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pokoko on 16 August 2016
Nem said:
pokoko said:

You do know that the developer and/or publisher set the price for a game, right?

Sony are the publisher are they not? I don't think halo games has the infrastructure to make physical releases. As far as i know, the publisher set's the price. They are the bosses at the end of the day. I imagine the rest was simply matched. I'm sure there was agreement but it's not like this is a game with a triple A budget, so the only company of the two that i would see bring forth this idea is Sony. If this was an independent release i can pretty much garantee it wouldn't come out at that price. It was made to lower the risk for Sony's advertisement push.

 

No Man's Sky™

A science-fiction game set in an infinite procedurally generated universe

PS4

Release Date: Out Now

Genre: Action Sandbox

Publisher: Hello Games

Developer: Hello Games

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/no-mans-sky-ps4/



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Jumpin on 16 August 2016
Nautilus said:
I would say it is harsh, not Savage.But its completely fair.And to be honest, the way he says and presents his arguments, it seems like this game was going to be scored either 3 or 4, not 6.Just the impression I got reading/seeing the review.

They're not really known for harsh review scores except that time they thought Tactics Ogre was a Final Fantasy Tactics ripoff. A 6/10 on IGN is the same as a 3 or 4.



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Nautilus on 16 August 2016
Jumpin said:
Nautilus said:
I would say it is harsh, not Savage.But its completely fair.And to be honest, the way he says and presents his arguments, it seems like this game was going to be scored either 3 or 4, not 6.Just the impression I got reading/seeing the review.

They're not really known for harsh review scores except that time they thought Tactics Ogre was a Final Fantasy Tactics ripoff. A 6/10 on IGN is the same as a 3 or 4.

Yeah I know.But I think that is true for most reviewers nowadays though.They dont really use the 1-10 scale, and more of a 5-10.Either because they are afraid of the backlash for giving a game(when it deserves) a really low score of 4 for example, or just because they just cant give an honest score because they got acoustomed to this.(before someone jump on me for this comment, it is not aimed at No mans Sky, but games that are reviewed in general)

One of the few reviewers that i personally feel like gives the score that it really means is Jim Sterling.But again, just my opinion.



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binary solo on 16 August 2016

How the heck is a review "savage" and then gets a score of 6/10. For me a 6/10 is an OK game with some good bits, but some significant flaws.



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oniyide on 16 August 2016
BraLoD said:
Just wanna point if the game was treated as an indie, what it is, it would be getting a whole lot of nine and tens, IGN included.

Pretty telling how games scores are always based on arbritary standards and value perception, rather then on a solid, logical based pattern.

whats logical is not charging 60 bucks for a game that shouldnt cost near that much



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oniyide on 16 August 2016
Nautilus said:
Jumpin said:

They're not really known for harsh review scores except that time they thought Tactics Ogre was a Final Fantasy Tactics ripoff. A 6/10 on IGN is the same as a 3 or 4.

Yeah I know.But I think that is true for most reviewers nowadays though.They dont really use the 1-10 scale, and more of a 5-10.Either because they are afraid of the backlash for giving a game(when it deserves) a really low score of 4 for example, or just because they just cant give an honest score because they got acoustomed to this.(before someone jump on me for this comment, it is not aimed at No mans Sky, but games that are reviewed in general)

One of the few reviewers that i personally feel like gives the score that it really means is Jim Sterling.But again, just my opinion.

No they do, its just people want to see what they want to see



onionberry on 17 August 2016
binary solo said:
How the heck is a review "savage" and then gets a score of 6/10. For me a 6/10 is an OK game with some good bits, but some significant flaws.

 all the stuff that he said, I was expecting a 3/10

 he said the game is boring, repetitive, buggy etc etc. watch the video.



Plerpy_ on 17 August 2016
binary solo said:
How the heck is a review "savage" and then gets a score of 6/10. For me a 6/10 is an OK game with some good bits, but some significant flaws.

That's normally how reviews do work. But for some reason gaming journalism has become anything less than an 8 is terrible and to be avoided at all costs. And then anything less than 5 they're just having a laff because it's a truly awful game.

But also, wasn't IGN the mob that gave Alien Isolation a 6/10? and every CoD 10/10?



AlfredoTurkey on 17 August 2016
onionberry said:
Libara said:
Sounds fair, here's hoping with updates it can become closer to what was hyped.

I think the problem of this game is the price and the hype, if this was a $30 indie game with indie promotion then maybe more people would be ok with the gameplay. This was a very critical review so the score seems fair.

It should have been $19.99 imo. I was interested in it until I saw it was full price and at that point, I was like, nope... fuck that. lol



SubiyaCryolite on 17 August 2016

No mans hype



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