Fess
Member
Kind of hilarious after seeing the IGN review where he says there is bearly any enemy variety and they place bears all over the place
GHG
Gold Member
Angry_Megalodon
Member
Scores are irrelevant in the current media climate. Indy looks and plays great. This one doesn't. Technically it's very poor and it shows. This is a slop very much like Starfield or anything made by EA or Ubisoft.
LectureMaster
Has Man Musk
It's fair, he was not paid to shill. He really just had a dumb opinion.
How could someone that is regarded being versed in crpg and have BG3 as his all time favorite thinks Veilguard is goty 2024?
Must be a temporal dementia.
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Lokaum D+
Member
DAV was one of his picks for GOTY he lost all his credibility to me.
Banjo64
cumsessed
Metroid Prime 4 cometh.
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
I wonder if it's this bad on console. I skip any game that's breaking save files until that's fixed.
Gonzito
Gold Member
Its a shame because KCD2 should have minimum a 90 in metacritic
Kacho
Member
He's just trying to grow his channel, which is fine, but he damaged his credibility in the process. I can't take recommendation from him seriously anymore.
GHG
Gold Member
Giallo Corsa
Member
Tomeru
Member
Im not commenting on how good or bad it was (didnt play it), just on the critic scores vs gamers opinion. We know atleast it sold poorly, so the jury is still out on this one.
Warrior.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Draugoth
Gold Member
It's February and he thinks it's GOTY?
LectureMaster
Has Man Musk
Guy made the wrong bet. Trying to pandering Veilguard that just sold 1.5 m.
Should have picked Wukong to praise, imagine the overwhelming China power he could've got!
LectureMaster
Has Man Musk
LMAO, my man, we were talking about derailed Veilguard.
ShadyAcshuns
Member
Well, I can't confirm this but the info I've heard is it's only a code in the box, and only available with special editions.
ElFenomeno
Member
Meanwhile a Czech studio with budget of 40 million:
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GHG
Gold Member
Welp, you done goofed man, he's gonna come back at you either with "AcKtuaLLy...®", "rent free®", clown and laughing emojis now - or all maybe all of those combined
Although it's what I expected, he couldn't even muster that.
This one must sting.
P:axMagellanic
Member
He's already admitted in his comments that playing these shit games is all this fella does with his life (outside of taking his kid to school occasionally and eating).
That's a miserable, depressives existence and he can't possibly be enjoying any of these games. His pineal gland is fried.
Digital-Aftertaste
Member
I'll get it if an easy to mod game.
BigBeauford
Member
Not to mention his very lukewarm recommendation for KCD2.
GHG
Gold Member
It was so bad that people have started questioning his "100%" gimmick. Some of the achievements he has magically managed to attain would take months of normal play to get.
This guy is likely taking the Elon Musk approach to game reviews. The things people will do for popularity and recognition.
Kacho
Member
I need to watch that. He's rarely critical of games and when he is he always follows it up with vague praise. I find his content completely vapid.
GymWolf
Gold Member
I played more than 30 hours of veilguard, you don't fucking need to 100% to know all the flaws like the pedestrian enemy design, the goody2shoes writing, the modern california woke etc., what the hell is this bullshit narrative?If his schtick is that he 100%'s all games before reviewing, he probably knows more what he's talking about than most
Do you also keep in high regard opinions from people with a lot of platinum trophies by any chance?
Dude just has shit taste or he cashed a fat check from EA because he has a following and they were probably desperate to make look the game better.
LectureMaster
Has Man Musk
BigBeauford
Member
The tone of his entire review was tepid AF.
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
He's not the only one going for the MoDeRn AuDiEnCe
GHG
Gold Member
LectureMaster
Has Man Musk
Bernardougf
Member
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Do you also keep in high regard opinions from people with a lot of platinum trophies by any chance?
Not in every case but when someone with 100+ hours into a game says it's well worth your time, it means something from their point of view.
Not that a game with 80~ aggregate is poorly reviewing or anything, mind you.
twilo99
Member
What game isn't good for gamepass?
amigastar
Member
True, people act like its a 65 or something.
GHG
Gold Member
LectureMaster
Has Man Musk
The 100% approach made me wonder when he claimed he did so with Yakuza 8. Because by his standard, 100% means not only achievements, but everything inside out the game.
That means clearing Virtual fighter with the whole roster, win pool, dart, baseball, etc. in all modes, finish all karaoke songs with perfect score, etc. There are literally hunderds of this challenges, how could he possibly finish all of this before game release?
Either he cheated or he did not do every as he claimed for the game.
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GymWolf
Gold Member
Maybe he meant to say bust in the series?!
Zacfoldor
Member
It got a 7/10 from IGN and a 6/10 from Gamespot. These are heavily weighted websites. These bad review scores got split out. Gamespot only got counted for PC(which is currently setting at a 79) with IGN only counted for the Xbox console. Can anyone confirm this is correct?
Feels like the game has hung on to 80 too long. Feels artificial. MS playing fuck fuck games with the code distro again?
Metacritic aside, 7/10 from IGN and 6/10 from Gamespot is super, super shitty and an absolutely devastating score from the two biggest gaming websites. 6/10 from Gamespot the game will never live that down. With the way this game is priced on PC, I can't see it picking up many sales outside of gamepass. If the game had niche appeal or had a lower profile and lower need for profits this would not be that bad(though venturing into 7s on metacritic and having the two biggest gaming websites give you mediocre and bad review scores respectively) means one thing.
Review scores did not help this one. It will need to get by on word of mouth. It did not score high enough to outrank the woke creator, so this game will be doomed imho. There are too many haters, the game costs too much, and the game isn't good enough to push past it with quality. If I'm wrong I'm wrong, I will gladly admit it and eat crow if this game sells well or even has a high steam concurrent player count.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Most of us enthusiasts can watch a few videos and read some exerts to know if a game is up our alley or not.
We don't need to rely on the Nu-gamer to tell us a thing.
LectureMaster
Has Man Musk
Mortisfacio
Member
Agreed. Some of the hate around Indy just seemed to be "I can't play it yet, so I hate it". Indy looked and felt kind of jank at times, but otherwise was very well done and charming. Loved it overall.
This... just feels off. There's some nice art design that I like, but the vibe, combat, dialogue, etc. so far nothing looks actually compelling. Where Indy looked bad to great to me on varying things (story, writing, combat, etc.) at initial preview, everything here looks bad to mid to me.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
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