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Star Fox Zero & Guard - Review Thread
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Well NOW this thread is gonna be gud
How can he consider himself a game critic when he gets paid to write reviews and instead he doesn't finish 3 hours games? As bad as a game is (which I doubt this one is that bad) you owe it to your audience if you consider yourself a game journalist to finish and score the game.
Always-honest
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It's Arthur Gies.
A lot of polygon reviews are fine. I just specifically don't like Gies (who also wrote the Bayo 2 review) because he has a tendency for bombastic rhetoric and being overly nitpicky.
Sir_Crocodile
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Yeah. He stayed in the cinema all night after watching Sim City, then he came back a few times and stayed less each time
I think they get their point across without needing a score. They didn't like the game at all.
Too many people here getting buthurt and attacking reviews with low scores. We knew this was gonna be a divided game. people will hate or love the motion controls and the short campaign. Assault got universally shat on but I got it anyway and loved it. So don't necessarily take reviewers word to heart especially if its divided. If your interested try it if not then don't. This goes with any game.
I'm actually surprised Guard isn't getting better reviews. I find the concept pretty intriguing. Then again, why doesn't that game have gyro controls when it would make it more intuitive?
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Deleted member 126221
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ITT: People can't handle the fact that different people have different opinions on games. Is it always like that in review threads? It's unbelievable...
To be fair, life is also too short to be reading Arthur Gies articles.
Yep, always like this.
TheSlySoul
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It seems an odd thing in games journalism where someone is given a game despite if they like the genre or not.
It is why I cannot take game reviews fully to heart.
Never forget FFXIII. I am still surprised that garbage scored so high with reviewers.
Tom Nook Sawyer
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And that's totally fine--he can hate the game all he wants.
But I think a proper review should be done by someone who at least beat a game that's apparently barely 2 hours. We know the controls take a while to get used to, and he didn't even give them a chance. That's his prerogative, but it's a poor-ass review if it's meant to reflect the site
Zomba13
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This game is sounding better and better. The controls are going to be fantastic and now potentially GOTY?
I was just regular looking forward to it but now I'm actually hyped up.
Is this your first review thread
Why are people complaining about the campaign length? Binding of Isaac Rebirth might be my favorite game ever and its campaign is one hour long...and you replay it and get good at it and unlock more features until you've played it 150+ hours like I have.
Star Fox has always been about score attack and finding the perfect route to get the most points. It's like some of you have never played an arcade rail shooter before.
Star Fox has always been about score attack and finding the perfect route to get the most points. It's like some of you have never played an arcade rail shooter before.
GrantDaNasty
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I never really understood why Famitsu scores get any attention at all, though my opinion on them is colored on hearing that (I don't know if this applies now, or if it was true to begin with) you could essentially just buy a perfect score, so long as you weren't also advertising your game in the same issue.
famitsu reviews are always really hard to put any stock into imo
Sir_Crocodile
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Famitsu "reviews" are a joke. A good review or bad review from them means nothing.
Orakio Rob
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Oh, man, I hated that Bayo 2 review! I remember posting my opinion about it here and being crushed by some gaffers who thought I was really stupid. Good times
Tom Nook Sawyer
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I fondly remember the days when they didn't used to be
I would not give any weight to famitsu reviews. They have a reputation for giving high scores to games that are heavily advertised in their mag.
Neoleo2143
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They're even worse than Gies review, they have nothing to give in terms of context.
The first time I heard of Athur Gies was when he claimed (I think this was on Twitter) that Ninja Gaiden 3 on Wii U suffers because Nintendo doesn't follow the standard created by Microsoft of having the A button on the bottom. That coloured my impressions quite a bit.
NaDannMaGoGo
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Boy Wander
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Gies personifies to me, gutter level tabloid journalism in the gaming space. Hyperbolic nonsense. Sounds like he's too incompetent to a) write a decent review and b) handle the controls. He makes aiming with the gamepad sound like it's on the same level of difficulty as plotting the re-entry trajectory of the fucking space shuttle. Penis.
Gies sucks, but why does he have to score the game? He just let the audience know what he felt about it. Would him slapping a 2 or 3 on top of what he wrote there change anything?
thebisonxrc
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Decent review scores. Seem to be describing the game as close to what I was hoping for. Can't wait to play this in a couple days!
TheSlySoul
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This fucking guy, a paragon of games journalism I'm sure.
All I remember is him not liking Bayonetta 2 for its fanservice and I had to tune it out so much.
Going to listen to Andre since I actually respect him.
Damn he must've died a lot
Looks about where it was expected to land. Not a disaster, but pretty underwhelming. I'm really surprised by the comments about the disjointed nature of the game and how little momentum there is to the campaign... I was expecting this game's problem to be the awkward control scheme and the technical limits it brought, not the game design itself.
