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Death Stranding - Review Thread (see staff post for discussion guidelines)
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No it wouldn't... 50 or 60 would mean consensus that it was garbage.
100's and 60 and 70's shockingly middle out to... 85.
People trying to discredit low scoring reviews because they want the game to be rated higher.
People trying to discredit high scoring reviews beause they want the game to be rated lower.
Thinly veiled fanboyism in full force.
People trying to discredit high scoring reviews beause they want the game to be rated lower.
Thinly veiled fanboyism in full force.
I don't know about 6.8, but the 8.8 score is a meme from Jeff Gerstmann's review of Twilight Princess.
These reviews are very diverse in score but the bad score reviews say things that are enough to make me cancel my preorder. It sounds like my fears were realized, that despite whatever good narrative Kojima can cook up, the gameplay loop is boring and way up its own ass (waiting for a real life timer to count down for 3 minutes? What?)
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Not when vestan is in charge of updating the OP for some reason
it reads like some stoner ass college bro becoming "enlightened" because they watched an art film
After watching Easy Allies's review, i am def getting this game. no matter the criticism, i am still super interested because Sony and Kojima Productions are putting a AAA product out there that is COMPLETELY unique - and that should be celebrate and supported. not judging anyone who doesn't agree or anything but this is just coming from someone who has grown tired of the constant sameness of CODs, Ubisoft games, etc.
I'm with you 100%. I fought Genichiro for four hours, and finally beat him without taking damage once. It was amazing. The next area I went to was a poison cave and crazy old women with shotguns that decimated me from across the map. After the Genichiro fight, all I could do was just throw my hands up in the air and turn the PS4 off because I just wasn't fucking dealing with any more shit from that game. Haven't touched it since, and I'm the type of person that put 500 hours into Bloodborne and even more into the various Souls games.
looks like edge is not gonna score it, period. but based on the tweets from the writer if they do it'll be a 4 or 5.
That concerns me a bit. The tediousness and some of the other frustrating elements that others are describing are making me just want to wait for a price drop. I'm a Kojima fan who has never missed a launch for his Metal Gear games, but this just sounds like a good $30 title that I wouldn't regret too much at that price point.
Watched/Read a couple of reviews. So gameplay-wise, DS is really just a clunky survival game set in a fascinating world designed by Kojima? No unexpected changes to gameplay or locations other than rappelling and that snow area? I'm still there day 1 since it's a Kojima game, but I have a feeling this is gonna be another MGSV for me where the missions and setting quickly get repetitive and I just want to get to the next story beat or cutscene.
Yeah...I once read someone (can't remember who) say about music: "anyone can go out there and make weird sounding, super random shit that doesn't make any sense to be different. The difficulty is making something new and different within the confines of what makes a song "good"."
It seems like that might apply here. "Safe"isms (assuming he's referring to frequently used tropes in video games like side quests etc.) are there for a reason - because they work. The difficulty is making them interesting, not making a game that's so "unsafe" that the result is a mess that doesn't translate to the language that 99% of gamers speak.
I was initially going to play through the HD collection but in that case I might try emulating the GC version. Cheers for that.
Please not movies. I love the MGS writing but the lack of subtext in movies would kill me. Kinda like Zack Snyder. A dark comedy on the other hand..
I haven't cared about review numbers for years now and honestly, when I'm really interested in a game the only thing I really care about is performance.
Reviews often times fail to tell me what I would like to know about a game
That being said, RDR2 broke me and I don't know if I'm going to be able to go through another incredibly long game that, not matter how intriguing and well made , ultimately bores me. so what I'm reading is a little concerning.
Reviews often times fail to tell me what I would like to know about a game
That being said, RDR2 broke me and I don't know if I'm going to be able to go through another incredibly long game that, not matter how intriguing and well made , ultimately bores me. so what I'm reading is a little concerning.
Except no one but Kojima would make a game like DS
Which is why some people like it and some dont
BB is my game of the generation and Dark Souls possibly my favorite game of all time and Sekiro made me feel like a single exercise of bashing my face into a wall until I joylessly gave up in disbelief that From did this to me haha. I took that shit personally.
The reviews so far definitely don't align with "love it or hate it".
There are plenty of scores that don't fall on opposite ends, and while people keep pushing this in their reviews, overall it is more positive than negative.
The data doesn't really align with this narrative.
There are plenty of scores that don't fall on opposite ends, and while people keep pushing this in their reviews, overall it is more positive than negative.
The data doesn't really align with this narrative.
