EGMR's Bracken Lee-Rudolph discusses polarising attitudes in gaming, and how ostracising people based on uncommon views will not help the industry progress.
Quote: "Last week, an IGN article went up about Bloodborne and how Reviews Editor, Dan Stapleton, struggled to retain interest through the grindingly formulaic gameplay, and brutal difficulty.
IGN’s own review of the game rated it at a 9.1/10; an incredible score by most measurements. Our own review gave it a 90 — from the perspective of a reviewer who has played, and loved, the past Souls games. These are hardly the only positive reviews on the internet for a game which has largely received critical acclaim, but still Dan Stapleton, a journalist in the industry for over a decade now, found little to no enjoyment from Bloodborne‘s unforgiving outlay."
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bracken,(the guy who wrote the article) put together a well thought out article. however, he never took the time to consider if dan stapleton was wrong in his assessment of the game - and I DO think he was wrong. I think this because stapleton wants to say the game is bad because, basically, he isn't any good at it - and I don't agree with this.
yea, there are some technical issues that I'm sure will be patched; but,I think bloodborne is a fantastic game. I haven't played a non arcade-style game (like resogun or superstardust) that I can't stop playing in quite a while. the last one that came close was farcry4 - and it's not anything near as good as bloodborne.
Interesting article. Looks like 'souls and blooborne' fans have put the fear in to these journalist. Fanboys , especially, would say just about anything to anyone who have any negative reaction to what them deem untouchable. This adds even less confidence to already skeptical reviews. Now you have to worry if the reviewer's fear backlash.
I think they should review the game to it's merit, as they see it. The fanboy will have a hissy fit, but they will still come back to see how you rate the next one if your review proved to be factual. Honesty is always the best policy. When you try to appease just to win favor, you end up trapping yourself because you will never be consistent and at many time along the way your true feeling with surface. once you loose credibility, you loose way more fans than the ones you pissed of for telling the TRUTH.