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Originally Posted by ernie
There is a lot wrong with the game and the reviews/previews etc pointed it all out. But all that stuff forgot one important thing....the game is simply fun to play. And honestly the people I know that have played it agree. I think it's honestly a game that the review scores should be much higher. Many of them are and then you run into the stupid scores of 30/100 which quite simply doesn't make a lick of sense. It's a solid 7 to 8/10 IMO. Certainly a worthwhile play.
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The gaming community is still very fanboy biased and that goes for reviewers and gaming sites. Reviewing games is never cut and dried like reviewing movies because of the various platforms and fanboyism. IMO exclusive titles in particular tend to get better reviews from many sites because it's easier to criticize a multiplatform game as you don't have to deal with rabid fanbase of a certain console or upset Sony or Microsoft. How many 9.5 to perfect 10 scores has IGN handed out for Sony exclusives? Way, way too many.
I believe lots of game reviewers were on the anti-Microsoft bandwagon this time last year because DRM seemed to really hit the nerves of a lot of them and were looking at any and all negatives to the point where things snowballed and XB1 simply wasn't going to get the benefit of the doubt in hardware or software reviews. Ryse was a victim of that. There is really no other way you can explain the low scores of Ryse as it's as good or better as a whole than a lot of games that have averaged 8/10 scores on Metacritic yet it got scores that are typically reserved for unplayable garbage.