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[tommib]

Finally got around to playing this. It's very good, one of the better games I've played this year.

It makes me sad nobody bought it and the studio got shuttered.

And whichever journalists slammed it (like eurogamer gave it a 2!?) should be ashamed.

A 2? What a bunch of assholes.

 

[Alan Wake]

Finally got around to playing this. It's very good, one of the better games I've played this year.

It makes me sad nobody bought it and the studio got shuttered.

And whichever journalists slammed it (like eurogamer gave it a 2!?) should be ashamed.

Indeed. Many of the reviews were utter trash and very unfair to what the game tried to achieve. It was never intended as a new Resident Evil.

 

[Alan Wake]

A 2? What's a bunch of assholes.

2/5 but still.

 

[tommib]

2/5 but still.

People just can't deal with lower budget AA titles with some jank. They're obsessed with polish turds made by suits. Depressing.

 

[mdkirby]

Indeed. Many of the reviews were utter trash and very unfair to what the game tried to achieve. It was never intended as a new Resident Evil.

I don't recall game journalism ever being as bad as it seems now. It feels like pretty much any time they say something is great, the player consensus is that it's trash, and vice versa. It's like totally divorced from reality. I don't know it got that way, or how anyone thinks that's a sustainable model for a business category that is reliant on trust.

 

[Alan Wake]

People just can't deal with lower budget AA titles with some jank. They're obsessed with polish turds made by suits. Depressing.

I feel that most of the best experiences are found among the AA games.

 

[Radical_3d]

I don't recall game journalism ever being as bad as it seems now.

How much you want me to go back? XD Remember when journalism was good?

 

[Vlodril]

People just can't deal with lower budget AA titles with some jank. They're obsessed with polish turds made by suits. Depressing.

But then they wonder why devs need to spend hundreds of millions to make games.

 

[mdkirby]

How much you want me to go back? XD Remember when journalism was good?

At least I remember having the impression of it being good when I was young....buttttt ive been a gamer all my life, and im in my 40s
Edit - Even during the peak E3 years I recall mostly trusting places like IGN and liking their reviews

 

[Radical_3d]

At least I remember having the impression of it being good when I was young....buttttt ive been a gamer all my life, and im in my 40s
Edit - Even during the peak E3 years I recall mostly trusting places like IGN and liking their reviews

Dude… IGN…

 

[mdkirby]

Dude… IGN…

It's a travesty now, but it seemed ok 10-15yr ago. For magazines I remember Edge being decent. I remember the pre internet days of games magazines tho, when they were all you really had to find out about games. Hell, if you were stuck, you had to make sure to buy them as they were the only place to get a guide as you couldn't google it

 

[Radical_3d]

It's a travesty now, but it seemed ok 10-15yr ago. For magazines I remember Edge being decent. I remember the pre internet days of games magazines tho, when they were all you really had to find out about games. Hell, if you were stuck, you had to make sure to buy them as they were the only place to get a guide as you couldn't google it

Meanwhile 10-15yr ago…

 

[mdkirby]

Meanwhile 10-15yr ago…

They were by no means perfect, but they definitely felt better than now. That aside, despite its failings, mass effect 3 was still an 8.5/10 game, rising to a 9 after their fixes imo....It SHOULD have been a 10/10 tho.
Replayed the trilogy the other year, its still excellent, and puts a lot of modern titles to shame.