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Low-budget indie films get plenty of reviews even if they're released with no buzz. For example Monos has more critic reviews on rotten tomatoes than The Witcher 3 has on opencritic. A film critic can usually review 3-5 films a week while most game critics don't review more than 1 game a week since the time to complete them is just that much longer. A game critic can't afford to waste time on small trash indie releases while trying to keep up with the big releases; meanwhile a film critic does not have that limitation. Inevitably a film critic will see a wider range of films to judge big releases against.
Lol it topped even Shadow of War and Battlefront when it comes to AAA pr nightmares:
> Fallout 76 is in the bottom 11.1% of games scored on OpenCritic
> Star Wars Battlefront is in the bottom 48.2% of games scored on OpenCritic
> Middle-earth: Shadow of War is ranked in the top 13.7% of games scored on OpenCritic
What's even more interesting is that two other AAAs got trashed for aggressive in-game real currency stores, whereas Fallout 76 is simply bad.
Pretty much anyone who's reviewed it have said that HL:Alyx is without a doubt one of the greatest VR games ever made, and is even among one of the best games in general.
It has a 93 Metacritic Score and a 9.1 user score as well. On OpenCritic it sits at an impressive 92, with 97% of all critics recommending it.
I've also played it all the way to the end, and I gotta tell you, it has honestly been worth every penny I've paid. I had the Vive before, upgraded to the Index back in November, and while I've had many hours in other VR games, none of them have managed to compare to Alyx.
Open critic has a few more professional reviews, but the score's not doing much differently there, only getting a 54 so far.
> Fallout 76 is in the bottom 9.9% of games scored on OpenCritic
> Based on 15 scored reviews, 22 reviews total.
Firstly, it's perfectly fine if you don't like it but it is critically well-received. Secondly, many IPs below the top echelon can drown on external circumstances like lack of marketing and timing rather than just purely audience playing experience.
Hey! The /r/games review threads like this one are created via script with data from OpenCritic. If you want your reviews to be a regular part of the threads, contacting OpenCritic is the way to go.
I mean, 5-10 scale aside, RDR2 received superlative reviews from critics. It's sitting in the top "0.0%" of games at opencritic – that's the most highly rated game of all time, if I'm reading that right.
I do agree that game reviews can be deceptive. It takes time for critical consensus to form, and launch day reviews are going to be shooting from the hip, so to speak. I do think there's an interesting disparity for RDR2 in particular, where the game has some big areas that are obstacles for a lot of people, which reviews either glossed over or didn't mention at all.
You will find plenty other reviews saying the grind and pay 2 progress mechanics are the main downside here:
81 so better than Beyond but worse than Heavy rain, rating wise for now.
81 on opencritics too https://opencritic.com/game/5804/detroit-become-human
Is this the okay game that everybody feared ? Will David Cage get a free pass from the SBF ? Find out on the next arc of the Sadness LP.
>i noticed that the has been a single thread for every low review.
If you're implying that people are not posting high reviews.... that's because practically every big publication has given it under 6.5/10:
https://opencritic.com/game/6227/fallout-76
And there's only 3 review sites that rated it above 7.5, with one of them being chinese.
The reviews are upvoted because the game is new and part of a huge AAA franchise. If RDR2 or AC Odyssey had no advanced review copies either, I'm sure the same would happen to them.
Just so you guys know, opencritic already does this. This site is also a great alternative to metacritic, so give it a shot!
You can also import it into your google calendar.
Yeah and look at his other reviews. Think someone this bad should be voicing their published opinion on Battlefield or The Division, or fuckin Gears of War?
For anyone who has never heard of the game: Rivals of Aether is basically a smash clone, but like a really, really well made one. If I ranked how I liked smash games based on 1-on-1 play (just my hot-take) it would go something like:
- Melee
- Rivals of Aether
- Project M
- Smash Ultimate
- Smash 64
- (the rest)
A few highlights for why you might consider buying it:
- Design of characters kits is extremely unique, varied, and balanced with different moves interacting or synergizing in great ways
- Far less campy than any other smash title due to high movement speed, snappy controls, and shielding being replaced by a parry mechanic
- DI (directional influence) is ~5x as strong compared to smash titles which leads to two things: you have more control over your character when being hit and combos are far more dynamic/reactionary based on how your opponent DIs
- Lots of good "tournament legal" stages! All of them besides maybe one last I checked!
