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

[DonFerrari]

RaptorChrist said:
@DonFerrari, @Nate4Drake

Bad gameplay can certainly ruin a game's score, and as seen by these reviews, it has in many cases. If the game is boring and not worth your time, it should get a bad score. Usually reviewing a game is to help consumers decide if it's worth buying.

If I buy a game and am not happy with my purchase, it wouldn't matter how good certain parts of the game were; in most cases, the overall score is not an aggregate of it's "sub-scores" for things like sound design, graphics, difficulty, and gameplay.

But ultimately, each publication makes its own decisions on how to review games, and the good ones are more credible among consumers.

On a side note, notice how I say things like "usually", "in many cases", "in most cases", and "should". Its because there is no master template for reviewing a game, and there's a multitude of criterion that can influence the score of a game.

It's the same with movies, too. I'm not big on movies myself, but a movie isn't guaranteed a certain score just because it's CG effects go beyond anything before it, or for great acting.

Also, when did it drop to an 83? Still a good score... Hopefully I'll fall into the camp that thinks it's better than it performed by reviewers. I just hope that the 83 isn't a buffed score based on it being a Kojima game. It's possible that many reviewers went easy on this one.

This is where we are never going to agree. A game even though it is to help consumers decide isn't based mostly on how fun you though it was or if you like or not the gameplay (while sure you should describe what it consists of). I won't go in lenghts to say that the so much glory given to some games considered great gameplay is basically run and jump, or run cover and shot.

It doesn't matter that you as a customer don't like the gameplay or even the game, as no game is for everyone, but a reviewer is a professional and should do his job objectively.

Seems like it dropped on the 4 gave by giant bomb.

And sure it is fine to remove some points if you evaluated the game as having bad gameplay or not liking it. But a game that would be otherwise 10 and you didn't like the gameplay it becomes a 3.5 is totally moronic, sorry if you fill it is justified score.

Could 83 be buffed? Perhaps, we will only know for sure when playing it. Still all I have seem on the video reviews and even the written reviews (even the ones saying they were bored or is a walk simulator) would sustain over 85% meta. I do expect when I play I can say it is 90-92 in my opinion.