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Stellar Blade - Review Score Prediction Thread
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Mid games generally fall in the 70s. You don't actually see major games go lower than that very often.
That was a weird one. Felt like consumers enjoyed that a lot more than critics.
Yep. And in the latest Making Of video, they very clearly state their inspirations for the game.
I don't want any games to turn out bad but I counterpicked this in my Fantasy Critic league so I need this to be, shall we say, less than stellar?
I'll show myself out.
I'll show myself out.
75-80.
Independantly of the qualities (or lack thereof) of the game, I don't expect it to review well.
Independantly of the qualities (or lack thereof) of the game, I don't expect it to review well.
"Production values" is the exact phrase I expect to be bandied about should this game not review well.
Yeah, I think the strength of high production values is being underestimated in these poll results.
I expect this game to score super high (high 80s is my expected "floor"). I also expect that most outlets will only make cursory mention of the objectification issues, where it is raised at all.
It launched in a rough state if I recall. A lot of that has been smoothed out by the PC port and PS5 back compat.
There was literally one of the tunnels in the north end of the map that was a pretty important cross over point between the rat and the west that literally for over a week had no road and I would fall into the void if I tried to traverse it, uninstalling and reinstalling the game had no effect. The second open world zone dropped frames so badly that I could literally count them. I personally would have rated it lower (probably 5/10 or so) based on that alone. People have really big rose tinted glasses about the launch of that game
Also guessing 79/81
It doesn't have stamina based combat…
And yeah it is pretty absurd to say that any game with big bosses is a souls like now. Or checkpoints which replenish enemies/healing items.
And I just think it's not good practice to dock games points based on shallow comparisons. (And yes those are shallow comparisons in the context of video games ).
Not sure that equates to being offended.
I thought the demo was phenomenal.
My guess is that the game reviews better Lies of P's 80% and worse than Nier Automata's 88%, so my safe answer is in the 80-84% range.
If the rest of the game isn't as good, I can see it falling in the high 70s. If it keeps that momentum going, I can see it in the high 80s.
My guess is that the game reviews better Lies of P's 80% and worse than Nier Automata's 88%, so my safe answer is in the 80-84% range.
If the rest of the game isn't as good, I can see it falling in the high 70s. If it keeps that momentum going, I can see it in the high 80s.
Launch bugs really did not help its case to be fair. Similar story to Sea of Thieves - savaged in reviews but the game was improved and well liked by fans after a certain point.
I'd say between 75-78. Depends if the game maintains some kind of quality overall.
We'll see if they cooked or not.
We'll see if they cooked or not.
Plenty of games with high production values score low 80s or even less. I really don't think it's that big a factor on its own, especially if other aspects of the game don't hold up for people.
Soulslikes are whatever, but I'll die on the hill that Metroidvanias can only ever be used to refer to Castlevania games with the open castle style level design of SotN.
Everything else should be referred to as "backtracky-platformy-thing".
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