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konnichiwa on 01 November 2019

I love this quote from the Easy allies Review:



"You are supposed to be bored and that's intentional. Its a good thing"...  8/10






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Chrkeller on 01 November 2019
JRPGfan said:
KLXVER said:

Well what do you consider important in a review? What guidelines should everyone follow?

If you hate a game you have to give it at least a 5 if it has great graphics?

Cant go over an 8 if the music is not good?

I do think his personal bias tainted his review, but thats not really hard to see. 

Im sure theres a checklist you have to go through.
How are the graphics? the story? the gameplay? the bugs ect.


Im not a reviewer, but I feel like just "my gut" feeling is I dont like it, so it ll just give it a 35, for click bait, isnt something that should be allowed.
The "its just my opinion man" shouldnt be allowed.

Theres needs to be some formula to follow, that means if things are up to pair, it atleast scores a 50.
Theres just no way to justify a 35 review score for this.

IMHO, only one thing should count towards the final score.  Fun Factor/Entertainment.  Was it fun, nothing else matters.



KLXVER on 01 November 2019
konnichiwa said:

I love this quote from the Easy allies Review:



"You are supposed to be bored and that's intentional. Its a good thing"...  8/10

I like Easy Allies, but that might be the dumbest thing Ive read in a while...



CuCabeludo on 01 November 2019

the major problem from reviews is a lot of the gameplay is a walking simulator on a wasteland.



LGBTDBZBBQ on 01 November 2019
colafitte said:
KLXVER said:

Well then wouldn't that be unfair to the games that score higher? The fact that Sony games get more recognition even when scoring lower?

It kinda goes both ways I guess. I just don't think Spider-Man would have sold much more with a 95 on Metacritic. 

I never really understood the "more of the same" argument. I mean will Spider-Man 2 feature Iron Man as the main character and be a FPS? I mean the reason for a sequel is that people do want more of the same. So what did Uncharted: Lost Legacy do that was so wildly different from the previous Uncharted games?

Awards and sales don't owe anything to reviewers that gave a score when the game launched. Awards and sales are better measurement of what really succeeded than gaming reviews..., that's my opinion of course. Zelda BOTW received a 97 on metacritic and then obliterated the competition in GOTY's as it should be..., because the game really deserved it. It didn't mattered if the game received a 97 or a 91.

And the argument about more of the same is that... i hear reviewers critizing games like Call of Duty Modern Warfare or Assassin's Creed for doing the same every year, but then a game like Dragon Quest XI comes, a game that basically plays the same as a game from 15-20 years ago, just with better graphics and get a pass by the reviewers (but not a pass from western consumers it seems).

And yes, Uncharted Lost Legacy was "punished" for being too similar to Uncharted 4. In this case, it was, not like other cases (despite having a full semi open world level completely new in an Uncharted game that was very well received by fans and critics). The thing is..., sometimes game press values just pure quality despite not being really different and other times they just don't, and i don't know why there's double standars between those games.

My point is: It gets less risks nowadays, doing a free risk conservative game that can play and look like a game from 2010 like Outer Worlds or Gears 5, than trying to be original. Games like Zelda BOTW are the exception, not the norm. That's why we are surrounded by remasters/remakes and eternal sequels of the same IP's. I just miss the Wii/PS3/360 era when we have so many new Ip's and new ideas. This gen has been really conservative in that regard. 

Stop looking at gotypickblogs that ignored pretty much Asian based publications on its website especially for Nintendo/Japanese games. 



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DonFerrari on 01 November 2019

Seems like I was pretty close (I like round numbers), so far 84 on meta and 85 on open.



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Kai_Mao on 01 November 2019
LGBTDBZBBQ said:
colafitte said:

Why i'm not surprised a PS game is being trashed and nitpicked by American media again??? Really, just look the american scores compared to the european ones. How many of these scores are just click-baity just because it's a PS4 exclusive?? Media reviews are broken if we don't use the same standars for each game. A niche indie game that nobody cares can score plus 90+, a conservative stucked in the past game like Devil May Cry 5, Gears 5 or Outer Worlds can score 85,86, 87...., a japanese anime derivative more of the same game as the last 1000 JRPG before it can score 85 or more (Ni no Kuni Remastered at 86 and DQ XIS at 91 being a very good examples).....and of course, if it's a Nintendo Switch game recently....it's difficult if it doesn't get 85 or more by default (Mario Maker 2, Link's Awakening, Astral Chain, Fire Emblem, Luigi's Mansion, and i'm pretty confident Pokemon in a few weeks).

But Naughty Dog makes Uncharted Lost Legacy and gets 84 and it's cosidered by most a top 3 Uncharted game, Horizon Zero Dawn, the game that received the 2nd most GOTY's in 2017 (considered one of the best gaming years ever), getting way more GOTY's than games like Persona 5 (93), Mario Odyssey (97), Nioh (88), Nier Automata (88), ....got a 89 on metacritic; Spider-Man, considered by most the most fun comic hero video game ever only got 87. Lol, even God of War "only" got 94 on metacritic despite being universally loved and wininng most GOTY's in 2018 beating RDR which got 97. The nitpicking in scores can go on, and on, on games like Gran Turismo Sport, Detroit Become Human, Days Gone, Medievil, .....It's always the same story recently.

