicide Squad are enjoying the game. I enjoyed it, had really fun combat and the best feeling movement of any looter shooter.

https://i.imgur.com/dINnu00.gif

If this doesn't seem fun to you then I dunno what to tell you.. You ain't a gamer.

[Kyrandos]

Originally posted by Sticks:

Suicide squad is partaking in the culture war, its protection is politically motivated.

I'm wary of this too, but I don't think of Valve as a participant of the culture war at all. Maybe I've missed something on this?

[Quagimus Decimus]

Originally posted by Sticks:

Suicide squad is partaking in the culture war, its protection is politically motivated.

That sums it up nicely

[M3chaMike]

From what I've seen by reviewers and consumers, Suicide Squad has good gameplay and the game works out of the gate. The issue with Suicide Squad is that it's mission variety is repetetive and it's story is arguably pretty bad. But even then, even people critical of Suicide Squad have said that there's moments of good writing and cool missions, ergo, the good review score.

Helldivers 2 has a repetitive mission structure, no story content, microtransactions, and even now is struggling to run correctly for most people.

Don't get me wrong, I like Helldivers 2, but the reviews are justified. I haven't gotten through even a single mission where at least one person hasn't disconnected, and trying to run a mission with 2 or less people is pain.

[Sticks]

Originally posted by M3chaMike:

Suicide Squad has good gameplay

Was going through the wormhole in space odyssey good gameplay too?

[Kyrandos]

Originally posted by M3chaMike:

From what I've seen by reviewers and consumers, Suicide Squad has good gameplay and the game works out of the gate. The issue with Suicide Squad is that it's mission variety is repetetive and it's story is arguably pretty bad. But even then, even people critical of Suicide Squad have said that there's moments of good writing and cool missions, ergo, the good review score.

Helldivers 2 has a repetitive mission structure, no story content, microtransactions, and even now is struggling to run correctly for most people.

Don't get me wrong, I like Helldivers 2, but the reviews are justified. I haven't gotten through even a single mission where at least one person hasn't disconnected, and trying to run a mission with 2 or less people is pain.

I havent played Suicide Squad and have no dog in that fight - but why is the score stratospherically different between Meta and Steam?

[jV]

I'm guessing Suicide Squad has functioning co-op while Helldivers 2 launched with completely broken and bonked co-op unless you have people on your friends list to play with. That alone is worth a negative review. How do you make a co-op focused game and launch with that messed that up? Utter incompetence.

[chef]

Originally posted by PONPOKO:

The people playing Suicide Squad are enjoying the game. I enjoyed it, had really fun combat and the best feeling movement of any looter shooter.

https://i.imgur.com/dINnu00.gif

If this doesn't seem fun to you then I dunno what to tell you.. You ain't a gamer.

looks like spiderman with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and guns

[Lekser]

Originally posted by PONPOKO:

The people playing Suicide Squad are enjoying the game. I enjoyed it, had really fun combat and the best feeling movement of any looter shooter.

https://i.imgur.com/dINnu00.gif

If this doesn't seem fun to you then I dunno what to tell you.. You ain't a gamer.

Nice bait, but you are not getting my points, try better next time

[M3chaMike]

Originally posted by Kyrandos:

Originally posted by M3chaMike:

From what I've seen by reviewers and consumers, Suicide Squad has good gameplay and the game works out of the gate. The issue with Suicide Squad is that it's mission variety is repetetive and it's story is arguably pretty bad. But even then, even people critical of Suicide Squad have said that there's moments of good writing and cool missions, ergo, the good review score.

Helldivers 2 has a repetitive mission structure, no story content, microtransactions, and even now is struggling to run correctly for most people.

Don't get me wrong, I like Helldivers 2, but the reviews are justified. I haven't gotten through even a single mission where at least one person hasn't disconnected, and trying to run a mission with 2 or less people is pain.

I havent played Suicide Squad and have no dog in that fight - but why is the score stratospherically different between Meta and Steam?

Metacritic doesn't require you to play a game to be able to review it. Often times things are positively or negatively reviewed on Metacritic for memes or by some sort of popularity contest. Hell, some of the greatest games ever had horrible reviews on metacritic, and vice versa.

While Steam isn't always the most accurate example of the quality of a game, I've never found it to be too off the mark. Not that a poorly reviewed game on Steam is an indicator of quality, but that the Steam version might have issues.

Here's my read of the system.

Overwhelmingly Positive
Good value for money, and probably plays buttery smooth on the right hardware.

Very Positive
Either very good at what it does with a great port, or an excellent game in any regard with a mediocre port.

Mostly Positive
It's either something that doesn't have a lot of content, but a fun game. Worth it on a sale. Or a great game which requires a really good computer to run half-decently. Or something that only a niche group of people would find enjoyable.

Mixed
Good game with a bad port. Or a bad game with a good port.

Mostly Negative
The amount of problems would require a year of fixing to make it good.