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[pkt-zer0]

Originally Posted by Zhuangzi

Yeah, it was a crappy review all right, but it's not the end of the world - he still gave it 81% even though he/she has no f*cking idea.

It's not the end of the world, but when you put things in context, namely, review scores ranging from 50-100% nowadays, it's not so good. On that scale, it's a 6/10, not much better than average. Even with all its flaws, I'd say the game is easily one of the best PC games recently released, and for that, it deserves better, should be a 90%+ game easily. But since it seems that "mainstream" gaming sites have some sort of hive mind, I fear it won't be getting reviews too different from 80% ones.

Maybe this just reminds me of the GameBanshee interview with a slightly depressed Kevin Saunders, the lead designer/producer of Mask of the Betrayer. Great game, but received similarly lukewarm reviews (even weirder that it was praised as vastly superior to the original NWN2 campaign, but got lower or similar scores anyway). Basically, if you make an excellent game, it doesn't need to be reviled, people simply just not caring too much for it is bad enough.