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Metacritic is surprisingly spot on with this one....
Just wanted to point this out after someone in another thread stated Metacritic wasn't a reliable source:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/diablo [8.3]
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http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/diablo-ii [8.5]
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http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/diablo-iii [3.6]
Pretty much my thoughts entirely.
Oh, and just for a bit of reference for those of you looking for stronger data 
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http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/dragon-age-ii [4.2]
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http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/dead-island [6.8]
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http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/mass-effect-3 [3.9]
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http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/mass-effect-2 [8.5]
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http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/mass-effect [8.4]
I'm having a hard time finding one "User Rating" I don't disagree with other than Dead Island that I believe should have been a 5.8 instead of a 6.8, but that's because I'm a BIT more critical about zombie based games than others in its genre 
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Don't worry about any of this If YOU enjoy the game at the end of the day. However, just realize that after everything is said and done Diablo 3 was not the game it should have been. For the fans 
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Add this one:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/tera [7.8]
and Swtor is a bit harsh but pretty accurate in my opinion too:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/star-wars-the-old-republic [5.7]
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No, just no, the rating is due to nerd ragers who couldn't log in at midnight at launch.
That's probably a part of it but not the only reason I expect: there's also a lot of disgruntled D2 vets commenting on how this is not the game that they were looking forward to for over a decade.
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Metacritic ratings are full of emotion-filled nerd rage. If you are prone to emotion-filled nerd rage, then you may agree with what you find there.
I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
Acutally i'm starting to think these are console fanboy bots, the amount if stupidity that they have written and the really generic nicknames they have is quite funny. None of them know what diablo is and i'm willing to bet they don't even own the game.
Ok, so there are some who are nerd raging that diablo 3 ins't diablo 2.
The only thing I realize is that at the end of the day some people need to have their personal choices confirmed by others. For those of us that have moved on from our high school years we realize we can enjoy what we want without worry about if its cool or not.
That's a wrong way to put it I think.
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Originally posted by jusomdude
No, just no, the rating is due to nerd ragers who couldn't log in at midnight at launch.
Case in point, dude. You shouldn't HAVE to log in to play a single-player game...unless you want to play with other people. Go buy a 50" widescreen TV and see how happy you are if it only let you watch cable (no local devices worked, no consoles, no DVD players, etc.)
Didnt really effect me u til last night, when I couldn't play due to the servers being busy.....yea, kind of annoying to not be able to play my new $60.00 game during the window of time were I could....and in case you are going to ask, I reserve the right to drive my car anytime I want as well, seeing as how I am paying for that as well.
Sadly, this will probably be my last Blizzard product. I simply do not like we're the company is going.
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I really enjoy the game personally. I play it with a colleague from work and we both have fun.
meta critic seems to have a severe bias against sequels, as if a billion fanbois cried out because the game isnt what THEY wanted
My question is what is going on with "paid" publication reviews. I remember when an average score in a game magazine was 5, about right. But I now rarely see scores below 7 and i see far too many 8 and more. Sure u got to cypher throuhg user reviews but u get a less advertising dollar influenced opinion.
When you have thousand and thousand of people voting which is enough to build a statistical base, its pretty hard to deny them their opinion, especially when they all point the same few aspects.
[/quote] Originally posted by jusomdude No, just no, the rating is due to nerd ragers who couldn't log in at midnight at launch.[/quote]
And, why shouldn't it count? Everyone is telling Blizzard they don't want to have to bother with internet connection to play in solo mode, and this since months already, the whole damn internet is telling them "we don't want this", they had all the time necessary to fix and change this, but they just denied this critic and ignored it, and we all know why which doesn't help their case since its obviously related with their RMT revenues. Now they have to deal with their own choice and have to deal with people that can't play their solo game because of connectivity issues on Blizzard side, which is even worth than anyone had excepted. So in any case they put themselves in this situation for greediness, why would the reaction from consumers be otherwise? . This is very much to the point and one of the biggest reason why D3 get such a low score, and obviously it is a very good reason indeed.
Pretty much. When a company decides to corpse rape a long time established IP instead of moving into new territory they have to expect this kind of behavior. In other words if they don't want vetran fans bitching about how this game doesn't stack up against its predecessors, instead of judging it by its own merrits, they shouldn't have named it Diablo 3.
To me releasing a third installment of a game series twelve years on, after the majority of the people that made the earlier games great have f*cked off elsewhere, isn't a sequel. Its just a vain attempt to retain market place relevence.
