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Sony contacted Vice due to more critical review of The Last of Us Part II
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Zacny talked about the game on one of the latest Triple Click podcasts, I found his and Maddy's opinions on the game really interesting and insightful.
Embarrassing that Sony had to "reach on behalf of ND". It's a game, not the gospel...
Embarrassing that Sony had to "reach on behalf of ND". It's a game, not the gospel...
The feedback is already in the review. As i said, i got enough of this shit in the past, i even got blacklisted by a publisher since i didn't gave them the numbers they want.
It's infuriating.
i dont see whats wrong...sounds like how someone would describe many sequels. banjo tooie, for example.
I suspect people won't be able to move on until next year after the year end awards have settled.
...yay
You are continuing to make a fool of yourself. Take a step back and realize people can have different, equally valid opinions about this game
Does being on the kindafunny gamescast count as reaching out?
The thing is that pretty much every aspect in TLOU 2 is improved compared to the original TLOU.
You can like or not the story of the game but everything else was improved.
omg what a shock that people would share the same opinion on something on the internet
oh maaa gawwwdd
Giantbomb had a hotspot podcast episode that discussed game reviews back in the gamespot days and they def talked about this. Said that publishers will often times contact a site wanting to discuss the score and such even though they never change it
What a shitshow this has all been, since the leaks.
Thankfully the game is out and it's incredible so even if ND crashes and burns we still have the game lmao.
Thankfully the game is out and it's incredible so even if ND crashes and burns we still have the game lmao.
This is nothing.
Wtf? This reads like the reviewer obviously played on the easiest difficulty and then chose to complain about it being too easy.
They brought up a concern with the review and asked for clarification. There is nothing wrong with that whatsoever. And yes it was cordial which is the opposite of confrontational or intimidating like 95% of the comments are saying. And yes there is plenty of outrage. It's pretty easy to see that.
yeah. no one video game studio, publisher, company, corporation is above criticism. everything is made up of people and people are imperfect.
Lmao, Rob is probably like one of the best critical reviewers in the industry by a pretty wide margin. Get that shit out of here.
Not surprising that the games media industry hasn't grown up much in the past 20 years. It isn't out of the realm for game PR companies to stop sending review copies or disinvite writers to events after a negative review. While it's their right to choose outlets for coverage, they use access as leverage all the time instead of just respecting both favorable and unfavorable writing.
Yeah vice just made everything in their review up to get clicks. Ethics in gaming journalism and all that
Well, Vice said it was a polite message about what he disliked.
Uncommon? Yes
Reason for drama? No
Uncommon? Yes
Reason for drama? No
They didn't understand something in the review so they wanted further clarification. Again there is nothing wrong with that as long as it was done respectfully which sounds like this was.
You normally have good takes, so let me pose this question to you: doesn't the fact that multiple game journos are bristling at Sony doing this suggest that, at the very least, reviewers find this tactic somewhat unusual and also a bit uncomfortable?
I think there's a pretty big difference between randoms discussing amongst themselves on an internet forum and a publisher contacting a reviewer after the review is written to 'clarify' aspects of their opinion
Btw, it would be nice to know if he was the only reviewer that was approached by Sony, there were several people with more negative opinions about the game(in reviews, obviously). So it is expected that more people have been contacted besides this Vice journalist.
Nothing is confusing.. they are just wrong.
You can't say the game didn't improve over the original. It's 100% the opposite.
I remember talking about all the biases and pressures that go into video game reviews before the launch of the game and nobody wanted to hear it
This shit is just wrong. And if any company does it call them out on this. I remember reading up on this stuff like a decade ago with some old COD games and it's still going on.
This shit is just wrong. And if any company does it call them out on this. I remember reading up on this stuff like a decade ago with some old COD games and it's still going on.
I agree with you: first the leaks, then the game itself and now this.
Truly the cursed videogame. Anyway, they are still making big bucks from it.
In other words, one of the cogs in the PR machine wasn't greased enough and they wanted to know why
I repeat: I have already experienced this.
I didn't even know about that Troy Baker tweet. Extremely childish thing to do especially considering the context.
But yeah the discourse around the game is toxic. Anyone praising or being critical of it gets bombarded regardless of how legitimate their opinion is. All assumptions of good faith have been thrown out the window. The fact developers and staff have felt the need to fuel the fire instead of try to be reasonable figures isn't helping.
But yeah the discourse around the game is toxic. Anyone praising or being critical of it gets bombarded regardless of how legitimate their opinion is. All assumptions of good faith have been thrown out the window. The fact developers and staff have felt the need to fuel the fire instead of try to be reasonable figures isn't helping.
Yikes.
It's almost like people can have different experiences and interpretations of the same product...
How can someone's opinion be wrong?
Jesus fucking Christ this is why discourse on video games will never evolve because people continue to view them as objective concepts instead of anything in the abstract.
It looks better, especially the animations but the gameplay does feel very much the same with many of the same scenarios. Even puzzles aren't too different aside from a handful of ones involving rope.
It is embarrassing that you think having a negative opinion of a game merits the company's PR staff reaching out and asking for a more detailed explanation of why you didn't like their game.