Destiny - Review Thread
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I agree. AAA games just don't get reviewed like this and I've been actively reading and evaluating game reviews since I subscribed to Nintendo Power as a wee tyke.
ugh. just terrible. Halo is a god-tier series, tbh.
Damn, never mind then.
Especially with half of billion invested in them. Hopefully the DLC is really, really good or Activision might actually have a slight problem on their hands. It's still gonna sell well, but this could harm the series overall. I doubt the second one will sell as well.
BreezyLimbo
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To be fair to Vannila Diablo 3, the story mode is easily 3 times longer and the looting is more enjoyable, IMO.
So, today I saw a article (Digital Foundry), where they say that the Xbox One version of Destiny is running almost identical to PS4 version, both at 30 fps. So, the obvious question...
Why Destiny on PS4 isn't running with better fps? 45fps? 60fps? Because it's pretty obvious for everyone that the PS4 has a considerable advantage in terms of horsepower.
It's easy to understand that Bungie searched for the parity between the platforms, mainly regarding to FPS.
Why Destiny on PS4 isn't running with better fps? 45fps? 60fps? Because it's pretty obvious for everyone that the PS4 has a considerable advantage in terms of horsepower.
It's easy to understand that Bungie searched for the parity between the platforms, mainly regarding to FPS.
Ah of course. Forgot about that, hope it isn't lost in the pack,The Evil Within of course
LabouredSubterfuge
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It is I agree, although strictly speaking reviewers shouldn't be taking that much in to account (even though they probably do).
MightyHedgehog
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Can we keep this dumb sense of entitlement to the DF thread where it belongs?
The Librarian
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Telling what like it is? Their opinion?
People criticize when reviewers give lower scores to games that are widely acclaimed. I just don't see how a 9/10 is less honest than a 6/10.
Chiggs
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I was able to return the game to GameStop for full price, even though it was opened. I told the manager on duty that the game is an unprecedented let down and that I doubt I will be the only one to return it.
I expected trade in, but got 65 bucks back on my card.Only caveat was that I had to have my receipt, which I still had in my car.
Denver, CO.
I expected trade in, but got 65 bucks back on my card.Only caveat was that I had to have my receipt, which I still had in my car.
Denver, CO.
infiniteheteroskdasticity
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How many heavily marketed AAA games recently have you seen outside the 7-10 range? Assassins Creed 3 had a metacritic in the 80s and Watchdogs was easily better received than this. The only AAAish release that scored this badly recently was Thief and that was a much smaller game than Destiny. I've read both the Polygon and Gamespot reviews and I totally agree with what they wrote. At the end of the day a score is just a subjective number based on the reviewer's preferences. My personal score would be a 5/10 because the PvP is good and the production values are off the charts but I'm more of a campaign/SP gamer and Destiny is a total disaster in those areas.
How about you read over how stupid your post sounds and take it to another thread junior?
This is some gamefaqs tier posting.
The Elite
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Well, it didn't get 11, but yk. I think it's the highest rated new AAA IP this gen, surprisingly.
Keep that in that thread.
Morrigan Stark
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I only played the beta, but these points ring very true to me, as does the Gamespot review. But the bolded bit especially, the lack of rewarding exploration was so goddamn disappointing. Sad to see the main game is as underwhelming as the beta was. Oh well...
Its partly Bungie's fault that the game is scoring like this. They promised too much. After the Beta I lowered my expectations and expected pretty much a Borderlands-like game and I got a Borderlands-like game. Im loving it so far. Sucks about the rest of the people that expected way more.
Also, it helps that Ive got like 5 friends who are playing this constantly.
Also, it helps that Ive got like 5 friends who are playing this constantly.
Reads like they are in a rock and a hard place and buying time.
Keep their integrity and piss off Activision or rate it high and piss of their readers
I definitely agree to an extent. Assassin's Creed was pretty mind-blowing at the time of it's announcement with all of the things it was trying to do. Which unfortunately, is something I never got the feeling of ever with this game. I'm trying to be optimistic with this franchise though, because I have for the most part really enjoyed Bungie's games, even if they all have been Halo games.
Shiera Seastar
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...and which give you the nice illusion of actually being on a huge, vast, empty and abandoned planet. And having an excuse to use the bike doesn't strike me as a negative really.
I do agree with most of the complaints and negative observations discussed here though. And yet, I'm still having fun. Maybe partly because it's actually the first MMO-like game with shared spaces and social hubs that I ever played. And I'm still entertained kicking the ball in the hub off the map and then jumping after it to certain death. So, yeah...
But please people, stop saying stuff like "the game really opens up, changes and offers so much variety after you hit level 20 and finish the story". Let me tell you as a level 24 player, this is just not true. The only thing opening up is the endless grind for different kinds of currencies and XP to buy and upgrade rare, supposedly better or at least cooler looking gear by doing the same things over and over again. Not that this can't be fun but just don't say it like that.
The weakest platforms Destiny runs on are the 360 and PS3 though.
Gosh, I thought I made my viewpoint quite clear.