Seems like a huge waste of the opportunity to bring Starfox back. Even if it's not a bad game, this doesn't seem like it'll rejuvenate the series much. All they had to do was just make a 64 clone with new worlds to see and wii remote controls (failing that, TV-only gyro aiming) and this would have been great. The kind of faux-innovation we got here only seems to have made the game worse...
It's frustrating to me that this game was commandeered just to show off the gamepad, and in the end it only highlighted how useless and ineptly conceived the controller is and always has been. Tropical Freeze did the right thing by just blanking the screen out and not even attempting to wedge it in in any way (yes, Mario Maker is great. Gamepad is still pointless for most Wii U games).
Seems like a huge waste of the opportunity to bring Starfox back. Even if it's not a bad game, this doesn't seem like it'll rejuvenate the series much. All they had to do was just make a 64 clone with new worlds to see and wii remote controls (failing that, TV-only gyro aiming) and this would have been great. The kind of faux-innovation we got here only seems to have made the game worse...
It's frustrating to me that this game was commandeered just to show off the gamepad, and in the end it only highlighted how useless and ineptly conceived the controller is and always has been. Tropical Freeze did the right thing by just blanking the screen out and not even attempting to wedge it in in any way (yes, Mario Maker is great. Gamepad is still pointless for most Wii U games).
God dammit.
Obligatory. Hope i'm not late.
I feel like that image is not really relevant these days. I don't think anyone is saying this game is terrible. The reason why most games don't go below 6-7 is that most games are pretty good these days. If they weren't and most games were actually terrible and worthy of a 2-3/10, the industry would probably crash.
DecoReturns
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I think the worst review thread are those with universal acclaim, but that one review that gives it a 7/10.
Look at all these 10/10, but everyone ignored them and attacks the 7/10.
Anyways, Star Fox is where I guess it was at and hopefully people have fun with it. It's nice to see the return of a classic series.
Look at all these 10/10, but everyone ignored them and attacks the 7/10.
Anyways, Star Fox is where I guess it was at and hopefully people have fun with it. It's nice to see the return of a classic series.
Complicated
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Arthur's "review" is amazing. It's basically the same as Dan's just less polite and without a score.
The experiences of playing Issac over and over and Star Fox over and over are nothing alike.
Because the site reviews score games so why leave one out? And I was more talking about not finishing the game not about scoring it.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Think Reggie playing Mario Kart.
ElectricBlanketFire
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"Did I mention that some mission critical audio is only available through the Gamepad's speakers?"
Huh. I always have the Gamepad speaker volume all the way off. I wonder if it tells you to make sure you have the volume on.
Whenever these threads pop up I occasionally check a few high/low reviews to see if some consistent patterns emerge. One comment that struck me was this:
"...it feels like the time for this type of game has come and gone."
This is such a odd notion to me. I think that ANY genre or type of game is valid. Sure, some genres may not be dominant anymore, but that doesn't mean their time has passed. I'd love more arcade racers like F-Zero and Extreme-G, or music games like Gitarro Man and Samba de Amigo, or oddball games like Super Monkey Ball and Chibo Robo. On rail shooters may not be prominent nowadays but if Rez or Ikaruga were released today would they somehow be lesser games? They're great examples of a certain genre and aren't somehow diminished because the current landscape doesn't focus on them. If anything, it makes them more special, not less.
"...it feels like the time for this type of game has come and gone."
This is such a odd notion to me. I think that ANY genre or type of game is valid. Sure, some genres may not be dominant anymore, but that doesn't mean their time has passed. I'd love more arcade racers like F-Zero and Extreme-G, or music games like Gitarro Man and Samba de Amigo, or oddball games like Super Monkey Ball and Chibo Robo. On rail shooters may not be prominent nowadays but if Rez or Ikaruga were released today would they somehow be lesser games? They're great examples of a certain genre and aren't somehow diminished because the current landscape doesn't focus on them. If anything, it makes them more special, not less.
AcademicSaucer
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Star Fox was never that good and we were all blinded by nostalgia ?
Nah, "it's so bad that I couldn't finish it" is a valid opinion. He doesn't owe anyone anything.
ughh
Yikes. I was expecting more 8s than 7s but looks like it was the opposite even with a few 6... I was thinking in getting this depending on reviews but I'm simply sick of motion based controls and judging from the reviews, the game seems more like Star Fox 64.5 rather than a brand new SF experience wich kinda sucks. Nintendo as always trying to rely on nostalgia and I'm also getting tired of that. Looks like I'm gonna pass on this one Besides. the game is $82 freaking dollars here in Mexico so nope.
Besides. the game is $82 freaking dollars here in Mexico so nope.I thought people would be happier with not having a low review score tarnish the beauty of the metacritic average.
(LOL)
Dude threw a controller over Jet Set Radio.
Welcome to every review thread ever. Fanboys will do and say anything to invalidate negative review scores.
Less expectations, so the game can stand better on its own merits i guess?