Death Stranding Review Thread - MC: 82 / OC: 83 / GR: 83.17%

[DonFerrari]

FloatingWaffles said:

DonFerrari said:

I do love to see some movies I love and have a very bad imdb score or rotten tomatoes.

You may think it isn't praiseworthy. But on your school having a minimum knowledge of the subject already gave you an average score as well. And your test wasn't 20 questions long with one worth 7 points with the others sum 3.

Well I should clarify, I don't mean to say that it isn't praiseworthy at all. Obviously a game coming out and running really well and not having any major issues is commendable and should be noted, especially in comparison to some shit other companies pull nowadays. So it can be praised for that.

I just mean in this case using that as a reason as for why it should still be fine if the rest of the game, whether it be gameplay or anything else, is subpar (or at least in some of these reviewers eyes) just seems like a weird thing to try to say imo. There are plenty of other games that come out and are competent in those regards but those games don't get a pass with their other issues as a result, but if we were to base it on "well they were competently made though so it's at least a 7/10" or some logic like that would just seem weird to me, like setting limits on what must be given even if someone has huge issues with the game. 

I understand your point. Yes it should be the minimum, but today it isn't that common anymore.

The 7/10 minimum doesn't come from it running fine. But it also have gorgeous set pieces, high IQ, great acting, probably good story, etc. So what we are saying is that if your only point of disagreement is the gameplay you didn't like you really can't go and give a 3,5 while calling yourself a professional reviewer.

twintail said:

LudicrousSpeed said:

Well either way the PC version is months off. Definitely not spending $60 on this 😆

But no, the score is irrelevant. The text is

So if the text in so called 5/5 review is well written with nice phrases like 'delivers on all fronts', 'worthwhile', 'feels good to play', 'genre-pushing', then?

I suppose what I am saying is why do you choose to place so much stock in a single 2/5 review and not on other views too?

I can't fanthom why some would focus on the 2/5 while ignoring the many more 5/5 and the high Meta.