Exactly, that person is doing the exact thing they're saying is a problem.
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Death Stranding - Review Thread (see staff post for discussion guidelines)
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I've said it before but 10/10 doesn't mean the game is perfect, in fact there is no perfect game and you can find flaws in anything, it just means the flaws it had didn't detract away from the overall experience, and the same goes for the low scores no matter how harsh they are as long as that's what the reviewer feels.
To add though, it is also perfectly ok to be critical of specific reviews, if you can articulate why reasonably. However, simply stating "all low reviews are dumb" or "this shouldn't get 10s" is just mindless.
Sure, disagreeing is fine as long as one is not being obnoxious about it, you can even find reviews with false info/not understanding mechanics which is not wrong to call out.
Apologies, I had just woken up from a bad night's sleep (I live in one of the flood stricken areas of the UK and there was loud sirens and train blaring their safety horns all night), and was outright slap happy from sleep deprivation when I responded to you.
If it's anything, I do find Death Stranding a much harder plot to follow than MGS. But given the quick turnaround from Silent Hills, I chalk that to Kojima just not letting himself have the time to come up with a fitting story to fit around the mechanical ideas he had for DS.
I actually like weird crap like this. I think I'll pick this one up.
9/10 from Slant
https://www.slantmagazine.com/games...legy-to-the-work-that-binds-a-broken-america/
Honestly I don't think a lot of people expected that given the intense hatred for Kojima one of their editors/writers has and the fact people said they threw a "tantrum" about not getting a review copy and said it Sony getting back at them because they reviewed Days Gone with a low score. Regardless of the score, the review reads really impartial so fair play to them for that, a lot people assume the worst in them and it this case they rose above it.
https://www.slantmagazine.com/games...legy-to-the-work-that-binds-a-broken-america/
Honestly I don't think a lot of people expected that given the intense hatred for Kojima one of their editors/writers has and the fact people said they threw a "tantrum" about not getting a review copy and said it Sony getting back at them because they reviewed Days Gone with a low score. Regardless of the score, the review reads really impartial so fair play to them for that, a lot people assume the worst in them and it this case they rose above it.
Spent the last hour and a half driving cargo around of about six standard orders that will surely bring me upgrades only to run into this fucking rock after hours and hours of being conditioned to get out of every one of them. I hate this game.
Any solutions are welcome and I thought the sticky gun would do the trick but of course, it wouldn't because the game decided to give me a migraine instead. I put it in a postbox so HAVE AT IT.
Any solutions are welcome and I thought the sticky gun would do the trick but of course, it wouldn't because the game decided to give me a migraine instead. I put it in a postbox so HAVE AT IT.
Yeah with how people speak about Slant at times I was expecting a 4/10 with a review filled with harsh language and little digs at Kojima and Sony. Fair play indeed.
Wrong thread mate!Spent the last hour and a half driving cargo around of about six standard orders that will surely bring me upgrades only to run into this fucking rock after hours and hours of being conditioned to get out of every one of them. I hate this game.
Any solutions welcome and I thought the sticky gun would do the trick but of course it wouldn't because the game decided to give me a migraine instead.
I'll help anyway though. If I'm not mistaken about the location it looks like you're near the distribution center for south knot. If that's the case then I'd suggest running back on foot getting another truck and parking near this one and moving all your cargo to the new truck. If you/others have built the roads in and around this area it should be pretty easy. Wouldn't get too taxing regardless. You might even be in luck and someone might have left a truck even closer that the distro center, scan and check.
There are about 50 items inside that truck. Over 6 orders. This took a very VERY long time to arrange. I'm so broken right now.
Yikes! Something similar happened to me but I it was 2 orders and 20 pieces of cargo and a bench of materials. I was in luck since someone left a truck nearby so I only had to run for about 2 minutes and drive the truck next to the suck truck and move the cargo across. You do know you don't have to move it manually? Just park the 2nd truck nearby, hold square on the 1st stuck truck and in the cargo inventory menu that pops up you'll be able to easily move everything over to the 2nd truck, it'll appear in the same window.
There's a moral lesson about greed right there. Though I know that won't be of much help now; Andalusia's advice should work like a spell, otherwise try to go back with a few floating carriers and put all the cargo on them.
