You must have missed GTA IV. It had probably 4x that. It's looked back on now with scorn for a reason.
The Last of Us - Review Thread [Emargo up, scores in OP.]
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You must have missed GTA IV. It had probably 4x that. It's looked back on now with scorn for a reason.
Yeah, very positive sign.
I want to read an opinion from one of my trusted neoGAFers, with the following things in mind:
¶ I want to see someone who didn't like Uncharted 3 and thought Uncharted 2 was pretty emblematic of the problem with AAA game design share their opinion on THE LAST OF US.
¶ I want to see someone who loved the Uncharted titles but didn't get into THE LAST OF US share their viewpoints. That would be fascinating to me too.
¶ I want to see someone who hates Quantic Dreams storytelling (and most games storytelling) describe their reaction to the narrative of THE LAST OF US. This would be very informative and telling to me.
It's just their opinion. People should just be up in arms because Polygon reviews are fucking miserably written.
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What dude? EMARGO is hilarious. I'm calling it EMARGO from now on in neOGAF lol
You can literally buy some congressmen's votes with $8,000 donations. Microsoft gave them $750,000.
It's not proof of anything, but that is a shit load of money.
hey_it's_that_dog
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I'll bet if you tried you could find 3 PS3 exclusives they scored above the mean as well.
A 7 for GOW Ascension is entirely reasonable and I say this as a big fan of the series.
AND it's fucking meaty?
Oh man, I cannot believe how fast my anticipation for LAST of US have turned around. Hope I'm not burning myself by allowing myself to get real excited now lol
and last of us 7.5 with metacritic at 9.5
so 1 of 5 times being out of touch with the quality of games in playstation3 isn't a great average. i don't think they are idiots. i think they know exactly what they are doing.they don't even bother hiding it.......
they are filled with ms ads anyone can see everyday. open VoxMedias information about advertisers,Microsoft is among their biggest. get real
Yea I know, was just poking fun at the bad opinion lol. Different strokes and all that.
SlasherJPC
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ViewtifulJC
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Even after the title edit, the mods didn't give us what we needed fixed the most
a voodoo doll of Emago LaGrande!
Yep lots of stuff to fine collect and unlock I see.
ViewtifulJC
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And Ni Ni Kuni is fucking BORING as hell. 6.5 seems about right.
Escape Goat
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How long is the game?
Uno Venova
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Just like UC2 Yissssssss
GoofsterStud
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OMG.
If my game of the year got 6,5 on Polygon and this gets 7,5.
Mind blown.
If my game of the year got 6,5 on Polygon and this gets 7,5.
Mind blown.
I thoroughly enjoyed The Last of Us after the first few hours. It goes from regular season Roy Hibbert to playoff Roy Hibbert. Thankfully, it avoid Game 7 Roy Hibbert.
Freezasaurus
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I want this game Day 1, been looking forward to it for quite along time...but i dont want to spend $60i havent seen any deals either
Must be nice to have that kind of self-control.
What? It comes out next Friday? Great! Here's my $59.99!
Vire
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Very interested in knowing that as well.
Oh this Polygon situation is starting to get interesting:
For those who don't know, Jeff Rubenstein is the former Social Media Manager for Sony and basically ran the PlayStation Blog. Here's the full Twitter conversation for those interested: https://twitter.com/jeffrubenstein/status/342394130497949696
For those who don't know, Jeff Rubenstein is the former Social Media Manager for Sony and basically ran the PlayStation Blog. Here's the full Twitter conversation for those interested: https://twitter.com/jeffrubenstein/status/342394130497949696
yes and also their only major sponsor from console gaming
no sony/nintendo. media are always involved in scandals like these you think a gaming website wont favor someone that spends more money on them?
some people must be joking that claim "its just their opinion its normal".they must live in fairyland
Sounds like the collectibles and upgrades in Tomb Raider lol. I don't want to derail this thread, but I loved Tomb Raider and you definitely did not.
I hope you enjoy TLoU though.
ThanksVision
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Does anyone know how quickly Redbox gets games? On the site it says Last of Us - June 14, but do you think it actually means day one?
Sort of yes. Indirectly anyway. They gave them $750,000 for a "documentary". But there are many examples of dodgyness that have nothing to do with this review. They're very close to essentially being corporate PR machines. Helping spin lies and all sorts.
