Roberts
Member
8/10 sounds about right. Near the end of chapter 6 and the game oozes passion. Dark, chill, beautiful, funny, weird and sad in equal measure.
South of Midnight - Reviews Thread
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Does Gamespot's scale say that 6/10 means the reviewer gets fired or did they leave that off?
If a butthurt publisher investing a reasonable amount of ad revenue demands it .. probably .
KillerKowalski
Neo Member
"Where are all the unique ideas?!"
"Screw this game. DEI trash"
Can't make this shit up...
"Screw this game. DEI trash"
Can't make this shit up...
bbw_lover87
Member
Finished the game i give it a 6.5/10 its a good game, story arts and graphics are pretty good, combat is lackluster and enemies variety aint there, music is awsome, i think they should work on a sequel the potentiel is there
onnextflix5
Member
The whole hip hop protagonist and rest of presentation just don’t gel, should have focused more on the gameplay and less about how many piercings the main character should have lol,
San Dan Glokta
Member
Blame the retarded illiterate mainstream journalists for making that the standard.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Don’t worry; at the end of the day, this is a business and no matter what kind of “unique” ideas a game has, it still has to make money. If Tango with The Evil Within, Ghostwire, and the breakout hit Hi-Fi Rush was shut down, then there’s absolutely no reason why a subpar studio like Compulsion can justify its existence anymore.
Bumblebeetuna
Member
Compulsion very well could be shut down, but lets all be thankful corporations aren't as shallow minded as posts like this.
Bumblebeetuna
Member
This is a warrior mentality of thinking. A 7 is a good game. Rise of the Ronin with its 7.-whatever score, good game.
Redfall is a game that technically worked perfectly fine for me but it was god awful. The 56 rating it has is too high.
What you describe as a 7 is more like a 5 or 6.
vaibhavpisal
Member
I don’t blame critics entirely. If I remember correctly Gamespot got harassed for giving LOZ Twilight Princess an 8.8. How dare they gave a Zelda game below 9.
Movies, music etc don’t have platform fanboys who want their platform exclusives to all score above 90 regardless of everything else.
This has skewed rating system heavily. I pretty safety skip 90+ games. It shouldn’t be the case. 90+ games should be essential play.
Rocky_Balboa
Member
Seems this is a short game. I wasn't going to play it, but since it can be beat in about 10hours, maybe I will give it a shot. I'm guessing it will be a 6/10 for me based on the gameplay. I doubt the setting, characters and story will appeal to my taste.
Baemono
Member
How ?
And noboby answered to me on this: the Switch ports of games get lower MC scored than their PS4/5 counterparts.
Or how come The Last of us Part 1 as an awful score on PC (59/100) despite the game being recognized as one of the best games ever ?
How is that possible if technical aspects aren't taken into consideration ?
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Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
What unique ideas are in this game?
While the setting is refreshing, from a gameplay perspective, the game does nothing new that hasn't already been done and hasn't already been done better.
Maybe treating player like an idiot with negative IQ? Though even that isn't unique anymore
BigLee74
Member
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Death stranding is amazing, imo.
But, it was never about what platform it was on for me. I ended up playing most of it on pc.
For me personally it was just dedicating that first 10 hours that gets you hooked.
I mean I bought the ps4 pro death stranding limited edition console because I was such a huge kojima fan. I played the vanilla game for like 3 to 5 hours and was incorrect in thinking the game was shite for my tastes. Boring etc.
Once directors cut came out I just never played it again. When it stealth dropped on pc and xbox through play anywhere I wanted to support it. Gave it a good weekend of play while on medical cannabis and I was completely engrossed.
Had nothing to do with the box it was on, just that the directors cut after like 10 hours is great imo.
But everyone's tastes are different.
I'm just going to give this game a good go and see if it grabs me.
After ass creed shadows I've realised the majority of people in the gaming community are pretty pathetic with 0 understanding of a product. They are just on a hate train.
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Roberts
Member
That is the point. I mean you wouldn’t criticize Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland because Dorothy and Alice contrasts too much with everything else, right?
The game is about a teenager witnessing mistakes made by older generations.
Kataploom
Gold Member
Oh... Now I have even less interest lol but yeah, kinda get what you say, it's just it makes some uncanny noise when I see it
Topher
Identifies as young
Games like TLOU and Switch ports have already been seen elsewhere and so when the game is ported and looks like shit, pretty hard for the reviewer to ignore that. Games can be docked for being a technical mess (although typically only in extreme situations), but that doesn't mean games that are technically sound will have points added.
Baemono
Member
MK1 is a day one version (for eg), not the only example.
And its technical shortcomings definitly impacted its score.
Same as for eg deadly premonition 2, a Switch exclusive but terrible performance.
Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
Topher
Identifies as young
Which goes along with what I said.
"Games can be docked for being a technical mess (although typically only in extreme situations), but that doesn't mean games that are technically sound will have points added."
Baemono
Member
Which goes along with waht I said, aka I didn't say you have automatically 5 points added if the game is good technically.
But I discuessed this with you, no issue for me if you don't agree. I was mostly answering to the "but the math isn't mathing" and "this is warrior mentality" (which I don't really understand how)
Topher
Identifies as young
That's fair. I think the "warrior" comment is made in general and not specific to you. You don't come across as the warrior type to me. The math says 5 is mid. Not really a way to get around that.
RedC
Gold Member
In this case, I would say the sum is greater than the parts.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
South of Concord.
Guess we’ll see how it does after the full release, but it’s pretty unusual for a game to do worse on Sunday than on Saturday. Maybe people finished it in 2 days?
Redfall was quite widely condemned as a technical mess with bugs galore, which is how it was able to (just) dip below the 60 metacritic floor for non-broken high profile games.
The game being sufficiently technically broken is the only thing which most reviewers feel gives them cover to give a high profile game an actually bad review score, rather than the classic 7 which for a high profile game is intended to communicate 'it's meh' to the reader while still being nominally defendable as 'a good score, honest, please don't punish us' to the publisher. The reader, reviewer and publisher all know that it is in fact not a good score for a high profile game, but it's where the compromise has been reached for what the publisher will allow.
The game being sufficiently technically broken is the only thing which most reviewers feel gives them cover to give a high profile game an actually bad review score, rather than the classic 7 which for a high profile game is intended to communicate 'it's meh' to the reader while still being nominally defendable as 'a good score, honest, please don't punish us' to the publisher. The reader, reviewer and publisher all know that it is in fact not a good score for a high profile game, but it's where the compromise has been reached for what the publisher will allow.
Kacho
Member
Unlocks in an hour. You place your bets.
South of Concord.
Guess we’ll see how it does after the full release, but it’s pretty unusual for a game to do worse on Sunday than on Saturday. Maybe people finished it in 2 days?
MiguelItUp
Member
I don't think anyone expected this game to do outstanding numbers, at least I'd hope not, lmao. The game always gave me AA energy, I thought it was pretty weird when MS took time to talk about it like it was something bigger. Just another one of those, "People that are interested in it will play it and likely enjoy it to some degree, while those that aren't won't." and that's really it.
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DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
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Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
Rooting for you compulsion
bender
What time is it?
1.2 billion
Little Chicken
Gold Member
Millions of people playing on Game Pass > some weird Steam graph.
coachmcguirk91
Member
Sure, it's a AA game. It doesn't change the facts that the budget is probably between 30-50mil. Even a AA game like SOM has metrics of success. All indications point to this game being a massive bomb. Someone has to answer for that. Hopefully the studio survives
