get2sammyb
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I personally think The Unfinished Swan is better, but I still need to ruminate on it. Either way, both are exceptional games.
The Unfinished Swan Review Thread
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I personally think The Unfinished Swan is better, but I still need to ruminate on it. Either way, both are exceptional games.
BlazingDarkness
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This makes me so eager to play
LonelyGreyWolf
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Why would it matter? Seriously? I get what you're trying to say; people shouldn't care about numbers but what is actually said in the review (or rather I assume what you meant to say, as you didn't have time to say it I suppose). But nonetheless that's not how the world works.
And if the site is banned then why in the name of all that's holy is there a link to it, especially if the link gets broken automatically? Is this a joke thread? :/
From your words, it's very obvious to me that you couldn't enjoy Journey. You're saying you only play it safe, so probably you don't value the sense of an unexpected discovery, which coincidentally is what this game is about.
LiquidSolid
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Yeah, I was being serious. Were you? Because honestly, "not how the world works"? Just because Metacritic is the status quo, doesn't mean the world revolves around it. That's stupid. There are plenty of reviews in other mediums that don't even bother with a point scale or final rating at all.
And obviously the OP didn't notice the link was broken before having to rush off. And either way, one broken link doesn't make a fucking joke thread.
I agree with Eurogamer when they say the game feels like a incoherent patchwork of gameplay ideas (or something along those lines). 6 is too harsh tho.
As a frame rate whore, what I disliked the most was the first half of chapter 3. Cool ideas there, but 60fps was no more :/
First and second chapters are the best IMO. Last one is
As a frame rate whore, what I disliked the most was the first half of chapter 3. Cool ideas there, but 60fps was no more :/
First and second chapters are the best IMO. Last one is
just credits :/
GhostWriter24
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The 9's - "Gorgeous art."
The 6's - "Too artsy."
The 6's - "Too artsy."
NinjaBoiX
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I'll never understand how people can take one review as gospel, while thoroughly dismissing everyone else. Why not read a few, from a variety of sources, extract the salient points, then use that to make your own informed decision? I mean, I'm not saying you won't make your own choice, but why rely on one review? Is the reviewer a gaming Oracle or something?
9s - Critiquing it as an interactive art piece (2deep4u good art, i cried playing this game and it made me rethink my marriage)
6s - Critiquing it as a game (where da game at? barely interactive, limited ruleset, etc.)
Nope. He's just going to tear the game apart and label it a piece of shit for "art fagots" like he does in most of the indie game reviews he does. It'll definitely be the most entertaining, well written and vitriolic review of the bunch.
Kenshin001
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Acquiescence
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Damn, both Flower and Journey are in my top 50 fav video games. I'd be a fool to miss out on this it seems.
Waldo Lydecker
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Kenshin001
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Me too, thought it was going to be the critical darling to rival Journey. Kind of surprised how low couple of the scores are given it won best downloadable at E3. Sounds like they had some fantastic ideas that just weren't realised enough.
I am confuse, these are every high reviews besides 2.
Cromulent_Word
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The ideas are realized... IMO. And they are fantastic.
A few dissident views should not be at all surprising for a game that A) is very tough to nail down B) is short, on purpose and C) is very much about mechanics design, which many games aren't.
Kenshin001
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You know a couple means two right? Journey got a slew of perfect scores and rave reviews from critics. TUS, not so much. It seems to be in the 8 range, good game and worth playing, not GOTY material.
Kenshin001
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That's good to hear. The low scoring reviews don't put me off one iota anyway. I played Papo and Yo which rated a lot worse with critics and really enjoyed it.
GOTY is completely subjective, so i have no idea how you can say that
Jacksonlee
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to be honest, ThatGameCompany took 3 games to reach that critically well reviewed window.
Flow, and Flower wasn't received very well, (although flower is better than Journey for me)
the fact that TUS has review scores near Journey is groundbreaking. they still have 2 more games to produce. (unless they be one trickponies)
Flow, and Flower wasn't received very well, (although flower is better than Journey for me)
the fact that TUS has review scores near Journey is groundbreaking. they still have 2 more games to produce. (unless they be one trickponies)
Cave Johnson
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Wanna know the ironic thing about this game? It runs on the Gamebryo engine.
By what objective metric do you measure "GOTY material"?
How is it ironic? There are a bunch of games on PS3 that use Gamebryo. There's nothing wrong with the engine and like with all engine and hardware combinations, there are constraints that you have to work around. It would be ironic if TUS stored a shitload of data into the memory successfully and had no slowdowns or framerate drops but that isn't the case.
Flower's Metacritic rating is 87, doesn't look like this will match that.
Jacksonlee
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Looking forward to it, sometimes you just need something that is a bit more arty fartsy and more of an experience to haul you away from the "serious" "realistic" "AAAAAAA" games we get these days.
I was going to say, it was reviewed and received pretty well from memory.
holy crap, i thought it was in the mid 70 range.
okay... well.... Flow!
I was going to say, it was reviewed and received pretty well from memory.
http://www.gamerankings.com/ps3/669580-the-unfinished-swan/index.html
It's at 91.50% now without the 6/10 reviews, I think it has a good chance to end up at 86/87 like Flower.
I can never tell if that person is some unfunny, dolan-esque internet meme, funny to those wrapped up in internet board culture, or if people take his self-indulgent, undergrad Libertarian spew, laden with casual sexism and bigotry, seriously.
Oh well. I won't play it then. Thanks for making me steer clear!
That's really cool. I didn't think my page was loading right at first :lol
But yeah, sounds like a great first effort for Giant Sparrow.
Kenshin001
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What a moronic statement.
It is.
I like to think I'm a professional journalist, I do get paid to write f/t and have been writing for a long time - TSA / VG247 and many before that. Thanks for the vote of confidence though. You could always read the review.
I'm not a store, I work from home, independent of the store
p.s TSA review is awesome, NoFi being top notch as usual.
Uhh, that is probably not a good idea to get around the censorship.
SuperSonic1305
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Not enough guns and half-naked slave chicks 6/10.
No sure what the problem is really. Never had an issue with links before.
Shopto is blocked on NeoGAF because of the credit card shenanigans a few years ago.
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