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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided review embargo lifts on 8/19

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nOoblet16

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Wait a minute, is it really the first pictures of graphics menu?

I'm pretty sure it has been revealed since yesterday. Or more like 2 days ago.
Turns out the main reason (or so I am told) why he was called out wasn't because of the graphics settings but because he published his review a couple of hours ago today thereby breaking the embargo by about 6 hours or so.

That plus when he posted the menu screenshots he claimed he worked for Open critic when in fact his blog was one of the independent partnered publication with open critic. Which led to the open critic guy criticising him for making it look like an Open critic employee broke the embargo.
 

EatChildren

Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Seems our review is prepped for when the embargo drops. Cool.
 
Pretty sure those are his pics.

Turns out the main reason (or so I am told) why he was called out wasn't because of the graphics settings but because he published his review a couole of hours ago today thereby breaking the embargo by about 6 hours or so.

That plus when he posted the menu screenshots he claimed he worked for Open critic when in fact his blog was one of the independent partnered publication with open critic. Which led to the open critic guy criticising him for making it look like an Open critic employee broke the embargo.

I see, I didn't know that.
 

Nugg

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it's def going to be 0451

if they fuck it up like infinite did and do the konami code there is going to be rage in the OT let me tell you what....

Look at the picture for that trophy:

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EatChildren

Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Any hints? :p

I asked and this is the hint the reviewer passed on.
"If you enjoyed Human Revolution you might just enjoy this as well?"

2.5/100 confirmed.
 

Fledz

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Bad news: my internet broke, and it is an serious issue. They will come by on monday to start to try figure out why and hopefully fix it. :(

I feel your pain. We've had total loss of service for hours at a time for the past few days, with no real obvious reason why.
 

ekim

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Decisions:
a) Play the game early on console
b) wait for the PC release and play it at 1080p downsampled 60FPS+
 

danthefan

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That plus when he posted the menu screenshots he claimed he worked for Open critic when in fact his blog was one of the independent partnered publication with open critic. Which led to the open critic guy criticising him for making it look like an Open critic employee broke the embargo.

This is the main issue. The guy got caught in a lie.
 

Rappy

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We'd love your feedback ^_^ But probably better to email or PM us.
Just like it would have been better for you to contact Deathsparks about with these methods? Not to say that it isn't a good lesson or undeserving (Really? How can you call it a review if you didn't even play the full game?), but IMO it comes off as a bit unprofessional to be addressing this issue in a forum post.

I'm not trying to humiliate anyone. I was questioning OpenCritic's quality checks during the application process for the contributor program, and I was pointing out clear discrepancies between what their criteria is as stated on their site, and the quality of the content found on this Pixels Game Reviews blog. The author of the site can write and post as many sloppy reviews has he likes, and break every embargo in the world, but I don't think such sites should be acknowledged by reputable review aggregators. Do you?
I've been posting a few times about review scores lately and this is a huge issue with review aggregators of all types. On Rotten Tomatoes many "critics" have terrible quality reviews yet they are still counted as critics. Now some are just some no name blogs such as this OpenCritic case, but what about something like Rolling Stone? They are a "Tomato-approved publication" but their "review" of Suicide Squad told me hardly anything about the movie, or why I should or should not devote time to this movie (other reviews convinced me that I shouldn't). Now are you going to remove this one reviewer and keep the others from the publication?

Now this may be my bias talking, but review aggregators just do not work at all in painting an accurate picture on how a movie or game is. Their entire existence is to create an "at a glance" consensus on the medium it involves (at least, it looks that way to me). I don't believe OpenCritic can change this or make things better, but try to prove me wrong.

Now this is all off topic. How unprofessional of me.
 

nOoblet16

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This is the main issue. The guy got caught in a lie.
Yea true.
It was a mistake on his part to not make the differentiation between being a partner and "working for them".

Although I do not understand why he waited to publish his opinions until today but then published it a few hours before embargo being lifted.
 

Evo X

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Yea true.
It was a mistake on his part to not make the differentiation between being a partner and "working for them".

Although I do not understand why he waited to publish his opinions until today but then published it a few hours before embargo being lifted.

I don't think he was aware. Probably had his Wordress blog set to auto post on 8/19, instead of waiting until the correct 9AM EST.
 

Tovarisc

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Just like it would have been better for you to contact Deathsparks about with these methods? Not to say that it isn't a good lesson or undeserving (Really? How can you call it a review if you didn't even play the full game?), but IMO it comes off as a bit unprofessional to be addressing this issue in a forum post.

It was no accident to do that in forum post. Distances them from said critic publicly while kinda clears things and shames said critic. For sure unprofessional and very uncool as he threw critic into pit with those of GAF who like this kinda stuff.
 

Moff

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Decisions:
a) Play the game early on console
b) wait for the PC release and play it at 1080p downsampled 60FPS+

I am super impatient and struggling
but did the same with witcher 3, I would have relly regret that not playing it on pc
and deus ex is much keyboard/mouse friendlier than that

so obviously I'll wait for tuesday
 

silva1991

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Would be a shame and the biggest mistake since MGS4 getting it. Let's hope TLG kicks ass.

If TLG isn't at least as good as Ico and can't win againt at least one of the two ds3 and Uncharted and is actually bad then this will end up being dramatically worse than last year for me.
 
I think my biggest question is whether it's worth it to go with pc. 60 fps aside are the graphical improvements in setting it on high worth it? I dont recall the previous game ever being enough of a looker so it seemed most reasons were for performance
 

Tovarisc

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I think my biggest question is whether it's worth it to go with pc. 60 fps aside are the graphical improvements in setting it on high worth it? I dont recall the previous game ever being enough of a looker so it seemed most reasons were for performance

Well engine they are using, modded engine of what is running Hitman atm, allows quite high graphical quality so I would expect PC version look quite a bit better.
 
Yeah, didn't his VA go batshit insane and start screaming at people on the streets about conspiracy theories or something?

That sounds normal for someone working on a Deus Ex game. I just got past the part in the original where Tracer Tong tells me that the Illuminati is no joke.
 
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