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@adebisistyle: I just checked the Metro 2033 page and the average review score lines up for me. You have to click through to the actual list of user reviews, and include the half-star reviews in your average. That's what I meant by the average being correct. The average does correctly take into account the half-star reviews even though the bar graph does not.

I came to this thread to make sure the thread title hadn't changed. It changed. How depressing.

Any review score that isn't an integer will not be reflected on the little bar graph showing overall user review scores. I'm not really sure if they should be represented as a floor or a ceiling or affect the adjacent bar graphs equally (e.g. 4.5 would give half a pip to 5 and half a pip to 4) or what, but I feel like they should still be represented here. If a game coincidentally had a lot of X.5 review scores, then the bar graphs wouldn't give a good representation of user's opinion of the game. The average score (here, 3.88) seems to properly take into account all user reviews.

Additionally, and not directly related, the "user reviews" box on the side bar of an official/staff review does not seem to have an area that is clickable to send users to the "user review" page for that game. The "read the most helpful review" link will send you to that specific, most helpful user review, but I feel like there should be an area of the box that's clickable to send you to the entire list of user reviews.

I'm using Firefox 18 and Windows 7. I did not check it in other platforms.

This. Harlem Shake meme isn't even funny in a lame way or a way that would be worth parodying. It's just dumb. Better to just ignore it.

@FierceDeity: Tabletop/D&D-style RPG or strategy game would be even better. Imagine painting your miniatures in the real world, and then having to paint them again in the game.

I feel like the statue was in poor taste, and a little symptomatic of the general underlying misogyny in the game industry, but I don't think it's worth all this attention at all. As far as I'm concerned this story was over a week ago.

Vega is impossible. He just does the dropkick over and over again which is basically unavoidable if he doesn't begin it on the far opposite side of the screen and is invulnerable during 90% of his animations. I've barely even died in the rest of the game, and can complete his stage easily without taking any damage, and if I had one energy tank I could kill him. Chun Li's attack is somewhat effective against him, but not substantially more effective than the mega buster and puts you in melee range.

Also I seriously don't get why everyone is harping on it for not having a save feature. Alt tab and mute it. Done. You can come back to it whenever.

Edit: You can definitely change directions without stepping, Rolento's stage was the only one I found overly difficult or unfair/obnoxious (so far). I honestly don't know what you're talking about in regards to Vega's stage. There are way worse stages in shipping Megaman games, and it doesn't do anything even remotely approaching a "bullet hell" stage. The dead ends on Dhalsim's stage are usually only 1-3 screens long, and really not that inconvenient to traverse on their own (and at least one of the 3 or so dead ends I remember awards an E tank).

If anything, the game is too easy compared to some shipping Megaman games (in general).

After watching some videos of other people defeating Vega, I think it's just a matter of luck. In my game he keeps doing the drop attack over and over and over and over, and I've not seen him do this to anyone who defeated him in that life in their video. So apparently I'm just getting fucked over by AI/therandom number generator or something.

I WON! Good work. Now do the rest. :P

Ok, NOW I'm getting impatient.

They're not interpreting the narrative how they want. They're in denial about disliking the ending or not getting the ending they expected, and grasping at straws to deny the ending as presented. It's not the same thing as having a different interpretation.

It's not that there's "harm" in it as much as it is sad and desperate.