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ZombiU |OT| Zombi Emergency! WiiU WiiU WiiU WiiU
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EmCeeGramr
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i have the suspicion that eggman is attempting to rile people up for laughs or giggles by saying audacious and frustrating things
piratepwnsninja
Member
To be fair, I think it's pretty hard to judge the game based on reviews accurately when we have a 92, a 7, and a 4.5 currently.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
oh my god yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Great Rumbler
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The ZombiU banner was sort of interesting, but why does it have a British guard zombie guy? The guy in the same shined a flashlight on some doors and then opened them. There was some zombies and you could shake the gamepad. The disc is shiny and reflective on the back.
An excellent title. 9/10
An excellent title. 9/10
I agree it's also hard to judge a review accurately until you yourself have played a game or more than 3 reviews have dropped.
On ZombieU the two back buttons are to hit. When do you 'swing' the controller? :S
not_so_special
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well seems like people invested a lot on this game,you know,a third party launch game on a nintendo consola who can be a system seller,etc etc
some of the expectations about this game on neogaf were insane
This review did not make mention of the rounded edges on the disk. INVALIDATED.
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Deleted member 81567
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Why does it have to be arbitrary "3?" The fact there's already a review almost 30 (or 3 using a 10 scale) points more should lead to some questioning.
Of course.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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I hope this game is actually good and a lot better than what Gamespot thinks.
But it's a Ubisoft game so being bad isn't out of the question.
But it's a Ubisoft game so being bad isn't out of the question.
How about two low reviews? IGN's staff doesn't seem to hot on it either.
EmCeeGramr
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reminder that the original idea for Red Steel 2 (before it became a samurai cowboy fighting cyborg ninjas in the old west over a magic meteor sword) was some kind of crazy psychic ghost powers for the dude or hallucinations or something and there was concept art for space pagodas
i mean, red steel 3 might as well be a zombie game
TheGreatMightyPoo
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This is the right attitude, it can only go up from here.
Well, I doubt there will be any scores the same or lower, maybe one or two from someone.
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Deleted member 81567
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Really? They were gushing on their preview.
Link?
Ninja Scooter
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And it's a launch game. You'd think people would have learned by now that most launch games are not very good and will be in bargain bins a year from now. Same thing will happen with Xbox720 and PS4. You will get 1, maybe 2 actual good launch games and the rest will be higher res ports or rush jobs.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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IGN hasn't said anything negative about it that I have heard.
plagiarize
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of course. it still doesn't make sense to have a game where something takes multiple melee hits to kill where that something can't recover from one hit before the next hit lands.
I think he's talking about a tweet that people were just reading too much into.
Twilight Princess
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This is what's bugging me. I've seen mutiple vids showing players using different types of weapons(flares, guns, crossbows, explosives, etc), but the gamespot review shows mostly just clubbing zombies to death one by one and they seem to suggest its the only good way to play the game, hence the low score.
Comparing numbers from different reviewers and different sites means nothing. However, if you want to do it then do it.
Lets put these on the same scale and take the mean
92+70+45/3 = 69
92-69 = 23
69-45 = 24
So either way its a ~24 point swing. If you want to call the 45 an outlier you better call the 92 one too. See where your logic falls apart. Stop.
bobbychalkers
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JonnyBigBoss
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I'm doing the review for the site I work for and I must say that the GameSpot review scares me... a lot.
Wow, panic over a Maxwell McGee review?
Let's look at the past games he has reviewed,
http://www.gamespot.com/users/Maxwell/contributions
He is the "fighting games guy".... why the heck did he get the job of reviewing a slow paced survival game when he is mostly a connoisseur of the complete opposite style of game play; fast, fast and fast? He also doesn't look like he gets assigned the "big name games" either...which is something to consider when looking at the source of this, "I tried to finish the game as fast as I could because I hate slow paced games", review.
In my view, it seems that the powers that be at GS, when handing down review assignments, looked at the pending ZombiU review in the wake of other "bigger" games out now, and said "ehh, more Wii U 'current gen' crap to review...give it to Maxwell."
I am only saying this to calm the down the panic that ZombiU is "crap". I think there is more to the fact that the review was done in a rush by someone who does not prefer to play slow paced action games than there is to the game actually being a bad game.
Other reviews, by reviewers who actually LIKE this kind of game, will balance this out.
Let's look at the past games he has reviewed,
http://www.gamespot.com/users/Maxwell/contributions
He is the "fighting games guy".... why the heck did he get the job of reviewing a slow paced survival game when he is mostly a connoisseur of the complete opposite style of game play; fast, fast and fast? He also doesn't look like he gets assigned the "big name games" either...which is something to consider when looking at the source of this, "I tried to finish the game as fast as I could because I hate slow paced games", review.
In my view, it seems that the powers that be at GS, when handing down review assignments, looked at the pending ZombiU review in the wake of other "bigger" games out now, and said "ehh, more Wii U 'current gen' crap to review...give it to Maxwell."
I am only saying this to calm the down the panic that ZombiU is "crap". I think there is more to the fact that the review was done in a rush by someone who does not prefer to play slow paced action games than there is to the game actually being a bad game.
Other reviews, by reviewers who actually LIKE this kind of game, will balance this out.