Polygon is bad, but let's not pretend for a second that 90% of the other mainstream video game "journalists" are any less corrupt or that the system isn't broken just because they gave out a handful of 10s. The whole relationship between the press and the industry is incredibly incestuous. Polygon is hardly an exception.
Oh this Polygon situation is starting to get interesting:
For those who don't know, Jeff Rubenstein is the former Social Media Manager for Sony and basically ran the PlayStation Blog. Here's the full Twitter conversation for those interested: https://twitter.com/jeffrubenstein/status/342394130497949696
All this conspiracy stuff is just driving more clicks to the site. Gies must be laughing right now.
Isn't this the same "hivemind" stereotyping spun positive? You're painting a flattering picture of the forum as uniform when this thread -- indeed the page I see your post on -- abounds with instances of pure lunacy. The lunatic responses aren't "GAF" in general, but no amount of Pollyanna optimism can conceal their existence. In fact people of the mindset you describe seem to be in the minority in this thread. You say most simply aren't concerned about reviews one way or another -- To the contrary, I see many, many people obsessed with scores, already armed with fully-formed and inflexible expectations, who see literal conspiracy in anything that can't confirm their bias.
it doesn't matter what you see it as but if every other major publication has given the game 10, then a review of 7.5/8 is something that should be criticized. Polygon received MS funding of 750k and MS has also got some advertising deals with CNET, the parent company that owns Gamespot , a highly controversial website.
These 2 reviews wont matter since more credible sites like IGN and EUROGAMER gave the game 10 ,along with 24 other publications till date.Reviews influence purchase decisions and this is a high time SONY bans publications who review games on some sort of "personal vendetta" or some "viral marketing"
@jeff
excellent tweet you got there bro. These things should stop asap. These devs spend countless hours to produce something that deserves all the accolades .
You sound like a 9/11 truther but for something infinitely more trivial.
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Watched Adam Sessler Reviews in the 1st post.
12 minutes of him talking about how emotional the game madce & that he loves the acting, facial expression & story. Oh a few seconds he mentioned the 3 types of enemies in the game & I think he hinted that the game might be 3rd person shooter with some stealth elements.
This is why I really wanted Gamespots Kevin Van Ord to review this game, he is one of the few people who's opinion is worth a damn.
From all that I gathered, this game is Uncharted with some shitty stealth elements thrown in & heaver emphasis on story breaks.
Still the same shallow, linear, hand-holding, autopilot gameplay that Uncharted was?
12 minutes of him talking about how emotional the game madce & that he loves the acting, facial expression & story. Oh a few seconds he mentioned the 3 types of enemies in the game & I think he hinted that the game might be 3rd person shooter with some stealth elements.
This is why I really wanted Gamespots Kevin Van Ord to review this game, he is one of the few people who's opinion is worth a damn.
From all that I gathered, this game is Uncharted with some shitty stealth elements thrown in & heaver emphasis on story breaks.
Still the same shallow, linear, hand-holding, autopilot gameplay that Uncharted was?
hey_it's_that_dog
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Let's define "out of touch with the quality of games." It sounds like you mean that any deviation from the average is "out of touch," but of course this is a nonsensical definition. By its nature an average is useful because of variability in data. This means there are data points above and below the average. If everyone who doesn't rate something exactly the same as the average is "out of touch" then that means the majority of reviewers are "out of touch," all the time. It means the majority of data collected about anything are "out of touch" by your standard.
But let's take your claim seriously. We have the data necessary to take every one of Polygon's review scores for a PS3 game and compare it to the metacritic average and calculate an index of bias. Until someone does this, everyone should stop whining about Polygon and proceed to whine about something else.
He's playing it now, so you can at least get his take on it pretty soon.
timmaysmittay
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Seconded, graphic filters especially are very cool.
Donut Joel and Ellie anyone? The Fattest of Us?
Yea I guess he has no point then? Violent zombie games sell, I guess?
At least you are weighing the content and not merely the score attached to it.
mugoldeneagle03
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I wanted the last game I bought for PS3 to be a good one, & from what I've been reading it sounds like TLOU is just that. Too hyped right now! Game of the Decade? Sold.
Lol, they want to remain relevant.
EVEN THEIR TWEETS ONLY RESULT IN 7 TOTAL CHARACTERS
WHAT THE FUCK
i think having dignity is important. nothing will happen to last of us for a polygon lolreview. but i dont like fooling people by trying to look "honest".
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