My original prediction was 85 but so much negativity in the thread made me drop my score down to 80.... Which is where we are!

Wow, impressive, cracking the 8. It's quite a psychological barrier for some people. And it well exceeds what I thought it would get on metacritic. Arkham Knights console reviews topped out at about 100 (some double ups between the PS4 and Xb one page). So I expect there are probably not more than 5-10 reviews for Until Dawn left to role in. Unless there's another Digital Spy completely missed the point of the game review the magic 8 should be secure.

Sorry to hear you have an anxiety disorder a good friend of mine suffered from anxiety for about 6 months and it was absolutely awful.

Having said that the way you wrote about about the jump scares appeared to use it as a value judgement against the quality of the game: "and I have no desire to play a game that uses jump scares to scare people, that's incredibly low imo" Without understanding more context that final phrase has the appearance of judging an aspect of the game qualitatively as being poor game design. And it would be right if that's all the game had for scares. Personally I hate jump scares because even though I don't have anxiety I still hate the palpitations it causes. and for some reason I like them less as I get older. Perhaps because my body is getting closer to genuine heart attack age my subconscious doesn;t want me putting any more stress on my heart than is necessary.

I can respect people's opinions if they think jump scares add something to a game or movie. It doesn't mean a game is bad to me, but it does mean I won't play it because I already have enough chestpain as is! The reason I mentioned that was to say I cannot give my opinion on the quality of Until Dawn as I'll never play it. The discussion I was having here was focused entirely on the quantity aspect (at least for me).

I have had chronic chest pain for 5 years now, it's hard, but manageable. It becomes worse under stress or heavy physical activity. Doctors have no clue what it is lol. But you know, I still have a better life than most people in this world (just look at the conflict in Syria and Iraq), so it's not all bad. :p

might be less niche than you think. Beyond that last generation many playstation exclusive games got more reviews than wii games as well. Heavy Rain had 107 Even more than any the most reviewed uncharted 2 at 105 and Beyond two Souls had 98 more than uncharted 3 at 97 SOme other ps3 exclusives GOW 3 101 MGs4 82 LBB 85 LBP2 86 TLOU 98

Big wii games SMG 73 SMG2 87 LOZ TP 73 SSBB 81 LOZ SS 81 MArio Kart WIi 73 NSMB Wii 80

So the game charted on NPD with only 4 days of sales. At number 7, at fullprice, with next to no marketing and hype. Competing against two high profile budget games (Rare Replay and Gears of War). Surely, that says something no?

This game is all over youtube, everyone is playing it and loving it.

...maybe that has something to do with getting that many reviews over Nintendo games with their restrictive youtube policies.

Most of Sony, MS, and Nintendo's games tend to settle in the 70 - 100 review range, regardless to how popular the title itself is expected to be. Sites are obviously going to prioritize doing reviews they think people will read, and exclusives tend to do pretty well in that regard (particularly Sony and MS's). Even if interest is still overall significantly smaller than that of a major title, as long as you can pass the 'worth taking the time to review' line (which almost all exclusives do), you'll usually settle at a similar number of reviews to the major one.

Differences past that are usually down to general variance, and how many review codes were actually sent out.

79 on Metacritic. Not bad, but us Xbox/Nintendo gamers hold our games to a higher standard.

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You go out of your way to invade Sony threads. You are pretty cool!