@Random_Matt @sauigoodman Yeah just check the IGN article. Just proves how braindead people are. Super Mario 64 was perfect, so was Morrowind....and no DLC, imagine that. I could list 100 games.
IGN just posted that they refuse to rate it, and are going to wait until DLC is released....
I'm not sure there's a good score for this game. The general consensus seems to be it's an incredibly well-crafted, mechanically competent, pretty game. But ultimately rather by the numbers and arguably fairly mediocre in terms of any single specific feature.
So do we review it on its mechanical competence and the quality of it's design and presumably give it a fairly high score on that, or do we review it on its vision (or lack thereof) and the fact that, as it is at launch with no dlc, its scale is fairly lacking and therefore give it a mediocre score?
I don't think either is fair. It is quality made, but it doesn't really do anything all that special. A low score seems unfair, a high score seems unfair, and just splitting the difference and giving it a medium seems lazy.
Frankly I haven't bought it yet. I played the beta a bunch as all classes and had enough concerns (which everyone else has repeated with the launch version) that I cancelled my pre-order and now I'm just kind of watching to see if anything can finally snap my opinion completely one direction or another: forget it exists or just buy the damn thing. My standing opinion is I'm just going to wait on some DLC/expansions and see if that solves what I consider the major problem: the overall lack of scope and feature variety.
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