gaming_noob
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You're going to perm ban him for that?
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DriveClub Review Thread.
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You're going to perm ban him for that?
Birgitte2004
Member
Gamespot, by giving it a 5, says that out of the 66 other games they've reviewed on the PS4, only 5 are worse.
YOU are wrong. Gamespot can use the word "mediocre" as their description for 5 all they want. They are lying. They are calling Drive Club terrible.
And the thing is, reviewers aren't using a wider scale, except for a handful of titles. You can't do that and have a meaningful review scale.
Sounds like the guy would've hated PGR, too, lol. But for those of us who understand and appreciate sim-cade racers, it's business as usual.
flyinpiranha
Member
A gambling man!
unapersson
Member
They're useful because you can normalize based on the text, so if a review docks points for it not having a rewind or not being open world, then you can apply a correction
To be honest, I gave up paying attention to reviews for music, movies, books or games a long time ago. I value my own judgement more.
giancarlo123x
Banned
I'm still excited to buy this in a couple of hours after work. I must be crazy.
But Watch Dogs is a good game?
No, they aren't. WHY are you comparing this score to all other scores? Do you not comprehend that some reviewers like different things, and that they can judge games based on their respective genres and not in comparisons to all other games? If I was reviewing Uncharted, I wouldn't ask, "Is this game better or worse than Madden 15?"
If a review says that a game is merely average in pretty much every way, and gives it a 5/10, then how in the WORLD are they lying? That's the score this person gave it, and that's the score they decided best describes an average game.
To clarify this further
Based on current scores
Any score >86 or <64 should be considered as possible outliers. Any score >97 or <53 should be considered crap ;p
See, subjective opinions. I prefer my racing games to lean a bit more casual. I'm not really interested in trying to race "perfectly", so both cutting corners and a rewind button allow more leeway in races and make the genre more enjoyable for me.
crap. turns out I didn't pre-order it, it asked for my playstation password and I never went back to put it in. Now there's no discount showing in the store, but it says I can download the PS Plus version, then upgrade at a discount. when is the playstation plus version showing up?
It's just one persons tastes, maybe he needs stuff that explodes all the time.
MDSLKTR
Member
Damn and l pre-ordered from the PSN store last week
And you won`t even try it then it amirite? sigh what happened to playing the fucking games and making yourself an opinion... Worth more than any score
blastprocessor
The Amiga Brotherhood
Motorstorm was not bomba. It was a great game with a 84 metacritic.
All Codemasters racing games have it.
I need a long post to explain this, but in a few words I've seen good racing game players "ruined" in their skills because of this "button".
I love real racing competition and how professional driver spens hours to improve their skills on every turn, trying to "eat away" every inch in every point of the track.
The rewind button is simply against my philosophy.
If you make a mistake it's a lot better trying again after a few minutes, in the meanwhile you will improve your skills and your knowledge of the track and then, when you hit again the same point where you made your mistake, you attention will double and there are good chances you will not repeat the same error.
I thinks the rewind button is a very lazy option, maybe someone manages to use this option in a very good way, but right now, all my friends who are hardcore racing players just "hate" that option.
MidgarBlowedUp
Member
I really hope this is true cause last gen blew chunks. PS1 and PS2 days I read reviews for nearly every game I was thinking of getting, and normally if a game scored below 70 I hated it, 70 to 80 was always a coin flip if liked it or not, 80 and above and I really liked it. Last gen though, there were many many games that scored in the low 90s or mid 80s and I thought they sucked. I ended up just not even bothering with the reviews unless it was a really high profile game, and even then I worried a bit.
Wait, #DRIVECLUB doesn't have difficulty levels?
So it's a semi-sim racer minus the intricacies of Project CARS. Is suffering from a lack of modes, par of the course for these guys from what I played on Motorstorm, and has AI that is incredibly rigid in it's driving structure. So much so it'll ram you off the road if you're not following the exact driving line?
Reading reviews the game comes across as half baked. I know that's a hell of a volatile term to use in a review thread. But a fair few features appear TBC. I bought a PS4 at the end of the day to play Destiny & Driveclub, I was incredibly disappointed by Destiny and that trend appears to be continuing. :/
Reading reviews the game comes across as half baked. I know that's a hell of a volatile term to use in a review thread. But a fair few features appear TBC. I bought a PS4 at the end of the day to play Destiny & Driveclub, I was incredibly disappointed by Destiny and that trend appears to be continuing. :/
bananafactory
Banned
Yes it does, it has 4 of them.
blastprocessor
The Amiga Brotherhood
It's not so much that. Rather it it is the homogeneous makeup of reviewers: 20-40 year old males, mostly white, who have 5-20 hours to slog through a game. You also don't get genre specialists, so they are just content dilettantes/tourists. So, games that depend on good review scores to sell copies have tailor themselves strictly to those tastes. Reviewers are actually hired to participate in game design, btw. Games are made by reviewers, for reviewers.
