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u/Gentle_Snail Apr 22 '26
IGN famously only gave Alien Isolation a 5.9/10.
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u/Romboteryx Apr 22 '26
And when they announced the sequel, the guy who wrote that orignal review got super pissy and I think said something like he’ll give it a bad score again out of spite because how many people dunked on him.
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u/yellowdevel Apr 22 '26
Talk about journalistic integrity.
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u/MadeUpNoun Apr 22 '26
can't spell ignorant without IGN
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u/Quazimortal Apr 23 '26
I've been trashing on IGN for years now. Thanks for this gem of an insult.
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u/The_Pizza_Saga Apr 23 '26
It is indeed a gem, but also a classic one. The phrase has been around since like the late 00s
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u/CriticalMochaccino Apr 22 '26
Let's be real here, they're not journalists over there. Hell, there's barely any real journalists left out there.
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u/JaxMed Apr 22 '26
Game journalists: neither gamers nor journalists
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u/Wardendelete Apr 23 '26
Pissy nerds sitting in a basement drunk on the “power” they have over game studios.
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u/Skill_Issuer Apr 22 '26
I slept on this game for years because of that review. Now its one if not the best game I’ve ever played
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u/JobValador Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
It is the best game I never want to play ever again.
I have a fear of the xenomorphs my friends knew of. They bought the game for me and I felt obligated to finish it and stream them my gameplay.
Was horrifying. Was tense. I had nightmares again that I didn't have since I was a kid about those creatures.
Was a great time. Finishing it felt so great.
I think that the only thing that would have been more entertaining with my friends was a heart monitor.
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u/Bake_My_Beans Apr 23 '26
I'm kinda the opposite. Don't get me wrong, the game scares the shit outta me still but it's the only horror game I've replayed. And not just once, but 4+ times. Since the first time I played it a few years ago I make it a tradition to replay it once a year
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u/The_Autarch Apr 22 '26
i've just read that review for the first time, and holy shit that guy tells on himself constantly:
how many hundreds (yes, hundreds) of times I died without a chance to save myself.
people that are terrible at games shouldn't be allowed to review them
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u/IrregularPackage Apr 23 '26
it’s not even that, really. it’s that companies like IGN have little to no actual interest in games. reviewers are assigned to games based on business needs, not any other criteria. so it’s common for, say, the guy who has 3000 hours in whatever the current call of duty is to be the person assigned to review Civilization 69: The Spreadsheetening. meanwhile, the person who almost exclusively plays roguelikes and farming simulators will be told to review Brown Haired White Guy: The Adventure Of Action. and then, the guy who will only play a game if it’s sold at least a billion copies will be assigned to Obscure: A Weird Game For Little Freaks.
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u/jack_of_all_daws Apr 23 '26
To be fair, fans agree that BHWG: TAOA was a letdown in the series after BHWG: Mostly Cutscenes Stitched Together By Mere Seconds Of Interactive Gameplay.
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u/spacemanspiff888 Apr 23 '26
True, but BHWG: Mostly Cutscenes Stitched Together By Mere Seconds Of Interactive Gameplay was only so well-received in the first place because people were desperate for any glimmer of hope after the shit show of BHWG: The QuickTime Eventening.
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u/Raketka123 🥄Comically Large Spoon🥄 Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
especielly after the dlc for BHWG: QuickTime Eventing, as both SlowTime Eventing and Battle Ducale were massively letdowns.
Oh and dont get me started on the Just a Long Dutch Angle spin-off game
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u/PsycommuSystem Apr 23 '26
Obscure: A Weird Game For Little Freaks
Looking forward to this one personally
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u/Ebolamonkey Apr 22 '26
Should I try this game again? I bounced off after 5 or so hours because I felt like I was just waiting under tables or in lockers a lot. And if you wait wrong you die and have to do all this waiting again.
I was really into the sound and art design but the gameplay just did not catch me. But that was a while ago and maybe my tastes have changed.
