@NotTelevision I think a lot of sites have more than one reviewer, so when a game comes in its probably gonna get reviewed by the person most interested in the game.
Well Ghost of Tsushima seems like another example of where there's a noticeable distance between the "critics" and the general audience. Much smaller a distance than with TLOU2 though.
It's 83 on metacritic, which is kinda average in terms of Sony first party games. Most of their AAA first party games score higher than that.
But it's at 9.2 on the user score, I've heard nothing but positivity from the audience, and there are dozens of youtubers saying this is pretty much Game of the Year.
I've seen quite a few "reviews" that were nothing more than "10/10, because it isn't made by Neil Cuckmann", etc.
Every reviewer who didn't like TLOU2 seems to praise this one, and the other way around. Though Ghost doesn't really get a lot of negative press, it's mostly just the difference between amazing, and just a solid game.
I've played a couple of hours and it's definitely a very traditional open world game. All the criticisms you can apply to an assassin's creed game apply to this one as well. It's beautiful though, and it tries to encourage exploration with a minimal HUD (no mini-map), but as soon as you open the world map it's riddled with question marks. And especially during cut-scenes there are some weird fade outs. Maybe I've come to expect too much from games like Uncharted and God of War, but the seemless transition between animations, cut-scenes and gameplay is something I appreciate a lot. Even things like opening a door sometimes has its own fade out transition into the animation and back out.
@Wargoose Yeah I’m not going to ramble on like old coot about “game critics”, just my issue is that most of the reviews on sites like Metacritic are just boilerplate and contain little meaningful analysis of a game’s content. It’s just the standard “should you buy it?” review that ignore nuances and the actual preferences of the reviewer. IGN and Gamespot just probably give them a review template and tell them to give every game the standard 7-9, so perhaps it’s not their fault they come off as NPCs. You can even tell it’s the dumb IGN review based on the opening line of “The moment you open up (insert game name) you are immediately blow away by the ....) or “When first stepping foot in (insert name of world in game) you are taken aback by the...”
It’s the same jargon every time.
Well... I managed to sound like an old coot anyway.
Heh, I think you should stop reading reviews, @NotTelevision .... &/or get a job doing them, instead! The main problem with places like MetaCritic is that any idiot can rate a game & there's never going to be any way of telling if they own or have played it Whilst most of those people aren't even giving a 'review'! At least IGN & places do produce articles, so you can look through what they say in a lot more detail than 'it sux, don't buy' or something
Oh, I don't really disagree, @NotTelevision .... I don't tend to read most reviews & I make sure to only bother with properly written ones, so at least there's some useful info in those For me, they're only much use with games I hardly know anything about & if they're upcoming ones, the gaming sites are the places that have some sort of info on them
Of course, the difficulty with more artistic elements is how subjective most of that is, which makes going into detail in reviews a lot more difficult than other parts! I'm just wondering about the basic themes, settings, gameplay & stuff, really
Yep & a good job from IGN with their videos/ articles on it, too, @NotTelevision .... There's several videos up for the game in their channel, if you haven't seen them all yet
@NotTelevision So....basically it's the AC game everyone thought we were getting since the blood scrawling on the walls of AC1 showed Japanese content and we all thought AC2 would be set in Japan yet to date Ubisoft trolls us and gives us every single time period except the Feudal Japan we thought we were getting a decade ago?
Sign me up!
@Dezzy I really don't know how you could error and get "Duncan. The game says Dunban. If you skimmed other people's reviews they read Dunban. If you just viewed Youtube videos because you're a hip Gen-Z-er that thinks youtube is a substitute reading cuz reeding iz hard and so obsolete in the modern era.....you heard people say "Dunban".....not only would you have to not have to have played the game, you'd have to have blocked out all other media...and promo materials...and ignored the game.....and overheard someone vaguely saying the name through 3 layers of sheetrock. Either that or they wrote the whole review through speech to text which might be even more criminal than the above
My guess of what happened is they just gave a current staffer the transcript of their original Xenoblade review from back in 2012 and basically told them to just reword that review whilst also mentioning that graphical update looked good.
Hence that staffer had no idea of the pronounciations and thought Dunban was a typo for Duncan, given that one is a common name and the other isn't.
I remember something similar happening in a review for Final Fantasy X at one point, where the reviewer mispronounced "Spira", which it's impossible to do if you play the game, because they say the word a hundred times at least.
@Dezzy A staffer that never played the game, never read about the game, and never saw a video about the game. And that STILL didn't explain changing Reyn. They had to have blacklisted memebase as well...
Yes, but given that the original opinion was written by someone who played it, it's not technically giving you a false opinion. They do often get a different person to voice the youtube review than the person who writes the review anyway. Just cos some people have better voices for that sort of thing. Like the Easy Allies voice dude. He has THE review voice.
@Dezzy "YouTube reviews"... Sigh. When reading a review is too hard, watch someone else read one.
I do not like this battle mode. I do not like it near my nose. I do not like it through my Bose. I do not like its day by day, I do not like it any way!
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