- Abyss mode is some of the best singleplayer content of any smash game
- Inputs and 'tech' have much nicer timings/Quality-of-Life
Yeah, that's what I dont get about people complaining about Horizon. Obviously it isn't no Naughty Dog level on animation n stuff, cuz it's an open-world game. When it came out in 2017 it was uncontested. Since then Red Dead and AC Odyssey came out and they do look a bit better. But I totally prefer Horizon to AC games. It's way more engaging and not as tedious, plus the combat is actually fun.
Even it's metacritic and opencritic score is higher than any Ubisoft open world game, and they've made way too many.
It's crazy that guerrila did it with their first try, imagine what they'll cook up for the sequel.
> I would recommend you don't get swayed by such a review and try the game yourself.
It's not "such a review" it's every review. EVERY REVIEW
https://opencritic.com/game/6227/fallout-76
It's at a 55 across 44 reviews, with ZERO of them recommending the game.
FO76 fans needs to get off this tinfoil hat idea that the game is just getting dumped on unfairly by a couple reviewers. Every single goddamn review is dumping on the game. You can like the game, and I'm glad for you that you like the game, but it's a bad game.
This weird little narrative in the FO76 community that no one should believe the reviewers and just buy the game is absurd. Begging people to waste $60 on a shitty game is a major part of the reason that Bethesda released a shitty $60 game.
https://opencritic.com/game/5868/masters-of-anima?tab=1
https://opencritic.com/game/1662/the-surge?tab=1
https://opencritic.com/game/1748/shiness-the-lightning-kingdom?tab=1
Finding videos is not the same as official reviews.
Yep, they needed a score of 85, and they got 83 I think.
Worst is Metacritic weight scores from different publications differently, so it's not even a proper average.
Even if you look at a recent example like A Plague Tale: Innocence at the time of writing, it has 54 reviews, which if you add them up and find the average is actually over 82, not the claimed 81, and that's not even the worst example.
Also of note in that list is that IGN gets two separate scores, their Italian website scored it 90, but the US one 70, (or is it 7/10). I just don't think it's right that one publication gets two scores on there.
If you must use an aggregator use https://opencritic.com/ but even still, I'm against the idea of scores put into an average anyway.
It's currently at 54/100 average on Opencritic (all platforms) but none of the large sites gave it a score yet...
https://opencritic.com/game/6227/fallout-76
> Fallout 76 is in the bottom 9.9% of games scored on OpenCritic
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Mechanically? About the same. There is a freeze time mechanic where you try to make as many lines in a limited window for points but it doesn't count towards your total line count. What makes this game special is it's presentation. It's spacey, strange, intimate, cozy, and bizarre. The main mode, Journey, had me tearing up at the end.
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I can't really describe what makes it special, but it is.
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Try the reviews here: https://opencritic.com/game/6863/tetris-effect
Good news everyone Hitman 2 reviews are out and the common consensus is that if you liked the previous one than chances are good you'll like this one
https://opencritic.com/game/6215/hitman-2?tab=1&reviewId=124130
Wait, what? I'm not sure what you listened to that lead you to believe it was poorly reviewed, but that's just not true. Far Cry 5 was pretty damn well received. A lot of people have said it's one of the best in the series. It was certainly received far better than Primal was.
Obviously people have different tastes, and no game is for everyone, but the claim that it reviewed poorly is just nonsense.
What did everyone put as the predicted score? I put 86, but I haven't been close with a prediction yet. I gave God of War a predicted score of 87 and I was a little off. The only thing I'm good at predicting is Oscar winners, and that's because it's much more obvious.
One nice thing you can say about 2019 for gaming it sure started off with a bang
https://opencritic.com/game/1532/kingdom-hearts-iii
https://opencritic.com/game/6848/resident-evil-2
I mean how many years in gaming can claim to have had two big budgeted 9/10 games released in the first month alone (to be fair 2017 came close with Yakuza 0 and Resi 7). I hope that 2019 will be similar to 2012-2013 in terms of being a great last horah for a setting console generation.
So Vampyr was released today and from the reviews the main vibe I'm getting is its one those double AA flawed but at the very least unique games
https://opencritic.com/game/6160/vampyr
I probably won't pick it up until its on sale but when I do I hope I enjoy it as much as the surge.
"swimming in 7s" is a nice term, but its meaning changes when it's all a publisher has after Sea of Thieves and Crackdown 3. A game that fell off the earth and has been MIA since summer last year, if it ever comes out
In the Cyberpunk 2077 Review Megathread, Giant Bomb's "review" is shown, complete with a link to live chat, as follows -
>>Early Impressions Discussion: They should have delayed this game even more
>>One word: undercooked
So I'm looking forward to listening to Jeff and Jeff get into it.
