Optimus Prime
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I didn't know that, and I use RT quite often. Makes sense since the little quotes sometimes don't jive with whether it's fresh or rotten. That said, do the reviewers choose their quotes?
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Horizon: Zero Dawn | Review Thread
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I didn't know that, and I use RT quite often. Makes sense since the little quotes sometimes don't jive with whether it's fresh or rotten. That said, do the reviewers choose their quotes?
randomengine
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You might want to think about that one.
onemanasylum
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Umm nope, nothing to think about.
randomengine
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Id' say so. Nioh was also positively reviewed and +-1 has to be within the margin of error - for those of you who take these scores seriously, which I don't.
Same here!
randomengine
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Wow, ok, I guess I have to spell it out for you...
You can't quantify anything without numbers. Quantify, quantity, measurement.....fuck, nevermind.
What he meant to probably say was quality, not quantity. Numbers don't really qualify anything.
Either you don't realize this very obvious thing, or you do and just want to hate on me or troll me.
In any event that says more about you, than it does about me.
Gradly
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Thanks for the review and ongoing impressions. I wish everyone who has a chance to play a game to be such passionate and willing to just enjoy the experience before thinking about how to criticize or undermine any aspect of the game cuz literally I can criticize ANYTHING and find imperfections in just about everything if that's my primary goal but when my opinions matters, it becomes my responsibility to support developers and encourage people to enjoy a worthy experience if the game delivers. From what I saw and heard HZD delivers on its promises
Numbers quantify everything. They don't necessarily do it correctly, and regardless it doesn't mean they qualify everything
KZObsessed
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I think he's just being deliberately stupid. Can't be a slight when everyone knows Nioh is amazing!
onemanasylum
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Sigh, on the ignore list you go. I was talking about with regards to comparing two different games directly like that, it's meaningless, not overall,, Jesus.
randomengine
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I highlighted a very specific sentence. Typically, one would give the other the benefit of doubt, except when you don't like the other person, in which case you just assume the worst and shitpost away.
I don't dislike anyone here, but boy do I see a lot of torches and pitchforks when I post. It's crazy.
Finally you have proven my point. If Metacritic is supposed to be a measure of something and yet you can't take Game A and Game B with a similar or exact score and compare them, what good is it? that's been my entire argument that you disagreed with and yet you just proved it.
Is that bad lol
Nioh and Souls-ish games bring out the stupid hyperbole in everyone 'round these parts. Some guy was complaining about how easy Nioh is/was, but died over 200 times during his playthrough.
Just... what.
Lifejumper
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I believe they do. Not sure tho.
In movies a 3 star out of 5 is considered ok. a 3/5 for a video game is considered bad. If you read the US Gamer review I would describe it as rotten. I lumped all "Mixed" reviews as rotten, as others have pointed out there are only fresh and rotten on rotten tomatoes and people submit those distinctions.
DriftingSpirit
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Impressions thread +100 pages with almost 500K views. Review thread with 120+ pages with almost 500K views.
Ya got a big one on your hands, GG.
Ya got a big one on your hands, GG.
Kenzodielocke
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Uncharted 4 had 74 pages (100ppp) and 950k views when it was locked.
GAF hype doesn't really translate to real world hype.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=995216&page=192
That being said, it will probably do good.
DriftingSpirit
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Crazy.
Little can compete with a ND game in this regard.
It will in this case.
CRZYSPZ
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Between Halo Wars 2 and Horizon: Zero Dawn, it'll be hard for any other month this year to get me this excited (for game releases, at least). March may come close, but HW2 scracthes my RTS itch for the meantime (and the constant demand for a sequel from the fanbase) and Horizon: ZD covers the big new IP that I needed for the year.
It's really too bad Scalebound got cancelled, it and Horizon: ZD could've conquered this year as the two big new IP of the generation (assuming that Scalebound would've been good at release).
