If they are just contrarian most of the time, which it looks like, they are bound to be right sometimes. Doesn't mean they deserve respect for jt though.
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Days Gone Review Thread (See Staff Post)
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Watched the ign video review on YouTube, lol at the like/dislike bar. Damn people are invested in this console war stuff.
Waypoint also doesn't technically label their reviews as 'reviews', and don't assign a score. I called it a review because it serves the same functional purpose.
Lmfao
Slant is one of the handful of publications that doesn't give in to the culture's obsession with aggregate scores and actually has a pulse.
Except the Sekiro review is as shallow as you can get and just slaps a 2/5 on it. If the sole RDR2 review is enough to garner your respect then fair play, but there's a reason Slant are typically mocked in review threads.
I'm expecting a reverse RDR2 audience reaction as well (to some degree). Some people will discover the game through sales, ps+, buying used etc. and they will be like "wait, this isn't the complete turd I was told it is. This is actually a competent game with some rough aspects".
So you actually know those sites? See!
And Al sold maybe one shoe in a month. Not really good.
Neither does Kotaku or Eurogamer but we consider those reviews as well.
Their Sekiro review was basically them crying about how it's too hard and then they had a meltdown on twitter about how only idiots think it's good or something like that. They aren't great, they make some good points here and there, but usually poorly and very antagonistic.
I hope you think the same about their Botw and Sekiro scores, lol.
Making any kind of open world game is ambitious, and compared to its peers of games like Mafia 3 and Homefront The Revolution an open world game from a core team of 130 people and having the exist on the border between decent and good is an accomplishment any studio should be proud of.
Putting in 20 hours and not seeing that as sufficient sunk cost to play through the rest of it is a valid indictment of the game in my eyes. You can write a review on the parts of the movie you saw before you walked out - so long as you say you walked out at least.
Putting in 20 hours and not seeing that as sufficient sunk cost to play through the rest of it is a valid indictment of the game in my eyes. You can write a review on the parts of the movie you saw before you walked out - so long as you say you walked out at least.
They aren't purely contrarian. They gave both God of War and Uncharted 4 9/10 for example.
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if this were microsofts days gone, no one here would be sticking up for it
Sorry you didn't like HZD. I felt the ranged combat, different arrow effects, and stealth were great. And uncovering the backstory was my favorite part of that game. The reviews and sales seem to reflect it's quality.
Days Gone seems to be a different matter. Maybe fun but lackluster? Anyways like I said before, I'll wait for a sale to pick it up.
There is a difference between flat out lies, or disagreement over characterization, so I'm hoping it's not the former.
Nothing like one random tweet to completely undermine a respect video game critic's opinion!
It's friggin sad that we even have to expect such a thing. Sony should be better than that hopefully
Sure, but you can't criticize the character and his motivations without finishing the story though.
Goddamnit, i knew this embargo would bite me. Tried to cancel amazon but nope, cant. Shouldnt have preordered, but the damn amazon discount from years ago was too tempting and i actually thought this might be good. Pissed about this.
I'm not sure a user named 'PS4_Trophies' is the one to trust vs professional reviewers.
Pls go revisit that CD3 review thread and then tell me more about your theory. ;P
Common sense would dictate that the game was never going to do well with critics. The game setting and gameplay mechanics have been done many times over. Also the trailer didn't show how it would stand out. In fact I can definitely say that the zombie setting has hit a fatigue in the gaming industry. The only reason for the hype was because it was a first party title and it looked super pretty. I still even remember when the last of us was announced and people were concerned with the game setting. That was over 5 years ago.
It took me 40 hours to beat God of War. Do you think the first 20 hours are in any way similar to the latter 20 hours in terms of story or character development? If someone is saying that remarks about Deacon's character are disingenuous to what the developers intended in their storyline, then I'd consider it problematic to cast judgment on a game that is left unfinished.
The number of people desperatly wanting to like this game just because it has the sony watermark is quite astounding.
Aren't you bored of open world already? Are you ready to play the 14th exact same game with fetch quests and the same activities recycled for 30 hours? It was obvious it would come out as a generic representative of the genre, can you really blame the reviewers for telling how it is?
Aren't you bored of open world already? Are you ready to play the 14th exact same game with fetch quests and the same activities recycled for 30 hours? It was obvious it would come out as a generic representative of the genre, can you really blame the reviewers for telling how it is?
never expected those destructoid, ign and gamespot reviews
going to play this game day one tomorrow as I was already sold
going to play this game day one tomorrow as I was already sold
Isn't this on Sony for not providing review copies at least a week in advance for a game which has a large open World and lots of content?
How much longer didn't reviewers get with God of War or Spider-Man for example?
Yeah, I agree with that. You can criticise the character up to the point you've played but you have to entertain the idea that you're judging from an incomplete character arc.
From the EGM review:
In all the recent preview footage, the game looked far better than it did even in the E3 videos, so how could it be downgraded from that?? Also hearing that the Hordes don't match the one seen in the reveal trailer in terms of sheer numbers is also highly disappointing.
WTF!?!EGM said:
In all the recent preview footage, the game looked far better than it did even in the E3 videos, so how could it be downgraded from that?? Also hearing that the Hordes don't match the one seen in the reveal trailer in terms of sheer numbers is also highly disappointing.
I guess you either like it or hate it. If the game looks good to you then a 71 or 72 isn't bad. If you were on the fence then it's probably best to wait.
What a shitty thing to say and assert to a person who is just putting their opinion out there.
The Tweet can point out someone missing nuance without being called an asshole for trying to undermine someone. Reading the tweet it doesn't seem malicious though. Wonder if she finished the game or cared to pay attention after feeling the cutscene's and dialogue are apparently horrendous. I've dozed off during cut scenes a bunch of times for the same reason.