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[Brachus]

Much like every other site I read, I don't always agree with their reviews, but this seems to be pretty fair and accurate. At least the reviewer played more than just that 1st handful of matches with the Cadet bonus.

http://www.mmorpg.co...shed-Robot.html

[Joseph Mallan]

Not a bad review. Not a good one but not a bad one.

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

Review I thought was pretty solid.


Funny, all these 'professional' game reviewers seem to identify the massive shortcomings this game has, yet we are all on some island. So strange.

[Krivvan]

mwhighlander, on 30 September 2013 - 05:46 AM, said:

Funny, all these 'professional' game reviewers seem to identify the massive shortcomings this game has, yet we are all on some island. So strange.

Even the most "white-knighty" of players don't disagree about what shortcomings the game has. The only real difference is how important different aspects of the game are to people. The shortcomings the game has aren't all that significant to me. I understand that they are very significant to others.

[Daemir]

mwhighlander, on 30 September 2013 - 05:46 AM, said:

Review I thought was pretty solid.


Funny, all these 'professional' game reviewers seem to identify the massive shortcomings this game has, yet we are all on some island. So strange.

It's all a matter of perspective you see. Most of us, with the reviewers, are on a huge continent that spans most of the world and PGI and the white knights are on a small little island, but in their view, it's us who are on, albeit big, island and should be ignored.

[Vassago Rain]

>Through it all, it’s the fans that are keeping a large part of MechWarrior Online going. Everything, from BattleMech loadout examples and workshops, to clan recruitment and group finding, is handled by a dedicated group of enthusiasts. While it’s great that these facilities exists, I can’t help but think that Piranha rely on their community to do most of the heavy lifting, choosing to ignore or delay adding features that would strengthen the game immensely.

Knocks it out the park. If it wasn't for the players, this game wouldn't have made it this far.

[Cybermech]

that is a very well pieced out article with new pilot experience, pointing out some of the flaws that hopefully ui2.0 fixes.
it was near perfect - " high-spec Hero ‘Mech might give you an advantage in 1-on-1 battles"
not sure if its really valid at all, he might have gotten the feeling of it I suppose but its the only thing that is out of place.

after all those overwhelming and underwhelming articles this one is about spot as can be even though he missed out on some of the rage.

[Masterrix]

Joseph Mallan, on 30 September 2013 - 05:37 AM, said:

Not a bad review. Not a good one but not a bad one.

5.4 is a bad review. not a good, not a mediocre, its a bad one

in the game-rankings world, everything below 7 is bad.
no one would buy a game with 5.4, except hardcore mech fans

[Zolaz]

PGI knows all of this ... the bad reviews, the player base upset with them, critics underwhelmed and that is why you dont see PGI on the forums any more. A shame PGI didnt put more effort into MWO.

[Joseph Mallan]

Masterrix, on 30 September 2013 - 07:02 AM, said:

5.4 is a bad review. not a good, not a mediocre, its a bad one

in the game-rankings world, everything below 7 is bad.
no one would buy a game with 5.4, except hardcore mech fans

If the rating is for 1-10, 5. whatever is average.

Edited by Joseph Mallan, 30 September 2013 - 07:32 AM.

[Brachus]

Cybermech, on 30 September 2013 - 06:41 AM, said:

that is a very well pieced out article with new pilot experience, pointing out some of the flaws that hopefully ui2.0 fixes.
it was near perfect - " high-spec Hero ‘Mech might give you an advantage in 1-on-1 battles"
not sure if its really valid at all, he might have gotten the feeling of it I suppose but its the only thing that is out of place.

after all those overwhelming and underwhelming articles this one is about spot as can be even though he missed out on some of the rage.

I like to think that reviews should be intended for new players who do not yet have experience with a given game. While you are correct that he did miss out on the rage, I think that is better in a review, as a new player would not understand most of what has gone on prior to release to upset the player base.

[Heffay]

Brachus, on 30 September 2013 - 07:30 AM, said:

as a new player would not understand most of what has gone on prior to release to upset the player base.

You mean a small portion of the player base.

[Blackfang]

At least all these official reviews are a massive shout to PGI to start focusing on the missing components that players are gagging for. Maybe we'll see an increase in pace towards those key features with a lot of the major game reviewers pointing towards those.

[Bilbo]

Blackfang, on 30 September 2013 - 07:34 AM, said:

At least all these official reviews are a massive shout to PGI to start focusing on the missing components that players are gagging for. Maybe we'll see an increase in pace towards those key features with a lot of the major game reviewers pointing towards those.

Or maybe we'll see it once UI 2.0 is done. As they have said they needed it before they could implement those.

[Jestun]

Joseph Mallan, on 30 September 2013 - 07:28 AM, said:

If the rating is for 1-10, 5. whatever is average.

No, it's not.

http://tvtropes.org/.../FourPointScale

While MMORPG.com's review is not on metacritic yet we can look at the average score given out by the 5 critics who's reviews are on there.

http://www.metacriti.../critic-reviews

Average score given by Gaming Trend: 80 - http://www.metacritic.com/publication/gamingtrend? filter=games
Average score given by IGN: 69 - http://www.metacriti...gn?filter=games
Average score given by Ten Ton Hammer: 79 - http://www.metacriti...er?filter=games
Average score given by GameSpot: 68 - http://www.metacriti...ot?filter=games
Average score given by Game Trailers: 76 - http://www.metacriti...rs?filter=games

IGN gave MWO an above average score, the rest all gave it a below average score.

5 is the middle point, it is not the average score.


:Edit:

The average score for MMORPG.com is 68 (6.8) - http://www.metacriti...om?filter=games

Edited by Jestun, 30 September 2013 - 07:46 AM.

[Blackfang]

Bilbo, on 30 September 2013 - 07:36 AM, said:

Or maybe we'll see it once UI 2.0 is done. As they have said they needed it before they could implement those.

Well yes there is that, I somehow don't think they envisaged having to rewrite the entire UI from scratch when they first started the project lol, one of those minor set backs lol. I'm not complaining, I can wait as long as PGI needs I'm just happy to be playing a pretty Mechwarrior game ;-) the community run leagues and such like are tiding the wolf spiders over just nicely for now.

[MisterPlanetarian]

Krivvan, on 30 September 2013 - 05:48 AM, said:

Even the most "white-knighty" of players don't disagree about what shortcomings the game has. The only real difference is how important different aspects of the game are to people. The shortcomings the game has aren't all that significant to me. I understand that they are very significant to others.

Agreed. Although I think alot of the negativity stems from the fact that people are stuck with the same features, stuff like UI2.0 takes alot of development time and slows down other content/fixes etc.

That can be very frustrating at times but as long as the long term vision for this game won't change into something terrible I see nothing to get really worried about.

[T2k5]

Joseph Mallan, on 30 September 2013 - 07:28 AM, said:

If the rating is for 1-10, 5. whatever is average.

That generally doesn't apply to reviews. The scoring rarely uses the whole scale in a logical way. Totaling all scored reviews on their site, the average score for mmorpg.com is 7,06 and median 7,3. Games that have received a score similar to MWO: Mythos, FF XIV: A Realm Reborn, Hello Kitty Online.

Edited by T2k5, 30 September 2013 - 09:22 AM.

[MechFrog1]

Fair review that hits on the common theme. Tragic.

[Johnny Z]

Would have got a higher score if there was elves running about with bows and arrows no doubt. That looks like a pro fantasy review.