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vivster on 15 May 2016
Bryank75 said:
vivster said:
I wouldn't give it a 4 but other than its technical achievements it seems to be pretty awful. I watched Jesse Cox stream this over an hour and it's so unbelievably boring. David Cage would love this interactive movie that let's you press a few buttons before the next hour of cutscenes.
I totally get why it's so popular though. It's basically directed and written like so many of the popular mainstream american live action series. Hits every button on the lowest common denominator.

.... there are some chapters that "set up" for the story. Mostly the early 4 chapters are a bit slow but interesting if you like a good story. It does get going then, ramping up quickly. 

 

Gunplay is approaching MGSV quality now with the improvements and the stealth option is a whole other way to play. The enemy AI is ramped up and the game really opens up in various areas to give you plenty of options.... explore or fight or avoid and go for objectives. 

 

Since it took me 19hrs and 30 minutes ..... I think judging it off a few minutes of a stream is a bit of an unfair assessment. In short, it is no less a game than MGSV or Gears or any other big franchise... in fact it varies the pace and gives you more variety over the course of the game with puzzles, climbing, story, exploration and combat than most other games. 

Shouldn't the introductory chapters get me excited to play instead of lull me into a sleep? Considering there are games that captivate me within 2 minutes and UC4 had nothing happen in like 2h I'm wondering if the game is actually good. I'm not even talking about the actual story content or the characters. It's about The stuff that ND tries to pass off as gameplay.

For some reason I had a lot more fun walking through a suburban house and brushing my teeth in Heavy Rain that watching Nathan Drake climbing onto the 86th pipe that - OH THE SURPRISE - will break from the wall. Seriously, if you madr a drinking game out of Uncharted and things breaking off while someone climbs on them you would die of alcohol poisoning after the first hour. All of the gameplay is so tightly scripted that you can't even be sure if your button presses actually matter.



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arcaneguyver on 15 May 2016

I like Uncharted, but worrying about reviews like this is...hmm. This seems the best case for justifying a petition, but it still seems silly and obsessive.



KLXVER on 15 May 2016
Normchacho said:
Bandorr said:

Curious.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/review-uncharted-4-finds-brotherly-love-amid-spectacle/2016/05/11/f76beb2a-1773-11e6-971a-dadf9ab18869_story.html

Is their first review (written on the 11) and is their real review.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/05/12/uncharted-4-a-thiefs-end-review-this-four-part-series-should-have-ended-after-part-one/?tid=hybrid_collaborative_1_na

Is their second review (written on the 12th) and is their joke review.

Maybe a further part of the joke - is actually submitting the fake one?

The only thing I can think of is that the WP rates on a scale of 4. So they probably told Metacritic "4" and they assumed it was out of 10.

Then why didnt the reviewer say anything instead of continuing to bash the game on Twitter?



TheSting on 15 May 2016

Unbelievable man. Just unbelievable. There was even crying about a 8.8 but none for perfect scores. Those are just accepted with no questions. There has always been absurd scores to games.



midrange on 15 May 2016
TheSting said:
Unbelievable man. Just unbelievable. There was even crying about a 8.8 but none for perfect scores. Those are just accepted with no questions. There has always been absurd scores to games.

This however, is a joke review that is being used in an official setting. The other reviews, good scores or bad, are fine



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Megaoverlord12 on 15 May 2016

While people throwing a hissy fit because a game got a 4/10 from 1 review is pathetic, the fact that the review doesn't even have a score shouldn't allow it to be on metacritic to begin with.



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Paatar on 15 May 2016

The part I dislike about this thread is where it says you need to be respectful to the developers. That's an obvious thing, but it's not exclusive to certain developers. We need to respect all developers even if they don't produce AAA games. Regardless of how bad a game is, the developers put time and money into making them and god knows that is more than we can do.

 

edit: I know this has pretty much nothing to do with this thread, but it's kind of a rant I've wanted to say lol 



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KLXVER on 15 May 2016
midrange said:
TheSting said:
Unbelievable man. Just unbelievable. There was even crying about a 8.8 but none for perfect scores. Those are just accepted with no questions. There has always been absurd scores to games.

This however, is a joke review that is being used in an official setting. The other reviews, good scores or bad, are fine

Has the reviewer said that it is a joke review?



Boutros on 15 May 2016

I'm really surprised to see so many signatures. And Troy Baker tweeting about it lol

It really only should be ignored although I do think Metacritic needs to do something about extreme values.



Normchacho on 15 May 2016
KLXVER said:
Normchacho said:

The only thing I can think of is that the WP rates on a scale of 4. So they probably told Metacritic "4" and they assumed it was out of 10.

Then why didnt the reviewer say anything instead of continuing to bash the game on Twitter?

Likely because being a contrarian is most of what he does. This is the same guy that said DS2 was the worst game of all time and that the Wii U was the best console for third party games.



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