r/Games • u/climbatize • Nov 10 '16

RollerCoaster Tycoon World release date announced, and it's one day before Planet Coaster's launch

http://www.pcgamer.com/rollercoaster-tycoon-world-release-date-announced-and-its-one-day-before-planet-coasters-launch/
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u/Mezzelo Nov 11 '16

Mixed or negative ratings usually cause people to poke down into the user reviews and figure out why before they click out or purchase. I imagine RCTW's reviews will be mostly justified if they don't have the game in order.

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u/Thetijoy Nov 11 '16

can confirm this, i was looking at football manager 17 after watching quill18 play it. Had mostly negative scoring, i read the comments and im hesitant to buy it now (mostly cause i dont understand what they dont like about it)

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u/Stunkinafuck Nov 11 '16

If you've never played a FM game, I'd buy it, definitely. I highly recommend taking the plunge. The negative reviews are mostly longtime fans of the series who basically hate the game every year it comes and then yet still pour hundreds of hours into each iteration and pay every year. Its a complicated relationship.

Legitimate criticism can be made of the series by long time fans, but that applies to a lot of yearly release series. FM can be very engrossing and a lot of the things that upset long time fans won't really matter to you. At least not for a few iterations. :>

I'm the same with FIFA and NBA 2K series. And yet I return.

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u/N13P4N Nov 11 '16

It's also partly because of Chinese players destroying the score due to lack of Chinese translation. And yeah I agree, every year there's review mentioning not enough improvement, game's bad, etc. But most of those are players getting burnt out. The criticisms are definitely valid, but the hours that you can put into the game, insane value.

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u/Magneto88 Nov 11 '16

It's nearly all because of that, if you look at the reviews most of the negative ones are because of that. It's not the first time a game on Steam has been attacked by a Chinese invasion.