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We Happy Few review thread
- Thread starter SuikerBrood
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Lol absolutely. As much as I've enjoyed the bulk of their output, Skyrim at launch comes to mind as one of the buggiest games I've ever played. (no idea how its progressed since then) I also recall that game scoring extremely well, so it seems the review process has been deeply flawed for a long time.
To be fair though, I don't recall running into any bugs in Fallout 4 and I dumped 150 hours into it on PC.
Doesn't sound great, given the time they've had to work on this, even with the rework. Was never a fan of Contrast, so I had kind of tempered expectations regardless, looks like I had good reason to.
I normally would but I just returned a few things. Dont want to get on Amazons bad side with too many returns. Maybe I'll go ahead and attempt to play through it and just sell it after.
I love story in games so if it really is good then maybe I'll still like it despite the gameplay. I really just dont like supporting bad games and Im broke as it is lol
Well MS now own the studio, but it isn't technically an MS Studios game really, published by Gearbox.
I mean, yeah. It's a much better way to assess quality than merely reading someone's opinion. At least you're able to see unedited footage and judge for yourself.
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For me this is ideal. I prefer larger publishers buying small studios that can improve over them buying bigger studios. WIth Microsoft's backing this studio could really build great games, just as Undead Labs has that potential, so for me this is ideal.
Now it's time for them to build and to improve.
Ooof I shouldn't have preordered this one. Preorder discount got me shook.
Well, I always thought the mechanics and the gameplay elements would suck ass but I'd love the world building and story. I guess we'll see tomorrow.
Well, I always thought the mechanics and the gameplay elements would suck ass but I'd love the world building and story. I guess we'll see tomorrow.
I getting the game tomorrow and by reading the reviews it sounds like the best way to play the game is by playing the story mode on Explorers difficulty because you don't have to worry about the survival aspects of the game and since the reviews say the combat isn't great I could just breeze through the combat.
Their last game has 90% positive reviews on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/224460/Contrast/
I wouldn't be surprised if We Happy Few manages something similar unless it has something seriously wrong with it. After all, even the Early Access version has mostly positive reviews.
This game always seemed super misguided. It always felt like they just wanted to tell a story, but then the gameplay was bottom of the barrel survival gameplay. It never really meshed and it felt like they just picked whatever style of gameplay was trendy at that point and just phoned it in.
At least, that was my impression during early access, and it still seems to hold.
At least, that was my impression during early access, and it still seems to hold.
It has everything to do with MS.
They hailed the acquisition at E3 as a major coup, so they can't wash their hands of it now the reviews are mediocre.
They would sure be bathing in the reflective glory if it was reviewing as 90+.
I wonder who has an agenda here...
Can't say i'm surprised.
Erm, maybe try to actually read the reviews instead of looking at the score? Many of the lower reviews still praise the story and narrative.
66-69 is pretty much the definition of 'decent'. Not necessarily great, but not bad either.
Sounds like it's narratively everything I could hope for but suffers from bad gameplay. I think I can handle that, though.
The game was developed and pretty much finished by the time the announcement was made.
Gearbox is publishing it, it's just coming to the Xbox One.
Microsoft has very little to do with its quality.
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Sure, Microsoft would be really happy if the game had a 90+ metacritic score. But Microsoft has nothing to do with this game as Gearbox is the publisher. It's not as if Microsoft has had any say in the direction of the game, the budget of the game, etc.
Probably because they recognize the talent of the developers to deliver a great story narrative experience, as most reviews here universally praise. With a larger budget and more resources, MS is betting they can produce nice products in the future
This isn't a Microsoft Studios game.
Eeeh, Will wait for a deep discount before I consider getting this (I was decently hyped before)
Hope they won't get any trouble from Microsoftfor scoring so low.
Hope they won't get any trouble from Microsoftfor scoring so low.
Is it though? According to OpenCritic it's in the bottom 30% of all games reviewed on the site.
In any case, I'm still really intrigued by this game, but I'll definitely wait for a deep sale.
no it's not The game was develpe in 2016 and MS bought them in June 2018....
So the game was in devlope before and even puplished by Gearbox
MS never Fund the Game
and it does not matter if it 70 or 90 this game is a to prove the studio's ability in making a good games and it seems the only make a good Story yet
That's my takeaway from all this as well. Combining Compulsion's narrative abilities with MS's backing/budget and we could see some really great stuff in the future.
I didn't realize this thread would be such an effective litmus test for Sony fanboys lol.
Scores look about as expected. I'm glad to hear the story has so much care put into it. I'll try and play it at some point, it looks fun.
Scores look about as expected. I'm glad to hear the story has so much care put into it. I'll try and play it at some point, it looks fun.
Honestly people do some kind of research before shit posting. This is not a Microsoft published game.
On topic I like a good story so will check this out when it's cheap or on gamepass/psplus
On topic I like a good story so will check this out when it's cheap or on gamepass/psplus