Yeah. Only playing it on hard though here, I was quite miffed you couldn't turn it off but I've managed to just not use it at all so far. I usually play this with my platinum headset and with the 3d sound on so it's much better to just listen and guage where enemies are and take advantage of the luscious sound design
it also adds much more tension to the encounters.A fellow Cohhilition member I see!
They'll double-dip with a souped-up PS5 version and make insane money from that too.
Holy shit that's a lot of gamers that Naughty Dog must have paid off.
No, they are all the gamers who bought the game, finished it and then review (bombed) it within an hour of the game's release.
Yeah, fair play to them. Completed a 25-30 hour game in an hour or two. Not too shabby.
thats basically evil_gecko in this thread.
You channeled the geko there
So if it made no difference and would have been exactly the same, what does it matter?
Keep going, there are some good new characters introduced and moments after that.
Why does a person have to finish a game to review it... its terrible logic. I'm just curious by the way. If a game is bad to a player and not worth finishing their criticism is still valid.
I mean, you can have an opinion on whether you want to play on sure. I mean that's not for me as things can, and often do, change but meh an opinion is an opinion.
Maybe generally I don't know leave reviews but its the same amount of time something like Steam gives you to rate a game for a refund etc.. In general how I feel after a couple of hours is generally how I feel at the end. I finish 99% of games and nothing changes. I think most reviews that are less than a 4 are pretty biased in general with regards to almost every game, unless they are flat out broken. I don't think there has been a AAA game in years that would be down there cept maybe Fifa.
The steam thing is about compatability, mistakes, fraud and all that too tbf.
But do you think you can actually fairly review a game after that time?I think its important to differentiate between saying "I don't like the game or playing the game" vs saying "the game is shit". Its totally fair to say the first thing after playing 1-2 hours of it. But the review bomb was more of the second within hours.
It's a legit point, however some games just start pretty poorly and improve a lot later on, and some starts well but goes down hill or becomes very repetitive as you progress, thus it's fair to point out concerns on the game early on but writing a full review about the game, I think you really need to get the full experience first before you do such thing (writing a review that will tell others whether they get it or not).
Im in the same boat there, but i think any game deserves a bit more than two hours, especially story driven games like these with slow pacing in the start.
Many many games take more than 2 hours to get going. You don’t even get anywhere in TLOU2 within 2 hours. I’m currently playing Horizon after beating TLOU2 and I was about to bounce off it after the first 2 hours. Because the pacing of the beginning is slow and it isn’t as polished - the transitions from game to cutscenes are clunky, talking to other characters is awkward. Even though it’s a AAA title and a lot of people’s favourite game, the amount of polish is actually night and day.
Nothing beats a good T spin tbh.
I don't agree that people are angry because Ellie is a lesbian, my main issue with the game was that it was a miserable experience all the way through and the game doesn't allow you to do anything else but miserable things (then they have the audacity to make you feel like shit for doing said things).
Well, there you go then. It was obviously a comment on the knuckleheads who haven't played it. You don't need to play the game in its entirety to form an opinion. And I wasn't saying otherwise.
100%. I completely disagree with the review bombing of the Last of Us.
Only he wasn't doing that (if it's the same guy we're talking about).
I can agree on the score, but the main journalist reviews bigged this game up to such an extent that the hype was insane, it's a good game (gameplay wise) albeit with a very poor plot that has been done better elsewhere.
And if you jumped out, you'd be perfectly entitled to and leave a review saying "This is boring" and add your criticisms". Thats my point. It is not your fault you thought the start of the game was bad. It's Guerilla Games. You pushing through a game you don't enjoy is perfectly fine but so would be you reaching a point where you've had enough and jumping out, giving it a bad review. All your criticisms of Horizon are legit and very unlikely to change, the transitions from game to cutscene are similar, the dialog is similar. All that is likely to change is your opinion on the story. If you decide that's not worth pushing on for, that is a fair call.
Have you ever considered that those reviewers did not aim to "big the game up" but simply gave their honest appraisal which you happen to disagree with? No one should be expected to agree with any particular opinion but I find the notion that "their opinions created expectations that the game did not live up to in my opinion, therefore those opinions are false" a weird one. You have a different opinion than those reviewers, there's not really any more to it.
Preach.
I know what you’re saying. Regarding Horizon I thought the beginning of the game was bad - so many open world games start super slowly. But now I’m probably 5 hours in and the combat is great and the open world super interesting.
