DangerStepp
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It is , but I find it accomodating seeing as I won't have to take off work for a Tuesday release.
The Last of Us - Review Thread [Emargo up, scores in OP.]
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It's bioshock infinite all over again.
Hari Seldon
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What the fuck does that mean? Is that a game? You have to own some game to play the demo?
Kazuma Kiryu
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They have a 95 metascore with 50 reviews. I'm fairly certain it will end up being a good seller and will receive several awards this year.
ND isn't going anywhere. Outside of PD with GT (which is sony's biggest franchise), ND is, right now, sony's best studio. They make games that are reviewed and sell well, and unlike some sony studios, they actually make several games on one generation.
From Playstation Official Magazine UK:
Could this be real? I mean this is the first I'm reading about set-pieces in this game. I love these when they are well done and IMO MGS4 had some awesome ones. Can anyone else whose reviewed it comment on this quote?
EDIT: Without spoilers or being too specific please.
Could this be real? I mean this is the first I'm reading about set-pieces in this game. I love these when they are well done and IMO MGS4 had some awesome ones. Can anyone else whose reviewed it comment on this quote?
EDIT: Without spoilers or being too specific please.
Because it offends the developers. Or something.
Making fun of that embarrassing comparison doesn't mean people are anti-Last of Us.
I don't think it's just because of the score. It also relates to the fact that supposedly Polygon and Microsoft have a very "close" (dare I say unprecedented) relationship with each other.
This. This thread is an example of why GAF has a negative reputation. Play the fucking game yourself and make a judgement yourself. Complaining that a site didn't give it a perfect score just reinforces the hyperbolic mess that this whole situation is. Maybe in your opinion Gies is right, to others he will be way off. It's a fucking review not a rulebook, an OPINION.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
It really brings some truth to what Garry Whitta said in the GAF documentary.
apparently the game needs to have a 100 on Metacritic and every one else just needs to stop trying
Secretarial Dog
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Yes. You have to own the God of War: Ascension Disk to play the TLOU Demo.
I really hope you (and others) arent confusing people who complain about Polygon with people that complain about the 7.5 score. Those are two entirely different things. Complaining about a score of a game you didnt play yet doesnt make much sense, but doubting the credibility of Polygon and pointing out that Polygon isnt really the best place to listen to atm, is perfectly reasonable.
The game gets awesome scores, which is fine by me. And the game might be an 8 for me personally for all I know, but Polygon still looks shady in the light of recent events.
(Dont hate me, want some Doritos?)
Mostly just backlash against Polygon because of their track record. If giant bomb dropped that score instead, I'm sure we'd be seeing much different reactions. Hard to take so much money and still claim to be neutral.
Steve Youngblood
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I might suggest that this isn't a point worth proving. Maybe I've just got an antiquated notion of what a score means in this current "Scores are serious business because Metacritic is a big deal" era, but I generally don't consider assigning a score to a game to be a scientific process. There's no clear criteria for what differentiates an A game from a B game, and there certainly isn't when we introduce the 100 point scale. Further, I don't think there's anything wrong with allowing for the fact that there are imperfect factors that influence the score such as simply what kind of mood the reviewer is in that day.
I could be way off the mark, but to me the importance of the score is simply to give a general idea for what the reviewer thought of the game. "A 95? Awesome. That means he really liked it and I generally see eye-to-eye with his views. I look forward to playing it myself." That's how I view scores. I don't look to it as some objective metric of where it stacks up with every other game as I can only conclude that the process is inevitably pretty arbitrary.
Represent.
Represent(ative) of bad opinions
Yes. You have to own (or rent) God of War: Ascension to play the demo.
Mr.Squirrel
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Why the fuck should I care about Naughty Dogs review scores? These are companies motivated by one thing, profit. Naughty Dog and Sony are NOT you're friends. They don't make games because they like you personally, they make games because it's an extremely profitable business for them.
Stop humanizing these corporations, they don't have your best interest in mind.
As much as I love MGS4, I don't imagine that it would be difficult to have a better stealth segment. No moment in MGS4 really stands out to me, stealth-wise (expect maybe the Europe one).
They are meaningless. Period. They are a leftover artifice of the print era. Now that they are simply a marketing used by outlets to get placement on sites like MetaCritic to demonstrate publishers and readers.
That aside, I am looking forward to playing this game soon.
This is an ad hominem. Can we argue about the merits of the review itself after we play the game?
UC 2 has like 10 setpieces that crap on anything in MGS4.....TLoU being developed by the UC 2 team basically guarantees it will also crap on MGS4.
Just wait for the GameTrailers review. They're the other Microsoft funded site. 500 million or so wasn't it?, between Viacom and GT. GameTrailers and Polygon should just merge.
