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Ghost of Tsushima - Review Thread (MetaCritic: 83 | OpenCritic: 85)
- Thread starter BZL8
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Locking in at 83. Game will be good, but not great. I hope the impressions are good, so I can have one last ride on my ps4 until its retired.
high 70's; low 80's max.
I'm very surprised so many people think it will be high 80's.
I was one of them. But again, I didn't watch leaked footage at the time. 80-84 seems more likely to me now.
You don't like input lag, characters that move like they're drunk all the time, poor gunplay, and missions that constantly devolve into gunfights? lol
Yep, cos RDR2 was apparently a dud but reviewed well "because rockstar" and not because its the best open world ever made.
I say 85-89. Don't think it's cracking the 90's - that is a barrier that is hard to breach. Be surprised if it's lower than 80 though. Could happen you never know. 8 out of 10 is a good score if you use the whole scale. We wait in the swaying grass like a ghost ready to strike to see the reviews roll in like mist over the Mongol camp.
That footage was by someone who is bad at the game and played on Easy
Also missions that insta-fail you if you even deviate from the intended way to play for an instant?
I always hated when people try to say "liberating bases" are lazy game content because that to me is what a sandbox game should be. You are given a variety of tools to solve the problem.
Hell even linear games are implementing this idea of enabling player choice into their fights like Last of Us 2 having huge levels with multiple ways to approach them. So it baffles me when it feels like R* gets rewarded for sticking with mission design from the PS2 era.
Honestly I think the biggest factors defining reviews are
1) Does this game do something really unique or move the genre forward? (this is rare)
2) Is it polished
3) The presentation
1) Does this game do something really unique or move the genre forward? (this is rare)
2) Is it polished
3) The presentation
I haven't heard too many folks talk about the story, but I really hope that delivers. The most unexpected thing Horizon brought to me was pretty great writing & performances.
Oh here we go, now it's "wE hAtE rDR2" thread again. Some of y'all should really find something newer to hate on than a game released two years ago, jfc.
Except I would not agree that it is the best open world game ever made, the story was extremely captivating but good lord that world bored the fuck outta me. You can have a pretty world, which its one of the prettiest ever made, but god did I feel like that world was just overrated personally. It did things well and I am not discrediting it, but I do think it tried too hard.
but it was so fun to interact with the world in red dead 2
I would genuinely like to hear what you would consider to be a better open world? In terms of scale and variety for me it is the most realistic and captivating by a long way.
Well, I'll bite. BOTW's world.
And I'll add that most open world games have passable or shitty gameplay.
I literally know nothing about this game. Why do so many assume it's going to score great? Has preview buzz been amazing?
Excitement and impressions have been very good. Even there are vague hints of some reviewers implying it's great.
Yeah it just gets boring, at one point there were like three or four RDR2 threads every day, where people shared such brilliant and innovative insights like "but muh gameplay". Yeah we get it.
I am guessing 80-84.
After seeing gameplay it's a pass for me unless it gets great reviews. I personally would have preferred something a bit more realistic and less action and magical/effects visuals. I want to stealth kill with a bow and retrieve my arrow. I want to have a one strike fight. I know this stuff doesn't really sell.
After seeing gameplay it's a pass for me unless it gets great reviews. I personally would have preferred something a bit more realistic and less action and magical/effects visuals. I want to stealth kill with a bow and retrieve my arrow. I want to have a one strike fight. I know this stuff doesn't really sell.
It's pretty crazy, I met someone in real life that just would NOT stop hating on it, like we were hanging out and drinking at a bar. Non-stop just pushing on me how my opinion is bad because I enjoyed it... the hate for that game can be vitriolic.
Too bad it's one of the best games ever created. Woopsies. ;)
I'd say its open world structure is incredible from the sense of exploration, the variety of side quests/stranger missions, the random activities that feel organic, the robberies, the unique hunts, the hunting in the game with a large array of animals, and the mysteries all make it feel like the best open world I've ever experienced imo. I understand how the controls can turn people off from and its slow paced, but as an outlaw sim, its damn near perfect.
I don't even think about RDR2 much anymore two years after release, and I'm like, the biggest fan ever. That game is really living rent free in some people's heads, and not in a good way.
I guess this was about me, so I'll just say I don't hate RDR2. I do like it.
I think it's narrative is incredible, but there are just these things I don't understand how they got a pass with when it feels like other games would be condemned for having them.
There isn't anything newer that was as big of a disappointment, though.
Woopsies.
