Hiku said:
iron_megalith said:
Most of the reviews I saw are not very critical as SkillUp. That was my basis for this being another over hyped game by critics. But we can't really prove if reviewers were paid to give these 10/10s.
Regardless, it's evident that Druckmann messed with the things that worked in the previous game's story. Let me be clear that I've seen the leaks so I know as much as what could happen in the game's story. I won't discuss that in detail here. Based on what SkillUp said, that this turned into a grimdark revenge story devoid of any light, pretty much confirms the biggest fear I had in the leak.
TLOU worked because of the great interaction between characters that acted in a really grounded manner. It also had a great balance between tragedy and hope. If this is gone, then the game is pretty much lost.
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I'll just say there are too many positive reviews for this to be a conspiracy.
I felt the same way about God of War. I mostly found it boring, but that doesn't make me doubt that critics loved it. I'm sure they did.
Name recognition may influence the scores a bit, but not to the degree that it would make up the difference of how I felt about the game. Most critics definitely liked God of War significantly more than I did. And that will probably be the case with TLOU2.
I've heard from another reviewer who loved TLOU2 that the spoilers he read made him think it would go in one direction, but it went in another. That he thought he knew a lot, but only knew a little. That doesn't mean it won't maintain being a grimdark revenge story throughout the whole game. But rather that he still liked it for that.
I can enjoy dark stories like that as well. Maybe I will here, or maybe I won't. But the keyword SkillUp used that made me concerned was that he called it a 'petty' revenge story. And that it could have been anyone's revenge story. Along with characters behaving in unbelievable ways, those are things that tend to break my immersion. But I know a lot of people either don't think about those things, or are not bothered by them. I'd say they may even be in the majority.
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I'll wait for things to settle down at this point. There are scenarios where when the hype has died down, we get to hear more critical reviews. Also, I feel that the restriction on the reviews is a tad too much and just makes it harder for reviewers to express their opinion on the matter.