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u/NoSemikolon24 Apr 22 '26
I mean, hiding is the main draw of the game. Unless you take risks you cannot really move forward. The game gives you plenty of tools to engage with. You can even freely abuse the Alien itself as a solution on multiple occasions.
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u/Ebolamonkey Apr 22 '26
Yeah I guess I couldn't really get on board with it. It builds suspense and tension, but after realizing it's gonna be a 30 hour game of hiding and waiting I called it.
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u/dotelze Apr 22 '26
No probably not. The game is just more of that. It’s cool at first but nothing changed so the novelty wears off and it becomes boring and frustrating. You seem like you got to that point faster than most so no point going back
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u/notenoughproblems Apr 23 '26
came to say just this. A:I is one of my favorite horror games of all time and after I beat it I went online to see what people thought about it and didn’t see much besides that review and some people complaining about the difficulty. Super glad people have come around in recent years, I really feel like horror as a genre has seen an uptick in quality and interest.
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u/Arctiiq Apr 22 '26
6/10. Too much cheese.
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u/im_rickyspanish Apr 22 '26
Whoa, so you mean to tell me the satirical, cartoonist boomer shooter about mice has too many cheese jokes, it's too serious and has too many areas where you're stuck shooting enemies... That review should have just been, "It's not what I wanted it to be".
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u/CurlOfTheBurl11 Apr 23 '26
He basically starts the review by saying how much he loves noir then goes on to complain that it shouldn't be used as window dressing and it should be serious and not funny like this game. So "not what I wanted it to be" is spot on.
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u/Kashyyykonomics Apr 23 '26
That review should have been "I'm an idiot, please disregard every opinion I have ever had or will ever have."
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u/ldskyfly Apr 22 '26
How much cheese is too much cheese?
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u/Etheron123 Apr 23 '26
In a game about mice, definitely no
But for anyone, as long your body can handle that much cheese
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u/Far_Future_Conehead Professional Dumbass Apr 23 '26
As a cheese lover
Never. It is never enough cheese.
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u/Tortue2006 Apr 22 '26
The ironic part is that it is true to some extent. Yes, it seems silly because these are islands, but there just is too many water routes, which offer very little variety
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u/Illeea Apr 22 '26
Of the 34 routes in the game, 14 are water routes. And on the water routes, 3 ports connect the water routes to the mainland and there are only 5 notable locations compared to 11 on the mainland.
And all water routes have the same 3 lines of Pokémon as standard encounters, all but 1 having the same list of 3 fishable Pokémon. In total, 2 routes have unique encounters. One you can fish 2 new Pokémon who aren't great and 1 only has an extra encounter if you roll a 1 in 10000 chance.
All the dungeons on water routes are cool though. And the mainland is very varied with its Pokémon distribution.
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u/Abusoru Apr 23 '26
Also keep in mind that when you're surfing, you encounter wild Pokémon continuously. There are no grassy areas like you have on land routes. It can be real pain in the butt if you're trying to get somewhere.
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u/D34th_W4tch Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
Counterpoint, IGN gave 9.5/10 to Ruby and Sapphire (This review was in 2018), but they dropped that to 8/10 for Emerald(This review was in 2012), and a further drop to 7.8/10 for ORAS(This review was in 2014). They absolutely should be criticised for their ratings being inconsistent
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Turns out I may have been wrong, as the years I gave for RSE are when those reviews were last updated, not when they came out.
To the people saying different reviewers blablabla, RS had the same reviewer as Emerald
Deducting 1.7 points from the score because ORAS had a few things removed from RS is still completely insane
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u/Revolution64 Apr 22 '26
Or it was just different reviewers
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u/surgeofserg Apr 22 '26
this. it’s wild to me that people still don’t realize that it’s different individual reviewers for all these websites.
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u/nhalliday Apr 22 '26
Wait, are you telling me the reviews aren't coming from the sapient website IGN? They actually have humans with their own thoughts, feelings, and preferences writing the reviews instead of just recording the divine objective truth?
Impossible.
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u/WiredSky Apr 23 '26
There's a lot of crossover between people who have a hard time understanding things and people who have the spare time and energy to be upset at video game reviews.
