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GribbleGrunger on 08 February 2016
Thanks to GAF:
OpenCritic 79

Metacritic 82 (PC)
Metacritic 75 (PS4)

Press Start - 10/10
Gadgets 360 - 10/10
Erased Citizens - 5/5
Game Rant - 5/5
Games Radar - 5/5
Hardcore Gamer - 5/5
Venturebeat - 95/100
God is a Geek - 9.5/10
IGN - 9.3/10
Digital Chumps - 9.2/10
The Guardian - 4/5 - Includes heavy spoilers apparently
Gamereactor - 9/10
Playstation Lifestyle - 9/10
Reloading - 8.8/10 - Portuguese
PC Gamer - 85/100
Playstation Universe - 8.5/10
Polygon - 8.5/10
PSBR - 82% - Brazilian Portuguese
Destructoid - 8/10
Game Informer - 8/10
Gametrailers - 8/10
Game Watcher - 8/10
IVG - 8/10
Videogamer - 8/10
DarkZero - 7/10
The Sixth Axis - 7/10
Gamespot - 7/10
Game Sided - 7/10
Daily Dot - 3.5/5
Push Square - 6/10

Kotaku
ARS Technica
The Verge
Eurogamer
Rock Paper Shotgun
Techno Buffalo
Byte

Kinda Funny review - First couple minutes are spoiler free and then spoiler discussion for the rest of the video. Seems like they liked it.

EDGE magazine gave it an 8/10 - from this thread

Always be aware that some reviews may include spoilers.


 

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QUAKECore89 on 08 February 2016

Don't tell me this is "Walking Simulator".



GribbleGrunger on 08 February 2016

Don't worry about the Kinda Funny Games review, they give their thoughts on how whether you should play it before they go into the spoiler section.



 

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Roronaa_chan on 08 February 2016

Seems like a good Wait Till PS+



Chazore on 08 February 2016

Reviews seem good and it's £13 over on Steam so I'll probably go for it.



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GribbleGrunger on 08 February 2016

There are issues with the PS4 version evidently but I don't think they're as bad as some Gaffers are making them appear because the PS4 version is getting some high scores too. Then there's this:

Originally Posted by cabel

FWIW, we're currently talking to both Sony and Unity and we're all working hard to to optimize performance of Firewatch on PS4.

It's tricky, because it really requires all three partners working together to improve — it's not something we can tackle on our own, unlike a game bug — but we'll definitely continue to patch all platforms with every content and performance fix we can over time!

To summarize: we're on it. :)

(I've played through the game multiple times on a PlayStation 4 and enjoyed it thoroughly! But I'm not a PC gamer so…)



 

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QUAKECore89 on 08 February 2016
Chazore said:
Reviews seem good and it's £13 over on Steam so I'll probably go for it.

Same here mate



Chazore on 08 February 2016
GribbleGrunger said:

There are issues with the PS4 version evidently but I don't think they're as bad as some Gaffers are making them appear because the PS4 version is getting some high scores too. Then there's this:

Originally Posted by cabel

FWIW, we're currently talking to both Sony and Unity and we're all working hard to to optimize performance of Firewatch on PS4.

It's tricky, because it really requires all three partners working together to improve — it's not something we can tackle on our own, unlike a game bug — but we'll definitely continue to patch all platforms with every content and performance fix we can over time!

To summarize: we're on it. :)

(I've played through the game multiple times on a PlayStation 4 and enjoyed it thoroughly! But I'm not a PC gamer so…)

So these issues don't matter but if it happened on another it would definitely matter?.

PC reviews so far seem to say it's really good and isn't suffering from the same issues. Also didn't you link PC having 84 meta?.



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GribbleGrunger on 08 February 2016
Chazore said:

So these issues don't matter but if it happened on another it would definitely matter?.

PC reviews so far seem to say it's really good and isn't suffering from the same issues. Also didn't you link PC having 84 meta?.

I'd like to point out that I didn't even have to mention there were problems with the PS4 version, but carry on.



 

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Chazore on 08 February 2016
GribbleGrunger said:

I'd like to point out that I didn't even have to mention there were problems with the PS4 version, but carry on.

The article on this site had already done that and you said they were working out "issues"....



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