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New Fang

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
5,542
I feel like a lot of "it's selling like a billion copies" is going to positively influence reviews coming out now, when sales should play absolutely no role in a review score.
 

Dylan

Member
Oct 28, 2017
3,260
Lol. Sentiments in this thread bringing me back to when GTA San Andreas received 10s and people went ballistic.

"A 10!?!? But 10/10 is 100%! 100% = perfect! But this game has graphical issues! It's impossible to be a 10!"


PUBG was a fucking juggernaut, the likes that hasn't been seen since Call of Duty 4, which totally dominated the multiplayer shooter scene and will surely influence the design of games in multiple genres for years to come. The experience of playing is good enough to make any graphical glitches negligible, clearly, as evidenced by the thousands of people playing at any given time.

Games like this don't come along very often, so the 10 is more than justified.
 

Orb

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
9,465
USA
I don't mind at all someone giving it a 10. It's an extremely entertaining game for a lot of people. I don't personally love it, but a 10 is just one person's opinion. No need to flip out about it.
 

Admiral Woofington

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
14,892
lol of course PUBG comes out after all the game awards gave the goty to Nintendo or Sony

Bluehole shouldve just waited till January so there'd be no distractions when the game comes out
Realistically this releasing next year wouldn't do much. If a gaming site wanted to give it to pubg this year they would have jumped through mental hoops to do it. Multiplayer games are fighting a tough battle against single player titles to get awards for many. Next year I can see another major single player title winning most goty awards.
 

spam musubi

Member
Oct 25, 2017
9,381
lol of course PUBG comes out after all the game awards gave the goty to Nintendo or Sony

Bluehole shouldve just waited till January so there'd be no distractions when the game comes out

I don't think anyone playing the game actually cares whether BOTW won GOTY or not. They're still having just as much fun if not more due to the new map.

Nobody will be talking about PUBG this time next year, gotta strike while that iron is still hot

Strike what iron? The game is already selling dozens of millions and is a huge success. They've already struck the iron. This 1.0 release doesn't really change much.
 

Zappy

Banned
Nov 2, 2017
3,738
Oh I agree the game is fun and the fun should be the most part of the review. But I don't know, I always enjoyed reviews being technical on every aspect of a game. Sound, Graphics, Control, and how fun it is. I mean if you love something, you still have to be able to see the flaws in it.

Yeah but if something becomes a phenomenon that people are sinking hundreds of hours into inspite of some issues, does that not mean that the fun makes it a 10?

Its all pretty subjective.

I think PUBG is a far better game than many traditionally polished releases that score highly.
 

apstyl

Member
Oct 25, 2017
491
Just like COD4 when it was released, PUBG is a paradigm shift; and we will see this franchise and its imitators for the next decade. Complaints of the 10 are either salty, or believe in a punitive scoring system. "Why so low" has now become "why so high".
 

Uiki

Prophet of Truth
Member
Oct 27, 2017
617
how about when there's like 8 people around you, whats the FPS then

100+ means that it never drops under 100. Usually 144 (capped, maybe more), in the worst situations goes around 100.. it's 60/70 in lobby, facing 100 people.


What settings?

I got a GTX 1060 (Nvidia usually performs better in UE games) and I have to play on medium to get a stable 60 fps.

1080p, 100 resolutionquality, 110% screen scale, aa on high (with the patch they did today, the one before was weird), everything else on low except textures on high and hbao+ untill they will let you disable it again.
 
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Chamaeleonx

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
2,348
Just give every game a 10/10. Every game will be a timeless masterpiece then.
/big S

Don't understand how they can give it this score. A perfect score should be rare and making it rare would make people use more of the total scale of the 10 numbers. If amazing games are a solid 9 then good games are still a 7 or even 6.
Same problem I had with BOTW, it simply is not a masterpiece or a perfect 10 as it is not perfect.

Sure the game is fun, a lot of people brought it but even in this small thread people mention issues they have.
 

