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.
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.
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.
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 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?
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.
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.
This is me playing GTA Online.
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.
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.
That’s why I’m obese, have an unhealthy relationship with food, and can’t have leftovers.
I never leave leftover, but am still on the skinny side.
Mostly because I know how much to put on my plate and linit myself to that amount only.
Thunderous Applause erupts
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.