And when you see some recent "best video games ever" lists like the one IGN did recently and some others, they're filled with Nintendo/japanese games and the best PS exclusives ever are not even close to be seen in top 10 or top 20. If you add this with the many biased articles circuling in recent months against the future of PS vs next Xbox or platforms like Stadia from american outlets it's obvious there is something going on behind the scenes....

Anyway 84-85, is less than anticipated but still a "good score". Media is going to have their beloved "clicks" with this one...That's the objective. Then most of this outlets that are telling you is just a 6/10 or 7/10 game will dedicate dozens of articles to the same very game.

I don't know, maybe the game deserves the score and maybe it doesn't. It's just that I don't trust gaming scores at all....I will have my own impression when i play it for myself.

TLDR version of your post: The majority of western reviewers are Nintendo's shills despite Nintendo games were pretty much ignored by western media when it comes to the GOTY season. 

https://gotypicks.blogspot.com/

Western publications bias = Western-made games and only 2 Japanese games since 2003. Nintendo was very unfortunate because they were from Japan and the kiddy images of the company made it harder for their games to be discussed by western media. 
Take a look at the majority of those publications' locations it's basically US-EU centric list of publications.  The blog is such a mess. 

It's kind of miracle to see how BOTW won despite being put in that kind of circumtances. 

I think all of this shows that, in the end, while high scores and accolades are nice, only we, the consumers, can truly appreciate the game for what it is by playing it. Reviews are just that..reviews. Scores, sales, and accolades (while having some significance) are not meant for fanboys to use as measuring sticks for and against one another.

Let’s not pretend there were people who didn’t like BOTW or GOW despite their critical acclaim. Reviews and accolades don’t tell the whole story.



OTBWY on 01 November 2019
konnichiwa said:

I love this quote from the Easy allies Review:



"You are supposed to be bored and that's intentional. Its a good thing"...  8/10



That was an actual thing they said?



colafitte on 01 November 2019
Chrkeller said:
colafitte said:

I did not correlate Astral Chain as "more of the same" game, that was directed at games like Devil May Cry 5, Dragon Quest XI, Outer Worlds and Gears 5. Astral Chain entered more in the category of..."it's an anime style niche game from Platinum based purely on gameplay and with a nonsensical story that is not going to sell very well because in reality almost nobody like Platinum games as much as the scores tell" game.

And Spider-man...., well, it's a game that sold 13'2M units in less than 12 months and was the 3rd game with most GOTY's in 2018 with 19. More than games like Monster Hunter World (japanese game based in more of the same too like some other example that received a 90 on metacritic), Celeste (which received 91) or Super Smash Bros Ultimate (which received a 93).

So no..., i don't think i'm objectively "biased"....i am just "mainstream" it seems with what awards and consumers are saying...

Edit: I'm not trying to imply those other games don't deserve the score..., i'm just saying PS games end having better recognition in the end despite having lower scores.

I am confused by oh so many things.  For starters media bias against Sony...  GoW, Horizon, Spiderman, Uncharted, TLoU have all scored incredibly well.  With the latter titles being some of the highest rated games ever created.  UC4 scored brilliantly and absolutely was more of the same, with very little to no changes to the formula.  

Also MHW is more of the same....  MHW had some drastic changes that made the game far more accessible.  Have you played the MH series?  

I think the larger problem is one game gets a 90 and another gets a 88 and people rage because the scores are different.  When in fact, take into account a 95% confidence interval, statistically the scores aren't actually different.  Point being, relax chief, a few points doesn't mean anything.  

I don't know what is so confusing. Horizon got more GOTY's than games like Super Mario Odyssey and Persona 5 despite scoring lower. GOW got more GOTY's than RDR 2 despite scoring lower. Spiderman got more GOTY's than games like MHW, Celeste or SSBU despite scoring lower. Lol even Detroit Become Human, a 78 metacritic game, received more GOTY's than better rated games like Far Cry 5 (81), AC Odyssey (83), Yakuza 6 (83) or Dragon Quest XI (86). There's a clear pattern here... and I'm pretty sure Death Stranding will end having more GOTY's than most games that received better scores this year. I don't think it won't surprise anyone here.

So yeah, you can think there is bias from the reviewer or bias when when GOTY's are given. I just prefer to believe in the the latter.

I played some of MH psp games, but i didn't like them at all, like you said, very unnacessible for me at the time. Then i played MHW more than 50h with a friend until i got bored of it. It was a fun game until then indeed and i did enjoyed it, thanks to those improvements. But yes, the game concept was the same as the first ones. Nothing really revolutionary. an 8/10 game for me.

And yes..., i agree on your last sentence. Gaming scores, more even if they're just a few points of difference are meaningless and not important. The original rant went for the usual suspects gaming reviews giving 5/10's, 6/10 or 7/10's....and then dedicating lot of articles of the same game because they want the drama and the clicks. And they know PS exclusives are popular and there's a lot of console warring and all of that, so they instigate this, so people lime me and you spent some useless time talking about them . That was my original point. Nobody talks about the 9/10 review but that 6'8 one....mmmm yammy!!.

It's like what American Sports media does every day with NBA drama and fake discussions to get more audience. 



ironmanDX on 01 November 2019

Seems to be reviewing quite well. I'm sure I'll read some impressions and reviews of the game on the forum at a later date.

It's sitting at 84-85. Judging by some of the responses, some seem a little disappointed.

I'm currently playing outer worlds which reviewers rated in similar numbers and it's excellent. Just relax and enjoy the game.