Not sure how you can be scared of a review..?
shadyspace
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Because you disagree with it or because you've yet to play the game and now your expectations are dashed?
plagiarize
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whatever gang. if it's crap, we'll know tomorrow. lets not shit on a reviewer for having an opinion.
or later today of someone starts streaming it on twitch
So does this game have boss zombies or something? gamespot review mentions squirreling away the good weapons so you don't lose them if you die. This implies needing to save them for later, and being stuck with just the cricket bat for all the basic running around killing which I could see getting dull.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Like I said earlier and some took exception to, he might not have managed his ammo properly or found all the spots the "real" weapons were located at.
I've seen the same things, videos which showed at least 5 unique weapons.
Now I am sure there isn't a gun or ammo every 10 steps but the cricket bat for most of the game???
Not buying it.
WrenchNinja
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Activist reviewers huh
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
I will say, all this crap is a good argument for why review scores are bad.
Regardless of how the game actually is, if all we had to go by was watching the guy play the game in the video the way he did, along with his commentary, I'm willing to bet there wouldn't be nearly so much freaking out.
Let me put it this way.
When chatting with someone in real life about movies, and one guy says "dude I hated that movie it SUCKED everything about it was the WORST MOVIE EVER"... I think most people generally don't get angered and proceed to argue about it for five hours. If you thought the film was fine personally, you just roll your eyes and move on. Or make like a short quip about your friend's taste.
But if the same guy said that, attached a "3 out of 10" number to it, and his opinion was printed in a newspaper somewhere, there's much more psychological manipulation at play. And a greater chance you're going to freak out, and even start to worry that you don't really like the movie, you're now insecure, it's really horrible after all, etc.
I think even a thumbs up or thumbs down system would not cause so much drama like these damn numbers with their fractions do.
Regardless of how the game actually is, if all we had to go by was watching the guy play the game in the video the way he did, along with his commentary, I'm willing to bet there wouldn't be nearly so much freaking out.
Let me put it this way.
When chatting with someone in real life about movies, and one guy says "dude I hated that movie it SUCKED everything about it was the WORST MOVIE EVER"... I think most people generally don't get angered and proceed to argue about it for five hours. If you thought the film was fine personally, you just roll your eyes and move on. Or make like a short quip about your friend's taste.
But if the same guy said that, attached a "3 out of 10" number to it, and his opinion was printed in a newspaper somewhere, there's much more psychological manipulation at play. And a greater chance you're going to freak out, and even start to worry that you don't really like the movie, you're now insecure, it's really horrible after all, etc.
I think even a thumbs up or thumbs down system would not cause so much drama like these damn numbers with their fractions do.
An Edge 7 is a decent score. I suspect some of the bed wetting in this thread will end up looking premature.
I've said this before but I expect ZombiU to be a typically flawed but generally enjoyable launch game. One that gets generally middling reviews and doesn't exactly pull up any tress, but which will become something of a cult classic down the line and people will still talk about and play in 5+ years time when we are sat here talking about the Wii U's life. Reviews so far tell me that's how this could be playing out. Will be really interesting to see what Gaffers think about it.
I've said this before but I expect ZombiU to be a typically flawed but generally enjoyable launch game. One that gets generally middling reviews and doesn't exactly pull up any tress, but which will become something of a cult classic down the line and people will still talk about and play in 5+ years time when we are sat here talking about the Wii U's life. Reviews so far tell me that's how this could be playing out. Will be really interesting to see what Gaffers think about it.
I agree. This is one of the big reasons I really love quick looks from giant bomb. It's good to watch someone play a game for an extended period of time.
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Ninja Scooter
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or people can just stop freaking out about numbers?
LOL MT
this is gaming side, nobody stays calm. Especially at review scores.
Imagine what the other review scores that come out for the ports.
If he had nothing I can't help but assume he's died over and over again and has stored nothing. Or never progressed very far into the game.
shadyspace
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I really hope Patrick is reviewing this for Giant Bomb. If he says it's bad I'll believe him.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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What if the game is "so so" though???
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
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Lol oh man... I wonder how many negative stars Tom Chick is gonna give this game :l
Anyway, the game sounded pretty polarizing just going by hands on GAFfer impressions. Probably going to boil down to a subjective user experience as EC mentioned. I like the concept, and I like the look, so I'd like to give it a shot before writing it off
Anyway, the game sounded pretty polarizing just going by hands on GAFfer impressions. Probably going to boil down to a subjective user experience as EC mentioned. I like the concept, and I like the look, so I'd like to give it a shot before writing it off
Heading out the door to rehab but I just wanted to comment on this.
First of all, he has reviewed other survival horror games. You can see his 7.0 scores of Silent Hill titles in that list. Second of all, he gave DEAR ESTHER an 8.0 - you can't get a slower paced game than that, nor one as experimental.
Third of all, trying to dismiss someone's clearly earnest opinion of a game you and others have not played is really just something that one doesn't even need to criticize - it speaks on its own for the absurdity it is. If you want to try to pick and choose someone's "legitimate opinions" as long as they are positive enough to meet your metric of a game you never played, I think you'll find the slope cannot be more slippery.
Anyway, thread is hilarious so far since the review. Good way to send me off. See you on Tuesday guys!