Ah Steam. Steam, you have single-handedly cradled the PC games market in your hulking piston-powered arms and kept us safe and warm and oily. So, anyway, I was browsing the steam-store today. The deep steam store. You know, pages 9+ on the "Action game" section. Ever since finding "RUNE" was on the steam-store, I never know what other little gems are lurking under the black velvety sea....
So I look out.
Ever watching, ever hoping to find but a glimpse...
...I will...
...Some beautiful unearthly thing...
In
the
waves
Ahem, sorry. Anyway, I'm plodding through the depths and I see a game- I forget the name, but it has a rather low metacritic rating. Very low. 33, I believe. Out of interest- I click on it. Standard stuff, nothing to see here. It sounds like it might be a cool idea, but seems to be badly executed. So I look at the recommended games- maybe there will be something similar but with a more reasonable reception?
What I saw was very strange...
Instead of recommending me other games like it, Steam had decided the best course of action was to recommend me other poorly rated games. That's like going to a restaurant and ordering a lacklustre steak, complaining "This isn't very good" to the waiter, and his reply being "I am very sorry sir, would you like a shit steak tartare instead?"
Its just a bit odd, really. I didn't know poorly-received games were a genre.
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