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Death Stranding - Review Thread (see staff post for discussion guidelines)
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he's gonna finish it and give it a 2 and you'll be ashamed of your words and deeds
and it is exactly what I wanted.
I get that some might not like or even hate the gameplay and the story but I am sure I will have a damn good time with it.
The game's OT will be crazy though...
Ah, ok. Thanks. That makes sense. Maybe it's a "hype" thing?
I and other called it so many times, only to get shouted down. There was so many red, flashing warning signs about the game's quality, there really just isn't any excuse.
While I get your point the fact they don't want to finish it tells you everything you need to know their end, you don't need a number attached to it.
What? Pretty much everything in Kojima's games makes sense.
That doesn't mean it's GOOD.
Right, but then "relaxing" would be the operative word, or the game finding an optimal level of engagement make it serene to play, keep your attention but not demanding total focus. "Tedious" seems to imply passing that barrier into boredom/frustration that makes it negative experience, even if you like low tempo games, which i think many people do. Sure, a bit of tedium could have purpose in a larger context, if its supposed to be a contrast to other aspects of the game, but as far as I know, the things described as "tedious" make up most of the gameplay loop.
Lol come there's a reason the game is a 85 and not a 65, the 3.5 is an outlier, you get a 85 when most of the scores are 8 and 9.
And ofc I knew most of the publications that gave the game a 10 whereas I never heard of Steve.
People think the bosses had potential but have no depth and are really repetitive.
Unrelated story:
When I was 14 Twilight had just come out and I was convinced it was the worst thing ever to happen to "literature". I was a little shit about it and I wouldn't shut up about how much I hated it. However, I hadn't read it, so my mother bought a paperback copy for $4 and locked me in my room until I finished it. When I came out of that room I hated it 1000x more than when I went in, but at least I could articulate why I hated it.
When I was 14 Twilight had just come out and I was convinced it was the worst thing ever to happen to "literature". I was a little shit about it and I wouldn't shut up about how much I hated it. However, I hadn't read it, so my mother bought a paperback copy for $4 and locked me in my room until I finished it. When I came out of that room I hated it 1000x more than when I went in, but at least I could articulate why I hated it.
I've watched the IGN vid review and he has a perfectly valid argument for his experience. From the footage and the words I can also see that he wished nothing more than run through this game at all times. If you want to run and "get to somewhere" in a game that others have described as the getting to somewhere is not the exciting part, it's all the things that happen on the way, then you might insist on the game being something else from what it is and then I am not surprised that you have a bad experience. It doesn't make this review invalid, in fact it makes it highly valuable for all the people who can relate and I'm glad IGN went with it, but I am not that person. I will look at a moss texture for 5 minutes while Sam's taking a nap and then I'm gonna grab my backpack by the straps and slowly inch down a hill while soft music plays and I'm gonna enjoy it cause that's what this game wants me to do and I have no objections.
this is such an extremely toxic and unpleasant post. i don't understand why we can't just discuss the game without getting into personal attacks on people who enjoyed it or were looking forward to it. reading a review doesn't mean you played the game.
i really enjoyed it. is that a crime? should i be hauled off to gaming jail?
The point I think is that games can be compelling in multiple ways and differently to different people. E.g countless people find RDR2 absolutely tedious. For others, the sense of immersion and atmosphere more than make up for slow/flawed gameplay.
In this case, one person's "boring" could be anothers "relaxing", "thought provoking" or even "addictive".
Idk. People are weird, man.
Why did your mom lock you in a room and force you to read a book? No wonder you hated it.
From what i could gather: The reviews from 3 to 6 are from reviewers that don't seem to have bothered to finish the game and the 10 to 8 scores from people that actually did their jobs?
Not all games need to show us their full scopes in the first few hours or be about shooting down the bad guys with action setpieces in the middle.
Sounds to me this game is just separating the good reviewers from people that don't do their jobs right. A little rough to say but it's what i gathered from reading like 5 or 6 reviews.
Not all games need to show us their full scopes in the first few hours or be about shooting down the bad guys with action setpieces in the middle.
Sounds to me this game is just separating the good reviewers from people that don't do their jobs right. A little rough to say but it's what i gathered from reading like 5 or 6 reviews.
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Yes, exactly, and I understand that, but people need to find a different way to describe the shit they enjoy then because tedious is not a positive. It's never been. Relaxing would more appropriately describe this type of game for people who enjoy it. lol
Yeah buy it's actually a lot of very high review scores and a few low ones, that's why the average is 85 and not 50.
Think about there reversed case, getting a 15...how consistently low the scores would have to be to average that number
I did notice that too but it might be that the check didn't clear on time for some reviewers while it did for others?
After checking the reviews, and listening to some impressions I can say for certain I am glad I passed on this. Does not sound fun at all for me. Each to their own and all that
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Absolutely. The amount of people convincing themselves that it was more than that with some sort of MGS2 twist is kinda shocking. We've been telling you all this time that it's an extremely robust walking simulator (I don't use this in the derogatory fashion) with detailed systems and a 'strong' (your mileage may vary) story and a beautiful world. That's legit all I could ask for.
Because I wouldn't shut up about how much it sucked on the basis of absolutely nothing
I feel like this is console wars. Or something like that.
i agree
but I can tell you this much....This game has brought up the issue of completing a game before reviewing.
the acknowledgment of people saying they won't even have a review based on the fact that it's a requirement to finish the game is very interesting.
I personally don't think it should be a requirement to complete games in order to review them. However, I do feel it should be mandatory when you review a game you state you have not completed the game if you haven't.
We should lock half of this thread up in their rooms until they finish Death Stranding.
