WHat's up with the negative reviews?

[Nihil]

Hey all, just wanted to ask, what's up with the huge negative review flood on both Gothic Armada 1 and 2?
Did something happened with the developers as in the case of Metro? Or did they f*** up some updates?

Was playing with the thoughts to get these games since a while, but i see the scores dropped enormously.
On addition, this title isn't even listed on the store page or when I search for the name. Added it long ago to my whishlist, that's the only way i can find it again.

[STC]

i actually liked bfga1 though after you finish the (pretty good) campaign there is not much stuff to do.

BFGA2 currently just is a boring grindy limited retarded mess and that is why the reviews are mixed. Many people(including me) are disapointed.

The devs pretend to be working on fixing things but if they knew what they were doing they likely would never have released this pile of bs in the first place.

as for you DEFINATELY wait at least 6 months or better until you see a real bargain and only if you are a real bfg fan until you spend any money on this.

[Nightbringer]

I got my moneys worth and my expectations were not high. I just wanted more of the same. Though, game could be a lot better and currently suffers from many issues.

[C0mmies can cry]

At its core its a BAD and BUGGY game. It really is if you wanna be brutally honest about it.

Bled 90 percent of its playerbase in 30 days.

Less than 10 percent of those who bought this game has finished the campaign.

It's boring, buggy, grindy. Not fun.

[Nightbringer]

These statistics are quite typical of most games to be honest.

[Katitoff]

Originally posted by Communists R Trash!:

At its core its a BAD and BUGGY game. It really is if you wanna be brutally honest about it.

Bled 90 percent of its playerbase in 30 days.

Less than 10 percent of those who bought this game has finished the campaign.

It's boring, buggy, grindy. Not fun.

Why are you still here again?

[SpiceMerchant]

The game is sorely lacking in so so many things.... The first one is just better at most of the things that this game has

[Error3000]

From my point of view many negative reviews are posted mainly because people want ,,bigger battles'' or ,,another campaign'' even tho they dont have the capability to macro-manage bigger fleets or they didn't completed any of the available campaigns,

furthermore some people are probably irritated with multiplayer experience which can pit you against players who are, how to say it, better (probably due to big part of the community using an exploit to get to lvl 10 aka get all abilities for the faction you are playing which makes the game think that people are ready to fight another players on lvl 10)

In my opinion you can go for it, I really liked the campaigns (im in the middle of my 2nd campaign) and the multiplayer is really fun to play.
I dont know how much you liked the original/like the campaign, multiplayer aspect.

I tried making this block of text a bit easier to read, hope it helps (the edit and the opinion itself)

[SpiceMerchant]

Originally posted by Error3000:

some people are probably irritated with multiplayer experience which can pit you against players who are, how to say it, better.

Pfff, skill ain't the issue here if you only take the time to reach level 10 you'd know that. It's why Eldar get eaten alive by Chaos and why Chaos get eaten alive by Necrons. The balancing is quite honestly just not there, it's quite buggy, sub par voice acting, etc... The player count and reviews speak for themselves you know....

[Error3000]

Originally posted by 40K Tallarner:

Originally posted by Error3000:

some people are probably irritated with multiplayer experience which can pit you against players who are, how to say it, better.

Pfff, skill ain't the issue here if you only take the time to reach level 10 you'd know that. It's why Eldar get eaten alive by Chaos and why Chaos get eaten alive by Necrons. The balancing is quite honestly just not there, it's quite buggy, sub par voice acting, etc... The player count and reviews speak for themselves you know....

,,if you only take the time'' is the main issue here, not many people will stop themselves from writing negative review because they will realise that they dont have the skill yet, good eldar can beat chaos and good chaos can eat necrons, it all depends on skill, there is no matchup which will result in good player winning against bad player only because he picked particular faction.

[SpiceMerchant]

Originally posted by Error3000:

,,if you only take the time'' is the main issue here, not many people will stop themselves from writing negative review because they will realise that they dont have the skill yet, good eldar can beat chaos and good chaos can eat necrons, it all depends on skill, there is no matchup which will result in good player winning against bad player only because he picked particular faction.

Then your knowledge of the game is... Limited

[jackhickman999]

Originally posted by Error3000:

,,if you only take the time'' is the main issue here, not many people will stop themselves from writing negative review because they will realise that they dont have the skill yet, good eldar can beat chaos and good chaos can eat necrons, it all depends on skill, there is no matchup which will result in good player winning against bad player only because he picked particular faction.

Unbalance always exist that is why many games focus on say 3 factions enough to be diverse enough whilst maintaining a decent amount of balance and you only need to flesh out three factions really well.

I don't remember off the top of my head how many are in this game but it's over double that. On top of that they won't add new ships to this game. On top of that many warhammer fans are very OTT on canon and want only stagnant games or games workshop to stimulate new stuff for the game. Which limits creative and balance freedoms.

Most negative reviews are for other things as well I suspect mostly about bugs and other things.
I've seen neg reviews because you had to set the video to was it borderless else the game would spaz out.

[Error3000]

Originally posted by jackhickman999:

Originally posted by Error3000:

,,if you only take the time'' is the main issue here, not many people will stop themselves from writing negative review because they will realise that they dont have the skill yet, good eldar can beat chaos and good chaos can eat necrons, it all depends on skill, there is no matchup which will result in good player winning against bad player only because he picked particular faction.

Unbalance always exist that is why many games focus on say 3 factions enough to be diverse enough whilst maintaining a decent amount of balance and you only need to flesh out three factions really well.

I don't remember off the top of my head how many are in this game but it's over double that. On top of that they won't add new ships to this game. On top of that many warhammer fans are very OTT on canon and want only stagnant games or games workshop to stimulate new stuff for the game. Which limits creative and balance freedoms.

Most negative reviews are for other things as well I suspect mostly about bugs and other things.
I've seen neg reviews because you had to set the video to was it borderless else the game would spaz out.

lol they literally included new ships in the roadmap, Im pretty sure its the first point on their list along with co-op campaign 1.0 btw 12 factions, the fact that fans ,,want'' a game to have something new or not usually does not matter because GW are the only ones who have the power to add new things under Warhammer banner

[Erikon]

Everything is technically there. But there are so many restrictions that ruins multiplayer and campaign.

It is bad when people mod for free to solve these issues because the game can handle way more ships on the screen than now.

[Error3000]

Originally posted by Erikon:

Everything is technically there. But there are so many restrictions that ruins multiplayer and campaign.

It is bad when people mod for free to solve these issues because the game can handle way more ships on the screen than now.

I know that after my previous comments everyone will just ignore me but I will still stand with my believes xd multiplayer wise the ship points restriction is in place to limit the ammount of cheese present, If for example you had 2000 points you could go with around 10 tau cruisers with heat-seaking torpedoes which would anihilate every ship in the game basically, and there is always present problem of just humans being limited, I mean, I doubt that anyone ,,wasting'' time on video games actually has reactions and fast thinking to be able to operate even bigger fleets than we have now,

as for campaign Im pretty sure there is a mod advertised somewhere here on discussions, so at least in campaign you can have many many more ships

[C0mmies can cry]

Originally posted by Katitoff:

Originally posted by Communists R Trash!:

At its core its a BAD and BUGGY game. It really is if you wanna be brutally honest about it.

Bled 90 percent of its playerbase in 30 days.

Less than 10 percent of those who bought this game has finished the campaign.

It's boring, buggy, grindy. Not fun.

Why are you still here again?

Ask yourself the same snowflake.