I have no idea if they do but they'd be sure bets to success at least.
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Mike Ybarra, Corporate VP of Xbox, says critics of an Anthem area are “whining” and it is “embarrassing to review with such a lack of knowledge”
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I have no idea if they do but they'd be sure bets to success at least.
Do you agree with him putting "Reviews" in quotes, suggesting reviews from game critics are not legitimate?
It's literally a fake news Tweet.
You are just straight up making things up to make your point though?
Ybarra said the reviewer said they didn't know how to do combos. Meaning
1) They knew combos were a thing but in playing through the game never learned them either due to the games bad design or his own incompetence (presumably if it was the second part in his eyes they would have excluded them from their review entirely)
2) They didn't need them for to finish the game. (Something others have mentioned, including Patrick Klepek in this very thread!)
You are jumping to conclusions about the quality of the review by making things up that we have literally no knowledge about.
come on mike.........a paid streamer. You have to think better than this
or you can watch people who aren't sponsored to play it. I mean, there's a lot of them. lol
The guy asked HIM for a review of the game. He said he doesn't do reviews. He said HE doesn't do reviews. He suggested the guy try a demo or watch a streamer. Non issue.
Well i have never been in a position where my opinion on something would be picked apart and turned into a whole discussion thread for people to dogpile on so i can't imagine the concept of having to keep quiet but it's an interesting thing to debate i guess. Should someone who works for a company in a certain industry not be allowed to comment on it? At what level of seniority does it become ok to discuss or give their opinion on something? I totally get the argument behind the whole "every tweet must be corporately vetted lest you speak out of line" thing but isn't that basically fucking up the idea of free speech? Personally i can't think of anything more depressing than every single person who works in gaming having zero opinions on anything because of the wrath of Resetera etc.
Isn't this trying to be a Diablo-like loot game where you are incentivised to continue replaying missions on harder and harder difficulties for better loot..?
I for one haven't played it and probably wont pick it up but wondering how fair it is to dismiss a mechanic simply due to it being not necessary on the normal difficulty. For example I went through normal difficulty in Diablo 3 by just using basic attacks and abilities and didn't need to delve deeper into it's systems and potential build styles until harder difficulties.
Do you think this might apply to Anthem or am I giving it too much credit?
Anthem is the current whipping boy so it's OK to side with the press on this. Now let's say a review criticizes a new From Software game or a Nintendo game. You'll see a very different story around here.
Btw, I don't care about Anthem. In fact I selfishly hate that it exists because I want Bioware to make old style Bioware games again. Still doesn't mean reviewers don't frequently misrepresent games.
How would they be expected to know that a mechanic even exists if, as Patrick Klepek describes, he only noticed it mentioned in an item description?
If it's not tutorialized, either by gameplay necessity or explicit messaging, just how important is it?
So he just put reviews in quotation marks for no reason? Come on, this is where I'm talking about either you're playing dumb or your reading comprehension just isn't there.
You think he said it because he's a hardcore gamer and not because of the marketing deal?
It genuinely baffles me every time this site reminds me that participating in system warring is still a thing people care about.
No, you shouldn't do that either.
No, you shouldn't do that either.
There's a difference between criticizing reviews and reviewers, especially coming from the audience they are serving (consumers, not publishers if you were wondering), and the corporate VP of a platform holder straight up dunking on the press for a review of a product your company is co-marketing with "Gamurz rise up" tier tweets.
Like, a chasm sized difference.
No? Depends on the journalist/critic/content creator.
But if a site doesn't get a review out until a week after the embargo lifts they aren't going to get any clicks, and thus won't generate ad revenue for that content. These are businesses.
"They're just rushing reviews out for clicks" is such a dumb statement. Like yeah, that's what their business is.
That's part of my point tho. If he knew what combos are why didn't he just go the extra mile and find out how to do them before publishing his review? Isn't that what a good reviewer would do, you know try to see every aspect of the game even if they are poorly explained just so he can include them in his review?
It´s almost like Microsofts offerings have not been very good this gen and therefore they get criticized by a lot of people.
I think that's maybe what Anthem wants to be, but it's not quite there yet. Maybe it will be. The frustrating part of the combo system is that when you understand how it works, it's pretty cool and a neat wrinkle to the combat system, but the game's tutorial never explains how it works, you only pickup on its existence from item descriptions, and you need to dig through a menu to find out a proper explanation (or look up a YouTube video). How does that happen for something so critical to high-level competent play?? Whether or not a reviewer should/shouldn't put all that together, the way Anthem doesn't even acknowledge one of its own combat systems is highly indicative of other design oversights.
Yeah, watch the people desperate to ascend to the ranks of being blessed by publishers with their promotional money. That's sure to be a better bet.
This board seems entirely an equal opportunities fanboy safe haven. Seriously, it feels like a amateur marketeers convention here at times.
What's weird is the sheer proportion of Xbox fanboys at era, given how badly Xbox one has tanked.
Im honestly worried about your reading comprehension. Where does he say reviews are shit like some here are attributing to him?
People being indifferent to BC isn't proof "the entire site has an anti MS bias." I still couldn't care about the lack of PS3 BC on PS4 at this point for example, but I would probably skip the first couple years of PS5 with no PS4 BC. It has nothing to do with MS, it's just due to the fact the first couple years are usually shit for a console. After the good new gen stuff starts releasing, I'm back to not really caring about BC, though wouldn't complain about having the option.
No, i dont agree with him in that regards, not at all. Thats why i said it might not have been the best choice of words. A review is basically just one (or several) guy's personal opinion about a game, so theres nothing right or wrong about it (assuming that there no factual errors mentioned in the review). Its more of a subjective thing. But i assume that hes referring to that its better to check out streams/videos and get a feel for the game that way instead. Personally, this is what i do for most games that i want to check out. But i didnt get the impression that he was dissing traditional reviews.
Can you point to the written review critique this tweet is talking about ? His "modern reviews" is clearly poorly worded, but the fact that today anyone can learn so much by watching someone playing, play a demo, have early access,... makes written review in some way "old fashioned". Don't you think ?
+1. If you are a pro reviewer it's IMO the bare minimum to understand and find out all of the game mechanics. If the said mechanic is hidden somewhere in a dark corner of the game, then just say it "this is something 99% of the players won't find, that's why the game is bad", but if you have a minimum of professionalism you need to find it and report it. DOn't just say "this game is shit" and then discover something new at the end of your review and say "see, I told you it's shit".
ok but not having the review in front of us means we can't determine in what context the not "know how to do a combo" was used which makes the entire discussion fruitless unless you want to keep making shit up like you just did again.
His intent was deliberate. "Poor choice or words" is a bullshit defense of this if I'm going to be honest.
I think making a bad reviewer look like a victim is gonna end up giving them more ammo.
Furthermore, someone in his position has to know better. And probably does.
He mentions "modern reviews"... Yet none of what he said can be count as a review, since you could have friends who know nothing about gaming yet bought the game because of marketing.
Streamers? Same thing, how many of them are really natural towards games really 90% of them play what's hot because of views or if someone paid them to stream the game like certain games like guess what? Battlefield V and Anthem.
Streamers? Same thing, how many of them are really natural towards games really 90% of them play what's hot because of views or if someone paid them to stream the game like certain games like guess what? Battlefield V and Anthem.