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Forums - Microsoft - The Quantum Break Metacritic/review thread, Current meta: 77

 

Are you buying Quantum Break?

No 265 54.87%
 
Yes, on Xbox One 115 23.81%
 
Yes, on PC 37 7.66%
 
Yes, on both platforms 12 2.48%
 
See Results 54 11.18%
 
Total:483

i kinda excepted it, it looks another third person shooter

Goodnightmoon said:
AEGRO said:

Why some people think that the critics have been harsher this gen?

Is there any way to prove this?

Why nobody takes into consideration that maybe the games have been overhyped more that usual, so disappointments are the norm with bigger games?

Im not saying that it isnt true, but im really curious about what people thinks.

Mostly because the amount of lame games last gen with extremely high scores. Now there's only MGSV.

you havent bought it or played it in the first place. MGS5 is the best example how to make a game. Quantum break looks like a pure shooter without any substance while MGS5 is open world with countless of game elements and a MP.

I am still playing it managing my FOBs and research every day



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Goodnightmoon said:
AEGRO said:

So do you think reviewers have been harsher this gen?

Or that games just havent been that good?

Whats your opinion on the matter?

Its a mix. I think critics were too impressed by HD gaming and the hardware possibilities of the new generation and they gave really high scores to anything that looked impressive in some way, now it seems they are not that impressed already, the differences between both gens is not that big.

 But I also think triple A gaming is getting worse and worse everyday: games broken at launch, incomplete games with expensive dlc, too much care about the graphics over the gameplay, overambitious games with unreasonable budgets that need to sell 10 milions and trying to appeal to absolutely everyone finally end up without any kind of soul, etc 

I think its a bit of both. But great games like Bloodborne or Bayonetta 2 still get great scores anyway, a 78 nowadays has more value than some years ago, but it certainly not the score of a great game.

Or maybe last gen was full of hype instead of substance that cause a lot of games scoring the 90s undeservingly.

It's imo that this gen, reviewers are much more critical because they knew they butchered the review metric system by scoring too much 9s and made the perception of 80 70 60 grades being average, mediocre and horrible respectively which was  imo caused so much due distress to developers to hit the 9s in the metacritic system. I know a lot of gamers skipping games below 8 or 7 scores. So I see that as a way to standardize the review system into a more realistical one.

It's not about quality. It's more about teaching the readers that they should read game reviews beyond the grade they gave. That's what I think anyway.

 

And FFXV doesn't need 10M to be considered a success. It has been clarified if that's what you're hinting. Most AAA games doesn't need that much.



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Holy mother of replys Wright.

When i get home i will check it out.

I apretiate your take on the matter tho.



Ruler said:

i kinda excepted it, it looks another third person shooter

Goodnightmoon said:

Mostly because the amount of lame games last gen with extremely high scores. Now there's only MGSV.

you havent bought it or played it in the first place. MGS5 is the best example how to make a game. Quantum break looks like a pure shooter without any substance while MGS5 is open world with countless of game elements and a MP.

I am still playing it managing my FOBs and research every day

Dunno what makes you think I havent played but I did, and I dont think is a terrible game, I liked the controls, the graphics, the smooth framerate, the amount of ways in wich you can solve the same mission, I can understand why you keep playing, but I think it was massively overrated on meta, it feels too repetitive, a lot of missions are really weak, the story is too stupid, the writting is embarrasing and I felt bored a lot of times. So much for a game with a 95 on XBO.



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AEGRO said:
Holy mother of replys Wright.

When i get home i will check it out.

I apretiate your take on the matter tho.

 

That's what happens when I'm bored.

No hurries, though. Drive safe!



AEGRO said:

So do you think reviewers have been harsher this gen?

Or that games just havent been that good?

Whats your opinion on the matter?

So do you think reviewers have been harsher this gen?

When game fails to live up to the hypes and expectations the average gamer will blame the reviewers rather than the game. Some media outlets have gone away with giving score reviews. 

Or that games just haven’t been that good?

Games are better than ever, except they are always being comparing to the ever-growing list of game history. New games are expected to innovate and offer new experience. Games don't get away with mediocracy anymore. 

Whats your opinion on the matter?

Take the score on the reviews with a grain of salt a low score doesn't always mean it's a game you will not love. Take Crimes & Punishment: Sherlocks Holmes, it got a 72 metacritic but that game was just the niche game that a fan of adventure and point and click like myself really enjoys. I would of gave it a much higher score, But the game is for fans of the genre and a reviewer that doesn't care much for the genre would give it a much lower score. 



Goodnightmoon said:
Ruler said:

i kinda excepted it, it looks another third person shooter

you havent bought it or played it in the first place. MGS5 is the best example how to make a game. Quantum break looks like a pure shooter without any substance while MGS5 is open world with countless of game elements and a MP.

I am still playing it managing my FOBs and research every day

Dunno what makes you think I havent played but I did, and I dont think is a terrible game, I liked the controls, the graphics, the smooth framerate, the amount of ways in wich you can solve the same mission, I can understand why you keep playing, but I think it was massively overrated on meta, it feels too repetitive, a lot of missions are really weak, the story is too stupid, the writting is embarrasing and I felt bored a lot of times. So much for a game with a 95 on XBO.

The story is great you didnt understand what its all about watch some lore videos on youtube



Even to the untrained eye, this game looks boring. In the end, all of the hype and lens flare in the world isn't going to force people to pretend to like siting infront of a TV playing a game and then having a sitcom run through it like a cheap whore. They should have just made a game and then put the live action on an interactive Blu Ray and let you choose what happens next.



Ruler said:

The story is great you didnt understand what its all about watch some lore videos on youtube

 

Youtube videos often remark how terrible and disappointing the story in MGSV is.