Is this guy implying that he would have reviewed the game before finishing it if he was allowed to? Is this guy serious? Completely unacceptable if true. Sony sent the game out weeks before release (as every publisher should) and asked for the obvious.Will be interesting reading this. My tastes usually align with EDGE so it'll be interesting to see what Nathan has got to say after I'm finished with the game.
Fromsoftware with Soulsborne also comes to mind. But yes, I am also sure this game will be talked about for a while.
I did not get that impression. It felt like an ambitious videogame mechanic that could be understood and made to work reliably if the player learns about its limitations and capabilities. Someone who has not played many games and then goes into Uncharted 2 might wonder why Drake can't just climb up the train on the various handholds, but instead is guided along with color coded railings and might be disappointed by it. But players who have experience with the genre and have that degree of videogame literacy know what to expect and instead might find the setpiece direction of that scene rather thrilling. TLG did not have the benefit of gamers being familiar with AI trying to simulate a living being while simultaneously commanding it as a gameplay tool and thus expected Trico to act like a vehicle and those who learned to use the specific vocabulary of that kind of new mechanic were not as disappointed that he was not, because they understood the limitations of that approach and with some testing might even have figured out that Trico has animation priority and gets very confused by repeating commands too quickly for example, standing too close or too far, things like that. I'm not saying it's anyone's fault one way or the other, just that games get more and more complex and thus experiences can range widely especially when encountering something new.
I mean yeah we're just going to have to agree to disagree then because I find that an utterly insane position to take.
Bro, if they serve me a salad with a dead rat in it, I'm not going to sit through dessert out of professional courtesy
Yeah that also, I am really not sure if I should cancel my pre-order, I like good story games, but when the game mechanics are a total slog not sure...
EDGE can't officially give it a score because they didn't finish the game. He said he put in 40 hours but got bored and didn't want to continue.
Oh, is that how bad an 84-meta game is now? Hold on, cancelling my pre-order.
Yes I've read their earlier post detailing the incident with the truck. That sort of stuff is definitely fun. I'm worried though about cases like IGN describing climbing up a mountain for an hour.
But come on now, reputable places like Giant Bomb and Easy Allies aren't very happy with the game, whereas sites like TheSixAxis and PushSquare give it a perfect score. Can it get any more obvious?
A lot of this is literally people who just don't absorb critique from any other industry and just assume that they know what it looks like.
Giant Bomb's reigning GOTYs are pretty Tetris and the world's 3rd most popular Battle Royale game.
you're literally just making up random shit to try and establish some validity for your position.
Then the game has a really bad pacing problem and the development team took a really bad decision.
I have really bad news for you...
I don't think that's how it works. For example, I bet most reviewers didn't finish Persona 5 before writing their reviews for it, but they already went dozens of hours with it and were able to criticize the game. Some games are too big and when the person played it for several hours, they may already give honest opinions to their readers. I don't believe it's a good idea that publishers can control scores like this, Jim Sterling gave like 1/10 to Star Fox Zero and he played like only 3 missions of that and his review was still viewed as valid write up about his experience with the game ("it's so bad I dropped it at the beginning").
What if the appetizer is a literal dog turd with some whipped cream on top of it.