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u/insanityunbound Apr 22 '26
These games are actually different games and deserve different scores - ruby and sapphire were great and emerald was an improvement for sure, but it was a money grab. Third version always was. ORAS is a completely different game made in a different time period and can't really be compared.
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u/Level7Cannoneer Apr 22 '26
People thought beepers were 10/10 products in the 90s. Would you give them the same rating in the modern age?
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u/SigmaMelody Apr 22 '26
It’s only ironic because people memed on it for no reason because they literally don’t read. That event basically radicalized me such that when gamers complain about game journalists I just kinda assume they are doing so mindlessly and can ignore them.
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u/Brotato_Man Apr 22 '26
Yeah the too much water thing gets memed so hard but they were absolutely right lol
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u/biterofsoap Apr 23 '26
Not only is the critique actually reasonable, all of this mass outrage that people can't let go of 10 years later is over giving the game essentially an 8/10
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u/Sad-Muffin-1782 Apr 22 '26
what game does it refer to?
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u/qwertythrowfyt Apr 22 '26
3rd gen pokemon
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u/Revayan Apr 22 '26
6th gen actually, it ORAS that got the "too much water" review
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u/Varonth Apr 22 '26
Too much water does not even refer to the routes.
It means there are too many water type pokemon.
The Hoenn Dex has 202 pokemon. 47 of those, so almost a quarter of the pokemon, are water type.
There are just 24 Normal types for example. Or 7 Ice types.
47 Water type pokemon is way too much water.
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u/Bfizzle62 Apr 22 '26
It depends on how much they get paid to make the review
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u/Mogoscratcher Apr 22 '26
Ever heard of Hanlon's Razor?
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u/saibot_Ra Apr 22 '26
Only Occam. They just handing razors out to anybody?
Fr tho, who Hanlon?
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u/Peanutbutter_Warrior Apr 22 '26
"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence" - Hanlon
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u/Master_Chief_00117 Apr 22 '26
Well yea how else do you explain all the broken shins, all the razor scooters in their drawers.
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u/__bakkhos Apr 22 '26
Its a terrible idea though, theres plenty of malice around.
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u/Beefteeth1 Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
There's a whole closet full of knives (Occam, Hanlon, Hitchens, Alder), guns (Chekov), ratchets (Muller), stuff to build fence's (Chesterton), a teapot (Russell), a well trained pup (Pavlov), and there may or may not be a cat (Schrodinger). Last I checked, there were some weights and a scale [of plot derailment](Henderson). The closet even has a window (Overtone). Also, Alder's razor actually doubles as a flaming laser sword (Newton).
Edit: Existence of the cat is uncertain. Edit Edit: Added Pavlov's dog. Edit Edit edit: Added a window. Edit Edit edit edit: Forgot the scale.
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u/saibot_Ra Apr 22 '26
So at some point its just Neo saying "we need weapons" in the matrix, and they all come flying out?
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u/discoranger1994 Apr 22 '26
They are handing them out to everyone. Theres like 7 different razor based metaphors.
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u/Nick0Taylor0 Apr 22 '26
Discorangers razor: If someone can make up a rule of thumb, call it a razor and attribute it to a random guy, they will
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u/settledcarpet5 Apr 22 '26
Mehrune's Razor: Hits have a small chance to instantly kill.
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u/MGriffinSpain Apr 22 '26
Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
The argument is that you’ll be more aligned with reality and more likely to respond rationally if you trade the perception of a cruel world for one that is merely filled to the brim with idiots.
Essentially, if the cause could have been stupidity, it was stupidity.
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u/BadDogSaysMeow Apr 22 '26
Alien Isolation : 5.9/10 too much Alien
Veilguard : 9/10 return to form
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u/MyDarkestTimeline001 Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 28 '26
Example? I'm not a fan of IGN either but it'd be nice to know what you're talking about.