I imagine its those sections of games where the character have to cross a narrow wood beam and you have to control the stick left or right to keep it balanced.... but for the vast majority of the game.
A lot of indies would!
But they'd never get the exposure/presentation budget Kojima does
Death Stranding is widely praised too though. At least similar to say Blade Runner 2049. But I get where he's coming from, perhaps not with all examples, but certainly with Blade Runner, which I've watched with several people who found it too slow and boring.
Was the Ars unscored review posted?
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019...ma-unleashed-and-its-as-weird-as-youd-expect/
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019...ma-unleashed-and-its-as-weird-as-youd-expect/
That was IGN reviewing Pokémon Alpha and Sapphire. It was a 7.8 though, but a good meme. The time I stopped caring about IGN.
Hahahaha, I really cannot imagine doing that for more than 10 minutes, let alone 50 hours.
Journey is a lot less frustrating than Death Stranding and doesn't have hours of cutscenes so I guess it's not that similar but... still kind of similar.
What? The average score doesn't determine whether it's polarizing or not. Standard deviation from that average does.
You could have an 86 metacritic game where every single score was 8.6 out of 10. That would be a strong consensus. You could also have an 86 meteoritic game where everyone single score was either a perfect 10 out of 10, or a zero out of ten. That would strongly suggest there's something divisive about the game.
Polarizing is about the deviation, not the average. If a game gets 3s and 10s, it's polarizing.
Jesus Christ. It's not so hard to understand that for some people it isn't boring, some find meaning in the social system and find accomplishment in conquering terrain or a difficult path they've been on for a while. Why doubt they have actually enjoyed those things?
And what is so hard to understand that for a bunch of other people these things are not exciting? They might not offer enough variety, that they don't really feel connected to other players or don't care about that aspect?
Could the haters and hater haters please come forward and explain to me what is so hard to grasp about subjective experiences?
And what is so hard to understand that for a bunch of other people these things are not exciting? They might not offer enough variety, that they don't really feel connected to other players or don't care about that aspect?
Could the haters and hater haters please come forward and explain to me what is so hard to grasp about subjective experiences?
I wanted to say this, but didn't want to be that guy. I 100% agree with this from what I've seen so far.
I think you're misreading that comment.
"What a loser he is" -> Kojima or the writer of the tweet
"Let's stick the dogs on IGN"-> sarcastic, mocking what Kojima/tweeter are saying.
I've read a lot of reviews, both positive and negative. And considering how I like to enjoy games, this still seems right up my alley. But we'll see when players actually get their hands on it.
I expected it to be very polarizing, and that's exactly how it's coming across. The message might hit to some and might not to others.
I expected it to be very polarizing, and that's exactly how it's coming across. The message might hit to some and might not to others.
That was IGN reviewing Pokémon Alpha and Sapphire. It was a 7.8 but a good meme. The time I stopped caring about IGN.
Water in Pokemon games are where random battles are frequent and you have to constantly use HMs to get back on the water. Why is this not a legit complain.
That was IGN reviewing Pokémon Alpha and Sapphire. It was a 7.8 but a good meme. The time I stopped caring about IGN.
Funnily enough I always thought it was a valid criticism. Hoenn has a lot of water routes where you get interrupted every 2 seconds by a Wingull or Tentacool.
It was a funny way to phrase it sure, but I'm with them on that.
Yep. I get and appreciate what From did with the game but it just wasn't for me which was a shame, because pretty much everything about it was top fucking notch. I learned the systems in Ninja Gaiden backwards and forwards and was really looking forward to doing the same with Sekiro, but it was just like being constantly kicked in the balls whenever I accomplished something. "Oh, you beat that boss after half a day huh? You feeling good? WELL HERE'S TWO FUCKING MORE AND THEY HAVE POISON AND CENTIPEDES AND SHIT."
Damn, thread is already more than 100 pages long! And the game is not even out yet
From what I've seen so far, I think I will wait to play this, not really hype for the game and I don't know if I'll really enjoy the game to justify buying it at launch.
I hope that those who do buy it at lauch that you get your money's worth back from the game.
From what I've seen so far, I think I will wait to play this, not really hype for the game and I don't know if I'll really enjoy the game to justify buying it at launch.
I hope that those who do buy it at lauch that you get your money's worth back from the game.
I honestly think that it comes off as snarky; and at least they explain why they didn't like it. The Stevivor review on the other hand. . .
oh, yeah. I coulda sworn it had a different post quoted, but maybe i just mixed two posts up. Sorry guy i quoted!