Well, there are way more positive reviews than the negative one. According to OpenCritic, there are 5 perfect scores and just one negative one
That's because people like you who didn't actually play the game gave it 0. The metacritic score was 2.2 the second the game came out, which meant people gave it the score without even playing it. Definitely review bombing. Metacritic even changed their user review policy so that people have to wait 36 hours after the game released because the amount of people reviewing it the second it was released was unprecedented. Read the user reviews that give it 0, none of them talk about the game they just talk about "sjws" and "politics".
https://opencritic.com/game/8351/the-last-of-us-part-ii
Pretty good scores from people who actually played it (unlike you)
Yeah-it's not like you have tools on Steam to get rid of those meme & brigading reviews-isn't it?
Man-FUCK opencritic
A literal gambling simulator disguised as a basketball game got 76% positive rating from them
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Why would they exist? The reason those games exist and the environment they were created in would cease to exist.
I mean why aren’t third parties producing these amazing games?
If you think “no exclusives” means Mario on Xbox and God of War on PC then you’re naive.
If there was no difference between exclusive and third party games then very few first party games would be at the top (as by volume statistics would dictate this). Yet a huge portion are.
There is a clear quality difference between third party and exclusives.
If going to only link one link, it should be a review aggregate site. https://opencritic.com/game/4224/immortal-redneck?tab=1 http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/immortal-redneck (PC has the most reviews but PS4/XBO have higher averages).
The hate for IGN is always so exaggerated. Like, they literally just gave the console version of Cyberpunk a 4/10.
If you want to read their lower-scored reviews, visit Open Critic and sort by lowest rating:
https://opencritic.com/outlet/56/ign?sort=score&order=asc
Oof, that's an interesting topic. Gameplay, sure I could agree MEA has better and funnier gameplay than DAI, but the story, characters, setting, those are clear wins for DAI if you ask me.
Everyone keeps going on about fetch quests, and sure they are right, DAI is like a single player MMO, but it was absolutely game of the year. MEA got laughable reviews in comparison and some were harsh but some were absolutely fair.
For comparison DAI is recommended by 92% of the critics while MEA is recommended by ...39% of critics.
Reviews
There's a couple reviews that go over the game well there for further information and the averaged score from OpenCritic.
The sequel was just announced today, which is why the discount. It's on sale on Nintendo Switch too, at least in the EU.
Personally I bought this some time back and really enjoyed it, but did find it to be a move away from the rest of the series. It is the best selling Atelier game every though.
Dans la presse spécialisée ce jeu a été plutôt bien couvert pour un jeu indé (faut pas s'attendre non plus à une couverture d'un AAA) et le jeu a été très apprécié par la presse. Après le milieu du jeu vidéo a un problème: on ne parle quasiment plus d'un jeu une fois qu'il est sorti mis à part si l'éditeur communique sur le nombre de jeux distribués/vendus.
Seems like the consensus is that it's better than Woolly World.
https://opencritic.com/game/707/yoshis-woolly-world https://opencritic.com/game/7138/yoshis-crafted-world
Personally, I'd rather just get Tropical Freeze or the many great indies if I want to play a platformer.
You can see what happens there.
Essentially it's a bad game by design and it also is a technical disaster.
Metro UK summarized it by "a bad idea, poorly executed". Enough said.
I used to visit Eurogamer, Polygon, and Kotaku for gaming news but the content seems to be either vapid, high-and-mighty, or extremely biased on any of those pages.
Instead now, I just use this Reddit account as a portal. I only subscribe to about 10 subreddits and it's a good source for news. Here are the subreddits I subscribe to:
- /r/Games
- /r/gaming
- /r/nintendo
- /r/NintendoSwitch
- /r/PS4
- /r/technology
- /r/truegaming
- /r/xboxone
In addition, when I’m looking for reviews I tend to go to OpenCritic.
https://opencritic.com/game/8351/the-last-of-us-part-ii
https://opencritic.com/game/6846/days-gone
Not much dunking there. I mean, sure “tha gamerz (TM)” preffer white dude with guns fighting zombies over a melodrama action game. But that doesn’t say anything about quality.
Or do you think that everything that sold better is also better?
FF7 is uncomparable to any remaster or remake that's been done in the gaming industry. It's a complete re-imagining in every sense of the world, plus even the OG director is back on the project and is expanding the story and scope even more.
I complain about Ubisoft since they're too afraid to innovate. The best thing they've done in that sense in the recent years was Mario & Rabbids.