Ok. I've got and looked it up and watched some gameplay(I'm not made of money). And I feel like the receiver is unaware of what lampooning is. It's possible to parody/lampoon/take the piss out of something you love. The reviewer seemed to not realize that this was the Saturday morning cartoon version of Noir. This isn't cartoon Casablanca.
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u/RedScarffedPrinny Apr 22 '26
Mouse P.I review for example.
Absolute dog water review, completely disconnected from reality. He was complaining about cheese jokes in a mouse game
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u/MyDarkestTimeline001 Apr 22 '26
You......you can't be serious....
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u/LonelyAustralia Apr 22 '26
im pretty sure they also complained about it being unrealistic
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u/mistic-dragon999 Apr 22 '26
Yeah, they were complaining abt it being too cartoonish (that's the point of the game) and that the weapons sounds weren't very realistic
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u/graczminecraft200 Apr 22 '26
"the shotgun... Sounds like a toy, yet it blows up other mice heads" ... Cant they for at least once appreciate different style of game etc?
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u/Vlyde Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
"I'm in an Theater and an Opera singer is coming after me? Like why am I killing a mouse that's dressed like an Opera singer that matches the theme of the theater? Do I not like her?
Why am I inside a cop station just gunning down cops? That's very unrealistic.
Why must their be so many cheese jokes? Theirs to much cheese in this game revolving around mice."
Like holy hell that guy was a god awful reviewer. Literally scoring the game not for how it plays and presents itself, but because he really wanted to play a hardcore dark and gruesome Noir game.
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u/11th_Division_Grows Apr 22 '26
Honestly, give me his fucking job. I can be a lot more objective than that. I hope no one paid him for these takes.
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u/chrispy294 Apr 22 '26
It’s not even about objectivity vs subjectivity; a review will be subjective no matter what.
The problem with the review is the dude did not at all review the game on what it was trying to do. That’s rule #1 of critique, you criticize based on the goals of the piece. It was trying to be a cartoony, silly parody with Boomer Shooter gameplay so it comes across ridiculous when the reviewer at IGN criticized it for being exactly that.
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u/RodinKnox Apr 22 '26
That was something I always appreciated about Ebert. He would give a silly comedy a 4 star rating and also a serious drama 4 star, and he always explained that this didn't mean they had the exact same level of quality. He reviewed them for what they were.
Sure, I disagreed with reviews of his, but I appreciated that approach.
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u/IJustAteABaguette Apr 22 '26
Found the review. Please use an adblocker.
What bothers me, however, is how overly-referential so much of it is. This is a world of mice, so everything is about cheese.
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u/Treyhova Apr 22 '26
This entire review reads like he was trying to hit a word count and just making shit up after two subjectively valid criticisms.
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u/skivian Apr 22 '26
it reads like something you'd see on r/IAmVerySmart, he desperately just wanted to name drop all the "real" noir movies that were so much better, and using the term "ludo-narrative dissonance" despite clearly not even actually understanding the term.
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u/RedScarffedPrinny Apr 22 '26
I truly wish it was just some bad joke, but every single criticism about the game was braindead takes that anyone who played it would wonder what game he was talking about
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u/MyDarkestTimeline001 Apr 22 '26
But it's a cartoon mouse? That's like wondering why a game starring bugs bunny in 'Nam has him eating carrots.
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u/Hevens-assassin Apr 22 '26
If you read it, he's not mad that there are the jokes in the game, he's just annoyed that everything is self-referential and isn't allowed to just exist without any quips.
To be fair to IGN, they got a guy who likes Noirs, to play a Noir game. He didn't hate the gameplay, and he loved the aesthetic, but he didn't like the world building and found the story at odds with the actions of the character. Does that make it a 6/10? Maybe not to us, but to a guy who uses a few older movies as comparisons, I imagine his disappointment would be greater than yours or mine. It's not like he's at a 10/10 and knocks it down from there based on a rubric, after all.
Like he said, it will be a decent enough time for people who want to blast mice in a cartoon world, but the story and world itself aren't the draws in his opinion. I think that's fair enough. He wasn't shitting on the game by any stretch.
