Oh wow. Gaf works fast! Real talk last Nintendo console I owned was GBA. Once I had dispensable income Sony became my console of choice. I saw the pic and had to post it it's so much fun being a part of these releases. So many good games in a small window. We are blessed.
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | Review Thread
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Oh wow. Gaf works fast! Real talk last Nintendo console I owned was GBA. Once I had dispensable income Sony became my console of choice. I saw the pic and had to post it it's so much fun being a part of these releases. So many good games in a small window. We are blessed.
CaviarMeths
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Tied for 2nd highest after Ocarina of Time, fittingly enough. Definitely the highest scoring game in current review landscape though.
Honestly, with current review trends, it may even be the last game to score 98 MC. Ocarina of Time will always be the top game at 99. Nothing else is touching that, ever.
There was a review that gave it a failing grade in this thread. Don't have the link, but it was jamz or something like that.
brandonh83
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This game comes out tomorrow. What the fuck?
DuderMcdude.blogspot.com will give it an 8/10
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Not yet for a single platform in comparison to GTAIV. Across all platforms it's got a long way to go but that's kinda unfair due to duplicates.
Shadax the wizard
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Really tempted to buy a switch D: A DK (WiiU) compilation and a New 3D Metroid would instantly seal the deal though.
Tell me about it.
From what I've read basically every dub seems to be better than the English one. Keep it!
Interfectum
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Who are the heavy hitters that are left? Angry Joe? Jim Sterling?
Kadin
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Not gonna lie, I actually clicked on that link.
Schucky Ducky
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Is there an Armond White type figure in games journalism who gives negative reviews to heavily praised games just to be a contrarian? Not that it would matter, this is getting insane praise! Excited to play it this weekend 
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Deckard Chapel
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Well they weren't using phrases like "the greatest game ever made" and things like that though. They just praised GTA IV for being good.
VendettaRed07
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I'm actually sort of shocked that the most negative review so far seemed to be from Gamexplain.
Or not so much negative as it had the most "complaints"
Or not so much negative as it had the most "complaints"
There's no link tho
Milly Osworth
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It actually makes me feel warm inside this success. All the people involved with making Zelda are so likable and awesome.
Lol so did I.
Wonder who the combo breaker will be. Not that I really care, but it's just interesting.
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Oscar worthy gameplay.
Inferno313
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Seemed like Andre overlooked the fact that you can literally just throw a weapon to get rid of it too, you don't have to go into the main menu.
Lionel Richie
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Jim Sterling? Can't think of anyone else.
That's not really fair though- OoT has 22 reviews. Not saying that it's not deserving of that, but BOTW has way more to 'bog it down' if we're talking purely numbers.
Someone earlier asked if you take the same publications for BotW that reviewed OoT, what would the score be in that case, and I do have to wonder.
Version 3.0
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When you're shooting for the highest score ever, anything below perfect hurts.
But no, of course it doesn't matter. It's just that we all have nothing better to do until tonight than look at reviews and scores. It'll disappear by tomorrow morning.
Planisphaerium
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yep me too
brandonh83
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3/10 from Armond White.
I didn't even see this post haha. When I saw that Get Out went from an RT of 100% down to 99% after over a hundred reviews I was like, I know who, I fucking know exactly who did this shit.
Deckard Chapel
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Yeah, the Youtubers will come in at dawn. Look to the east.
I did too haha
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Danis Saur
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You mean I can play one of the highest rated games of this generation...
OUTSIDE!?
OUTSIDE!?
Resistance100
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I'd also say you couldn't compare publications with themselves now and when OOT came out. Would be completely different teams in place now
Yeah, the major sites all put in their word. Now we wait for the smaller sites to start pouring in their reviews. I have a feeling that just some website will give it a ridiculously low score just for the clickbait value and ride some 15 minute of fame hate train.
Come on now...
It is dead, I suspect. Opencritic vs Metacritic should indicate that it probably isn't like an internal 98.3 or 98.4 that is close to rounding up, thus boosting a 98 to a 99 would require a not just almost all of the rest to be 10s rather than 9s but also a very large number of reviews to come in. The Last of Us only got up to 98 distinct reviews. We're most of the way there already.
1) It is easier for a review to fall when it is near a limit than it is to rise (look at Rotten Tomatoes)
2) We're at the point where existing reviews are a pretty good judge of the average of future reviews (i.e. we have too many to blame it on selection bias or statistical noise)
Ugh what now?
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That's not how reviews work.
A perfect 10 clearly doesn't mean a game is perfect.
C'mon now.
Always-honest
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I doubt it. But 98 in this day and age with 5.000.000 reviewers trying to get clicks, i'd say it's insane that a game can still score this high.
http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/all/all/filtered
Currently behind OoT which has a score of 99, and tied with GTA IV and Pro Skater 2.
Currently behind OoT which has a score of 99, and tied with GTA IV and Pro Skater 2.
Ah, yeah. That's a good point. Hard to say really. We can't just compare the games when their context in release are completely different.
Deckard Chapel
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Yes!
Very good point! 22 reviews compared to over 60 is a night and day differential. If you would look at it based on that average, Ocarina Of Time would be in second place behind Breath Of The Wild.
CaviarMeths
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Yeah, that's what I mean when I say current review landscape. OoT was a different time. I mean, it's my favorite game and it tickles me pink that it's going to be the #1 game on MC forever so I can feel validated, but I won't argue that it would review the same if released in the current landscape.
Come to think of it, it did actually. The 3DS version is a better package and "only" scored a 94.
Lionel Richie
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lol I really think we wouldn't be able to deal with an Armond White.
Im hoping these framerates problems are overblown. I find it hard to believe that the game would rate so incredibly high, but have such problems on framerate. Im hearing it has locked up for as much as 20 seconds at times, that is inexcusable. Having huge content and world is not enough to overlook something like that.
There is word from some that say the day 0 patch fixes the framerate issues, but there are some that say it doesnt make any difference.
There is word from some that say the day 0 patch fixes the framerate issues, but there are some that say it doesnt make any difference.
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