I haven’t played Pipistrello, but I’ve beaten the others. My biggest suggestion is trust your first impressions. None of those other 3 are “it gets good X hours in”. If after an hour it’s not your bag I don’t think any of them will change your mind like Silksong did. Have fun :)

Hope you do find the time to check out Citizen Sleep 2, great story and interesting gameplay

On the bright side GOTY lists often have strong recency biases, November means you’ll be closer to top of mind when that season begins in December.

The publisher doesn’t decide, the website does egmnow.com/i-gave-battl...

My argument is that game reviewers are just like every reviewer, biased by their own taste and experience. That doesn’t mean that they are untrustworthy, just that it’s best to find a reviewer who has similar taste

Metacritic interprets a 5 out of 5 as a 100, but the problem is if I tell you someone gave something a 5 out of 5 or a 100 out of 100 that has a big difference especially if they don’t do partial stars. Because if I feel a game is a 90 do I round it down to a 4 star or up to a 5 star?

But if John Smith is a fan than maybe he might be more biased in favor of the game? But if Jack Doe doesn’t understand the franchise or genre and is not in alignment of the people who will be playing then maybe they will be upset with our review?

Then when you are assigning that review, who do you give it to? Oh John Smith who is a big fan of Battlefield and can comment on the changes or Jack Doe who is more of an ARPG player who dabble sometimes in FPSs but can’t comment on how this changes from the series or others in the genre?

Instead of a conspiracy of reviewers being paid off could it not also be explained that review sites want their site to get traffic so they cover games with a lot of marketing because those are the ones that readers will likely know about and be searching for on launch?

If EA was going to spend money on pumping up review scores why just pay off EGM and not IGN or GameSpot?

They didn’t give it a 100 they gave it a 5 out of 5 in a system where I don’t believe half stars exist. Also they are an outlier and those will always exist because reviewing games is subjective not objective and if another reviewer had been given this game at EGM they may have given it a 3 or a 4

If publishers paid for game reviews Battlefield 2042, published by megarich EA, would have a better metacritic than a 68

Second, if a publisher has enough money to buy a full page ad then they probably have enough money to make a playable game. To get a one star doesn’t just mean your game is boring or lacking features, it means your game is buggy, frustrating, and overall doesn’t work

First how many games ever get 1 star reviews anymore? Too many games come out where no site/publication can review them all so why would they waste their time on games they think will be bad?

Yoko Kanno always slaps

1) they admitted they were unaware it was on the list, but having been made aware they are forced to make an active decision.

2) previous coverage for the last year could be legally sourced outside of Disney+, meanwhile Andor can only be viewed on the platform.

The boycott target is just on Disney+ not Disney as a whole

This is exactly why DEI programs are important. Not to higher less qualified token employees but because so many extremely qualified potential hires get overlooked because the name on their resume or picture on their profile. Infuriating that we are moving backwards.

My bigger concern is CapCut which is also owned by ByteDance. My 6 year old loves making videos and looks like that aspect is still working. Not upset about losing other people’s templates