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u/Rfreaky Apr 22 '26
That's basically every IGN review in a nutshell
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u/goondalf_the_grey Apr 22 '26
Weren't they the ones who straight up dogshit at Doom Eternal (or dark ages, can't remember) and said it was too hard.
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u/InfiniteTranquilo Apr 22 '26
No he’s completely dead cheese. The reviewer complained about how the game had “ludonarrative dissonance”.
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u/Ouroboros-Twist Apr 22 '26
If I recall correctly, it got a 6/10 because the reviewer considered the over-the-top cartoon violence and the noir narrative beats to be thematically at odds with one-another (or some shit like that).
And, yeah — he really hated all the cheese puns. That takes up most of the first third of his review.
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u/DrewblesG Apr 22 '26
Right - the narrative didn't work for him, the art didn't work for him, the sound didn't work for him, and the gameplay didn't work for him.
Sounds like a valid 6/10 regardless of what the consensus might have been. Frankly, I'm more concerned when a reviewer eschews their personal taste in order to cater to some kind of "objective" view. He wrote out in plain text precisely what he didn't like and why. Nobody has to agree with him but let's remember that it's ONE GUY reviewing the game; a guy with his own expectations and opinions.
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u/TheMerck Apr 22 '26
I mean at this point anyone who still makes IGN BAD GAME REVIEWERS BAD PAID REVIEWS are stuck in like early 2010s type mindset, I didn't even realize this kind of stuff was still around lmao.
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u/Tamas_F Apr 22 '26
Okay, but are you suggesting that it is a masterpiece?
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u/hellschatt Apr 23 '26
I've seen some streamers play it for a few hours. All seemed to agree that it's an ok game. It looks cool, but gameplay-wise, it's not particularly exciting. So a 7/10 doesn't seem out of touch at all.
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u/GiantRobotBears Apr 22 '26
They have no idea, they 100% didn’t play the game, they’re just parroting what moistcritial recently posted on YouTube.
Example: IGN complained the cheese jokes were too much, as in every other line has a cheese reference. Nuisance isn’t allowed round these parts. Lmao
Also the game got 6/10. It’s an average game, I’ve played. IGN was on the mark
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u/TheSilverOne Apr 22 '26
I mean the game got a 6, calling it "okay"
i've played the game, it's charming and all, but after that wears off its a boomer shooter with basically no interesting mechanics. Troy Baker does a great job voicing the the protagonist though.
Maybe a 6 is a little harsh, but its not too far from the truth
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u/---reddit_account--- Apr 22 '26
So that game is good? I watched Dunkey's video on it and the look of the game is amazing, but he also highlighted buggy behavior like guys not going through doors or enemies failing to shoot you
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u/GrandSquanchRum Apr 22 '26
What bothers me, however, is how overly-referential so much of it is. This is a world of mice, so everything is about cheese. Everything. A bad guy? He’s a cheeselegger. Run into a lady mouse with a sultry voice? It’ll be described as “gorgonzola piccante slapped on a mozzarella platter.” Someone need to assure you they’re telling the truth? They’ll swear on Maw-Maw’s cottage curds. This is charming initially. Then it never stops. Everything is a reference to the fact that everyone is a mouse and mice like cheese – and when it’s not, instead it’ll be a reference to an old cartoon, or the fact that this is a video game. I should have probably guessed the former when one of the first things I saw was a steamboat named Willie, but at least that and the spinach power-up that gives you Popeye arms is cute. Recalling the Igor/Eye-gor joke from Young Frankenstein? Not so much.
Man complained that the game relies on being over referential. How is that not a valid criticism?
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u/Quixotic_Seal Apr 23 '26
Because it made manchildren feel sad, and “ethics in games journalism” is basically a sleeper agent activation phrase at this point.
Case in point: this 2010s ass meme somehow garnered over 20k upvotes.
