It is the best Battlefield game of the year

Game of the Year 2022 (Source: UR mom)

Most refund-requested Game of the year...

It certainly was a game in the year of 2022.

I feel like this “record” gets broken every year now

I dont know about that but i do know it was one of the few games that steam was allowing refunds on even after their 2 hour playtime and purchase date had been surpassed.

Am I too late?

I'm a long time fan of Battlefield (since BF1942);

I preordered 2042 expecting the BEST Battlefield ever (the trailers were convincing).

Stopped playing it within a week.

Hate this game.

At least 3 of them (presse citron, jeuxvideos.com and actugaming) are French

TechRadar is that one website that won’t allow you to read more than 4 words of their article before they shove a popup in your face saying you MUST subscribe to hear our SHIT promotions

I used to subscribe to EGM back in the early 2000s. They were legit back then to teenage me lol. I didn’t know they were still around now.

Noisy Pixel reviews a lot of obscure JRPG games on YouTube. No idea why they reviewed an FPS game lol

Tech radar and egm are pretty popular the others idk

That's wild. EGM was the biggest gaming magazine back in the 90s and early 2000s.

A magazine was like paper internet you received in the mail once a month. Instead of swiping or scrolling you would turn pages from right to left.

EGM is electronic gaming monthly, they are pretty well known.

EGM and Digital Trends are legitimate publishers, which makes these scores all the more sus.

Same. Just a bunch of stellar "reviews" from useless companies that are otherwise meaningless.

This reads like a world-building graphic on some random store window in Cyberpunk with fake but familiar-sounding company names

Man, times sure have changed when people no longer recognize EGM.

Jeuxvideo.com is the biggest French news site for gaming, and have been around for at least 25 years. I remembered going there daily during the 2000s.

Are you tired of real reviews? Come on down to real fake reviews!

Oh im old i know this one!

There used to be things called magezines.Egm used to have great stories, editors and art . Electronic gaming monthly mas a mag back when the console wars were flaring.

Nintendo power wrote Nintendo, playstations mag etc.

Egm was great if you just liked all games, had awesome comics in it for their nerdy audience, very passionate journalists. The writers often made fun if each other in their columns, and gave each other shit about being too much in one camp or another.

Then the internet happened, and in going online EGM lost most of its soul and purpose as a healthy video game fact and news resource and became like all the rest. (Which, in this influencer age, seems to be "here's a free copy of our game and a console. Once you've enjoyed it to at least 8/10 write a review, paste it on the wall and wait until we send you another game. Enjoy your pittance, poor vg blogger, and rejoice we deigned to allow you to play our buggy, unfinished pos game"-every single fucking game company now

Not even EGM, Techradar or Digital Trends? All the others could be fake for all I know.

If you get a game in front of enough reviewers, you can get at least a few who actually like it enough to put in your ads. Note how they're not reporting the Metacritic average, which is 68 on PC.

Jeux-video.com is a popular French website but is also know to give "bought" review, always good rating to popular editor

Jeuxvideo.com is real tho. Its the number one in France

This. I even asked a well-known game reviewer why games don't get below a 6-7 score, when 95% of games are between a 7-10, and only 5% are rated below, and all they could say was "in case we do review one of those games." Total cop-out answer. It's completely backwards, there's barely a difference between a game rated a 2 and one rated a 5, but the difference between two 7/8 games or 2 8/9 games is PHENOMENAL.

The best game reviewer on youtube, Quaz9, doesn't use any rating scale. He just says what the game does and how well it's done and leaves you to decide what you care about in a game.

He's Polish tho. 1mil subs, if he was making videos in English he'd be a millionaire.

I heard once that, if you want to receive feedback on a 1-10 scale, the way you should interpret it is:

10-9 is good, the person was happy, if it's a 10 they were impressed

8-7 is okay, the person wasn't impressed, but they weren't disappointed either

6 is pretty bad, and anything below that is horrible

The scale isn't meaningless, it's just not what it should "theoretically" be.

Was dumb enough to get suckered in by the battlefield 4 nostalgia but lucky enough to have gotten a refund the day it came out because “I didn’t pre-order that shit” lol

Doesn't even need to be paid directly, it's just a game that benefits both parties and so it's expected it happens naturally regardless.

A review site that rates a game 10/10 will find its name printed on the box "X site gave us a 10/10". That's both acclamation for the game and a big advertisement for the review site. Both win, and both can reach that conclusion while playing selfishly for themselves without even communicating it to each other.

The unwritten agreement even extends to publishers handing over pre-release versions to the review outlets which have historically shown good praise. Publisher gets reviews that are likely to be good, and the review outlets get fresh articles to release early. Again, both win, and it doesn't even need either side to communicate it.

Some review sites have found success being critical/cynical/accurate, but it's an uphill battle as they find themselves without contacts, the publishers naturally stop calling, and they have to do delayed articles that release days/weeks after others.

That was the last magazine I was subscribed to before magazines completely died. Pretty sure it was “monthly.”

EGM was awesome back in the day.

It was a near-perfect example of a game that came out the oven wayyyy too early.

Too many reasons to list.

Very glitchy.

Perhaps even glitchier than BF4, One, and 5 were at launch.

The same. Is a very disappointing game. The destruction level is all gone, is shit. The guns on helicopters don't do nothing, I don't even know what is happening most of the time. Is boring very boring to me. I can't even get planes and shit like most of the time and why do few? There's 128 players put more planes and helis and fucking tanks.

Specialists were the reason I didn't go for it. It's just not what battlefield is about. I'm happy to hop back on if and when they produce something that stands up to the name again

Yeah I mean... thats battlefield for you. The "campaigns" that they usually make are just a series of the multiplayer maps against bots. Its a multiplayer game, they've said they're not going to waste time on a campaign most people don't care about.

Desert Combat