Seriously, how does a game with 14 active players get a higher "critic" score than functional RPGs that people actually want to play? I’m looking at these reviews for stuff like Veilguard or Concord and it feels like the journalists are living in a different dimension. Is it just me, or has the bar for a "good" game dropped so low it’s basically a participation trophy for whichever studio has the best relationship with the press? I’d genuinely love to know what a 5/10 even means anymore, because it seems like anything below an 8 is considered a "review bomb" by the access media clowns. Are we officially at the point where "fun" is secondary to checking boxes?