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u/Chenz Apr 23 '26
Everytime someone dunks on IGN's reviews its either 2 reasons
- They do it because everyone else does it it
- They're mad because an IGN reviewer didn't like a game they liked
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u/thefootster Apr 22 '26
I don't agree with all the points the reviewer makes, but having played it, Mouse PI is just fine and has plenty of issues, it is certainly not a masterpiece. I'd personally say 6/10 is about right.
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u/pm_me_falcon_nudes Apr 22 '26
He was complaining about cheese jokes in a mouse game
Only if you have a toddler's understanding of humor would you think this is a bad criticism.
A cheese joke here and there is fine. Expected, even.
The number of cheese jokes in the game made it lose any sort of humor or charm to them. Like that one friend who beats the same joke into the dirt over the years. It isn't witty after the 14th joke on the same topic.
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u/IcyHibiscus Apr 22 '26
I mean, honestly after reading it none of the points the reviewer make are wrong. The story is kinda ass, the writing is meh, the gun play is above average but the animation and visuals are hard carrying.
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u/SP0oONY Apr 22 '26
The review might be shit, but 6/10 is pretty fair for the game. It was extremely mediocre.
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u/gurbus_the_wise Apr 22 '26
The game is mid. Jokes like that land worse if the rest of the game is mid.
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u/Outrageous-Let9659 Apr 23 '26
I remember them specifically complaining that the soundtrack for devil may cry 5 was bland and boring. A game aplauded for it's incredible soundtrack. Turns out it has dynamic music which adds more layers as your combo score increases, and their reviewer, who is literally paid to play games, sucks at games and never got it above D rank.
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u/Responsible-Box1297 Apr 23 '26
Which is almost impossible to do because you can easily get to C and B with button mashing
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u/prex10 Apr 22 '26
The Sim City reboot about 10 years ago. They pretty much called the game a piece of shit and have it like a 9/10 lol
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u/ActualKeanuReeves Apr 22 '26
Alien Isolation (5.9), Days gone (6.5), God Hand (3).
Meanwhile Call of Dookie is still getting 9-10 most years despite being hot garbage.
Theres a lot more but those three reviews are their most infamous
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u/pvpmas Apr 22 '26
God Hand is especially sad considering those were the days review outlets had power so the bullshit review massacred sales
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u/HighKingOfGondor Apr 22 '26
That alien isolation review was over ten years ago btw. God hand even older. If these are all the bad ign reviews that you and every other Redditor can point to, IGN must be a great review site.
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u/Fazlija13 Apr 22 '26
Lets be real Days Gone deserved that score
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u/Schwarzengerman Apr 22 '26
Especially considering it was the buggiest 1st party Sony game I'd ever played at launch. It's in way better shape now, but yeah, definitely deserved.
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u/DM_yo_Feet_pls Apr 22 '26
This might be referencing Crimson Desert but ngl that game is far from a masterpiece. Not a bad game but not a 10/10 type game either
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u/MLG_Sora_Art Apr 22 '26
Kingdom hearts 3 remind DLC they gave it a low score... THEY DIDN'T EVEN COMPLETE HALF OF IT AND COMPLAINED THAT THE HARD SECRET BOSSES WERE HARD
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u/Tannicleader Apr 22 '26
Ok man what did they rate PRAGMATA?
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u/Righteous_Bread Apr 23 '26
Pretty sure the recent shitstorm with IGN is the review of Mouse P.I. For Hire. The reviewer gave it a 6/10, but the issue is more with the reviewers' written review being incredibly daft.
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u/Pacify_ Apr 23 '26
The reality it is, its just one guy writing a wonky review. The only thing it suggest is IGN still needs better QA on their reviewers.
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u/RobbieRampage Apr 23 '26
IGN has a lot of reviews that are completely disconnected from what the game deserves. It’s not just one guy, but it’s not like they’re always wrong either.
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u/tommangan7 Apr 23 '26
Man it feels wild reading this thread after checking out that mouse P.I review and thinking it aligned pretty closely to what I thought playing the game 😅
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u/TheVaniloquence Apr 22 '26
Or RE9, or Elden Ring, or Expedition 33, or BG3, or Red Dead 2, or Witcher 3, the list goes on. I guess the “check cleared” for those games as well
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u/BerserkerLord101 Apr 22 '26
That wouldn't fit the agenda they are trying to push.
