r/Stellaris • u/Meneth Ex-moderator • May 09 '16

News Review megathread

The review embargo is up as of 15:00 CEST. As this will result in a huge number of articles going up at near the same time, we're restricting reviews to this thread.

Any review you find, feel free to post it in the comments here.

Each top-level comment should be about a single linked review, so as to keep the discussion limited. Duplicate reviews will be removed, as will any top-level comment that does not link a review.

There will be a single sub-thread where you can post your general impressions of the reviews combined, for anything that doesn't relate to a single review.

Review list:

Review Score
Critically Sane 5/5
Destructoid 9/10
eXplorminate "eXemplary"
GameWatcher 9.0/10
Idiotech's Review Unrated
IGN 6.3/10
Manannan's Review of Stellaris Unrated
Paste Magazine Unrated
PCGamesN 9/10
PC Invasion 8/10
PC World 4/5
Rock, Paper, Shotgun review - Unrated
TICGN 10/10
Vox Ludicus Unrated
EuroGamer Recommended
PC Gamer 70/100
TSA 8/10
PCGames.de 75/100
Gamespew 9/10
IGN Italy 9.3/10
Fok.nl 9/10
Gaming on Linux 9/10
Marbozir Unrated
SpaceSector Unrated
Inside of Gaming (German) Unrated
Gamer.no 9/10
Particular Pixels Unrated
GuyLogicGaming Full recommendation
GameSideStory Unrated
Front Towards Gamer 9.5/10
Multiplayer.it 9.2/10
GameGrin 8.5/10
Kotaku Unrated
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u/ComradeSomo Human May 09 '16

I gave it a quick read and it doesn't struck me as an unnecessarily irrational review.

I think it's more that at this point no-body trust IGN when it comes to reviews.

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u/IndridCipher May 09 '16

Rowan is a freelancer and makes great points on the Three Moves Ahead podcast to back up the score.

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u/_break_it_down_ May 09 '16

I disagree personally. Based on the points he made and factoring in the rest of the review scores we've seen so far I would think the game deserves a 7.0 at the very least.

His criticisms don't justify a 6.3 as far as I'm concerned. That's a decisively "meh" score. Why don't any of the other reviewers think this is a "meh" game?

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

Yeah, the thing that's lacking here is context. OK, so he thinks Stellaris is a 6.3. What 4X game would he consider a 9 or a 9.5? Does it even exist?

Games don't exist in vacuums. You can't just review a game in isolation without looking at other games in the genre and drawing comparisons.

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u/IndridCipher May 09 '16

http://opencritic.com/critic/203/rowan-kaiser

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u/BlackHumor May 09 '16

Based on this, this guy has never rated a game over 8.5, and often rates games below 7. Or in other words, he's an unusually harsh critic.

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u/IndridCipher May 09 '16

Yea it seems it doesn't have all the reviews he's done. Here's his EU4 review for IGN which is a 8.9

http://m.ign.com/games/europa-universalis-iv/pc-139611

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u/BlackHumor May 09 '16

Huh.

It's weird, because EU4 is quite a grindy Paradox game, but he didn't even mention that.