Personally, I don't trust in trucks at all for rougher terrains. What happened to you is a clear statement of why "brute-forcing" or approaching every situation in the game with the same solution (as suggested here by others) is simply not optimal.
Personally, I don't trust in trucks at all for rougher terrains. What happened to you is a clear statement of why "brute-forcing" or approaching every situation in the game with the same solution (as suggested here by others) is simply not optimal.
Just pick up another truck and drive close to that one, open cargo menu and transfer all the stuff from truck 1 to truck 2 in one go, done. It should take your 10 minutes tops to get another truck, drive back and transfer everything.
Bring another car to unload everything on lol, driving in this game is one of the worst I ran into this gen.
Yahtzee Croshaw reviewed it as one of the last gaming outlets. Sound like a 7/10, I think.
He called out the sexism, a rarety for him and cried out for Silent Hills. The rest is the usual Kojima understands gaming but he doesn´t understand movies/books.
He called out the sexism, a rarety for him and cried out for Silent Hills. The rest is the usual Kojima understands gaming but he doesn´t understand movies/books.
It's going to be the lowest rated goty winner. :)
The score is good btw, same as The Last Guardian.
Uh yah? If you saw their tweets, i just didnt expect them to actualy do their job.
So props to them.
I wonder if they had given a low score you would have felt the same...
I know MetaCritic user reviews don't mean anything, but sometimes when the critical reception isn't super high, the user reviews often highly recommend it. I didn't look into it to avoid spoilers, but it's possible it got review bombed, or in general people really were soured on their experience.
This only happened because a friend asked me to play COD and I told him I don't feel like playing anything but this, it's got me hooked, and suggested he try it. He rebutted with user reviews being low and thinking that might reflect his thoughts.
This only happened because a friend asked me to play COD and I told him I don't feel like playing anything but this, it's got me hooked, and suggested he try it. He rebutted with user reviews being low and thinking that might reflect his thoughts.
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What a ride that was, and not in a good way.
Chp 1-3 ( 7/10)
Chp 4-8 (9.5/10)
Chp 9 to end (wtf 5/10)
I guess that ends my dilemma over whether reviewers should finish a game before publishing it. They should. End parts were extremely boring.
82 or maybe 80MC sounds about right.
Chp 1-3 ( 7/10)
Chp 4-8 (9.5/10)
Chp 9 to end (wtf 5/10)
I guess that ends my dilemma over whether reviewers should finish a game before publishing it. They should. End parts were extremely boring.
82 or maybe 80MC sounds about right.
This is weird..why don't youJust jump with the truck?it should work.
Weird timing to bump this old thread with negativity directed at IGN after back-to-back IGN / Death Stranding off-site drama topics were locked.
So anyone who dislikes the game isn't a legitimate review?
Just a coincidence. I completed the game two days ago. I left the reviews until after in fear of spoilers. I watched Angry Joe's and Girlfriend Reviews yesterday and decided to watch IGN, GameSpot and Dunkey's today.
I started to watch Kotaku's but it's in incoherent mess right from the off.
Of course not. Have you watched those particular reviews?
I'm sure, just by looking at the footage let alone the commentary, you could work out why they don't seem legitimate. I do expect a video game reviewer to be able to latch on to the simplest of gameplay concepts. It's not a hard game to play, at all. The footage told a different story and the narrative didn't really explain why they found basic traversal so frustrating. That's the core gameplay which those reviews weighted towards that frustration. The footage really is very bad.
Apart from that, Inventory management is overly complicated (even though it's understood) and off-road vehicular traversal doesn't quite feel as I imagine it to be, especially on a bike.
There are things I would change to subtlety reinforce the feeling of responsibility.
He graduated from the Donald J Trump school of Bullshittery. "Anyone who disagrees with me is illegitimate!"
big mistake send reviews out before everyone has their hands on.
Well think about it, PC gamers are more accustomed and welcoming to simulation like games, isn't death stranding a hiking simulator with some more jazz? I could be wrong, so ignore me if I am.
It's definetly fair to describe it as the most advanced truck simulator. Make or break it is really the story.
Nah it's a lot more nuanced of an experience than just "X simulator".
It's one of the few games released in recent years where the themes and implications are manifested through its gameplay and not just its narrative.
There's a lot of walking yeah, and it's crystallized in an insanely satisfying gameplay loop, but Death Stranding and the emotions its evokes only work in the form of a video game.