Games where patching would have improved review scores

[Uriel]

Just thinking that there might be a few games that missed out on greatness because of a lack of polish or just weren't finished.

Which ones do you think would have reviewed better a patch or two down the line?

Obvious one for me was Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines. Scores were all over the place in reviews. The official 1.2 patch sorted out most game-breaking bugs. I reckon that would have pulled up review scores to consistent 9s. Maybe even the odd 10?

Can think of a few other games that improved but not many that became fundamentally better.

 

[Uriel]

The Witcher would definitely have scored a few points higher everywhere after they released the big patch that fixed the huge load times and re-wrote a lot of the translated dialogue.

Eurogamer did re-review it. Gave it the same score as the original release though - 7.

 

[Uriel]

Actually, I was mistaken. Eurogamer gave the enhanced edition of the Witcher an 8.