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Bioshock Infinite |OT| No Gods, Kings, or Irrational Games
- Thread starter Cystm
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When he opens that door and you see the main city is just amazing and beautiful.
Tuesday, get here please.
Also, just so we're on the same page, I think you can have a 10/10 review that is NOT full of hubris. I just don't like the hubris, good or bad. As long as you articulate what you thought was good/bad in a grounded, un-superfluous way, I'm usually pretty okay with a review.
Reviews are a dialogue on the merits of a game. Reviwers are not almighty gatekeepers of taste and culture. I don't need a novel about how long this took to make, or how it bridges the line between cinema and gaming. If you are going to spend a lot of time talking about that, it better be damn well justified in the product. I think there's a place for that (they're called editorials and they're usually done a little while after release), but not in a review.
Reviews are a dialogue on the merits of a game. Reviwers are not almighty gatekeepers of taste and culture. I don't need a novel about how long this took to make, or how it bridges the line between cinema and gaming. If you are going to spend a lot of time talking about that, it better be damn well justified in the product. I think there's a place for that (they're called editorials and they're usually done a little while after release), but not in a review.
CornBurrito
Member
By Hilary Goldstein:
10/10
http://www.ign.com/articles/2008/04/29/grand-theft-auto-iv-special-edition-review
Ancillary: subordinate; subsidiary; auxiliary; assisting; secondary in importance.
I suppose it's a bit of a reach. Maybe "neglible" would be better suited? I guess noncompulsory works.
I think we're putting too much thought into a faux IGN review.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
The Halo 4 review thread became genuinely entertaining when GB gave it 4 stars.
MUST RESIST. A FEW MORE DAYS.
Ah ok,it's still not there yet though,I have nothing in there...
CornBurrito
Member
Out of 5 I assume. Was 4/5 seen as too low?
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
So is there a way to get the OST if I'm buying the game digitally? I really want to give you more money Irrational and you're not letting me.
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Yep. You know how some people will accuse the reviewer for being moneyhatted if they feel the score is too high? Well they can also be accused of purposefully giving a game a low score to get more site hits.
26 hours here i come.
I think my fear of hubris comes squarely from GTAIV's launch.
Of course! 4-4.5 is rent territory! .. Now 4.5-5 is the real place where wars are fought!
Deputy Dangle
Member
God I hope IGN gives it a 9.9 like GTA: SA and Jade Empire.
CornBurrito
Member
lol. And here I thought that 4/5 meant really really good.
CambriaRising
Member
Restart steam.
I think IGN's review of Jade Empire significantly impacted my perception of playing that game to the extreme negative.
I was filled with almost nothing but pure disdain as I played through it, even though it was a very good game. I just had contempt that IGN could even consider giving out such a ridiculous score to that game.
I felt like they were trying to prove that BioWare could top KOTOR, even though they never have. In before Derrick.
Jade Empire was my first taste of IGN extreme hyperbole. What a shit game.
Thousand Cutted my way the entire. fucking. time to one of the sludgiest, most uninteresting stories I have ever experienced.
Ill never get that time back either and 2004 was such a great year.
CornBurrito
Member
For console versions, does the game run at a solid 30fps? Or do we not know yet?
Inferno313
Banned
IGN said there were regular, but slight hits on 360. People playing the PS3 version seem to be pretty happy with it, from what I gather.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Heh, not according to some Halo fans. It was pitchfork time.
I'll be picking it up Wednesday afternoon from my girlfriend's place, so hopefully by then there will be a consensus.
CornBurrito
Member
Is the PC version GFWLive?
Inferno313
Banned
I think it's steamworks.
CornBurrito
Member
Thank fucking god.
Yeah, I'm realizing that hubris isn't the right word. Hyperbole makes a little more sense. Although I think they do take pride that these are "early" reviews and they're "delivering" this review to the masses who don't have this "masterpiece" yet.
Unless you're just insinuating something mean spirited towards IGN, which I totally understand. XD
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
All this hubris talk is purely ancillary.
Inferno313
Banned
BioShock Infinite |OT| No Gods, or Kings, Only Ancillary.
The PS3 version gives players the option of toggling vsync.
valentine71 stated that the framerate dipped a bit on the PS3 when he encountered "many" enemies on screen. He seemed fairly happy with its performance and said it was better than the first BioShock on the same platform in terms of performance.
Do we know that he didn't prove it? Or was he banned for apparently being belligerent toward the moderators and FartofWar (Elliot)?
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
I don't know why someone would lie about having a game and then describe specific elements of it for attention.
I do know why someone would lie about how they got said game. His lack of proof only makes me think he pirated it, not that he never played it to begin with.
Remachinate
Member
I'm amazed by the cost associated with this game--over $200M between development and marketing. They have to be shooting for Call of Duty sales figures to recoup that investment. I don't know if BioShock Infinite has the same broad appeal as CoD, but it would be amazing if it sold as well. I'd love for such an ambitious game to get such exposure; it's that kind of success that would get publishers to invest in similar works.
He's embiggened this thread with such cromulent usage.
bodyofanamerican
Member
Hahahahahaha. Goddammit.
When I was a kid my friend told me that his parents bought him the new Megaman game that had Bowser in it but he couldn't play it because they had locked it up in the attic. He told me if I went into the woods to light things on fire with him he'd let me sneak up there with him to see it. I didn't take the offer. I think that guy's in jail now.
Well for me, everything he described was vague and had already been spoken of in interviews and previews. There was nothing new or fresh in what he was describing which would give off an impression that he actually had a copy. Being abrasive when politely asked to see even just the disc simply made things worse.
Aint got time for that Mickey Mouse bullshit.
Glad I didn't check the thread that day. I have been wondering what the story in this game is going to be for weeks now, and don't want the ending spoiled days before. Hopefully whatever was said is false and those who were affected still enjoy the game.
This took me longer than it should have to get.