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Forums - Sony - Spiderman PS4 Review Thread - Currently 87 Metacritic (97 Reviews)

 

What will be the final Metacritic score Average?

>94 14 9.66%
 
90-94 48 33.10%
 
85-89 68 46.90%
 
80-84 13 8.97%
 
75-79 0 0%
 
70-74 2 1.38%
 
<70 0 0%
 
Total:145
irstupid on 04 September 2018
flashfire926 said:
Now that's a great score. Sony is racking up critical hit after critical hit in terms of exclusives.

Now, time for a crazy prediction: I think Spider-man is going to be the best selling PS4 exclusive, PERIOD. Yes, it will sell more than Horizon, Uncharted 4, GOW, and even TLOU 2. Anecdotal evidence, but my friends with PS4's who usually play GTA or COD (they didn't care for GOW or UC4) are super hyped for this. Also, I think this is like the most marketing I've seen for a game, maybe except a few games like Halo 3, GTA V and Destiny 1/2.

The debut might be a little less than God of War, but I think this will a hot ticket holiday item alongside Smash, which will give it significant boost it's sales.

Hardly take that as proof. A big game from a well known company like this will typically all average approximately 90 from us online.

But this game has HUGE hype on it for the below reasons:

1. Marvel vs. DC (All the Marvel fans want it to be better than the Batman games to win whatever made up victory partisan fans win)
2. It's not a movie tie in/cash game, so expectations for it to not be garbage are gone.
3. It's made by a well known and liked company
4. It's exclusive to a system (again, partisan victory to Sony fans)
5. It's Spiderman. Pretty sure he is the most popular superhero in the world. It's either him or Batman in merch sales.
6. E3 reception. It was hugely talked about and awarded for two E3's in a row now.

That is huge hype and expectations around this game. Is an 87 (current as typing this) a score that lived up to the hype? I would say no. I would say it would need a 90 to live up to the hype. Sounds like it suffers from the main fault of 90% of open world games in that it had pointless, boring, tedious side quests to fill up the world.



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ZODIARKrebirth on 04 September 2018

so happy for insomniac for this great game



pokoko on 04 September 2018
Aeolus451 said:
pokoko said:

Doing right by a developer is not taking them over when they want to remain independent--which they couldn't do, anyway, as I believe Insomniac is a private company.

Sony could still buy them if the owner(s) agreed to it but it wouldn't hurt the studio since Sony is fairly good at letting their studios remain independent. 

Insomniac has stated repeatedly that they want to remain independent.  



KazumaKiryu on 04 September 2018

Day 1 this week !!! The next big game-highlight for all : ) Have fun @ all



Keiji on 04 September 2018
KazumaKiryu said:
Day 1 this week !!! The next big game-highlight for all : ) Have fun @ all

Same for you !



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Aeolus451 on 04 September 2018
pokoko said:
Aeolus451 said:

Sony could still buy them if the owner(s) agreed to it but it wouldn't hurt the studio since Sony is fairly good at letting their studios remain independent. 

Insomniac has stated repeatedly that they want to remain independent.  

That's not absolute. Things always change. 



pokoko on 04 September 2018
irstupid said:

That is huge hype and expectations around this game. Is an 87 (current as typing this) a score that lived up to the hype? I would say no. I would say it would need a 90 to live up to the hype. Sounds like it suffers from the main fault of 90% of open world games in that it had pointless, boring, tedious side quests to fill up the world.

Three points difference from a small group of strangers on the internet is going to have almost nothing to do with this game living up to the hype or not.  That's going to be determined by the reception from the community and word of mouth.  If the game is a big hit then only people on gaming forums will remember the metascore.

Considering a margin for error, I consider an 87 and a 90 to be basically the same score, anyway.



pokoko on 04 September 2018
Aeolus451 said:
pokoko said:

Insomniac has stated repeatedly that they want to remain independent.  

That's not absolute. Things always change. 

Relative to what I said and the post I quoted, which was about how Sony should have already bought Insomniac, I don't see your point.  Unless you have some information that says Insomniac is up for sale?



Mr_No on 04 September 2018

Excellent! For now, it has matched my prediction.

Definitely a Day 1 purchase.



DakonBlackblade on 04 September 2018

I find it incredibly funy that some ppl think a game with a 87 metacritics somehow hasn't lived up to the hype. Its only every once in a blue moon we get games that reach God of War level of critics, and that doesn't even necessarely mean you, the gamer, will enjoy a 90+ game more than a 87 one.