It's really too bad Scalebound got cancelled, it and Horizon: ZD could've conquered this year as the two big new IP of the generation (assuming that Scalebound would've been good at release).
onemanasylum
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Horizon is #1 on amazon for the last 2 days a week prior to release....Horizon is going to sell and sell very well. I believe in the NPD threads too retail insiders said it is doing very well.
There is a digital foundry thread on here that goes over performance.
Optimus Prime
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I've always thought 3 out of 5 was solid more than ok. Though maybe that's because I'm so used to 3 out of 4 stars for movies meaning it's good. I didn't mind the move to 5 star movie ratings; I wish more game publications would move from 10 to 5. Would make it a bit more consistent with movies (and music?). No one really uses the bottom half of the scale when it goes to 10 unless they really have something pointed to say.
Huh? KZ2 came out Feb/09, and MW2 launched Nov/09. I believe you have your wires crossed lol.
Edit: Already pointed out.
save that for horizon 2
with GG experience from KZ
i'm not even the least bit worried about MP.
if they do implement it, lol GOTG right there
That game had a ton of concerns in the previews and on GAF leading up to it, it didn't review well, and was a third person shooter with no MP. This is well review, ARPG that's 30 hours minimum and looking much more appealing.
GravityInsanity
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Is there something with AAA Playstation exclusives that cause so much traffic?
onemanasylum
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Why are we comparing the order to Horizon? LIke the situations could not be more different. Horizon will sell more launch week then The Order did LTD.
Optimus Prime
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I've read most of this thread and haven't seen many of these comparisons. Unless it's a bunch of people, it would be helpful if you quoted the posts you're talking about.
EDIT: Oh, I see. You're talking about Realeza's post. When you said "we," I thought you were saying the discussion in general, and I didn't see much of that. Maybe it's better to just ignore it if it's not very relevant.
solid and ok both work. I personally prefer the 5 star system, no half stars. When i finally get a review up on my site it's the method i'm using. It's basically the Netflix rating system. 3 is like, 4 is really like and 5 is "love it"
onemanasylum
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Alex Stroud
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Is there something with AAA Playstation exclusives that cause so much traffic?
Defensive fans on both sides coming back into the thread to argue endlessly.
onemanasylum
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I'd rather Not Recommended/Recommended/Essential (Or some variant of this).
Putting an arbitrary number on games is dumb.
randomengine and enigmatic_alex44 are both in the thread? Gonna be fun watching them argue with onemanasylum.
lmao!
onemanasylum
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Eolz
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Don't bother, he puts everyone disagreeing with him in Horizon threads on his ignore list.
It feels highly political when you selectively pick a specific review thread, like this one, to begin a massive tirade about how meaningless aggregate review scores are - the implication being you feel reviews for this game are irrelevant/meaningless. I know you didn't say that; it's the implication. That's why people get aggravated. It's aggravating me and i don't even care what you think. (With all respect.)
Omnistalgic
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Indeed...I hope it translate to sales...we need more games where the combat engine plays such an important role.
Wonder how the pre-orders are going. Pre-ordered mine.
onemanasylum
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Then he turns around and argues there is nothing wrong with comparing metacritic scores directly between two games , it is clear what his motives are. Please don't quote him though, got him on ignore.
Alex Stroud
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Is this thread your safe space or something?
Optimus Prime
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Yeah, I like the five stars better than the four stars. I'm old school, but was always confused with the four star movie rating system. That said, I'd agree with onemanasylum that the recommended/not recommended/essential is probably better. Forces people to look at the review. Though it does make it harder to compare with numbers, and people *love* to compare.
Part of it comes down to whether you want to give people want they want (easily digestible takeaways like numbers that can also be used to compare) and increase your visibility, or to take the more nuanced road and force people to read your reviews. Wouldn't be an easy decision for me. Good luck on your site and hope it comes together well.
DeadOnions
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Those two, Mass Effect, and For Honor make these two months pretty great for me. I'm not a Nintendo fan but I imagine the Switch will be a hit for fans aswell. Brilliant start to the year all round.
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