Not enough "UH OH HE'S RIGHT BEHIND ME ISN'T HE" humor? Now I'm interested
You're given a game to review for the general public. You admit the story is fine, the game is 'extremely generous', will keep players hooked and the gameplay is great.
But your grievance is that you personally don't find as much funny stuff as the previous games and thus you'll mark it down?
Precisely.
Sounds fine on console, but suggestions of a few issues on PC. Stuttering due to cache loading.
Or wait till it's free on Epic
So did I . I have the two hour steam window for refund so might take advantage that .
You're given a game to review for the general public. You admit the story is fine, the game is 'extremely generous', will keep players hooked and the gameplay is great.
But your grievance is that you personally don't find as much funny stuff as the previous games and thus you'll mark it down?
Precisely.
you are acting like 7/10 isnt still a decent score.
You're given a game to review for the general public. You admit the story is fine, the game is 'extremely generous', will keep players hooked and the gameplay is great.
But your grievance is that you personally don't find as much funny stuff as the previous games and thus you'll mark it down?
Precisely.
Come on man. Don't do this thing where you click the review with the lowest score and try to find reasons why it should be declared invalid.
You're given a game to review for the general public. You admit the story is fine, the game is 'extremely generous', will keep players hooked and the gameplay is great.
But your grievance is that you personally don't find as much funny stuff as the previous games and thus you'll mark it down?
Precisely.
Last time I recall that happening was Cyberpunk 2077. PC version was mainly good. But when the console versions were reviewed (especially PS4) the scores plummeted. They knew the console versions were rough and only gave PC codes.
Doesn't seem like there is one…outside of some minor performance issues.
PC journalists have no idea what the word performance is. Theyd play at 30 fps and still call it fine.
Context here is important. Weren't reviewers only sent PC codes? That doesn't reconcile with what you're asserting as some kind of gaming press cover-up.
Except technical experts/ outlets like Digital Foundry. Otherwise yes, this is very much true. Agree that outlets who aren't knowledgeable on the technical side should stop trying to be.
Why would the scores be lower? The main criticism is the poor performance on consoles, which they didn't play on for reviews. They played on high-end PCs with higher framerates.
Yep o was this close
to pick it up on PC but I'll pass. Even on switch 2, game key card can f*ck off but that's another subject.
Why would the scores be lower? The main criticism is on the poor performance on consoles, which they didn't play on for reviews. They played on high-end PCs with higher framerates.
Isn't the series primarily off-line? It always has been in the past. It's couch co-op, with optional online co-op.
Well obviously not, though. But I wouldn't score corrections from you since you didn't play it for review. I also don't want a review of a game's technical issues unless they're egregious. The vast majority of game press are writers and they write critiques, they aren't technical experts. That's for outlets like Digital Foundry. I want reviews of games to review the content and critique that, so long as it's in a playable state, obviously. I don't want a major outlet to spend their review trying to talk about frame-pacing and particle effects and DLSS and lighting that they frankly don't know anything about. Review the game. And if you want to see under the hood on the technical stuff, look out for the Digital Foundry review. Technical issues can be (and frequently are) patched and addressed. Game content itself is not, which is what these reviews are for.
This is the way.
Digital Foundry aren't technical experts in the context of console and PC games and how they run on their native hardware?
Digital Foundry aren't technical experts in the context of console and PC games and how they run on their native hardware?
Well that's certainly a take.
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