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Keeper of the Watch
After one hour, you are barely out of the tutorial part. In all honesty, after one hour I gave up with the game for a couple of days.. then I went back and discovered that it could be pretty good and fun.
It baffles me how people anticipate the sequel of a mediocre game that racked a whooping 6.5 metacritic score both from media and users. If any RPG I ever looked forward got a score under 8, I'd be highly disappointed.
I'm guessing most of their fans are from Europe as they always had a hard time with critics in the US. I fondly remember the debates about how the scores are wrong.For those who aren't familiar with the term, eurojank basically means games with less polished feel than their Western or Eastern counterparts. Like voice acting or animations are stiff and off, sometimes unusal gameplay mechanics that feel too awkward. They almost always come from Europe.
An hour isn't really trying Elex tbh. You don't even scratch the surface of that game until 10+.
Elex has a 7.0 on Metacritic, so I'm not sure why you keep repeating 6.5, but you probably already know that Metacritic scores are largely useless anyways. For example, PoE II only has a 7.8, and I'm willing to bet you think that should be significantly higher.
Piranha Bytes doesn't make games to please the mainstream, they make games that appeal to a specific fanbase. In that way, they're one of the few long-time developers that hasn't sold out.
It's not that. The game opens up a lot. It just take 5.hours to do so. So the people who tend to stick with PB games love them. Others who don't tend to hate the game or find it very mediocre.I tired it for about 1 hour and I agree with the general sentiment. "Big, ambitious, but dull, dated and generally bland". A 6.5 is fair score. The only reason I mention bigger score pools is to point out that it's not just a personal opinion.
I'm not saying it's bad game, just that it gets a lot of spotlight for such an average product. They must have a real good PR to get all this coverage and "hype".
Again, I mentioned Metacritict because it's a valid demographic, so it didn't sound like "Elex is a mediocre game" was my personal opinion alone. Also, I can tell you from working in the industry that a lot of studios get rewarded based on the metacritic score their game reaches (incentives, bonuses, share profits etc), so it's more valuable than you make it seem, whether we like it or not.
Elex has a 7.0 on Metacritic, so I'm not sure why you keep repeating 6.5, but you probably already know that Metacritic scores are largely useless anyways. For example, PoE II only has a 7.8, and I'm willing to bet you think that should be significantly higher.
Regarding the Clerics: may be Jax eventually told them the truth about their god and they dissolved...So, about the video…
He mentions there will be more than 3 factions this time, but only 2 from the first game - Beserkers and Outlaws. I wonder who the new factions will be and why the Clerics were excluded.
He also voices the same concern I had about the flying mechanic and how it will effect exploration.
Also, it'll apparently have more dialogue and C&C than any previous PB game.
Because she's talking about critic scores and you're talking about user scores. Maybe. Never, ever pay attention to Metacritic user scores.
For the record, Elex is 6.7 (67) on Metacritic, and PoE 2 is an 8.8 (88)
Regarding the Clerics: may be Jax eventually told them the truth about their god and they dissolved...
And now to something completely different: I would like to see Caja or Nasty as a playable character, but choosing among more than one playable characters would probably be non-PB-style...
I also assume that it would be too expensive for them, I was only dreaming...I think it could be interesting to take control of another character temporarily during part of a quest perhaps. I don't see them ever giving us multiple characters to choose from though. Think of all the extra writing they'd have to do for that.
Regarding the clerics: The robots and weapons of the clerics were very similar to those of the Albs, as if they had planned initially to make the outcast albs a playable faction in Elex 1. May be they make those a playable faction now instead?
Never, ever pay attention to Metacritic user scores.
In general, both user and journalist scores do give you an idea of how good a game is, though.
It baffles me how people anticipate the sequel of a mediocre game that racked a whooping 6.5 metacritic score both from media and users. If any RPG I ever looked forward got a score under 8, I'd be highly disappointed.