In my not so humble opinion, D3 as its own game is just fine for a clicky walky dungeon crawler. (Not fine enough for me to shell out my own dosh to the frankenstein's monster that is modern day Blizzard mind you. But I will still play it a bit on one of my house mates accounts.) As a Diablo sequel however I find it to be the redheaded step-child of the Diablo legacy. Just one of those siblings doomed to hear "Why can't you be more like your older brother Ralph" for eternity.
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By your logic ANY average rating for anything is meaningless. That is obviously not true.Now, the game IS rated too low and it WILL rise but it will never reach the 9/10 or 10/10 that the latest installment of one the most popular video game franchises of all time should have been.
The point many hardcore fans make is that D3 simply does not FEEL or LOOK like a Diablo game. It plays like generic A-RPG; D3 doesnt have the gritty atmosphere or character planning features that made the first two games so memorable. Factor in the online-only play and lack of PvP and you get a product that is simply not true to it's predecessors.
Nail head, meet hammerThink of the worst MMO Launch youve experienced...
Yup, D3's Launch was (and still is) worse.
And that's saying something....
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This would only be true if everyone was objective on their reviews and not biased, which isnt the case, we know for a FACT that people will give low reviews on only one aspect such as "I couldnt login at 12:00 when it launched ill give it a 0 or 1 or 2", now I look at games like Big Rigs which were essentially unplayable joke ( literally, if you havent seen big rigs, you need to go on youtube, it has been voted the worst game of all time many times ) has a 4.1 user rating and Diablo 3 has 3.6 hehe, that to me says the whole thing is worthless.
By your logic you should be playing Big Rigs cause its better than Diablo 3.
Here is your game that is better than Diablo 3, enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB1zWEhgrLs
Man its annoying when they take the server down to fix . I just finished a 8 hour play session on D3 . Im in act 4 and my Barbarian is a killing machine .
It's is the greatest game Ive ever played !
Absolutely ludicrous.
Normally I don't believe what I'm about to say, but in this case I think it's valid: the people that enjoy this game are playing the crap out of it. Seriously. It's very addictive. They are not posting reviews on metacritic.
People are still playin very heavily.
People always say that about games and posting, but I think it's true in this case.
Even if you don't believe that, it still doesn't deserve a 3 or 4 score. The game is very good. Soooooo many of the people that have issues with thegame put a zero for the score. That's just plain stupid.
WTF is a zero in a game review? It would have to be the worst game of all time to be a zero. It is far from that.
Also, there are a LOT of stupid reviews on there. One guy simply said that there were no factions, it should have alliance and horde, and that it was just a Diablo clone. That is useless information that doesn't even make sense. He's a troll. There are a lot of trolls posting reviews right now.
Bottom line, Duke Nukem forever is a 3. This game is an 8.
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Between the server issues and the lack of PvP at release, I'm sure people lost their collective minds the first day this was out.
Both things were made clear though before the game was out. #1 you would have to be online to play and #2 PvP wouldn't be there at release.
We can argue all we want the vailidity of either one, but if you knew that was going to be the case and still purchased the game and are now complaining about it...who's fault is that?
I personally think the you shouldn't have to be logged in for a single player, but blizzard stated this was going to be the case before the game came out. So you have to go in knowing that and knowing that there may be issues with connectivity especially on a release date for such a big game.
That's why I waited till Friday to take the day off from work! Let them get the kinks out first.
I personally am having a great time with the game, people who thinks it's a "3" are certainly entitled to their opinion.
All of those zeroes that are bitching about sever stability? Yeah they are still playing this game. They are probably playing it more than most.
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And I don't disagree with your point, damned if you do, damned if you don't. However, maybe these juggernaught companies could try creating N E W games for a change. Instead of just dragging out, dusting off, and tarting up their old doddering whores, time and time again. Maybe then all the horse sh*t we just mentioned would go away. Or at least bring in some fresh horse sh*t for us to wade through in shinny new big boots.
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i love it. how some 16 year old selfproclaimed game critics talk about a game they obviously never played (diablo 2 or even 1)
diablo 3 has EVERYTHING it should have.
the athmo is just as it should be, gloomy and dark with a tendance to overpower here and there.
whoever claims that the previous diablo games have been much darker and "more evil looking" or whatnot should maybe play those old parts first ^^
here a few examples:
does this look much darker to you than what you know from d3? seriously? it doesn't, does it?
so seriously, stop this "mimimi this aint a diablo game" stuff, because it IS.
i played all the diablo parts, i wasn't a "hardcore fan" before but i surely played em enough to state a judgement on your theories here, and my judgement is: death.
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