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pokoko on 05 June 2016
Wright said:
pokoko said:

Yeah, I mean, this isn't hard to figure out.  

Here, I'll answer this for every other "how did X game get an X score" thread that pops up:  the people who reviewed the game, on average, liked it more (or less) than you did.

Simple as that.  Maybe the things you didn't like didn't mean as much to them.  Maybe they liked the things you didn't like.  There isn't a concrete formula when talking about opinions.  

 

Not saying it happened with Uncharted 3, as I reckon most people did like it, but there's a thing called Critical Dissonance, which in consequence might make us ask ourselves how certain things got such high scores in the first place, even if technically, the easiest answer would be that one.

I used to order for a video store.  Some our most popular titles were anything with Steven Segal, anything with a random rapper teaming up with Steven Segal, and Leprechaun In The Hood.  I'm not even kidding.

That does not appear to be the case, here, though, as many people in this thread liked the game.



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Normchacho on 05 June 2016

Because not everyone has the same opinion as you? Duh?



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Slarvax on 05 June 2016
BraLoD said:
Wright said:

Wouldn't games like GTA V or Ocarina of Time be bigger proof of that claim?

Because the games have higher scores? That's not the point.
Katamary Damacy just didn't had any kind of point to be called into, that actually exceeds highly on every aspect, and defines a new standard for a whole concept on the media.

I fear we'll never see a game achieve anything close to what Katamary Damacy did, it doesn't mean games won't evolve past it, but that there was just nothing, absolutely nothing, to be taken away from it (on top of having several things to be admired), and as deserving to be considered perfect as it does.

Fixed it for you, m8



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Wright on 05 June 2016
BraLoD said:

Because the games have higher scores? That's not the point.
TLOU just didn't had any kind of point to be called into, that actually exceeds highly on every aspect, and defines a new standard for a whole concept on the media.

I fear we'll never see a game achieve anything close to what TLOU did, it doesn't mean games won't evolve past it, but that there was just nothing, absolutely nothing, to be taken away from it (on top of having several things to be admired), and as deserving to be considered perfect as it does.

 

Uh, I'm not sure I agree with everything you've written here. I wouldn't even say The Last of Us defines any new standard. It's a solid game that did a lot of things right, but there are games that achieve that nice balance of the sum-of-its-part as well as TLoU did.



Slarvax on 05 June 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
Goodnightmoon said:

The las of Us in 2013 is nothing compared to the revolution that OOT brought to the table in 1998, not even remotely close.

eh, I just don't get the OOT love. It didn't do anything for me.

There were no 3D games before OoT, duh. Gameplay, combat and level design were also conceived by OoT. Get with the times, m8



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Ruler on 05 June 2016

The same way you could question gears of wars score, TP shooters were quite a trend at the time. Graphics alone were enough last gen



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arcaneguyver on 05 June 2016

The only thing lacking with U3 was the plot. The actual gameplay, levels and set pieces were all top notch and memorable, but it definitely feels like ND wanted to originally do one thing, and then had some major reworking to do something else. I guess your enjoyment of the game probably hinges greatly on if you like what ND was trying to accomplish with it - cinematic melee that fits like a puzzle piece with the traversal and gunplay.



Goodnightmoon on 05 June 2016
Slarvax said:
Ka-pi96 said:

eh, I just don't get the OOT love. It didn't do anything for me.

There were no 3D games before OoT, duh. Gameplay, combat and level design were also conceived by OoT. Get with the times, m8

Yes, very funny, but there was indeed no other 3D adventure game like that at all, first time I played it in my cousin house it blew my mind in a way no other game has ever done, it felt like videogames have jumped several years into the future with that one, nothing came even close, all my ps1 games in that moment felt like nothing in comparison, it was unbelievable for its time and almost every game of the genre nowadays has been influenced by it. 



GribbleGrunger on 05 June 2016
BraLoD said:

Because the games have higher scores? That's not the point.
TLOU just didn't had any kind of point to be called into, that actually exceeds highly on every aspect, and defines a new standard for a whole concept on the media.

I fear we'll never see a game achieve anything close to what TLOU did, it doesn't mean games won't evolve past it, but that there was just nothing, absolutely nothing, to be taken away from it (on top of having several things to be admired), and as deserving to be considered perfect as it does.

Well said, sir.



 

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the_dark_lewd on 05 June 2016

It's a bit high. But it is an incredibly impressive game. Definitely worse than 2 and 4 though.