About those floating eyes — I just blitzed on of them from the scaffoldings into the canyon of Stonerend Quarry. I cannot begin to describe the horrified look he gave me as he was falling down 
Thankfully Grim Dawn is worth a ten.
What are my complaints with the game? Balance? Trivial. GD accomplishes everything it needs to and is fun at all times of play. That there are slight things out of whack at the very highest levels of play is irrelevant; hell, it’s almost expected of the genre.
I feel like 87’ish is pretty far. It’s a good game, but it needs some more polish and minor tweaks (crashes for certain systems, balance, bugs), then it could easily move up to a 90+. Mods will push it even further.
I agree especially on the balance thing.
Some builds and skills are just leaps and bounds above the rest.
Lot of people will give a game extremely low score or high even if the game doesn’t deserve depending from a lot of things. You will have people that will see the score and not agree with it so they give it extremely negative or positive. But overall if both critics and players(if they voted in somewhat bigger number not just few people)give a game a positive, ir will 99% of time mean the game is really good (normally doesn’t mean everyone will like the game as that is more a subjective thing)
I think the grim dawn score should be between 8 and 9, as the game is good but does lack few aspects in mechanic, gameplay and balance to be considered higher than 9 for me personally.
Send him 100 000$ and he will…
I kinda wanna see what the big sites think when they get around to posting reviews, Eurogamer, IGN etc, just to see if they ‘get it.’
Get what? Money for a good review? I don’t think Crate can afford it.
I have IGN’s review for you:
“It’s not very casual friendly like Diablo 3.”
Score: 5.0/10.0
That it’s designed as a single player experience and not and action game focused on competitive gameplay modes (I.e. ‘endgame’).
Mainly, expecting massive social and competitive elements because internet.
Not the same game, but not casual at all 
and a high score 8.8
Honestly, I’d rather not see what they have to think. We’ve been getting enough idiocy from tx3000 cue shitposting.
We have exactly one negative review and if it was not worded so well I would swear it was THC7 trying to get revenge. Perhaps its TX3000
but ya check this shit heads shitpost out
21grams
Feb 28, 2016
4
I didn’t play early access, but I got it now and already refunded.I’m big fan of aRPG (diablo-like) - I love Path of Exile, liked Torchlight series, Diablo 2, even Diablo 3 is fairly decent, tho too much casual nonsense. So I had hopes for this, but it’s simply snooze fest, yes it’s boring as hell. 1h 50minutes was even too much for me.
Main complaints about the the game: first of all it feels dated, it doesn’t bring anything fresh to the genre. Animations are terrible all combat feels clunky, monsters are not interesting, already spam of MMO-ish fetch quests (no, I don’t expect Witcher 3 level quests in such game). This game is not unique in any way, it’s basically Titan Quest reskin.
It also lacks global multiplayer, only p2p co-op which is quite disappointing. Anyway, if this game was released 5years ago then maybe, but in 2016 it’s lackluster.
So cannot recommend it for more demanding people, it’s just dated and boring game for very casual experience, it’s not fun at all…
Better play Path of Exile, which costs absolutely nothing, it;s mechanically better aRPG, has great global online servers with trading, seasons, ladders, etc. I truly expected more that I got, hugely disappointed.
I would rate it worse, but I saw there are some decent amount of customization options, but that doesn’t make gameplay any more interesting. My final verdict 4/10
21grams
Feb 28, 2016
4
I didn’t play early access, but I got it now and already refunded.I’m big fan of aRPG (diablo-like) - I love Path of Exile, liked Torchlight series, Diablo 2, even Diablo 3 is fairly decent, tho too much casual nonsense. So I had hopes for this, but it’s simply snooze fest, yes it’s boring as hell. 1h 50minutes was even too much for me.
Main complaints about the the game: first of all it feels dated, it doesn’t bring anything fresh to the genre. Animations are terrible all combat feels clunky, monsters are not interesting, already spam of MMO-ish fetch quests (no, I don’t expect Witcher 3 level quests in such game). This game is not unique in any way, it’s basically Titan Quest reskin.
It also lacks global multiplayer, only p2p co-op which is quite disappointing. Anyway, if this game was released 5years ago then maybe, but in 2016 it’s lackluster.
So cannot recommend it for more demanding people, it’s just dated and boring game for very casual experience, it’s not fun at all…
Better play Path of Exile, which costs absolutely nothing, it;s mechanically better aRPG, has great global online servers with trading, seasons, ladders, etc. I truly expected more that I got, hugely disappointed.
I would rate it worse, but I saw there are some decent amount of customization options, but that doesn’t make gameplay any more interesting. My final verdict 4/10
He does have a point, actually. But if the game was up to his expectations there’s a high chance I would had been the one to give it a rating of 4/10, because, well, better to play PoE or D3 then.
What’s the fuss anyway? Why do you care about some random review? Is this metacritic website really that important?
Even with 100000 people like a restaurant, there are always a few dislike it and will comment that the foods taste like crap. Its just personal taste.
“even Diablo 3 is fairly decent” D3 better than GD? We can guesstimate his personal taste.
D3 is better than GD in many respects, as well as better than Torchlight and PoE in other respects. It’s overall one of the best ARPGs on the market now. Dunno why you have to use it as some kind of bottomline and make assumptions on people’s personal tastes based on that.
Why did I mention bottomline?
One big difference between the 2 games is that one has a lot of character development and customization options, the other has not much and is rather focused on other things. And this is the personal taste part.
I am disappointed by d3 on other aspects, but again this my personal taste. I do admit that d3 has a number of good things/ideas here and there.
You can be the ripest, most delicious and juicy peach in the world …and there will always be someone who doesn’t like peaches.
I actually googled “ign grim dawn”, just because I was so sure that you were right. However, this is what they had posted:
Superb Visual Design
Excellent Combat
Huge, Dense World
8.7/10
Perhaps the reviewer was new? 
I think that is a pretty fair review by IGN. Nice to see Grim Dawn Getting a little more publicity!