@CDR_VIRUS @bowlingotter Thank you, but I think the petition is nonsense. There's nothing wrong with disagreeing with a review - it's happened to me plenty of times. It doesn't mean someone should be fired.
@YukoAsho @bowlingotter No, it means that I liked the game more than he did and shared my review. Gamespot would call that a "video reply." Is it supposed to mean more than that?
@quakke I'm well aware of the history behind the game as I was tasked with reviewing it as well for a different publication. You can't review a game based on "they'll probably patch it" or "well, it was a small team." You review a game based on its own merits at the time that you played it. I didn't score it as low as this reviewer did because I apparently felt that the positives carried more weight, but I certainly had the same gripes.
@alenth The checkpoints really are so, so bad though. It's maddening to hit a ridiculously difficult platforming sequence that sends you way back to a checkpoint, making you fight your way just to try it again. For all of the old-school flavor that was kept intact, it made no sense to ditch the Quicksave feature.
@Miroku32 Yes with some work you can improve it, but the optimization is still horrendous. Like the reviewer here, I have a system that's well beyond the recommended specs, and there were still rooms that dropped my fps WELL below 30. Just turning off bloom gave me a huge boost. "Optimization" means that it's not supposed to be up to the players to fix.
@quakke @Spinnerweb I don't agree. QUBE, Hard Reset, and Serious Sam 3: BFE were all good but not great games. I don't think ROTT deserves an 8 either, but a 5.5 feels a little harsh. The optimization issues and horrible checkpoint system really, really hurt it, but there's a lot of fun to be had regardless.
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