2024 was the year of videogame friction, for better and for worse

Back in March, I gave Dragon’s Dogma 2 a 7/10. This came with no short amount of second-guessing and hand-wringing. Review score discourse is a cyclical, circular mire that’s more trouble than it’s worth, and I’m not about to wade into it here. Suffice it to say that PCGN, like every publication, has a review scale predicated on bugs, polish, and design. With this subjective bible in hand, my decision to run with the 7/10 was in part down to its crippling PC performance at launch. It was also down to friction.