Yeah, this is why reviews aren't reliable. I seem to recall Cyberpunk got very positive reviews from Journalists too and we all know what a mess that was on release and for the next few months. Journalist reviews became redundant a decade a go.
As in performance issues?
Yes, and multiple bugs - nothing game breaking to use their words - but missing characters in quests, frame rate issues, pop in issues. The usual. And no Quidditch - 'because it's been cancelled for a year due to some halfblood getting injured the previous term'
To be fair they were only given PC code for Cyberpunk (in and of itself is a bit shit, and maybe the journos should have mentioned it) if I remember correctly and were not allowed to use their own footage in their reviews at the behest of CDPR. Which is a long-windowed way of me saying, yes, I agree.
Ah shite, any word on how other platforms compare such as SX/PC? I expected no Quidditch tbh, I think they'd almost need an entire team dedicated to making that work from a technical standpoint. Not as easy as some folk think it'd be to include even as DLC.Yes, and multiple bugs - nothing game breaking to use their words - but missing characters in quests, frame rate issues, pop in issues. The usual. And no Quidditch - 'because it's been cancelled for a year due to some halfblood getting injured the previous term'
Those who get the deluxe edition can start playing it tomorrow. Guess we will know where the game base will stand soon enough.
Fecking half-bloods ruining the fun for the rest of us.And no Quidditch - 'because it's been cancelled for a year due to some halfblood getting injured the previous term'
Who is ACG?
I haven't read any more as I don't want spoilers. I was tempted to double-dip for Series S as apparently you can change the region on the console and be playing it 'now'? But I'm going to wait til tomorrow.
Some people got the physical copy through the post up to a week early.
I wrote for IGN for 4 years and never once got any payment in exchange for a higher score. I wish someone had told me this is how it worked, would've been rich.
Yeah. Basically the review says shit story, you'll fall out of the map sometimes, characters disappear, no enemy variation... But still a 9? Questionable. But i am looking forward to it and at least it's 9 and not a 6!
From where?
I've just watched half of the ACG review. It looks really, really good even with the bugs (he mentions similar).
Youtube reviewer. One of the two pillars of YT reviewers (along with Skill Up) that Redcafe like to fellate religiously.
I'm a dunkey man myself.
Yup just watched it. Looks great TBF and the issues seem like they should be fixed as they're more performance related. Very nice.
That's what they all sayI wrote for IGN for 4 years and never once got any payment in exchange for a higher score. I wish someone had told me this is how it worked, would've been rich.
Commenters were extremely sure Sony was paying me after I said the Ps3 would be better than the Xbox 360, but I never saw a fecking dime
hit.co.uk they used to be base.com but rebranded.
You were 100% doing it wrong then!I wrote for IGN for 4 years and never once got any payment in exchange for a higher score. I wish someone had told me this is how it worked, would've been rich.
Commenters were extremely sure Sony was paying me after I said the Ps3 would be better than the Xbox 360, but I never saw a fecking dime
To be fair also, the PC version was a mess too. Still is in many ways.
Yes, but not as bad as the (base) consoles. I bought on PC (heck, I bought it on everything even Stadia) and didn't get far, but that was more the game in general than anything else.
Skill up lost all credibility when he didn't like tlou2.
Journalists did say that they were only given PC codes, they didn't keep it a secret or anything. It was all CDPR's shit, trying to keep a cover on how utterly terrible the game was on old-gen consoles.
Is this how it works now? If someone doesn't like the things you like, they aren't credible?
Ah, not the reviews I read at the time but fair enough if they were open with that. OT, but as someone who only just completed TLOU2 last week (despite buying the special edition PS4 Pro version, which is gorgeous by the way), the fact that half the game was walled off from reviews and not mentioned reminded me.
He just had incredibly bad opinions about a pretty much universally liked and well received game, that was generally only disliked by a specific section of gamers.
Get him boys.
What does "bad opinions" even mean? His personal opinion or judgement is not really important to his value as a reviewer. What is important, is the fact that his reviews usually give you more than enough information to help you decide whether or not a game is for you.
Well the game got a 93 on metacritic, and is one of the best reviewing games ever (maybe slightly overeged but 93 is a very impressive score). The user score is 5.8 thanks to review bombing from incels. For him to not recommend it is extremely strange.
TBF i loved the first but couldn't get into the 2nd for some reason
