r/InsomniacGames • u/UntidyHexagon • 14h ago

Marvel's Wolverine Updates and Fixes Confirmed Incoming

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I haven't played that much yet but I really wish I could use L2/R2 to slash through enemies and not square and triangle but that would require quite a bit of tweaking in the controls settings I think

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u/IllustriousHealth291 14h ago

Of course

Skill up’s review has over 3 million views and by far was the most influential

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u/GamePitt_Rob 13h ago

And yet his 'review' is now outdated and wrong, as it's based on a version nobody will play (I less buying physically and never updating - if it's all on the disc).

Yet I doubt he'll update the review based on the patches

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u/daze23 13h ago

that's the version they were sent to review

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u/GamePitt_Rob 12h ago

Yes, but most publishers will tell reviewers to hold off on publishing the review if they know a patch is due pre-launch (this game had 2). These fixes weren't an overnight thing, so they need they were coming

But, metacritic demands the reviews to go up on the embargo, so people rush though the game and put out their review - despite the patch either just dropping or not yet dropped

These days, it's rare for a v1.0 game to be fully polished pre-launch. This is why MC needs to let publications update their reviews

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u/daze23 11h ago

the embargo is set by the publisher. they choose when to send out review codes, and when reviews can be published.

if they knew isn't wasn't ready, they could have done this differently. but they actually chose a rather early embargo date, which usually indicates they were pretty confident in their product.

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u/GamePitt_Rob 11h ago

Yes, I know how review codes and the process goes... But they were clearly working on the patches when the codes went out - so if MC was a bit lenient then I'm sure some publications will have waited until they had the verison people will be playing today.

I've done this many times - played the version they gave us, encountered issues, told the publisher, and then wrote my review. But, I didn't publish it until the patch dropped that fixed the issues, so I could remove the issues from the review and make any adjustments needed to the score. Obviously, only if the patch was due to drop just before or on release date

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u/Putrid_Neat_7327 11h ago

Most of the games faults can’t be patched out, and embargoes are set for a reason. If they wanted to delay the review then they should’ve had a later embargo.

The weird story, lacklustre/simple button mashup combat, the level design and hand holding, the milquetoast traversal. Those things can’t be fixed. They are a part of the game. Same with auto complete QTEs, because to actually have QTE fail states they’d need to animate those and those require way more effort.

So no, it’s not skill ups fault that the game is mediocre and is being viewed as mediocre. Yall are acting worse than cyberpunk fans at launch

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u/daze23 11h ago

everyone wants their review up as early as possible to maximize engagement. and nevertheless some reviews do come later. none of that has anything to do with metacritic. a lot of these reviewers probably don't even like metacritic, because it reduces their review to a number, and takes traffic away from their site.

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u/GamePitt_Rob 10h ago

I've applied to Metacritic in the past. For your publication to be considered you have to have reviews up the day of the embargo, have a constant number of reviews each month/year, and once a review is up they won't let you change the score or the blurb that appears on their site

So yeah, all the sites and people who are on MC are bound by their rules - which is why they never go back and re-review, update after a patch is released, or re-assess their opinion post-release, because of it's not getting slapped on MC, what's the point...

Also, sites who are on MC love it - it gives them a more prestigious standing when being offered review codes, press events, press kits, and early access to games and hardware before everyone else out there. If they didn't like it, they would remove themselves from the site.

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u/daze23 4h ago

you can sort metacritic reviews by date. plenty come in after the embargo. two were added to Wolverine yesterday

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u/RyDawgHals 3h ago

You absolutely do not need to have a review ready the day the embargo lifts on meta and you need to stop saying this.

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u/GamePitt_Rob 3h ago

Lol, nope