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ITT we make informed and educated :monocle: guesses on what the Metacritic score of The Codex's most anticipated games are going to be.
I used the list from that other thread because of laziness.
I used the list from that other thread because of laziness.
- Age of Decadence: 78%. Will get two 95%+ reviews from European publications and two 60% ones from more mainstream magazines.
- Barkley 2: 86%: The only people who will play it will be the ones that would rate the first one with 10/10.
- Blackguards: 72%: Good for what it is, brilliant at times but contains crippling feature.
- Chaos Chronicles: </3%
- Dead State 68%: hated by some, hailed by others, no side manages to get over the Sims-like graphics.
- Divinity: Original Sin: 81%: Somehow becomes a sleeper hit and turns into Larian's best selling game. Girlfriends worldwide are pleased.
- Expeditions: Conquistador: Already Came out and currently has 77%. Many started it and thought it great. Few finished it.
- Grimoire: 完美%. By the time it launches, numbers and indeed most of out now-held beliefs about arithmetic become obsolete.
- Legends of Eisenwald: 94%: The only reason not to play it is to hate the genre. Becomes new poster-child of indie games. Belarus soon becomes the World Center of video game development, making use of the cheap, yet skilled labour force. Under the weight of the new-found liberalism that the industry brings, street protests in May 2014 bring the end of the Alexander Lukashenko and of the "last European dictatorship". After a period of internal turmoil, Belarus becomes, in early 2016, a candidate for ascension to the European Union, after previously joining the European Council in late 2014. As in neighboring Ukraine, internal political struggles between the pro-Russian and pro-Eurpean factions of the fledgling democracy keep the country in a stalemate of sorts, particularly in regards to energy policies, with Gazprom becoming ever more aggressive in its tactic of bullying client countries into remaining dependent on their supply.
Published in mid 2015, the sequel, "Eisenwald 2: The Wakening" proves out a disappointment, with many fans accusing the simplification of mechanics, under the purpose of broadening the target demographic and is mainly remembered for the annoying Facebook App that routinely asks you to challenge your friends.
- Lords of Xulima: 64%: Great potential, but unplayable at launch due to bugs caused by underfunding. Only gathers three professional reviews on Metacritic and thus, does not qualify for an actual average. User reviews are either idealistically green or pragmatic and spiteful red, lacking average opinions.
- Might & Magic X Legacy: 82%: Surprises everyone by being actually good, if a bit streamlined, when compared to its predecessors. Proves out, however, to be a commercial failure, making large publisher never try anything other than military shooters ever again.
- Project Eternity: 78% Would have got 90% a couple of years ago, but comes out as bland when compared with other games from the 2014 incline wave.
- Shadowrun Returns: Already came out, 76%, most people agree that we're always "4 - 5 months" away from modders finally making the purchase worth it. Every review is legally bonded to ovate the graphics.
- Swords and Sorcery: Sovereign: NO REVIEWS EXIST YET. 85% of all Internet discussions on the game exist in a single heated Codex thread which has, for the last 15 pages, derailed into a conversation on door mechanics.
- Torment: Tides of Numenera: 88%: Gets as many 100% reviews, as 75% ones, with both sides bringing a certain controversial plot twist into discussion as either the high or the low-point of the writing in the game.
- The Tangut Prophecy: User rating is fucked by a myriad of 0 scores from people who bought it because of the pretty graphics and the enthusiastic Polygon review.
- Underrail: 87%: Most people play it 8 months after release, getting it of a Humble Indie Bundle that also includes Mark of the Ninja and FTL.
- Wasteland 2: 94%: Single-handedly rekindles mainstream interest in isometrics, turn-based, text-heavy RPGs. Wasteland 3 is a third person cover-based shooter.
- What Remains: Public pressure leads to police raids that prove that all released screenshots were actually Photoshop mock-ups and that not even a rough alpha version exists, with the closest thing to a story plan being a notepad with erotic drawings of Vault Boy.
- Legend of Grimrock 2: 66%: An all-Minotaur party goes on to win Strictly Come Dancing and later join Lady Gaga's back-up show.
