Starfield is great for Bethesda. It's a step to the right direction, RPG wise. It has RPG system that can satisfy most of casual/tourist and tolerable for some RPG elitist. <- personal opinion btw.
But I think people expect Uber Mega success 11/10 game, but what they get is an 8 game. I wouldn't bother to see user reviews on Metacritic, I read some, and 99% of 0 score giver are just dumb reviewer.
On top of that those who dislike Bethesda already raring their daggers especially since after Fallout 76 flopped.
BG3 is obviously a winner for this year. Starfield is good. Good year for RPG both for casual and hardcore.
All zero score reviews are essentially protest reviews. I think Steam reviews are more useful as they are 1) Binary and 2) you have to own the game - they ask you whether you would recommend the game - not for some 1-10 arbitrary number. It solves an important problem with reviews in general.
What no one complains about is that Bethesda can go out and buy 100 different 10/10 reviews from pay for review publications and claim they are an amazing game based on bullshit marketing. Professional reviews have no standard to be held to except their readership - which is why IGN (USA), Eurogamer, NPR, PC Gamer and a handful of others were the only reviews that were honest.
Anyone that gave that game a 100 didn't even play it and just took the cash - looking at you PC World and Destructoid.
Oh, but that's ok.
Okay, but then we have to ask how skewed BG3's scores were. They had less cash, but not WAY less, so they could "buy" reviews if they wanted (though I doubt 'buying' reviews is what's going on here.) And BG3 has received a lot of glowing reviews that we have to, by now, assume were not completely honest, or were based off totally incomplete information - nobody can go through BG3's final act, especially the way it was on release, and honestly claim the game deserves a perfect score. Do I think they *paid* for reviews, and that's why these reviewers handed out undeserved perfect scores? No, but I think there's a lot of hype that's skewing BG3's score way higher than it fairly ought to be. And some of that is down to outright bullshit marketing, too. (Remember the '17000 endings' claim?)
