I see where you're coming from but, with respect, the 72 metacritic comes from the divisive nature of the game, rather than a consensus that it's a 6-7 across the board. It's an average that doesn't give a true picture to how much, or how little, some reviewers liked it, imho.
Last I checked, there were 89 reviews with 53 over 75% and 41 at 80%+. Nearly half reviews gave it 8/10 or more. So saying it's 'not even an 8' is a tad unfair with rega...
The answer is yes, we are sure it's just fully grown white liberals :)
Heh. I think dwarfs were in Warhammer 40K at one point, they were called 'stunties'.
Hehe, and funnily enough that sounds even worse :)
But why the need to be, by their own admission, 'super sensitive'? Not sure that really helps anyone in the long run.
Whether a word is abusive or not should be down to the context, manner and the motive behind why it is being said, not because some inquisitorial group somewhere decided on behalf of all society that its mere utterance is abusive and unacceptable.
Besides, words usually only have the power we, as a culture, give them. If we reall...
All good points, especially the cut up into pieces/MP one. Who knows what EA would have done to a title like this?
Yeah, nearly half (41 out of 89) of Days Gone reviews are actually 8/10+ with 53 reviews being 75+.....but people want to say it's a failure?
Failure in what way? Failure to not get 9/10s across the board? To not get 8's from almost everyone? To live up to the hype? Failure in sales, failure as an epic 1st party exclusive?
I'm enjoying it enough to want a sequel. Not screaming for a sequel, but happy enough to want to see how they can tid...
Again with the ridiculous 'zombie fatigue'? There is no fatigue. If there were, they wouldn't still be making these games. I've read journos, most of whom apparently aren't really gamers it seems, waffle on and complain about zombie fatigue for over ten years. There's no fatigue, just people who aren't into that kind of thing.
Zombies aren't the only repeatedly used video game element, you know? Using that kind of logic, we should have o...
|As far as I'm aware they didn't remove 'choices' as such, they removed the 'being an ass' dialogue options and others that didn't actually change anything at all. So, in previous builds, you could choose your dialogue option but you were never really choosing anything with regards to outcome or story.
Apparently, this was for two reasons. One, public feedback was that Deke was an ass, so they didn't want to keep dialogue lines in that exac...
I've been enjoying it a lot. It's not a classic or what some people may have hoped for from a 1st party exclusive but, given my tastes for this type of game, it just about hits the very good, 80% mark for me.
My only problem with the game are that it's too easy, even on hard. Enemies do hit hard but they are REALLY easy to sneak up on, even the humans. Also, resources are too plentiful, which kinda mutes the survival horror aspect. After an hour or so, I wa...
It already is. Not amazing, not mind-blowing, just good/very good. I've been enjoying it a lot. It's not a classic or what people may have hoped for from a 1st party exclusive but, given my tastes, it's a very good, solid 80% game.
I think it's important to note that the metacritic isn't 72 because everyone had it at that kind of score. It's a fairly divisive game, with lows and highs but most reviews 70+.
My problem with the...
Exactly.
My wife used to play Nemo's Reef and now Fishdom. I can sometimes get her to join in multi-player Monkey Ball Bowling or play something like Until Dawn but that's about it.
I'm sure younger women are more likely to play games but it'll take years before that translates into more female developers, if it ever does.
Besides, this article is from the BBC. They won't be happy until every job, except the horrib...
Is it just me, or are critics placing far more importance on narrative and character building, rather than gameplay, these days? Politics keeps being brought in too. Obviously, this article is from The Wire so I guess it's not surprising but it's still sad to see.
So many Days Gone reviews complain about Deke, the story, it's tone and their distaste of 'survivalists'. Shadow of the Tomb Raider got the same treatment with regards to story and Lara'...
Thanks for taking the time to go into detail about this, without simply spouting a couple of angry, provocative and insulting lines that over simplify the matter. I enjoyed reading it.
Also, I had no idea that reparation was actually core reading in colleges across the pond.
Seriously?
Is that because people just assume 'Survivalist? That means country folk, which means less education, which means less progressive attitudes because we haven't shown them the true, enlightened way of thinking, which means bad things for society. Quick, take the videos down.'?
Yeah, I've always thought so too.
Probably because most of the media, schools etc don't want anyone to believe that there's any such thing as 'too left' in the political spectrum.....or perhaps they simply don't want the word 'left' ever being associated with anything negative.
Having said that, people usually just use the word communist when talking about a 'left that has gone mad' ;)
That's ...
It goes to show how important it is to read reviews, rather than relying solely on the score.
This review? Well, it has a headline that gets stuck straight into slave trading, then the first line of the review itself mentions the freaker child you have to kill. Later on, it goes on about how a female character was the 'heart and soul' of Sons of Anarchy and how it all went down hill after that character was killed off. The vast majority of the review talks about ...
Holy crap! 4 billion? I know it's not all profit but that's still colossal.
Yeah, I don't see Steam worrying too much at the moment then. I guess Half-life 3, from a money making point of view, is kinda small-fry at this juncture :(
I love Steam and want all my games in one library...having said that, Steam's cut seems over the top.
As much as I dislike the idea of other launchers, indeed, I simply don't buy games that require them, I can't condone Steam being so aggressive with their 30% cut simply because they're practically a monopoly. It's a great service and maybe their overheads are more but you've gotta imagine that 12% would still be healthy profit.
I...
Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that. For awhile now, journos bring politics and cultural sensitivities to games and make a big deal out of them in the review.
A game comes out that's about 30+ hours, full of stealth, shooting, melee combat and exploring etc...and then some critic spends 7 out of 10 paragraphs complaining about story-pacing, disliking the main character from an ethical point of view, and that the game had moral shades of grey. Why are moral shades of...