Dylan

Member
Oct 28, 2017
3,260
Just give every game a 10/10. Every game will be a timeless masterpiece then.
/big S

Don't understand how they can give it this score. A perfect score should be rare and making it rare would make people use more of the total scale of the 10 numbers. If amazing games are a solid 9 then good games are still a 7 or even 6.
Same problem I had with BOTW, it simply is not a masterpiece or a perfect 10 as it is not perfect.

Sure the game is fun, a lot of people brought it but even in this small thread people mention issues they have.

So by your logic, which games are a 10?
 

Crushed

Member
Oct 25, 2017
7,720
10/10 does not mean flawless. It means that the reviewer thinks it was extremely enjoyable or they recommend it wholeheartedly. PUBG works on both of those levels.
 

imt558

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
599
The user was banned for amassing multiple warnings and this post (1 month). Don't make baseless accusations against a publication just to rile people up into console war.
Wait, they gave it a 10/10? How the hell is that a 10/10. I mean I'm all for reviewers saying whatever they want, but honestly give it a 9 even if you love it, the game has so many glaring issues with optimization and graphical fidelity. It looks alright, but the animations are still god awful.

It's Polygon, you know. Maybe they gave 10 just to push Xbone.
 

N00MKRAD

Banned
Oct 31, 2017
1,376
Just give every game a 10/10. Every game will be a timeless masterpiece then.
/big S

Don't understand how they can give it this score. A perfect score should be rare and making it rare would make people use more of the total scale of the 10 numbers. If amazing games are a solid 9 then good games are still a 7 or even 6.
Same problem I had with BOTW, it simply is not a masterpiece or a perfect 10 as it is not perfect.

Sure the game is fun, a lot of people brought it but even in this small thread people mention issues they have.

I t ' s
P o l y g o n
 

Francesco

Member
Nov 22, 2017
2,521
Does it have anything to do with polygon being owned by microsoft?
I remember them being particularly strict with sony titles.
 

AndrewDean84

Attempted to circumvent ban with alt account
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
11,595
Fontana, California
You really cant use a hardcore game site like here to judge it. Games like persona and Dark souls are considered the holy grails around here.

PUBG is without a doubt the biggest game this year. Sales, impact, culture, everything. Its massive.
Biggest doesn't mean best. Best is opinion. I will no doubt give credit where credit is due, and PUBG is a smash hit.
 

Chamaeleonx

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
2,348
So by your logic, which games are a 10?
People asked me this before and of the top of my head I can't name any. Even my personal games I would rate higher then any reviewer are not a 10/10. You can always be better. Simply giving a perfect score reduces the whole scale you use to grade games. 10/10 means perfection in everything, gameplay, story, atmosphere, graphic and other technical stuff. You don't get a perfect score in an exam with multiple mistakes.
 

Crushed

Member
Oct 25, 2017
7,720
This thread reminds me of old Usenet posts I once found of people losing their shit over OoT getting 10s because "10 means perfect, doesn't it?? But OoT has framerate drops and no multiplayer mode, it's dishonest to give it a 10!!"

Online never changes.
 

Enforcer

The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
2,961
Wait, they gave it a 10/10? How the hell is that a 10/10. I mean I'm all for reviewers saying whatever they want, but honestly give it a 9 even if you love it, the game has so many glaring issues with optimization and graphical fidelity. It looks alright, but the animations are still god awful.

If that was the case then BOTW would get the same treatment.

Great Plateau was rough on launch and Korok Forest still has massive frame drops to this day.
 

BernardoOne

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
10,289
Nobody will be talking about PUBG this time next year, gotta strike while that iron is still hot
You do realize this game is bigger than Dota 2 and CS GO combined right now, right?
People will be talking about PUBG for a fuckload of years. It will undoubtedly have 4 million concurrent players before January is over. And with new events and modding tools in the near future, it's only getting bigger.