"Indie" or "Independent" is a discriminatory term. I prefer "extraindustrially alt-funded."

That's the face you'd eat right? His eyes tell me he's down for it.

It's OK To Want To Eat Art, Right?

Agreed. Don't just try to copy Skyrim(why would you even want to copy that game's gameplay?) and spin it as your own game. The game looks, graphically and stylistically great, but it also looks like wasted potential and skills on trying to do something so...generic?

A poor man's Skyrim is not a good game.

Wat r u casul?

Jeez, I'm 30 hours in and haven't finished the game yet. Props to these guys. And Chris... Screw your Rat King. The Blue Sentinels are coming for you.

Your point about #2 makes sense from the perspective of a gamer who wants companies to release polished games from day 1. Your other points make sense from the perspective of an uninformed non-gamer buying a gift for a gamer.

Aka, the average consumer.

You're missing the point here: whenever a gaming publication revises the score for a game, Metacritic will ignore that change and will not update their stats accordingly.

Kotaku is known to update their reviews. Other sites don't update them often but Kotaku does for sure. Just think of Sims, how it was reviewed on start (and received a "not yet playable" and was reviewed again half a year later)

Stephen brought up an interesting counterpoint: Amazon has always had review aggregation in the form of 1-to-5-star user reviews, averaged together to give any product on the site its own "score." So in at least one way, this isn't new.

Kotaku does NOT assign a random number to the end of their subjective opinion and its reviews do NOT have any kind of repercussion on any Metascore since they don't appear on Metacritic.

Kotaku updates their reviews if there's significant patches. Go look at the TW Rome 2 review if you don't believe me.

"Creep bait"?

What is love? Baby don't hurt me. Don't hurt me. No more.