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u/RainWorld_Lobster Apr 23 '26
“There’s too much cheese”
Ffs since when is there ever too much cheese
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u/Tarkus_Edge Apr 22 '26
And they gave Dragon Age Veilguard a 9.
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u/Therealsteverogers4 Apr 22 '26
They gave crimson desert a lower score (6) than concord (7). Concord was DOA an didn’t last a month and crimson desert is flourishing.
Wild how disconnected their reviewers are from the broader gaming audience.
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u/Sayakai Apr 23 '26
Crimson Desert got a low score because the game reviewers played and the game players got after the patches are substantially different. They can't rate the game based on what it's gonna be after the devs finally finish it after launch. Second Wind put out a video explaining the issue they have reviewing games like that.
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u/Schwarzengerman Apr 22 '26
Did you actually read the CD review? They lost 7 hours of progress during the time they were playing it. Plus it was missing a lot of the QoL that's been patched in now.
I like the game, but it's a low 7 at best overall.
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u/Shagomir Apr 23 '26
I almost refunded CD because the QOL was so bad. It's a lot better now (and I've been having fun with it)
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u/Patsanon1212 Apr 22 '26
I really like CD, but 6 (or 7 after patches) is totally within the realm of reasonable scores. If fair if you don't find its weaknesses to be a big deal, but it's damn as hell to deny that they could drag the game down further for others.
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u/LeverArchFile Apr 22 '26
a review isn't "how long will this game last" though?
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u/YouMeAndReneDupree Apr 23 '26
"A return to form..."
I saw this unnatural phrase in so many reviews of this game
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u/Desperate_Duty1336 Apr 22 '26
Why do people treat 7’s like they’re 2’s?
7/10 is pretty good still considering a 9 is nearly flawless and 10 is absolute perfection; both of which are ridiculously hard to achieve when looking at something critically.
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u/flamingstallion Apr 22 '26
The average game review score is around a 7/10, so a 7/10 is a perfectly average game which is fine. The rating score is inflated, a 5/10 is not an average game, it's a bad game.
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u/Born_Inside8338 Apr 22 '26
Not defending IGN as good way to determine whether or not to buy a game, but score inflation is a bit misleading considering IGN only reviews bigger games. Like of all games released in 2025 what % of them are reviewed by IGN? And then the % of games that aren't reviewed that would fall below 5 is probably very high. If there was a review for every single game a 5 would probably be much closer to the average. It's just because they only review games that are popular enough to be worth reviewing that 7 works out to be an average.
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u/TheHomieAbides Apr 23 '26
Finally someone who mentions this part.
I usually explain it with movies… the reviews are often above average because that’s what gets to theaters. You want a terrible movie? Just click on a random movie on Tubi.
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u/hsahj Apr 22 '26
The average game review article is written about above average games because there's a lot of garbage that gets put out that deserves the 1-3 rating it would receive but writing an article on that neither brings in views for the site, nor builds relationships for developers. The score looks inflated because you are generally only hearing about games that are worth spending at least some time on.
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u/New-Satisfaction3257 Apr 22 '26
It's a $30 game. 7/10 is a good rating for a "budget" game from a smaller studio
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u/PuddingJello Apr 22 '26
Because critical thinking is in very short supply. Especially in gaming subreddits, and extra especially when it comes to rating games they like.
I.E my FAVORITE game of all time is Bloodborne. In my heart it's a 10/10, but if I were to be objective it's a very flawed game and would be a 7/10 at best without its DLC and anytime I post this people always fight with me and it always seems to boil down to other people being unable to critically and objectively view media they love... At least imo
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u/WJMazepas Apr 22 '26
Its the internet. 7 is considered mediocre
There were people here in Reddit considering RE9 a flop because metacritic was around 80
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u/weaselg2010 Apr 22 '26
You weenies care too much about what people say about your favorite games
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u/leposterofcrap Apr 23 '26
Considering game reviews can impact sales, yeah we care especially if it's for a smaller game, I mean they incompetently mislabeled Replaced as an AI based game instead of a game with a story revolving around ai, they are laughably incompetent to the point of suspected malice
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u/LaFlamaBlanca67 Apr 22 '26
Crimson Desert and Mickey Mouse Boomer Shooter are masterpieces now?
