Originally posted by Gintoh

Still it's true.

 

The game sort of reminds me of modern art. You go to one of those museums and a bunch of hipsters are looking at a blank Canvas with a tiny black dot in the center, that's it. Yet they ooh and ah over it saying "I think it's a post modernist self referential satire on modern consumerist culture and how it relates to societies loss of moral standerds." and another says " I think it's an outcry against male oppression as well as a statement on corperation's oppresive hold on society blah blah blah." No it's a dot on a page. This game is broken, yet people ignore it pretending that those are just minor issues and that it's a great game because it's "unique and different" and of course they throw around the word "potential." Then they act smug talking about how smart they are for liking sandbox games while those dumb themepark players yada yada. Then the  fanboys go to the ER forums (which should really just be called the Earthrise circle jerk) and pat eachother on the back forplaying such an intelligent game and attacking nay-sayers because they just "don't get it."

Except i'm as cynical as they come, especially in this genre, and i really like Earthrise. I once made a highly critical review on the official STO boards post-launch, it reached 100+ pages and lasted 2 weeks with 45,000 views slating what could have been a great game. It was however more polished than Earthrise, but, it's mechanics, gameplay and game direction absolutely sucked and i cancelled my order. My point is, here i am playing Earthrise in desperate need of polish, im playing with 15-20 FPS maximum on my above average spec PC because i love its mechanics, gameplay and direction.

The Twilight Saga is a steaming pile of teeny-bopper dog sh*t yet millions of people eat it up. Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks. Some people are so tired of the theme-park repeat-o-grind recycle-rinse-repeat they're willing to wade through mud to find the shiny gem at the bottom. Funnily enough it's quite refreshing.

You know this game could be great, and it has good things about it, I just don't like it when some of the followers (not you) play down some of the games very serious flaws.

Originally posted by D_TOX

Originally posted by Gintoh

Still it's true.

 

The game sort of reminds me of modern art. You go to one of those museums and a bunch of hipsters are looking at a blank Canvas with a tiny black dot in the center, that's it. Yet they ooh and ah over it saying "I think it's a post modernist self referential satire on modern consumerist culture and how it relates to societies loss of moral standerds." and another says " I think it's an outcry against male oppression as well as a statement on corperation's oppresive hold on society blah blah blah." No it's a dot on a page. This game is broken, yet people ignore it pretending that those are just minor issues and that it's a great game because it's "unique and different" and of course they throw around the word "potential." Then they act smug talking about how smart they are for liking sandbox games while those dumb themepark players yada yada. Then the  fanboys go to the ER forums (which should really just be called the Earthrise circle jerk) and pat eachother on the back forplaying such an intelligent game and attacking nay-sayers because they just "don't get it."

Except i'm as cynical as they come, especially in this genre, and i really like Earthrise. I once made a highly critical review on the official STO boards post-launch, it reached 100+ pages and lasted 2 weeks with 45,000 views slating what could have been a great game. It was however more polished than Earthrise, but, it's mechanics, gameplay and game direction absolutely sucked and i cancelled my order. My point is, here i am playing Earthrise in desperate need of polish, im playing with 15-20 FPS maximum on my above average spec PC because i love its mechanics, gameplay and direction.

The Twilight Saga is a steaming pile of teeny-bopper dog sh*t yet millions of people eat it up. Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks. Some people are so tired of the theme-park repeat-o-grind recycle-rinse-repeat they're willing to wade through mud to find the shiny gem at the bottom. Funnily enough it's quite refreshing.

what mechanics? combat is better in any other RPG than in this game, its easier to control, faster and more tactical. WTF is so good about PVP in ER besides jumping with ur crosshair on ur enemy?  WHy i said PVP mechanics because theres NOTHING else in the game that has any "mechanics"

I just read on their official forums that the game client itself is still in debug mode.  It's creating massive logs in appdata folders.  Some were reporting this log folder was as big as 6gb lol.  Someone else figured out how to edit the .lua to turn off the logging.  Kind of crazy that people would release a product in this state and call it a finished product.

{ 
        log_level = Severity.Debug, 
        log_target_1 = { 
                LoggingTargetType.lttConsoleLog, 
                Severity.All, 
                Facility.AllFacilities, 
                "stdout" 
        }, 
--      log_target_2 = { 
--              LoggingTargetType.lttFileLog, 
--              Severity.All, 
--              Facility.AllFacilities, 
--              "Earthrise_" .. LogTimeStamp() .. ".log|truncate|flush" 
 

Yep still running in debug mode, see?

Dont mention that staff gets paid for reviews, becuase you endanger their source of income. Lice dont want you shave your head, because that would deprive them of their home.

To be a good critique seems to be a lost art these days. It is only very rarely that you read a good and critical review which gives you the customer information if you should spend the money on the game or not.

Usually reviews are nothing but disguised ads for the game and the integrity of the reviewers is next to none. There are exceptions to this, ofcourse, but usually that is how it goes.

However this one is particulary poorly written so I think it was done by a fan rather than a professional writer.