The game is in a lot of trouble if it isn't finished six days before launch.
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Activision supposedly not sending out early review copies for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice [update: some review copies are out, see threadmarks]
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The game is in a lot of trouble if it isn't finished six days before launch.
Why am i seeing people associating Reviews with Spoilers?
Properly done reviews by Legit outlets are not Spoiler laden. That comes from BS influencers and early sales.
Which, by the way, not allowing Journalists access to the game prior to release does jack shit to prevent spoilers and datamining. All it takes is ONE mom'n'pop shop selling it earlier or a single gamestop employeee pushing it for a friend earlier. It has happened before.
Reviews prior to release are ALWAYS good. Bullshit clickbait hype articles are not. Learn the difference please. This thread is overflowing with some really dumb shit right about now.
This is more likely just Activision being weird as it was said... but still a bad look. Reviews should be early. Just do some minimal curation on who gets access... give it to the bigger news channels for gaming reviews, give it to sites, magazines and even Channels that have good reputation in putting out legit content... use that PR machine to actually make sure the game has the best fair coverage you can give it. there. It only takes "some effort" which im sure activision can manage to pay for, specially for one of it's major releases this year.
Properly done reviews by Legit outlets are not Spoiler laden. That comes from BS influencers and early sales.
Which, by the way, not allowing Journalists access to the game prior to release does jack shit to prevent spoilers and datamining. All it takes is ONE mom'n'pop shop selling it earlier or a single gamestop employeee pushing it for a friend earlier. It has happened before.
Reviews prior to release are ALWAYS good. Bullshit clickbait hype articles are not. Learn the difference please. This thread is overflowing with some really dumb shit right about now.
This is more likely just Activision being weird as it was said... but still a bad look. Reviews should be early. Just do some minimal curation on who gets access... give it to the bigger news channels for gaming reviews, give it to sites, magazines and even Channels that have good reputation in putting out legit content... use that PR machine to actually make sure the game has the best fair coverage you can give it. there. It only takes "some effort" which im sure activision can manage to pay for, specially for one of it's major releases this year.
You are doing the wise choice to not pre-order,but personally FROM has never let me down in their modern era,for me DS2 was amazing as were the rest of their games. So I have to be there day 1 and I say there's like a 2% chance that they let me down,so I'm willing to take it.
In general I never pre-order games,aside from FROM and CD Project
This is now inside my PS4, and that is all that matters. Also playing it, I suppose.
It's already updated to 1.01, with balance fixes, bug fixes and some such stuff.
Can't even take a look at the themes yet.
It's already updated to 1.01, with balance fixes, bug fixes and some such stuff.
Can't even take a look at the themes yet.
Was holding off on this since I try not to spend much money these days but bit the bullet today and preordered. Wanted to snag that tasty steel book.
I'm very happy I stopped giving a shit about review scores. Makes posts like these seem extremely silly.
So you think it'll be a good game but flawed (like most things are lol)?
I love FROM Software games, even the pre-Souls games like King's Field, Armored Core, Chromehounds, etc. FROM games are super mechanics heavy and ambitious in design to some degree, only held back by budget and polish.
Gonna need to see these words cause I'm under the impression of the exact opposite
I have heard three separate journalists talk about their time with the game at the preview event... all spoke with a combination of reverence and feverish anticipation. Where are you getting this from, dude?
Nice concern trolling lmao.
lol at the fake concern.
Getting the GotY this early. I see the Gods have blessed you.
What word? Just watch all those very positive previews from people who love what they played.
Uhm, the game releases this friday, so it was finished weeks or months ago.
how has FROM not earned the benefit of the doubt? not to mention that this is a Miyazaki directed game, lol.
yeah, wasn't it vaatividya (sp?) who said people had like actual trouble with the game?
it didn't go well in the sense that a lot of people they invited could barely make any headway into the game.
Platinum has made quite a few crap games. I don't feel that they're a good example of consistency.
Naughty Dog is the gold standard, followed closely by CDPR and FROM.
That's even more so the case when Sekiro is directed by Miyazaki.
If we're going strictly by reviews and review scores, Miyazaki's last game has a 68 on Metacritic.
Doesn't matter to me, I have no doubts about Sekiro and I love Déraciné, but its reviews were all over the place.
i hope they won't make it easier like ennemies doing less damage in a day-one patch because of that
The impression I got from a lot of the streamers videos was that their Souls muscle memory was making the game harder. It's a game where you have to unlearn how to play Soulsborne games and acclimate to Sekiro's mechanics and gameplay. A lot of the skill doesn't immediately translate due to the wider moveset and different approach to combat
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if people going into this who arent so experienced in Souls games or don't play them regularly will find it easier to adapt to this game
Lol at these junior accounts speaking as if they know something they don't.
Seems like blatant trolling.
Good old concern trolling. There are always a few people like this near every big game's release.
my plug should have the game for me on monday, its not crazy to assume some stores already received and sold it.
Sure it exists, but it doesn't matter to me in the slightest and there's zero reason it's quality would indicate the quality of another 3rd person action game from FROM.
Yup. Like clockwork.
That's the spirit!
Someone earlier on the forums mentioned folks had issues with the game at preview. Shrug
yeah, every single thing I've heard from people who played at the preview event was "this game is incredible and is also hard in a way that players will not be able to blow past on soulsborne experience alone." dunno how you get "the preview went poorly" from that
More specifically, this is exactly what the guy with the dope hair from FromSoftware said that the team set out to do with Sekiro--to elicit the feeling of playing Dark Souls for the first time.
Sounds like mission accomplished to me.
Been hearing nothing but insanely high praise from someone with a review copy. Expect a 91-94 MC for this one..
What platform? Wanna know what fps I should expect on the XBX
Fuck dude/dudette. Spoiler free context, please!
Insanely high praise is what I like to hear!
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