Metacritic Responds to Ongoing Dragon Age: The Veilguard Review Bombing Campaign

I mean the game is bad and cringing and preachy and just propaganda and not dragon age at all I don't feel bad keep going i say

The people who have the free time to review bomb something for these "reasons" don't have enough real world problems in their lives.

I don't go off of what the majority says or if the number is high, I go off of trust from trusted reviewers.

@Antbaze Yeah the clips I saw are super preachy. If I have to spend the majority of my time in a game with a character like Taash then I will play another game.

I've decided to wait for a sale. The divisiveness regarding companions and narrative and the more mixed critic reviews coming now have me thinking I made the right choice. Sometimes being out of the discourse cycle and playing the game without the noise can give you the best experience.

Either way I got Armored Core 6 on sale and damn It's From's most interesting game since Sekiro.

I watched the “pulling a barve” clip and decided that I don’t really need this game. Loved BG3, love TLOU2, I’m in favour of diversity in games.

I’m just not in favour of bad writing and a grind. Don’t feel the need to review bomb it, I’ll just buy something else.

Steam is the only "credible" place for user reviews. User reviews on MC are just a cesspit.

@Nepp67 You don't have to have her in your party at all, other than the initial recruitment mission (and then all she does is talk about dragons) let alone spend the majority of your time with her.

@Antbaze You don't understand what "propaganda" is do you?

I think it’s funny how it’s “review bombing” when it doesn’t fit the industry’s narrative. If people don’t like it or decisions developers made they can express it. Do I care one flip about their reviews? Not at all. Not sure I’ve even ever visit the Metacritic site. But they can have at it.

Meanwhile I’m just enjoying the game.

Games good, and anyone that uses the psypop demands an ignore instantly ,.and people using the word propaganda, go read a book or something or go back to school🤦‍♂️

@Secryt The problem is the game isn't a 0/10 or 1/10. That's why it's review bombing, not simply because they didn't like it. Imagine if I gave OoT 1/10 because I don't like the political message that having an unelected monarchy is a good thing. Imagine if I'm referring to that as psyops and royalist propaganda. It's safe to say, if I did do that, I'd need therapy.

@Secryt Its review bombing when its a one sentence 1/10 crying about woke from a child who hasn't even played the game.

Sounds like a case of meaningless corporate virtue signalling Vs. a brain rotten culture warrior

Is there a part in the game where you mis-gender another character and have to fulfill some kind of punishment? Can you avoid this npc or is it a forced encounter? I would like to play the game but I'm not prepared to play something if there's no alternative path through the story. Anybody shed some light on this as there's been no mention in any reviews about this.

Funny cause i dont think critic scores mean anything. They are attacking anyone with any kind of negative look on the game like skillup and mrmattyplays who dont even bring up the politic points as causes for poor score. Decide what u want but in no way should these publications be implying it should be in GOTY discussion

Is review bombing taking place? Yes.

But just so we are clear about this: The review bombing is happening both ways. I've seen some ridiculously high scores just as I've seen some ridiculously low scores. Both sides are guilty of inflicting the culture war upon us this time.

Watch a Let's Play and decide for yourself.

It's the user score. People get to give it whatever grade they want.
Do people want to manipulate others opinions as well?
I don't care if people give it 0/10 if that is what they feel like. I find that part of the process. Many also give 10/10 to completely trash games.

The commercial score exists and is right there.

@DennisReynolds That was the most, truly, Dennis Reynolds comment you’ve ever left here, and it was AMAZING!!!

@Nem this 100%. I read the reviews on pushsquare but I don't pay attention to what score they give the game because more than a few times they're scores have been stupid to say the least so I read the comments from you guys because that's more important to me when I'm deciding on if I should purchase something. Ultimately I make my own decision regardless of reviews. This review bombing thing is so funny because its so stupid.

@Northern_munkey heard it’s mandatory. It means well but it’s so heavy handed that it comes off as patronising.

Veilguard was sitting at 4.34 out of 5 stars with 4.5k users ratings when I checked psn this afternoon. But those people bought the game and clearly don’t know anything like these brave clowns review bombing a game they’ve never played for some deeply stupid and miserable reasons.

I've never in my life taken any notice of metacritic. I've never even been on the site

User score reflects how most users feel about the game? Stop the press
It is what it is, worthless feedback, so why does the media care about it? Would they care if the game didn’t have a certain political stance?

It’s like people have grown up with the caricature of gamers and decided “Yes, this is me, I will own this and triple down” - and then have a four year old hissy fit when a game features any minority.

I’m enjoying the game - the characters and writing are a bit rubbish, but after 10 hours it really starts to pick up.

@Sarcasmatwork He hasn’t even begun to peak…

@themightyant I also hate this side of gaming. All it does is ruin the experience you're having playing a game you like. Best to stay away. With that said, DAV is pretty good game and I'm having a blast.

@themightyant it's why I'm waiting for a sale and for the noise to die down. I've seen critics I like on both sides of the argument, Just better to play it when it dies down and I can judge it with based on my own play through.

I thought that Mass Effect Andromeda was let down massively by its poor writing, dialogue and characters but I enjoyed playing it when I bought it for £5 in a sale. Gonna do the same for Veilguard.

I decided to give the game a try on Steam, so I could return it if I don't like it. Well, I am now almost 30 hrs into the game and do really enjoy it. I can see what some people call a "woke agenda", but I don't mind at all and just enjoy the game.

It might not have such a high critical score if they let more people review it, but it seem they cherry picked reviewers who were more likely to give it a positive score.

Metacritic should just nix the user reviews. This keeps happening.

The problem with articles like this critiquing review bombing, which may or may not be valid in this case, is that with games like FIFA certain sites have written positive reviews to such an extent they looked to have been bought off, and don’t reflect reality. And then consumers give the real viewpoint calling out bad and terrible pay to win mechanics, especially if publishers update the game after positive reviews. Dragon’s Dogma 2 being one recent example.

For me it goes both ways. Publishers and official review sites are just as bad, if not worse.