Artimities
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I have the game preordered... but I would think it would be a travesty if they did not release this game on the PS4. Talk about a system seller. I would gladly buy that and GTA 5.
Polygon being shady; sure, I just think there's better examples of it's shadyness than this and some people seem to be confused on hatin it because of what you say and hating it because they're giving what people somehow consider a low score to a game they were ready to go batshit insane over
now i'd like some doritos plz
Canis lupus
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This should cover most of them, pheeew. Taking a break now lol.
Ravensmash
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Sorry, but this post speaks truth.
What's worse is that a lot of the criticism isn't even addressing the written content but merely jumping on the arbitrary number thrown on at the end.
You may not agree with the 7.5 score (although I'd question the reasoning considering the game isn't out yet), but the justification for that is there in the text. Viewing a number on its own is disingenuous and incredibly naive. I want differing perspectives in my games reviews! I want one writer to love a mechanic yet another to coherently argue about its negativity, it's entertaining to read!
A lot of people complain about games journalism being one-dimensional and based around hyperbole and PR yet when something breaks away from the average it gets jumped on as a 'shill site'.
That being said, this game has been very well received - can't wait!
Edit: One thing to further my point above - I often see debates like this in review threads/comment sections prior to a games release. Yet, a few months later it seems like many understand where the negative points are coming from.
It happened with GTA4, it happened with Bioshock Infinite, it will probably happen with this.
SolidSnakex
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Except that reviews have specifically mentioned how good the gameplay is in this game. Sessler takes a big chunk of his review to talk about that.
Another average game that reviewed extremely well?
TLOU being a game already guarantees it will crap on MGS4.
Secretarial Dog
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Thanks dude. Good work.
AstroZombie
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I like to call it the Whitta Rule.
TheBaronOfNA
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Glad to hear is good, but dunno if I will buy it. I'am not in the mood for depressing stuff.
See you don't get it all.
It's not about having an "OPINION"
It's about multiple things...
1. Polygons shady relationship with Microsoft and the money hatting that's going on there
2. Arthur Gies saw the hyperbolic tweets regarding the reviews and had some interesting tweets to leave.
3. They scored Remember Me, Dead Space 3, Kirby Epic Yarn, Metro 2033 and others higher than TLOU
4. There just a shady site in general after the Sim City diabolical and should honestly be blacklisted from not just metacritic but gaf as well.
This too :lol
BossLackey
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Friday, June 14th. Get off work. Pick up The Last of Us on the way home. Play for a bit while the girlfriend watches. Eat. Go see Man of Steel. Get home. Drink. Play The Last of Us until 3 AM.
Friday's gonna be a good day.
Friday's gonna be a good day.
You're not arguing about the review itself.
Normal.
Sandy Nipples
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I never even finished Bioshock Infinite, it bored the shit out of me, hope this one doesn't do the same.
Hari Seldon
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Alright thanks. I guess no demo for me then, saves me the hours of updating my PS3 after not touching it in months.
Bioshock Infinite was better than I thought it would be, but still fell far short of the "21/10, GAME OF THE ETERNITY, MADE ME BREAK DOWN IN TEARS WHEN I REALIZED THAT NO OTHER ARTISTIC WORK WOULD EVER AGAIN ACHIEVE THIS LEVEL OF TRANSCENDENT PERFECTION AND BEAUTY." reviews.
So yeah, my stance is one of cautious/suspicious/skeptical optimism. I don't doubt that it's a good game, I just expect that my own impressions will differ from the gushing reviews for reasons similar to Bioshock.
Why would I bother giving the site any traffic? He is a known (as in he himself confirmed it on Twitter) MS moneyhat, doesn't take a genius to figure out he'd avoid giving a game that is exclusive to a Sony console a high review.
Pretty sure reviewers gushed about Infinite's gameplay as well and it ended up being a tedious shooter.
KaptinKeezey
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Yes it does matter. Its not going to effect my personal enjoyment of the game but it will effect the industry and THAT is why we are on here talking about it and THAT is why you should care as well.
Reviews do effect sales. And sales are pretty much all that effects what kinda or games come out and what kinda of games we have to play as gamers. This is why I care and this is why you should care as well.
I think gamespot increasing has proven its self to subscribe to the method of blinding throwing a dart and at a dart board to get their review scores.
In gamespot context Last of Us is equal to Fable: The journey (also reviewed by Tom Mc Shit)
Hell the game might not be a 10 in my book, but I bet it isn't going to be an 8. And my guess is you don't represent gaming and what gamers are looking for very well if you give an 8 to a game like this.
Secretarial Dog
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D: gimme your friday
But not good enough to be remember.
That's fair but I hope it isn't unfounded.
I tend to think better of people than that unless there is overwhelming evidence that suggests bias and I don't think a 7.5 warrants these kind of accusations and all of this vitriol.
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