meh its 4 reviews, kind of moot since at this point a single 1 or 10 will make it jump a bit. TBH I think people put WAYYY too much weight into aggregate scores but I guess some people actually rely on faulty info for purchases.. lol

Typical ^ Fanboi response folks just move along they will always be diehards even when the ship is sinking they will say it won't. lol

Lol fanboi i am not. Logical I am. Its 4 reviews... 2 of which gave it a 10. I hold no vested interest if FE succeeds or fails.. i'm just willing to actually  use my brain and examine the facts rather than scream doom because 2 whole people gave it a mediocre score.. lol

Couldn't agree more, you always get people who give a game a 1 cause they didnt like the color of the master sword, and others who give it a 10 cause their cousins girlfriends uncle worked on the game.

You obviosly don't know how user reviews work on Metacritic. You don't have to actually WRITE a review to give it a review score. Look UP a little bit and you'll see a lot more review scores vs actual reviews. Thus you fail and didn't have ACCURATE results when you posted your blarney.

Really need to have more people reviewing it than 4.  So lets wait a week and then see what the user reviews say. I could care less about professional reviews they are as bad as the professional movie reviewers.

lol, you done trolling yet?

The Guinevere2 (6) and Cytonkinesis (8) reviews seem pretty reasonable. That being said, I am very satisfied with the game and the scores don't mean much to me.

Reply to FemmeFatale: So after I just posted gamespot's score (some 15 minutes ago), 3 other votes got in bringing a score of 9.0 (12 votes) down to 7.4 (15 votes).

I can only conclude that you just filled in very low scores from 3 mailadresses. You must be very sad and miserable.

This post was not to start a flamewar or an unpleasant kind of discussion.

It was intended as a warning. A warning that the accumulated scores might be not that high in the 80ies.

For myself i tend to look at the userscores on this "useless" metacritics side, they often point to a specific problem that a game has.

In this case there where no "zero pts" votes but some written reviews that might be putting people at the "careful customer" side.

There are some games with a high disparity between user and critics score, none of them where really good.

I do hope this game gets good scores, i really enjoy it, all i can do is to score myself .(hint)

kesmai

o.k. let us see then...

Agreed.  It certainly doesn't help that even an individual can inflate or deflate a score.  I checked one game recently that had over 150 user scores of 0, without comments on any.  You can imagine how helpful and accurate a reflection of value that is.  The user scores at Metacritic in my opinion are useful much like the reviewer scores, for that matter: you ignore the numbers and read the comments to get some sense of whether the poster/reviewer has a sound background in the genre, a good grasp of the essentials of the game, an ability to logically weight criteria, and decent communications skills.  I think this is also true of any forum reviews, as well.  Numbers?  I've seen critics who dislike products and give them a 9; other critics who rave in ecstasy, and give out a 7.  Numbers are so personal in what they mean, that they cease to have any value that can be shared universally.  Unless you follow a given writer's work, in which case you've broken their numbers code.

I am a fanboy of stardock

for a long time

I do like this game, but i see flaws. Flaws in design and execution of design.  I play 4x since reach for the stars. I do look over those flaws because 4x games get rare these days.

So yes i´m a fanboi but nonetheless i have windows to look out of my fanboy ivory tower.

And if you want to call me stupid, ok do it.

kesmai

Don't feed the troll. This is the same person who said Torchlight was "garbage".