Asbjoern
"Yep, it's stunning how ignorant I am."
I don't agree that is an accurate assessment of my comment or that many would interpret it in such a way.
That being said, I know am ignorant about everything till I learn about it and afaik, no one is born with knowledge which makes us all ignorant of knowledge, until we learn it.
Hell I am perpetually ignorant, now I think about it and I wouldn't want it any other way, afaik the human brain and spirit withers, when learning is ceased.
"And I would like some argumentation to why you think,............"
To the best of my knowledge GameRankings includes all reviews they don't pick an choose site or rating standards/systems and I honestly don't know much about the two listed.
I had to go to their sites, to verify what I thought was true. i.e. "90%+ reviews did NOT tank the game" which I knew GR did not.
I certainly could have misunderstood you, but to me it's the same difference and if MC & GS pick and choose there reviews and/or scoring systems, that’s fine, if true gives me a reason not to use their sites.
Sure they have a right to do it, but are the rating accurate they pick and choose, how could it possibly be?
"Those big, bad publishers. And oh those innocent independent developers. Is that really the reality?"
Personally I see it as a case by case issue, nor did I use the word innocent and in this case it's very clear Ubi pushed out the game for the holidays, are you suggesting otherwise?
If you have some publisher(s) whom you believe are innocent and you want to speak about them, list names or instances.
If you think I always blame the publisher about problems, then you don't know me as well as you presume/think, within the last week I blamed Illusion for game design flaws in Mafia, I have done the same for Crytek and others, so your whole basis is incorrect.
"Independet developers accept a contract........"
Of course but it's case by case, and not to mention the fact that technologies change during development cycles, which you don't seem to factor in or are excluding.
I.e. would be new/updated Dev kits from m$ or sony if it's a console game, or does the pub decide it wants to reach the same audience it did three years ago in the original contract?
Do you know how many changes just in technology occur in three years?
How about international laws regarding rating systems change?
Is 4 examples enough cause I got plenty more.
Give me specifics; generalities do us no good, here.
txa1265
"......then you would surely agree that using an IQR....."
Yes, I agree with you and logic that some high scores are bias or using some curve.
However that does not make me want to cast the lighting bolt of doom and it’s certainly possible this was the type of game they really enjoyed.
Especially if it's from a very small number of dev that have RPG potential, as an example, to the best of my knowledge the script/story was given to Arkine to make a game around the new licensed and vision of Ubi after they acquired M&M universe, yet Arkine is being blamed and punished for the quality of the story by some reviewers.
In regards to the Bow issue, once you find the first Fireball bow, most anything will fall and you certainly have it for the last undead Cyclops, iirc there are about 3 Fireball Bows with one in the tombs before you fight your way out of the temple, so really you never have to fight a Cyclops without a good bow.