heh, a couple 'expansions' & it'll be 5/5 for sure

Ironic given the name and premise of the website.....but good to see none the less.

Seems like 3.5 - 4 /5 is the general consensus and I agree. The game was released with a lot of minor issues that needed to be polished. 

Congrats Stardock.  Cheers!

Congratulations SD.

A 4/5 or a 8/10 is exactly what this games deserves and nothing less.

This is true for most games, but it is generally ignored with "big name", so-called AAA titles where the reviewers assume that the issues will be addressed (basically, these games receive scores based on their potential). With smaller releases, like FE, those issues are more likely to impact the score (basically, they are evaluated on an "as is" basis, not the potential), which tends to give a skewed impression of the situation.

But then again, I feel the bigger issue is that release scores frequently become meaningless after a few weeks or months, yet those ratings stay around forever even if the current state of a game may be better or worse. Look at Civ5, for example, and the initial hype and high ratings before people realized how poor the AI deals with the 1UPT combat approach and how insufficient support turned out to be (MP issues, especially). And then you have titles like SotA2 (and possibly FE, though I think FE's release state is very good) where the release state (that a rating is based on) has nothing to do with the actual game the way it is a year later.

That's why Metacritic's "metascore" is so troublesome. It's tempting to believe that it leads to higher launch quality, but I feel that what it really does is to provide lower incentive for studios to continue working on, and improving, their games after release, unless they got initially high marks, which screws over customers who pre-order or have faith in a new game. Static scores used to have a place when games rarely changed much after release (twenty+  years ago), but in today's age they feel suboptimal to me.

Even if the reviewer won't state it outright I think a lot of people talking about/reviewing this game are somewhat dinging it for graphics (not the cloth map but the rest.) I personally wasn't a fan of it at first but now it's kinda grown on me. Ah well, screw the critics as long as the game is a commercial success that's good for fans and SD and that's all that really counts. 

Well, it makes me imagine the good old days, where people released finished products instead of products that still needed work.

I like the philosophy here, which is, "Release a great product, then make it better anyway."

A lot of places are, "Release a terrible product, and then hurriedly fix it."

Can´t find the thread about the gamespy review. It was a 3.5 / 5 stars. Now on metacritic it is translated in a 70/100 score, although the mods on of gamespy say this..

Fuck metacritic...really!

For anyone who cares, the full GameSpy review of Fallen Enchantress can be accessed from the Metacritic site, which can be reached at:

          http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/elemental-fallen-enchantress 

After you reach the Metacritic site, you can scroll down the page to the summary of the GameSpy review, and then click on the link:  "Read Full Review", which will take you to the GameSpy InterNet site; where you can read their review, completely and specifically, as they wrote it.

Personally, I am interested in tracking the professional and Game-player reviews on Metacritic, simply because I am trying to keep track of the overall professional and player-community reaction to Fallen Enchantress (and because I hope that FE is being well recieved!)  However, I should add, my posting of the link above in  NO WAY  implies (in any way, shape, or form) an endorsement of the Metacritic site!

It just is, what it is ...            

It's starting to look like I'm going to win the office pool outlined in this thread.  I hope Stardock sends me a new video card for winning!

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