It's regarding the controls, to be fair it's also the devs fault for naming and making it default but again you expect someone to be at least competent at their job so..
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IGN retracts large portion of RE2 review and updates score after it becomes clear their reviewer missed a large chunk of the game.
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Starting on the other side of the crash was the original Claire scenario. That was the original point of having two discs and two characters. If you played the Claire side first, you started on that side of the crash first.
I saw this on twitter but it seems pretty clear
To be fair that could be worded better as I would have been confused myself.
Its really not a big deal, he gave the game a good score regardless. Hes been in the industry for years and ive always liked his input, but now "fuck him for missing something in a game i like and giving it two points below a 9" .seriously i dont get why we spend so much time searching for reasons to attack reviewers. This kind of shit this industry and its fans suck some times.
Steve Butts in 2015 thought The Last Guardian was shitcanned lmao.
So ... your suggestion is everyone doesn't have a job when someone else screws up?
the OG review is here if anyone wants to see it
https://nordic.ign.com/resident-evil-2-remake-ps4/22067/review/resident-evil-2-review
https://nordic.ign.com/resident-evil-2-remake-ps4/22067/review/resident-evil-2-review
I never played the original RE 2 but from what I understand, it goes way deeper than just A/B routes, right? To get the full experience you needed to do A and B for both characters, then all the other unlockable modes. Is there a preferred A route character for your first run?
Sounds more like he got to Marvin on the other person's 1st and gave up. To be honest I have no idea how much puzzles etc. are different between the two characters, or across 1st and 2nd, but I know how the whole side character plot parts are different between Claire & Leon.
How is being "in the industry for years" supposed to be a selling point?
I thought you mean the OG, not sure about the E3 info since I was on media blackout for this till recently
true. i mean, 'professionalism' is supposed to be what separates us from them in terms of working in games media, so you have a point - these mistakes shouldnt happen.
This is a pattern with Daemon going off the PixelJunk tweet.
Do you understand the point of having an editing staff? They are the supervisors of the writing staff. Their job is to not only proof read the articles, but also fact check and screen them. This is a consistent problem with IGN over the last couple years.
This isn't a one off circumstance.
I mean, again, the official word that went around post-e3 was that it didn't have a zapping system.
(but also, again, apparently the same straight up tells you it's a thing once you beat the game the first time and it's like my dude why did you not even try out that option on the main menu!)
For somebody that is supposed to know that game that is being reviewed ,you are not very bright, are you ?
I saw this on twitter but it seems pretty clear
Oh Lord...lol
I can't get over the fact that they not only didn't know about scenario B, but updated the review a short time later saying that the second scenario "is not really different than the first". They did not even play the thing and still doubled down on "it is the same thing." But then they increased the score. This is the worst review stupidity I have ever seen on IGN.
Oh wow missed that at first lol. I bet there could be a patch now that makes that text either much more noticeable or moves the text to the middle of the screen or something.
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No matter how unclear any particular screenshot is, you would hope that the reviewer actually understands the background and premise of the game they are playing enough to know that they missed out on a huge chunk of the narrative and content.
I agree that this is a big mistake that a publication like IGN should not be making, but this quote from the OP isn't entirely fair.
The second run does largely contain the same content including puzzles, enemies and bosses. There are a couple of unique sections but it's nothing to write home about. Taking this into consideration, claiming it's an entire half of the game is also unfair.
This whole backlash is a little overboard in my eyes, people make mistakes after all, especially when they're trying to beat a deadline.
Its bad UI design. They shouldn't have added a seconds new game option. People will glance over it. Ideally you should have to click on new game, then the game asks you if you want to do the second scenario. No possible mistake if done that way.
Has become? Man, it's been "You can't spell 'ignorant' without I G N" for a while now.
Pixeljunk sidescroller came out in 2011.
Two instances in almost a decade doesn't really constitute a pattern.
I don't think we should be too harsh of the reviewer. Just sounds like a silly mistake, and people make silly mistakes sometimes. The reviewer is probably already embarrassed about it enough.
It's tough when you're a reviewer, you're one of the first people to have the game so you can't just hear about what content the game has from other people online. You just go into it totally blind, not able to ask other people for help or for questions. Given that, you might naturally miss things sometimes.
It's tough when you're a reviewer, you're one of the first people to have the game so you can't just hear about what content the game has from other people online. You just go into it totally blind, not able to ask other people for help or for questions. Given that, you might naturally miss things sometimes.
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Yes I think the second part probably doesn't actually amount to an entire half of the game, I agree that was perhaps not quite fair.
That's kinda off-putting - getting something like this wrong when you are able to review such a great title is ridiculous.
Two 6-8 hour campaigns of quality sounds like a dream game for reviewer - yet it seems even with such a game the reviewer was looking for a shortcut of somekind.
Two 6-8 hour campaigns of quality sounds like a dream game for reviewer - yet it seems even with such a game the reviewer was looking for a shortcut of somekind.
It doesn't have the Zapping system
The Zapping system was LA-CB-CA-LB, and only in the original RE2
This version has always had the two scenarios, one of Leon and one for Claire
Even so it's their job, other outlets didn't have the problem and they're the biggest out there. I mean they can ask Capcom for clarification? Ask their fellow reviewers? From what I read and seen above the game tells you after you finish your first scenario and it's also shown after on the menu.
I saw this on twitter but it seems pretty clear
To be fair, that sounds like a "new game+" to me, not an entirely new campaign.
Because he's always been pretty well regarded and now he makes a small mistake and suddenly he sucks? It seems more to me like people getting overly defensive over a game they want to have a high metascore. When i see shit like people calling him pathetic then saying this is why all games journalism is terrible it seems pretty plain to me that there are some overreactions afoot. Gonna be honest i dont even go on ign, i havent in years, i have no horse when it comes to defending him. But some people here are honestly acting like a bunch of ass hats over what was a simple mistake.