God of War review thread - Meta: 94 OC: 95

[Nautilus]

the-pi-guy said:

Intrinsic said:

But its true.... nioh in particular looked like a PS3 game  half the time, bloodborne basicsally had zero antialiasing. Nioh had forgetable music. Bloodborne had a forgetable story, hell I'm sure most people can't even make heads or tails of its story.

I love BB, but like with most games I play I call it for what it is. I won't let my love for said game make me blind to everything thats wrong with the game. 

Depending on who you talk to, a game thats a 100% in one aspect then 50% everywjere else can still be considered the best game of ever made. I would rather take a game that is 75% across the board. 

Eg look at the order, another one trick pony that unfortunately was only really great where it mattered the least. Its looks. 

 

Nautilus said:

I will give you this:Bloodborne story is beyond horrible.That storytelling, which is unfortunelly by design, is simply a crime in my opinion.Actually, all Souls- like game developed by From has a horrifiyng bad narrative.But thats about the only negative of the game.Level design, gameplay, music, they are all great.

I'm going to disagree about Bloodborne having a bad story.  It's incredible subtle about it's story that most people can easily complete the game and not even realize that there was a story.  I don't agree that makes it a bad story.  

The game has a fascinating history that you need to pay attention to get it.  Just because it doesn't spoon feed you the story, doesn't make it bad.  

The problem I personally have with the story is not the plot per se, but how it is told.You have to go totally out of your way to learn about it, and even then what you get is one plot full of literal holes that you have to fill with..... guesses and imagination.I know there are people out there that likes this, as the director himself said that he made the story like that on purpose because he likes to reach his own conclusions about what happened in a game and wants players to do the same, but thats just either lazy or straight terrible storytelling in my book.Either way, the least you can say about this style is that its completely divesive among gamers, the one that is either most hated or loved betwenn all styles in my opinion.