If you're not familiar with https://metacritic.com, it's basically rotten tomatoes except it also covers video games and music. I remember looking at the list of greatest games as a kid and wanting to try them all 
and being excited when a new game got ratings good enough to be anywhere near the top 
In short, metacritic is both a driver of game sales and a source of pride for neurodivergent g*mer fanboys 
It has thus become a source of drama that the third-best switch game of all time is The House in Fata Morgana, a visual novel about inhabitants of a spooky mansion. 
With a rating of 96/100, it ranks higher than Zelda ToTK 
and every other switch game besides Mario Odyssey 
and Zelda BoTW 
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If you're not familiar with the concept of a "visual novel", it's basically a game composed entirely of text-based, click-to-proceed cutscenes, with music 
and anime-style 
art to set the mood. So in other words with the exception of 3 or 4 "choose your own adventure" moments across 40+ hours of text, it's more like a book than a game.
So naturally, having been tricked into reading a book by metacritic, a lot of g*mers are not happy 
. It is a testament to how good the "game"/"book" is that it has maintained a user score of 8.6/10 when the review section is filled with seething reviews of people who are mad that they got tricked into purchasing a book:
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!familyman these ppl the familyguy boring ahh helll meme in real life
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It's literally only highly rated for the same reason the highest rated mangadex stuff is disproportionately gay oneshots
Only cute twinks play this shit and they all gush over how great it is but it's fanfic-tier writing bloated to a billion lines. If people weren't wisely filtered by how obviously bad it is and it got a mainstream audience it'd be a 2/10
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The FFXIV experience.
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If g*mers (brainlets) still haven't got the memo that the majority of games are usually woke shit fests to pander to game journ*lists (brainlets), then dunno. Make a double jump off the roof
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This particular line is the fault of bad localization and i personally dont think it represents the tone taken in the work as a whole
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VNs aren't games. If you wanna read open a book smh.
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Sorry, i can't hear you over the sound of the game that I'm reading
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I see your a fan of Marathon 2: Durandal
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VN arent games, they are porn.
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Snootgame is a VN.
It has game in the title
It is a game.
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Snoot Game anons should sue for all the ripoffs made like this
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Sorry I only read good stories where I can crank it
https://www.literotica.com/beta/c/taboo-s*x-stories
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Readinggs for cute twinks
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Define "game", chud?
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Mario games are so boring god. I hate platformers sm.
I tried Mario Odyssey and it was so boring I returned it lol. I played Bowser's fury with my brother when it came out and I don't get how people get so obsessed with the genre. It's so monotonous and not for me, I only finished it to spend time with my brother. The only platformer I've ever enjoyed was Psychonauts 1 and 2 and that was in spite of the platforming not because of it. 
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Filtered by super mario galaxy
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Luigi's Mansion is the only good Mario game
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Ultimate Chicken Horse is the best platformer bar none.
Most of them are dreadfully boring.
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Filtered
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Yeah I know
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Reminds me of the time when one reviewer on EGM's panel for Wind Waker only gave it a 9.5 instead of a 10, denying it an “EGM Platinum” and causing much Nintendocel seethe. Fanmoids and fanfoids always get very snippy if a “greatest games” list isn't arranged exactly how they say it should.
No g*mer ever cared about Metacritic beyond its capacity to validate their own opinions though. Some game studios did (Bethesda got really mad at Obsidian when F:NV couldn't get an 85) but I think that's rarer now.
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Bethesda didn't "get mad" at Obsidian, that one point cost Obsidian a significant chunk of bonus cash. They're not the only studio that happened to, either.
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What would they get cash for for more points?
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It was part of their contract with Bethesda. Obsidian got paid a set amount to develop Fallout: New Vegas. As an incentive, they were promised a bonus if it hit an 85 on Metacritic since that translates to sales.
The game got an 84 and Obsidian was denied the bonus.
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Lmao bethesda probably bribed them so they didnt have to pay
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Maybe, maybe not
They did force Obsidian to release before the game was fully developed
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Obsidian signed a contract saying they would release after 18 months. Obsidian as always couldn't make a functional mod (since NV is just Fallout 3 in a desert) in the time they agreed to and then got pissy when Bethesda didn't let them breach the contract.
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A lot of agreements between developers and publishers have bonus payouts for achieving certain targets. A common target for a while was hitting a certain metascore, in F:NV's case Obsidian would have been paid a couple million extra if they hit 85. They missed it by 1 point.
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The funniest thing here is how many tendies bought it not realizing it was a VN like wtf how do you do that lmao
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Ohhhh a game with good score I must consooooom
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The Red 40 and bing bing wahoos have melted their brains
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Yea why dont they just get 100 million dollars for effects, actors, sets and locations and just make a movie? Durr
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Cuz execs are smarter than to greenlight that shit usually
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Honestly visual novels without a modicrum of gameplay are some of the gayest shit ever devised. This is not to say that all text-based games with a heavy focus on the writing are bad. It's just that all media that gives themselves the title of 'Visual Novel' tends to be boring as shit and frankly I do not read books to see gay anime people have drama or whatever. Give me choices every step of the way or I'll never look an inch in your direction, cute twink.
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"Visual novel" as a genre is almost always weebshit. Therefore, visual novels are trash.
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Agreed. It's just a webcomic at that point imo.
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A poorly written japanese webcomic at that.
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There are 2 mainline pokeman games, so if you count the different versions that's 4 right there. Pretty sure there are others but i dunno
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i should really get around to reading fatamoru a lot of people i know liked it
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Yeah, same. I have it on Switch even. Other stuff just keeps getting in the way of me reading it. The soundtrack sounds pretty nice from the snippets I've heard of it.
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You usually refer to user score not meta score on that site lol. That's where the actual value lies. Also, I prefer Backloggd and Glitchwave.
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lol that person signed up just to seethe about this
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Smartest g*mer
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who put fricking words in my game AAHHHHHHHHH
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So you're like 14 years old.
Got it.
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Never got around to playing it, the yaoi art style put me off initially and by now I kind of lost interest in VNs.
Is it any good?
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It definitely drags at certain points, especially during the 2nd & 3rd doors, but i enjoyed it. I havent read any other VN to compare it to though
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Any Marathon fan will tell you that reading is gameplay.
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One common response when it's pointed out that you can't always tell is “well we can tell 99% of the time”, or some other high percentage pulled out of nowhere. This is a clear overestimate of how often someone can tell, but let's charitably assume that that number is true for a moment and do some maths. If you could tell who was trans or not 99% of the time, that would still lead to nearly two thirds of the people you read as trans actually being cis.
The mathematics is clear, using Bayes theorem.
Even if we very charitably assume that the sensitivity and specificity of "we can always tell" in detecting a trans person is both 98% then they are still wrong 50% of the time and accuse a cis person of being trans.
This is because there are vastly more cisgender than transgender people.
Snapshots:
https://metacritic.com:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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