DAMN, I should have listened to BraLoD, kudos to him for jinxing it XD

So only games that are "innovative and truly fresh" are worth of praise now? Or that you are interested in?

Can you kindly give me an example of a game that you feel is coming this yearthats innovative and truly fresh? Better yet, an example of such a game released in say the last 5 years. Because from how I see it (unless I am being extremely biased) every game being released over the past 10 years isn't really doing anything innovative, they do however take their own fresh spin on old tropes.

And Horizon has done that, its created a world and a setting that mixes the old with the modern, gave a moment to ment focus on gameplay and exploration that the open world genre has been sorely lacking for a while..... and its taken more fresh spins on a lot of things that already exist in the open world RPG genre and in so doing has carved out its own unique identity.

But if you can show me a game that is truly innovative and fresh then please do.... I have to get that game.

Oh no! An 88/100 rating! Skip for me. But seriously, the game has some solid high scores and then the averages gets killed by some odd really low scores. Either way I'm in.

I guess I aimed a little too high. Though the 3 review that bring down the score are legitimately crap reviews.

Ah, yes. The always reliable "I disagree with it so therefore it must be trolling" method of discrediting a review. A tried, tested, and true measure that works just as effectively as it did on Gamespot's Skyward Sword review five years ago.

Well, I didn't participate on the metascore prediction, But I would have given it somewhere around 75-80, so this final score was much better that I had anticipated.

Still can't get myself hyped for any of it, for some reason. xD

So you level up, you craft weapons and items, you can take on fully optional side quests that has nothing to do with the story. You can customize you weapons and amor and get different strenght versions of those two respectively...... yet its not an RPG? What exactly is an RPG then?

And I have an issue with destructoids review.... not just that it contradicts with a lot of what other have said (like its talk of the story and the uniteresting side quests and characters is a contradiction to the vast majority of reviewers out there) but also cause of the things its actually complaining about. Looting? and even more looting rare items? Thats the kinda stuff that makes a lot of other games great whgen down right and he says its tedious? Then he complains about the difficulty, then complains about the open world narrowing into some dungeons here or there (so now its a bad thing to have dungeons n an open world game)...... I could go on.

The only thing I would give him credit for is the human AI.... which from previews we have all kinda figured that its not the core focus of the game but thats still a legitimate knock.... everything else though.....

Personally, I hate it when a reviewer says you are doing or seeingnothing new (then goes onto write three paragrapghs of excatly what is new and diferent about the game) cause to me, if that were the case.... then what is new anymore as far as gaming goes?

You wanna know how spoiled we've become as gamers? A game is on the cusp of 9 out of 10 and people are laughing because it's not a 10. And as for the "innovative and fresh" mantra. When did that become a prerequisite to a game being good? Nearly every game draws from another game.

Agreed, i didnt say more in my reply to him because im busy right now and i only have my phone with me.

88 is a good score. i Predicted 87 so thats nice.