I feel like Gamespot gave a fair review, not because of the score, but because there is no benefit to scoring the game 6/10 other than being honest to your impressions. Simply put, I am praising what I perceive to be an honest review.
There are many reasons why a reviewer might give a triple-A, heavily marketed game a favorable 9/10 review just because of what it is, and not because of their experience with it. That doesn't mean it's every review, just that I can't be certain, especially if it the contents of the review itself aren't convincing.
Lol both of those games will be multi million sellers.
Ps4 owner and I don't care.
Game looks gorgeous and doesn't drop frames, zero technical complaints. Also 30 fps could very well be a design choice, maybe they couldn't consistently hit 60 so just locked it at 30. Either way I'm not fussed, I guess if it looked more obviously gimped my opinion would perhaps be different.
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BruiserBear
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I don't think you really need to worry about this. The game has sold very well, and will continue to sell as the game goes down in price. As long as you buy it in the next 9 months you should be fine.
AgentOtaku
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Just watched Kevin Van Ord's review
Fucking-A man!
Fucking-A man!
Watch the Gamespot review and tell me a 9/10 would be honest for that review.
The Elite
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I think a lot of people spent good money on this game expecting a great Bungie experience and are just happy to see their disappointment validated to some degree. Maybe that's not a great way to view things but it's what is happening. It's not necessarily a bad thing either. It just is.
You alright brah?
ProvenDeadly
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Guys....
A Triple A game with this much hype, this much time sinked into it, and this much fan interest, getting these low scores is absolutely a bomb. I can't recall the last time a game with this much hype was this mediocre. And don't give me Aliens Colonial Marines. I didn't even know that game existed until a day before it released.
A Triple A game with this much hype, this much time sinked into it, and this much fan interest, getting these low scores is absolutely a bomb. I can't recall the last time a game with this much hype was this mediocre. And don't give me Aliens Colonial Marines. I didn't even know that game existed until a day before it released.
Most of us also probably expected Watch_Dogs to be a bit of a let down and it seems Ubisoft's cozier with Sony in general anyway. Exclusive content was a thing for the AC games too, even with the first looking like an exclusive initially.
Yeah, that doesn't mean it's BAD out and out, but the higher expectations are the bigger the letdown when it doesn't deliver, and this is probably going to stand as one of the more extreme examples pending updates. And it doesn't even have the licensed name or unproven developer angles behind it!
Also worth remembering that people (usually) don't care as much when a game ISN'T this mega hyped and is knowingly coming from a smaller publisher/developer. A JRPG gets scores like this such as Atelier or Tales and it's pretty much just par for the course.
I really don't wanna go down this road, but it is kinda funny, though. Critically, MS backed the right horse and might hit magic again with them backing Evolve. Sony put a lot of advertising dollars in games that had tons of hype behind them that didn't live up to expectations. It's not a criticism, but it is kinda surprising. They made money either way, though.
TheDarkStark
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The "Alpha" (lets be real, it was a beta) was incredibly boring and mundane, not at all surprised at the reviews.
The Elite
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The general masses who bought into this game may move on in a couple of months if the content is lacking now. If there is nothing to keep them there they will be gone far sooner than 9 months.
RedAssedApe
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30fps locked is better than an inconsistent/unlocked framerate in a lot of people's eyes.
The Librarian
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I think praising a review because you agree with it is fine. What I took issue with was you generalizing, in this case, that a more negative review is somehow less honest than a more positive one.
Why? I didn't say Gamestop should give the game a 9/10.
-MD-
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PS4 isn't twice as strong as XB1 and games don't run at 45fps.
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They're also both going to sell/have sold a shitload of copies. And for the record, I really liked Watch Dogs.
CoD is absolutely going to steal a huge part of its audience and Halo will, too, on the Xbox side.
Haha, Aliens: Colonial Marines didn't even get an OT (well... not really). Everyone knew it was going to be absolute pants, on GAF, at least.
Resident Evil 6 is a good example of an extremely poorly recieved AAA game, but I don't think anyone expected that one to be great, either.
blame space
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an unprecedented letdown? were you in tears?
Naw the alpha was fun.
I'd add two things there as well:
1) Bungie today is way different than Bungie of yesterday. Halo: CE was made by a relatively small group of people. A good chunk of those guys are now gone. By 2008 that small group had grown to 120 employees, today they have 500.
2) External strife. Here's a great article/interview of Bungie's studio manager after the split from Microsoft: http://www.develop-online.net/analysis/single-player/0116057 There's a lot of really eyebrow raising lines in there in light of what Destiny turned out to be. For instance: "We’re going to make the games that both gamers and us ourselves would want to play. If that makes us successful from a financial point of view then awesome, but we’re not going to do it the other way – target being profitable and see what kind of game we could make to do that." I imagine Activision had their claws far deeper into this game than we'll ever hear about thanks to nondisclosure agreements, antidefamation clauses, and all the other general anti free speech stuff that gets put into contracts.
Twilight Gap
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the ps4 to xbox one comparison is irrelevant IMO. the game looks and runs just fine. if anything is holding the game back technically it's last gen.
The Elite
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