That's exactly what I mean. It's a racing game so it doesn't count. It's a great game but it's racing so it doesn't matter how good it is or scores it's doesn't have an in depth story mode so it gets ignored.
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Gears 5 Review Thread
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But that's the thing, review scales have changed. Spiderman is an 87 and is a GOTY material.
Alright, Forza is a blockbuster AAA title that's stealing all the headlines and that's why Xbox is selling so well.
Destructoid Review-In-Progress: "Evolution for evolution's sake"
Uh...so you don't believe in media criticism at all? Film reviews, music reviews, etc?
"A lot of the campaign feels like a rehash of earlier Gears games" From Gamespot.
So do they say that for every sequel?
So do they say that for every sequel?
I have not played Gears 4 since getting my 1080TI but it ran great on my 980.
85? Great score. They'll be getting their bonuses then. Most bonuses linked to MC use 85 as the higher level bonus threshold so good news for them.
I imagine that the MP will nudge the provisional scored upwards slightly for things like IGN. So it'll land an 8.9 or 9.0.
I imagine that the MP will nudge the provisional scored upwards slightly for things like IGN. So it'll land an 8.9 or 9.0.
This was on the same page as your comment.
And singleplayer looks fantastic. Multiplayer section is already in review and still is a 7. Like i said, you don't know that. It's not like "IMO" anymore when you said "IT WILL" before.
Art criticism has existed as long as art has. It's not a new or mysterious concept.
Gears was never going to get above an 85. I sincerely don't know why they give these games to reviewers. It's not an artsy fartsy game. It's a game where you shoot aliens and swear
Sounds solid enough but I'll be honest, I can't help but feel like this further supports the idea that Coalition/343 can't quite reach the heights of 360 era Gears and Halo.
I don't really need another "great" Gears game myself after enjoying 1-3, I'll probably pass on this one.
I don't really need another "great" Gears game myself after enjoying 1-3, I'll probably pass on this one.
destructoid remains to be one of the worst reviewers, god damn
so one says its to different, and another says its too much of the same?!
what the heck
How's it a passive aggressive insult, when you ignore most of what I say and misrepresent what I say..
If you read what I post you would know UC4 is just an example other tps could be used to, and it does not need to be exactly like UC4, the animations would be different and the climbing and jumping mechanics don't have to be the same, you would know this if you read my post, you are being really over defensive for gears 5, and if u check my post history you will see I'm a big gears fan, u can see the great praise I've given gears 4.
I'm disappointed that it doesn't have a 90-metacritic but that's an irrational disappointment. The game will likely (from what I've seen) be a game of the gen experience from me. Will play it this weekend and hopefully enjoy it. And having said that, 85 metacritic is a very good score.
Overly defensive of Gears 5? You sure about that, bud? Care to point that out? Smh.
I understand that, it's a broken system. It's like reviewing a few episodes of a season of a show or half of a movie. You're not getting the entire picture by limiting a review to just 1 part of a game that is equally focused on the different aspects.
87 is a good score. Not a great score. But yes, Spider-Man was fantastic and much better than an 87.
Back when GTA IV was seen as deserving a 98...
Personally, I thought this would land at 87-88 so 86 isn't far off.
Which is just a completely stupid way to look at games. You see it with MLB The Show every year as well, its consistently excellent yet disregarded by everyone but the fans. This idea of story-driven, oscar bait archetypes for GOTY as the only games that count needs to stop. Ultimately it should come down to which game you enjoyed the most, and that could be literally anything.
But you can still wreck shit with a chainsaw gun. I don't understand the criticism, when that's still a core element of the Gears gameplay.
stealing from who? Why can't they just be positive headlines, as Xbox has been doing the last year or more with all their initiatives? With new consoles around the corner Microsoft is building confidence with their current base of players.
I feel as though the slavish adherence to it by some within gaming is different, though (and that a lot of the criticism, as anywhere, is seriously poor).
Personally, I never read music reviews. Ever. They are meaningless to me, in terms of guiding my behaviour or learning from them. Almost completely meaningless in that sense. Films a little less so, but still not much there either. I don't not value them in terms of their being expressions of criticism and such, but rather they don't mean much to me.
I suspect this is fairly widespread, although of course not universal, nor should it be. Yet games reviews seem different to me: the attention paid is different, dramatically, to how other criticism works. Music is so vast you can never read a review and revel in whatever and it's not the point and nobody will care. If you're considering a modernist composer's position, sure, then you get more serious and pay.more attention, but these are two different fields that happen to share 'music'. Gaming still feels cloistered and limited and narrow in this sense. Maybe anecdotal, maybe too 'hardcore' focused.
Your making a big deal that I bring up UC4, relax. Its OK for posters to bring up other games in a constructive way.
So my feeling was right. But the hype about this game was so bigger than that!
what a horrible precedent to set...
this was said when Crackdown and Sea of Thieves came in with middling scores. why are you lowering your expectations because "It's on Game Pass, who cares"
welcome to mediocrity if that's how you judge MS' game standards from now on.
As I'm sure many people will think Gears is a fantastic game and more deserving than the 8- the final MC score settles on. Perhaps don't take the numbers on a website so seriously? If you enjoyed the game and think it's fantastic, who is to say you're wrong?
You should actually read the review. They state that the combat is still great but that the open world stuff is a gigantic pace breaker.
is it??
huh. I thought that had like an 86. either way, this series is so forgettable.
Games require a much larger investment of time and money than checking out a song or a movie does. It therefore makes sense that people would value reviews higher.
Touche, but thats more of an outlier now. Back when GTA IV came out, 90+ was extremely common.
From the reviews it sounds like there are very distinct sections where it either plays like old Gears or has the newer elements in it, with the newer stuff not showing up until later in the game.
I don't think the data backs this belief up as much as you think. I'd be curious to see a good argument for it that doesn't involve cherry-picking a game or two, though.
It isn't complicated. Reviews in aggregate give a fairly accurate estimation of how good a player will find a game. You can find individual reviewers whose past impressions match your own and get a good idea of how a future title will match your tastes.