How do people feel about reviews like this?
Reviewed at 42 hours. Played it for another 80 hours (in the past two weeks)
In my mind, their actions speak louder than words, and this game is worth it.
Reviewed at 42 hours. Played it for another 80 hours (in the past two weeks)
In my mind, their actions speak louder than words, and this game is worth it.
There are plenty of reasons why someone's account might rack up hours in a game they don't particularly enjoy.
Being driven by a completionist streak, letting someone else play on their machine, needing a distraction from an unhappy life, supporting a friend who wants to play together, being bored of all their other games, leaving the game at a menu screen while they're doing other things... the possibilities are endless.
I won't discount a review for having a high hours count, but I might for being especially rude.
I have one particular game with a shit load of hours in the main menu because I like the soundtrack (N++).
I think my curiosity is complaining about it for 40 hours, then playing it nonstop for two weeks for another 80.
I wonder if they were quick to review and will return with a more insightful opinion?
Have you played league of legends before? People (myself included) will trash on the game, call it and the community shit in a variety of fun ways, then dump another 500+ hours into it.
Just because you don't intellectually like something doesn't mean your brain won't crave it, unfortunately. I've done this with games like league of legends (4 years clean now) and path of exile. Friends have had the same experience with rainbow six siege and destiny 2. It's a common occurrence, and you should listen to reviews like this so you don't end up in the same shitty situation.
My steam review for rinworld would say I have some 6000 hours in game, but I've only played maybe 300. I have a habit of leaving games open while I go to bed, or make meals, or go to work. I'll leave a game running for days just so I don't have to launch it again when I want to start. I only put so much stock into playtime because of that.
at least the review is about the game, and not some steam community award clown comment like "because nobody will see this: [whatever]" or some other form of useless meme.
I think of this reviewer as being someone who deeply loves this franchise but just ground the previous game into powder. This new release is their only opportunity to revisit the franchise they love. Despite being very disappointed, it still beats not playing in that world.
For someone like me, I think this is a helpful and honest review. There are many reasons for larger play time that are unrelated to game quality. I don't personally consider it to be an indicator. I think I already also have issues with using it as a measure like $/h. It sort of seems problematic to always be asking "how long will this entertain me?". I feel like we should be valuing other aspects more highly.
They way I see it, the person didn't say they didn't like it. They said it had problems and that they didn't recommend it.
For some people 140 hours is peanuts. You can say this player did their due diligence to see different aspects of the game.
But I prefer reviews with like 2000 hours in saying 'it's ok'
Yeah, in many cases 140 hours is nothing, especially with MMOs
I have some 15k hours in osrs and maybe 5-10k in WoW (and those games are trash but I still play them)
The game might still be enjoyable, but not worth the price.
If lethal company was like 70$, it's still fun but no where near worth that much
So if they still have it and beyond getting a refund, why not play it?
It's fine. Have you ever played a game and liked it, but then they updated it and then it sucks? That's how it is with me with 7 days to die. It was great until a certain update then they completely changed the game progression because the have devs didn't like how people played their single player game so they nerfed every single system, forced progression to a specific path, and made the game more difficult. Fuck em.
Fr tho.
I wanted to like that game after enjoying the heck outta Civ V and my own love of sci-fi. I'm not sure what the issue was, but, dang, did it not click. I played 3 games of it to see if I was missing some magic ingredient, but sadly no, it just wasn't up to par with the other entries in the Civilization series.
Eh, it's legit imo. As others have said, that isn't a lot of time in for some games. I've put more than that info games before quitting.
And I might even leave a review that's bad, but keep playing a while to see if maybe I was wrong, if I had nothing else on my plate. I've had games start crappy, but kept playing because of other people, and ended up enjoying things.
So I wouldn't reject this review as useless because of the time spent. If anything, the time spent could sway me to waiting to try the game until someone I know could let me give it a try (assuming it wasn't ftp to begin with, I have clue what the game is).
It can be a disappointment and still fun.
I remember when Rainbow 6 Siege was still in its infancy before Operation Health there were some pretty bad reviews but people still pay it after 6+ years.
They already played past the refund period. Depending how complicated the game is they might have needed that time to really formulate a comprehensive opinion. And now that they have already played the game, they might as well play it. Goodness knows I have guilty pleasure games that are honestly not that fun but they scratch some sort of itch even if they may be overall disappointing with some clear avenue for improvement I wish they had made.
Master of Magic https://store.steampowered.com/app/1623070/Master_of_Magic/
found it by putting part of the review text in quotes into google. bam, first result. Google-fu stronk. :)
I think it might be Magic Research 2? Nevermind, I couldn't find that review on the Steam page, so it must be another game.
If it’s a game like overwatch, where the first one is not available anymore, I understand this.
If it’s like CoD where the old game is unplayable (cheaters, etc) anymore, I understand this as well.
If it’s because of sunk cost fallacy that this person continued to play this game, I understand this too (although not having this, I know people have this trait)
It also could be that this person wants to finish the game, and wrote the review earlier, in this case I would want to have an update if it became better.
I would, for me speaking, not recommend Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth due to things happening around Costa del Sol, yet I played for 27 more hours until I finished it.
It's not incredibly helpful or insightful. 40 hrs a week since the review is also odd but I do not know their life.
It's the equivalent of bitching about how bad your food was and then clearing your plate.
Guess you were never taught to clean your plate even if it makes you wanna puke from how bad it is.