furthermore, why is something like that in an "auteur non-mainstream" game in the first place
also that stevior quote about it being so far up its own ass it has 4 title screens and 2 credit rolls... yeah basically what I was afraid of
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also that stevior quote about it being so far up its own ass it has 4 title screens and 2 credit rolls... yeah basically what I was afraid of
what would the diary of anne frank score on metacritic tho
Honestly, reading the reviews is only making the game sound right up my alley. I want a relaxing game about traversing quiet and breathtakingly beautiful environments with mechanics focused on said traversal.
If anything, the parts that sound bothersome are the fucking BT encounters and the boss fights that ensue if you get caught. I still don't understand how you're supposed to avoid BTs if you can barely see them or even know their very approximate position due to the detector thingy, don't know their line of sight etc etc.
I'd also love to know if there's a way to escape the bossfights altogether. If anything sounds like a slog, it's those.
If anything, the parts that sound bothersome are the fucking BT encounters and the boss fights that ensue if you get caught. I still don't understand how you're supposed to avoid BTs if you can barely see them or even know their very approximate position due to the detector thingy, don't know their line of sight etc etc.
I'd also love to know if there's a way to escape the bossfights altogether. If anything sounds like a slog, it's those.
Almost none of the glowing reviews are from games journalists that I'm familiar with and who are regularly mentioned on this board.
Pretty telling that most of the respected games journalists are pretty sour on the game, and it's a good thing for Death Stranding's MC score that many of those reviews are unscored.
Pretty telling that most of the respected games journalists are pretty sour on the game, and it's a good thing for Death Stranding's MC score that many of those reviews are unscored.
Why tho... Kojima's writing used to be excellent in most MGS titles (even recent ones like MGSV). This is so weird.
I read it then had to do a double take lmfao
Its getting buried in the thick of it but search for it. The posts are gold.
*edits* it is so much better without the "i" hahahahahahah
I also respect music, books and films as art, but would you want someone claiming to review any of those without having seen and or heard all they consist of? I am gladly taking opinions, previews, whatever form of writing you want as long as it specifies that the overview is incomplete. I really am focusing in on that one word, review and I think it's more than reasonable to expect that if you recommend a product or not and call it a review, maybe give it a score, you are familiar with all its facettes, cause after all a review is there to help consumers with their buying decision, it implies and in my opinion requires that complete familiarity. I've said this before, but if we flip this on its ear you might buy a game from your money, enjoy it for some amount of time, then it turns out the developers ran out of steam, half the game is crap. The reviewer was like 10 out of 10 (hours played of this rpg, syke!), it's not professional. Play the thing, exhaust it as much as you can, then write a review.
That reads like:
Death Stranding reviewed better than I expected. So let's make up our own scores.
Rauschenberg's Monogram.
To be honest I prefer his Music Box, anyhow.
MGSV's writing was pretty damn bad, honestly. It had a couple of good moments, like Huey's unflinching, set-your-watch-to-it hypocrisy, but a lot of it was real dumb.
82 but you could tell that people were just inflating the score because of the critical view against the nazis
if anne frank had lived during the american civil war it'd only be a 70 at best
I'm so sick of the god damn word "auteur" thanks to this thread.
Schindler's list too. I'd be worried someone might bring up other movies involving Nazis like Inglorious Bastards but that movies actually fun, so it wouldn't fit their comparisons
Obviously when becoming the new Citizen Kane of gaming, you must dethrone the old Citizen Kane of gaming:lmao
Yeah, and that was just a few minutes. Imagine doing this for dozens of hours.
Honestly this game sounds so self serving and pretentious, while very tedious to play
Except the world wasn't empty and blah in RDR2 and was the saving grace for the controls being sub par.
it just sounds like something that got made by someone having "too much" freedom, and no one to ever tell him something might be better if done in another way. maybe some people shouldn't be given full creative control over such an expensive project. it sounds far too self-indulgent and up its own ass.
they're so weirded out by the story and writing. this isn't the normal kojima-isms, it's on another level of being obnoxious and convoluted for the sake of being convoluted
Or, what is tedious to you may not be as tedious to others. This distinction should clear by now, else games like RDR2 (tens of hours worth of horse riding), BotW, Skyrim, What Remains of Edith Finch etc (countless hours of walking and/or climbing), wouldn't have reviewed as well as they did.
Pretty much everything surrounding Huey was the best part of MGSV's narrative. The rest I could take or leave.
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god you're insufferable. if you've got something to say about me just fucking say it instead of finding an excuse to whine about me every other post you obsessed cretin. I've never blocked a user on any platform until now. Kindly fuck off.
Whatever man. I'm not doing any more of these.
I left for work on page 33, now its 122! Holy mother of God!!
A mid 80 average is a fantastic score! I can't wait for next week. The world, and the pacing of the game looks EXACTLY what i need in my life about now.
A mid 80 average is a fantastic score! I can't wait for next week. The world, and the pacing of the game looks EXACTLY what i need in my life about now.
if nothing else this thread produced maybe the best, most pure post in this forum's history
The MGS games also consider the player kinda of an idiot and lecture you for long periods of time.
They aren't calling it a review man. The EDGE guy who played the game played for 40 hours and will publish impressions, but not anything called Review or with any score.
As a person that actually had to relearn how to walk, it is more interesting irl than you think. You improvise on things that can help you where as a baby wouldn't. Everything is a puzzle, and fits for a game actually now that I think about it.
What's is that game where the guy had to learn to use his motor skills, or something like that burnt toast game?
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Manual Samuel
A few people responded saying that you don't have to travel that way, with one person insinuating they're stupid for not using vehicles. Okay, so if that person instead traveled with vehicles, what point is the open-world if it's uninteresting to travel by foot? I don't get it.
User score would get review bombed because of a "censorship" controversy.
They're definitely ashamed of Kojima's words and deeds.
People also seem to miss that movies that are "hard to watch" like Schindler's list are at most ~3 hours long and have plenty of dialog or cinematography to make it varied. Walking for hours in a completely empty world is not a good comparison.
I'll disagree, the inner conflict of Kaz about what to do with his own independent army was really good. It's mostly done through the tapes tho.
Same for Skull face's monologues with Big Boss.
dude, this is NOT ok. why are you insulting him? he's just asking why there's no link to the opencritic page in a review thread. that's a perfectly valid question. jesus.
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The pretentiousness is just so much.
"Games should be allowed to be this too."
My guy, plenty of them are.
Some reviews do, some reviews say it can on occasion feel tedious or monotonous, other reviews say they enjoyed it from beginning to end. I don't know if it's confirmation bias or what, but it's like some of you are being intentionally obtuse about the games reception.
i rode a horse for 13 minutes straight, shot like 8 dudes, and rode back in a certain cow boy game.
i think i'll be fine playing this based on what i've read.
i think i'll be fine playing this based on what i've read.
god you're insufferable. if you've got something to say about me just fucking say it instead of finding an excuse to whine about me every other post you obsessed cretin. I've never blocked a user on any platform until now. Kindly fuck off.
Whatever man. I'm not doing any more of these.
Plenty of folks got agenda's are now being aimed squarely at you. Block and move on.
This thread is unsalvageable.
The thing is, vehicles are a viable option when you happen to have extensive roads like in this clip. But you often don't. When there are cliffs, mountains, rivers, etc. You're back to walking through an even longer glorified loading screen. Hell, some loading screens give you more entertaining things to do
