EDGE magazine #333 review scores (Days Gone, Mortal Kombat 11, World War Z and more)
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Honestly, I'd prefer to have my name out there. Being part of some monolith would never sit well with me.
It's bad enough that the outlet I write for won't let me use words like "me", "myself", and "I". Giving up the last traces of individualism to a company name is a bit shit.
The hell?
They just use the full range of scores.
I will never understand why Edge are singled out for having a common sense scoring curve that matches just about every other reviewing community's compared to all these other gaming sites (were an average score is a 7.5 for some stupid reason?). It's wild.
I was taking out hordes a few hours in. No idea what you're talking about with the 40-50 hours thing.
I agree with Edge here, maybe a little too high for SW Quest since I didn't enjoy it as much as Dig 2 or Heist, but good on them.
You gotta admit, it is kinda funny seeing fanboys get upset over review scores.
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edge magazine has quite a bit more than just reviews, and it's always nice to read reviews for games you might not have heard much about, maybe you'll want to try them afterwards.
Maybe y'all could actually read the revānaaaaah too much effort. This is the rotten tomatoes generation. Just look at a number and react accordingly.
Just shows they just dont like these games.it's not really meant to be taken seriously, but i strongly disagree that reviews use more of the scale these days. for the vast majority of websites, a score of 7 or lower is saved for very mediocre games, and 5 means complete garbage.
the same score
So much talk without almost any substance.
You managed to get all that from just the conclusion of their review?
No, it really didn't. Doesn't matter though, as it's selling great because people are seeing past bullshit scores like that. I understand criticism over the games flaws, but a 5/10? That's just crazy talk to me. Maybe I just got lucky and it wasn't the broken mess for me it was for others, and I liked the story that reviewers hated.
Translation: They didn't like the game as much as me and that pisses my cranky ass off. They have every right to not like the game and people should decide for themselves, not one person writing for a print magazine. When I do things like this, which thankfully is rarely, I need to remember how much I hated Wolfenstein: The New Colossus. A shit ton of people loved it but it was painful for me to get through. Yeah, I need to remember that when I go to make "bullshit" statements like what I wrote above. My apologies NotLiquid
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They don't appear in the critical path (along with specialty items to help defeat them) until very late in the game. You can run into them in the world a lot earlier than that though.
I mean, one person's opinion matching yours is hardly a confirmation. Even if it is written in a cool magazine.
You can run across them in the open world earlier, but the point where the story starts pitting you against them, the game marks them on your map, and you start unlocking the weapons and equipment you really want to fight them, is like 40-50 hours in.
Sorry but when i read dumb stuff like "avalanche of needless distractions" for MKX i cant take you seriously.
I agree that the netcode wasnt great at launch but besides that it was a excellent game.
Imagine defending your "I respect people's opinions but these people who disagree with me are wrong" hot take.
You know that that's the conclusion of the entire two/three-column review? Not the entire review? Have you read the entire review?
Do you know how opinions work?
As others have mentioned not everyone buys games day 1, but then I also don't use Edge has a buying guide either. I like to read good writing on games by people who know their onions, whether in their reviews or previews, features etc.
It's genuinely something watching people getting worked up by someone else not liking something as much as they do.
I fucking loved my time with the last Star Ocean on PS4 - spent about 70 hours in the world. The game reviewed poorly and got shat on from a great height. I've never once felt the need to whine about what others thought of it. I enjoyed it and that's all that matters.
I fucking loved my time with the last Star Ocean on PS4 - spent about 70 hours in the world. The game reviewed poorly and got shat on from a great height. I've never once felt the need to whine about what others thought of it. I enjoyed it and that's all that matters.
I'm not sure Edge subscribers actually exist and the magazine isn't just a figment of our imagination.
I've never seen an issue of Edge magazine in person. Have you?
Days Gone got about what I expected from them considering it is the type of game they would hate.
It is one of my game of the year contender. Glad to see it doing well.
It is one of my game of the year contender. Glad to see it doing well.
The legit shook reactions to Edge reviews has only seemed to increase over the last year.
Thus I conclude, whippersnappers new to this full scale and concise well explained approach to reviews can't handle it.
Thus I conclude, whippersnappers new to this full scale and concise well explained approach to reviews can't handle it.
I started attempting to take them out as soon as I started running into them. I didn't wait for the story to use them in a mission. I guess that's the difference. Things like that might explain why some people like myself really like the game and some think it's a 5-6.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but there are no qualifications here and speaking broadly I don't think people without much knowledge or expertise in a subject should be given a platform and the power to damage it
Like I could hold the opinion that Citizen Kane is a piece of shit or that Mad Max Fury Road is badly edited poorly acted and a 3/10, and that's my right, but no one would or should take me seriously as a reviewer
There are very few games I pick up day one or even month one. Mostly just Pokemon tbh. Everything else I wait until it is cheap as fuck.
Have you been waiting for this moment or something. This is your confirmation of something it isn't?
This has been my main criticism of the game by far so far. I'm a lot of hours into the game now (I grabbed it on launch day) and the lack of horde interaction in 99% of my playtime is just criminal considering how much of an emphasis the marketing had on it. It was the biggest selling point to me - seeing those hordes spill out of buildings and imagining how I'd escape from them. In reality I've spent vast majority of my time with the game stealth killing humans and single zombies. I have run into hordes... There's that relatively small one near the start in the train and I've stumbled into maybe two others randomly? But they haven't been a focus at all in the game. They've been less than a side activity so far. I like the game but it's been pretty disappointing. They're by far my favourite bits of the game and I was expecting the game to have much more of an emphasis on big groups and navigating the hordes.
I would argue Days Gone flaws are mostly fixed now. It is definitely atleast an 8/10 game that is really engaging.
Definitely nowhere near Crackdown level.
I'll don't understand cries of "FAKE NEWS" when it comes to actual news but I doubt I'll ever understand cries of "FAKE NEWS!" when it comes to opinions, especially when you haven't even had the chance to read the thinking behind those opinions.
Disregarding the obvious issues with the "you need to be an expert about media to have an opinion on it," statement, that sure is a lot of reaching considering you only have a singular number to go on.
Maybe you could at least spare the couple minutes to read the full review. Then you could at least see their reasoning behind the "avalanche of needless distractions" line.
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9 reviews on metacritic with scores of 5 or lower. i really don't see why people would be surprised at the score it got from edge, if anything because they are harsher than most other places a 5 isn't that bad.
What makes you think the people reviewing for Edge don't have knowledge or expertise in games? Because you disagree with them? Have you even read the review?
And comparing Days Gone to Citzen Kane is definitely a reach...
That brings up he question though of why even have this thread in the first place if people aren't supposed to respond to the information in it.
People might actually take you seriously if you provide sufficient reasoning to back up your views.
Wow, using the "fake news" line now. I'll admit, what I should have said is, based on what I experienced with the game during my time getting the platinum, I didn't encounter anything that would even remotely lower the game to that score. So the "bullshit score" line was probably a knee jerk reaction, but I did clarify after that saying that I didn't encounter the majority of issues I've seen noted with the game. If the reviewer felt it deserved a 5, I have to respect that. I just can't help but think that if I were someone that bought games off reviewer scores or a metacritic average, I'd miss out on some of the best games this gen. I've never had so many differences of opinion as I have with games in the past few years.
So now the argument is that you can't talk about what they have to say unless you give them money and read the full review. Okay. Might as well close the thread.
The Days Gone disrespect continues! I have no idea where these scores are coming from, it's really bizarre.