Uncharted 4 review embargo lifts May 5 at 12 AM PST
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DoctorFling
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Really looking forward to the Easy Allies review, Jim Sterling's too. Hyped as hell, this comes out the same day I'm going for a fancy dinner.
vanDoughnut
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Me too. You think Huber's doing the review? Good chance Easy Allies gives out their first perfect score (next one to Persona 5)
xenorevlis
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That's a terrible comment. Can you not figure out why this would be the case? They want to avoid spoilers.
Acquiescence
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No it isn't. It's actually very sensible.
DoctorFling
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I almost don't trust Huber to do the review, his hype is too overpowering. But at the same time I want him to go all out...
I don't get it, you are taking a random category of a game X that is better than U4 and calculating the score based on it?
OK so MGS5's gameplay has much more freedom and more advanced stealth, but MGS5 has tons of problems that U4 doesn't, bad pacing, lame open world, shit story, almost looking a gen behind U4, not having amazing set pieces like in U4 etc.
So, because it has some better mechanics it's making up for all the things U4 do have and MGS5 not?
TLoU is almost perfect so here it's trickier but if U4's combat is better, and the game is much more open with more meaningful exploration, and the story is also great (even if not on TLoU's levels, but how many stories in videogames do reach such level?) than it might make up in its own way for not having a better story than TLoU (odd comparison in the first place as theme is completely different)
What I'm saying is that the overall package counts, if the overall package top other games in the genre than it will review greatly, if not than not.
0% of that happening
AgentChris
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This will get 90's+ with a few 7's and 8's. I predict a 94 at the end.
Yeah expecting the same here. Expect insane scores for this. Maybe even 96-97 :O
The Artisan
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there is 1 fan review on youtube. it's madd long though. it was posted here somewhere.
Fun fact - embargo lifts up, but you cannot post ingame screenshots in the articleonly official ones... At least that's the word circling around
Can't post any video, screens, or mention a lot of stuff in reviews. We can share footage & start streaming early next week.
Because the second embargo is based on the global launch time.
Makes sense.
Only wrote reviews tomorrow, videos should come up next week with the game, at least that's what I'm getting.
KneehighPark
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I was curious about this too. Maybe Sony provided B-roll to everyone?
Official review assets will be provided. Capturing footage for video reviews is prohibited. Video reviews can wait until early next week and then use their own footage, of course.
Terrible terrible comment, this is why we can't have nice things.
You should embrace this review model so you know way before the games comes out how good or bad they are and you can judge it and make your decisions without having to be spoiled.
Give their most polemic scores and I shall predict UC4's.
AHA-Lambda
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I dunno about their most controversial reviews but Lucy's highest score is 9.3 for ROTTR (looking at http://opencritic.com/critic/195/lucy-obrien) and Mahardy gave the Nathan Drake Collection an 8 http://opencritic.com/critic/1415/mike-mahardy
Anything under a 91-92 will cause meltdowns. They'd have to majorly fuck something up for that to happen though.
He begins...
That's exactly where I stopped watching.
Hi JP.
I'm the person responsible (for my sins).
The pic is well-deserved! I just wanted to say that whilst writing the review I put all sorts of stream of consciousness stuff on paper. But in the rush between work and trying to complete it I needed to do a final edit to fix up the intro and outdo -which I didn't. Next time I will make the time!
Jawbreaker
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Anything below a 93 will draw a lot of egregious comparisons with Metal Gear Solid V. "How could they score that turd of a game higher than Uncharted 4?!"
YankeeDonB
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I don't hate it or find it worse than average AAA game writing or anything like that. Sure there were lines that made me smile a bit. Just found it a bit stilted overall, and, despite voice acting, never really got attached to the characters (maybe it would've helped if I'd played 1?).
I like Indiana Jones as much as any red-blooded American boy growing up in the 1980s, but U2 really didn't reach that level of script/characterization I didn't think.
true - this is exactly what will happen if it score lower than MGS V lol. Then a flood of Quiet gifs
AHA-Lambda
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No matter what this review thread is going to be one for the ages XD
There's going to be one site/critic who gives it an 8 and it'll just get eviscerated.
Kenzodielocke
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Everybody should listen to the latest Bombcast, where they exactly adress this issue of people comparing scores of completely different games.
maybe years ago, but I don't think it's going to happen today. People have been referencing the UC3 review thread all week. Unless juniors come in that are completely not self-aware, I don't expect any outrage to match that UC3 thread.
I don't have a PS4 (or PS3) but I'm kinda interested to see what this scores with reviewers being harsher and all this gen, no doubt it's going to be one of the highest games this gen but I think 95+ is near impossible these days outside of (probably) Rockstar games.
My prediction is a 92.. The same as Bloodborne/Witcher 3.
My prediction is a 92.. The same as Bloodborne/Witcher 3.
The Artisan
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so basically what you're saying is that Uc4's pacing is not as good as Uc2's.
AHA-Lambda
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I admit, this is what I personally expect from it, enjoyable but familiar.
Fans are welcome to expose themselves if they wish. MGSV is unbelievably good.
ViewtifulJC
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you should play UC2 again, sometimes
Breakneck pacing from the start isn't always a good thing, especially for a longer game. I thought TLoU had perfect pacing and that game had a really slow first couple hours.
Yeah, I didn't get that post either.
ViewtifulJC
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the breakneck pacing of UC2, where the first hour of the game is about sneaking into a museum, and the second is "My First Uncharted Adventure" with Sully.
I know, right?
He's probably referring to the In medias res opening but that only lasts for a few minutes.
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