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

[Chrkeller]

colafitte said:

KLXVER said:

Ever think that you might be a bit biased when it comes to Sony exclusives? I mean Spider-Man is new and original and Astral Chain is just more of the same.....same what exactly? 

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.