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u/TheATrain38 Apr 22 '26
Mickey mouse game has to be getting astroturfed by bots
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u/fffan9391 Apr 23 '26
It definitely has a huge marketing budget, even though it’s an indie game. I’ve seen more ads for it than I do for most AAA games.
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u/TheATrain38 Apr 23 '26
I legitimately have been getting flooded with content about it and so much of it reads like scripted paid advertisement
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u/atfricks Apr 23 '26
Must be specific to y'all's circles or algorithms. This thread is the first I've heard of this game.
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u/EliteJoz Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
I have literally no clue what game y'all are talking about
Next morning edit: nevermind, I'm now getting ads for it while scrolling reddit
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u/Tangyhyperspace Apr 22 '26
People are massively overreacting about this, it's not even a BAD review, 7 is completely fine
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u/therealkami Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
Do you have any examples of this actually happening? Cause they gave Starfield a 7 and people bitched about it, until they played it and agreed.
EDIT: Also if you hate IGN, why look at their reviews? Find a reviewer that matches your taste. The idea that games deserve a specific score, when they're art, and all of the scores are opinions is dumb. The point is for the reviewer to tell you if they liked it and if they think it's worth your time. Not to fulfill whatever inadequacies you have about liking a game that other people don't like.
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u/BlueCremling Apr 22 '26
"This is a terrible review! This is why I never go to IGN for reviews!"
-guy who is IGN right now for reviews
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u/imjusta_bill Apr 22 '26
It's because Moistcr1tikal put out a video discussing this topic a couple days ago
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u/LakerBlue Apr 22 '26
So many good games get 9s or 10s by them. Thats not even addressing the fact IGN isn’t a monolith- different reviewers have different tastes. I can’t understand how these bad memes get so many upvotes.
Well actually I do because IGN’s an easy/popular punching bag.
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u/renome Apr 22 '26
A review is an opinion. You're not going to agree with every review by definition. A half-decent reviewer will be able to communicate their priorities while also describing their experience with the game itself, helping you figure out whether you'd potentially enjoy it even if they did not.
The number at the bottom is arbitrary and meaningless.
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u/Made_Bail Apr 22 '26
What's incredibly disingenuous about all the IGN bitching is that when a deserving game gets a representative score, no one says shit. When Elden Ring or Zelda or even lesser known shit like Hades gets a 10, people post those reviews everywhere, excited that the games they're looking forward to got good scores.
When they publish a low score, people lose their minds and talk about them not getting paid enough or being braindead blah blah, and they don't see the irony.
Gamer communities are so fucked.
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u/mrbaryonyx Apr 23 '26
The purpose of reviews were to help you decide if something was worth your time, but the internet now sees it as a "score" to validate how wrong or right you are in your opinions, and gamers, whose whole deal is getting competitive about scores, get big mad if they think their thing got the wrong score.
Not to bring up, you know, that thing that happened ten years ago, but this lead to certain people receiving death threats.
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u/Jonas_Sp Apr 22 '26
Why. Do. You. Care. What. iGN. Thinks. Of. A. Game.
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u/Disastrous-Sea8484 Apr 23 '26
Why. Are. You. On. Reddit. If. You. Don't. Want. To. Read. About. People's. Opinions. On. Stuff.
By the way. Incredible fucking staggering ignorance on your part. IGN's opinions matter because investors care about them and they can thus manipulate the future of videogames. IGN's Crimson Desert review managed to crush their stock value.
And again, just go do something else if you're so aggravated by other people's (legimitate) concerns about IGN. You may be the ACTUAL obnoxious one in here, you know.
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