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Death Stranding - Review Thread (see staff post for discussion guidelines)
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There's only three of those sections in the game and reviewers are not allowed to talk about them, but the inference is that they don't make up much of the game.
That was indeed funny, but we knew this is what the game was. People kept fooling themselves into believing there would be an MGS2 twist for some reason, but it was very clear that the game was about traversal and equip load. And also Dark Souls online but with objects.
Why would you throw out accusations of people harassing reviewers for this when nobody here has done it though
That's pretty disingenuous. You could also claim the opposite. To wit: People are trying to do mental gymnastics to claim the game should have a low score even though it doesn't.
Well that's not really true did you watch/read reviews? Walking is gamified, you stumble, trip, fall and climb and it's super annoying to some and enjoyable to others. There's a whole lot to the gameplay but folks are saying it's not engaging or it's super addicting based on where you fall.
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Oh good. We've established a game with an 84/86 and plenty of 10's factually has bad gameplay.
Hilarious. Hilarious in how fucking stupid that sounds.
i agree. i think you can't really fault sony or kojima here for misrepresenting the game. from the very beginning it was clear what the game was. it's just that people were (for some reason) expecting some out of the left field major twist and shift in gameplay.
LOOOOOOOOOL if this isn't the OT title I will be very disappointed.
I did. I'm saying pre-release people assumed there was more to the gameplay then just walking around for 40 hours. There is not.
He kinda did throw a wrench in it.
The number people see when they open Metacritic is not the number most reviewers assigned to it.
Well, shit I took something completely different from that. Lol.
Sorry about that
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Ah yes, the metacritic is the be all and end all of what is determined to be good or not. Not the plenty of people reviewing the game who were bored to tears by it.
Keep it up bro, Koji will notice you one day
Have either of you even played the game....?
Yes, they can't mention specifics of the second half of the game.
There is also people trying to discredit low scoring reviews because they wanted the game to be 90+...Even though 84 is good.
But yeah, you can see some people exclusively focusing on the negative commentary/reactions reviews while ignoring the reality of the Metacritic and Opencritic scores. Because they wanted it to be bad, it makes them feel good to select the negative reactions as it reinforces their own desires.
Seems like every frustrating gameplay trope is at play here, rolled up into one obnoxious package. I'm impressed and appalled at the same time. I guess that works for some folks though, some really good scores even if the reviews don't read like it.
"I may be having the worst time of my life trying to play this game, but that's the whole point." 9.5/10
"I may be having the worst time of my life trying to play this game, but that's the whole point." 9.5/10
Maybe you should have done your job and read all the reviews.
More on topic. Good Metacritic overall in the end. Same as Gears 5.
Man, just getting around to listening to the Giant Beastcast and geez they're ripping this game APART lol, yikes. And I get a lot of their points, to be fair.
I think im just gonna stick with it and not cancel the preorder. Saw the DF video and that turned me around a bit. I mean, i am someone that will just wander for hours in no mans sky and enjoy it. I just hope the gameplay here is more 'well you just go from point a to point b while playing a walking physics puzzle' and not 'you will want to punch a hole in your tv because the game hates you.' If it's that 2nd thing, you're gonna se a lot of angry gamers.
Huh i didnt know that song was made for the game i thought it was licensed. The ambient soundtrack also sounds right up my alley, and the soundtrack choices as well.
Huh i didnt know that song was made for the game i thought it was licensed. The ambient soundtrack also sounds right up my alley, and the soundtrack choices as well.
people are allowed to also reference the text in the reviews and talk about that. the game having a high metascore doesn't invalidate all criticism. the text in many reviews criticizes gameplay.
Thanks for the insight. That honestly sounds great and right up my alley.
I mean it is. To you maybe not but the meaning is a game thats boring and has very little gameplay aside from walking from place to place and being told story.
Yeah, the songs played in the first trailers were licensed, but this one is original
So let me get this straight. Metacritic isn't a good judgment for the games quality.
However, reviewers are. But you also ignore all the reviewers that are praising the game and have given it 9+?
Keep it up buddy. Maybe you'll realize how stupid you sound eventually.
It's Kojima, although it may be in depth micromanagement, it's still gonna at least be snappy.
And yet it'll make 2-3x of the budget easily in the first month and go on to make even more after pc release. Calm calm no need to be jealous of someone who made something that can be appreciated, talked about and will be financially quite successful.
There's some genuine concern and discussion going on here. I contributed to it. But people are saturating the thread with meta discussion about Anne Frank and the "can't do this" and the cranky OP posts and other clutter, magnifying the drama, instead of just letting it fall by the wayside so real discussion can happen. In reality most of the posts complaining that the thread is crazy are just magnifying the craziness of a slim picking of posts. Just talk about the game instead of all this meta shit.
I just read the whole CNET review and it was very enlightening that it was written by a bit MGS fan. It sounds like the experience was so hypnotizing he actually started to enjoy the tedium of the game because it was so investing. But the first 10 hours sound drab as hell. I don't think I can handle that kind of slow burn these days.
man, I was stanning for this site a few weeks ago, but reading this thread... fucking yikes at some of yall. embarrassing.
I don't know about cursed but it's flipped two things we are used to
- what video games should be
- what reviews should be
Assassins creed allowed the player to do whatever they wanted for the most part. If you wanted to just go around killing folks you could. You can do that here.
