"Review" by Rock Paper Shotgun

IGN's review is also up: http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/09/17/planetary-annihilation-review

I guess IGN didn't get their payoff lol, the whole review is "I don't like spheres grrr"

lol, better go back to your GotY press-forward simulators, IGN.

>Clone factions
*exasperated sigh*

Why are you exasperated, Tehtrekd? I thought you liked journalists.

I do agree that the reviewer whining about that was stupid. However, he had a good point, "and promo videos explaining the rudiments of RTS games are not substitutes for a tutorial." First with SMNC, and now with PA. Tutorials aren't a waste of time, Uber.

They were in the 80s and the 90s. Uber is old-school.

Yeah there are many things missing in the game that were promised, and I would rate the game just about average, but it seemed very focus on stating that spheres are terrible for some reason.

more like first impressions than review imo ... but still nice to read ...

I actually agree with the IGN review. Thing is, I also agree with the RPS review.

I feel they're addressing two different things. The RPS review misses out some clear flaws that the IGN one notes (poor implementation of singleplayer, no saving etc.). But they also have a much better idea of how the general game is supposed to flow and the areas where it does work.

It's almost like they're both talking about opposite aspects of the same game and ignoring the rest.

It's a shame that the IGN review will contribute to the metacritic score, and the RPS one won't, though. Sigh. Or am I wrong?

screw metacritic .. scores are for the butt ...

Even though many people blindly use them to judge a buying decision, metacritic sucks, but that doesn't make it any less important.

review reads like someone got their *** handed to them in MP, well its not him its the game and round planets, just look at the opening paragraph, professional review... my ******* ***. What a ****

what about metacritic is important? it throws together a number of scores and reviews and calculates a average out of it ... great ... what does that help? F.A. !
what else does it do? ... it is somewhat of a databank to peoples reviews and impressions ... that helps better but does that make metacritic important? no it doesn´t ... what is important are the reviews and impressions themselves
not the scores but what you get informationwise out of it .. how many people state about similar or same problems of the game, what content do they like .. and as such you can read out the biggest strengths and flaws of the product ... THAT is what matters ...
metacritic by itself is not important at all ... people just needlessly make it important giving it power it doesn´t deserve at all ...

I must say I liked the IGN review. Not because it shat on the game, it's because it's right. We were expecting much more from this. Currently everything DOES feel like it's half baked. Seeing that PA has plans for the ongoing support I'll probably be sticking around for a while hoping that things improve, but I really didn't expect a full release to happen when the game is still lacking in a lot of things. This game is a diamond in the rough, buried deep beneath the ground. I can only hope Ubers full mod support will actually be given enough attention so other people can go and fix the game (like FA -> FAF).

Why should we care about reviews ?
Honestly if we have backed this game and supported Uber, it's obviously because we were waiting for something different from all these same boring AAA games reviewed by IGN. Well this is the case for me. I mostly play indie games, because while not being perfect in the first place, they are the only one to provide all the fun i'm looking for.
Last games i recently played : PA, Broforce, Defense grid 2, Space run.
I don't care about reviews, what really matters is if i enjoy a game. Reviewers will never tell me what i should play or not.
And by the way, PA has been in Steam top-10/20/30 since the official launch.
Something keeps on my mind since the very beginning of the kickstarter : Uber has allways been clear on this, this game development is an on going process, and official release exists as a first milestone.

I don't trust IGN.




10/10 IGN: "It was good."

I lolled.