I don't think it is a coincidence that the biggest games with the most passionate fan-bases are ones where reviews might as well not even exist, games like LoL/Dota2/DCUO/WoW/CoD/Fifa/etc.
85 is the dividing line, sorry.
It has difficulty levels for the AI so yeah it does.
These are real people who think the game isn't that great. And that's a completely valid opinion. It shouldn't threaten you in any way.
redblack85
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digoutyoursoul
Member
Yes l will play it but i'm still gutted for Evolution as i'm a fan of Motorstorm
Maybe they will go back to that
Don't like the closure talk going on, don't want to see another local studio go
See You Next Wednesday
Banned
Damn! I really was hyped like hell for this game.
I don't think there has been a 1st party game for the PS4 has lived up to the hype so far.
I really wanted a PS4 earlier this year, but couldn't justify a purchase when review scores like this saying that there is no must have game to get.
Whats the next big PS4 exclusive coming up soon? The Order?
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
Even looking past your baseless wager, you are comparing something that is 100% subjective to something that is 100% objective. If resolution and framerate didn't matter why not just go back to the SNES? People want to have a good time with games, and it is totally ok to want to have a good time where the performance and visuals look the best. Especially perfomance, because poor framerate or even doubling the frame rate can have a large impact on one's enjoyment.
He probably will try it (its not like he can return it) but he probably should have realized that there was a possiblity that he won't like it before he dropped money on it. The game even has a relatively deep demo (PS+ edition).
sturgboski
Member
I played the game a bit this morning (server was having problems). Have to say I was surprised when there was no racing line. Very used to it because of other recent racers. But to knock off points because a game tried something new (which isn't really new but just new for modern racing games) with the racing line removed is silly. It would be like knocking points off for no rebounding health in an FPS.
Bloodborne come out early next year too, you should try out driveclub though.
There seems to be a increasing gap between PR promises and actual delivery.
KefkaPalazzo
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Hawk269
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This was originally a launch title. They had time to add some common options found in the majority of racing games.
Coulomb_Barrier
Member
Don't worry, perennial high-scorers FIFA, COD and Assasins Creed will be pumped out every year for you to play, just like they have been for the past 6-8 years.
Looking at Metacritic, the gaming press is trying to tell us we should all buy these boring franchises every 12 months. Yay.
I don't think the PS4 will have a retail exclusive game score above an 85 until Uncharted. The Order looks mediocre. Again, and this seems like a theme this gen, pretty graphics over gameplay seems to be what's in. I'll always take gameplay over graphics (which is why I think the 1080p fiasco seems overblown to me). Bloodborne's pedigree has a good track record so perhaps that will do it.
Frankly, I think these reviews are spot on. I don't know why people are losing their heads. I expected more for a year delay.
JumpJeff84
Member
I'll try the PS+ version for sure
lolwtf
"This game doesn't guide my fat ass exactly where it needs to go and I don't understand
"As someone who loved the game design aspect of sunlight in the Forza games (particularly the color temperature deliberately overlapping with those of the braking line in F5), this segment from the Paul Semel review really made me happy:
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
bananafactory
Banned
I'll never understand the mentality of people who need an endless parade of 9 and 10 rated AAA first party games to justify their console purchase.
I've got around 30 games for my PS4, at least 20 of which are third party/indie. Even without any of the exclusives, I still have a great and diverse library of games to play.
Feel sorry for people who are close minded
I've got around 30 games for my PS4, at least 20 of which are third party/indie. Even without any of the exclusives, I still have a great and diverse library of games to play.
Feel sorry for people who are close minded
shark sandwich
tenuously links anime, pedophile and incels
I actually think that in a way, review scores are more meaningful than the text because it's an honest assessment of the reviewer's overall opinion.
When you play a game, do you make a list of pros/cons, carefully deliberate on it, then decide the score? No, you probably know instinctively how you would score it, then you attempt to put into words what you liked or disliked about it.