Otherwise you don't even have to take my word for it, just look at reviews. Horizon scored better than any Ubisoft open-world game, and that includes more than 10 titles. And they did it on their first try. A studio that is actually smaller than Ubisoft.
I'm not sure if THQNordic was involved, but they released an awful Nick kart racer Q4 of last year. Reviews were not kind. https://opencritic.com/game/6789/nickelodeon-kart-racers The roster was limited and most of the levels were bland. This awful game may have THQNordic hesitant to release additional Nick games. I'm sure Paramount gets a cut of the profits and right now, Nick IP just isn't selling.
Personally, I think Halo 5's a fucking good game, definitely better than 90% of the shit out there. It's got a really fun core gameplay loop and the broader overall gameplay's great. Like many games these days its launch state wasn't great but it's improved drastically since then and has a great set of features now.
I also think it's suffered because it's not what a lot of the community would define as a "Halo experience".
For a snap shot of what critics thought: https://opencritic.com/game/1513/halo-5-guardians
Wer sich dafür interessiert jetzt lohnt sich die Liste auf metacritic oder opencritic anzugucken.
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/year/all/filtered
OpenCritic does not have separate pages for each version. It seems to get especially weird with rereleases. Their Bayonetta page doesn't list reviews from the original release, only the Wii U, PC, and Switch rereleases.
There's a bunch of games rated higher:
https://opencritic.com/browse/ps4
I'm playing on PC and enjoying my time with it about ad much as I did with the Witcher 3 (which is a lot). It's by no means perfect though.
https://opencritic.com/critic/1046/dean-takahashi?sort=score clearly says that you're wrong... He MAINLY writes about the business side of things, but he clearly also does reviews and clearly both do and intends to play games... This also isn't his first instance of utterly failing to even grasp a concept and rag on a game for it... He ripped ME:A a new one for being too difficult, despite the reason being was that he didn't realize he could level up. They've also confirmed that he was supposed to have written a review for Cuphead but changed their minds after the public reaction to his gameplay so his was never published, unlike his ME:A review which was... Both games have subsequently gotten rereviewed due to his failings...
And it really is an issue and gaming press outlets are failing one after the other, while youtubers are absolutely booming doing it... And where did you get all journalists from? Criticism of a specific clique of games journalists, is something you interpret to be about all journalists? That seems a wee bit of a stretch of a reasonable interpretation.
Great you played the first couple levels arguably the worst part which yes doesn't help with new player impressions, but doesn't compare to the rest of the story. Heavensward and ShB are incredible.
Also it's not "most of reddit that thinks", the Shadowbringers story was one of the highest rated games of all of 2019.
If you take out Definitive editions, https://opencritic.com/browse/all/2019, it's straight up the third highest rated game in all of 2019 and like top 50 of all time.
https://opencritic.com/game/9852/samurai-jack-battle-through-time/reviews
Here! There's dozen or so on Opencritic, they haven't updated the aggregate score yet for some reason. I'm pretty surprised at the general reaction to the game, sounds like a solid PS2 era character action game
Honestly, id Software should be Sega's first pick of studio if Shadow the Hedgehog II ever becomes a thing. Their most recent shooter has been hailed by many as one of the best... so why not let them have a go at the genre we all know Sega refuses to go back to?
> Second, DEATH STRANDING has the highest number of 10s in 2019 (14 vs 13 of RESIDENT EVIL 2)
Well acthually... On OpenCritic Resident Evil 2 has 40, Death Stranding has 14. 26 to 14 on Metacritic.
I'm just going to put it out there. You don't earn a 55 on Opencritic and have a lot of major review sites not even give the game the time of day unless something is seriously wrong. I listen to a lot of gaming podcasts and the consensus seems to be that unless you really, really, really, like Fallout it's not recommended.
https://opencritic.com/game/6227/fallout-76
CoD will almost certainly have more legs with zombies, battle royale, and good old fashioned CoD in it. Early reports state that the end game of Fallout 76 is pretty baron.
One thing to also let you know. So they are free to download and play same as if you bought it. They do however lock when your sub runs out/lapses. Once you resub to PS plus they will again be unlocked/playable.
There have been some solid titles recently. Mafia 3, Friday the 13th, Dead by Daylight, Until Dawn, God of War 3. Some months are obvious better than others
So this month the free games are
Bulletstorm full clip edition Bulletstorm openCritic
Yakuza Kiwami Yakuza Kiwami Open critic
Bulletstorm is a remaster of a last gen action arcade shooter. Some dumb fun imo.
Yakuza is a bit more unique. Open world. Think a more arcadey GTA set in japan. I dont think that's the best description but I have limited time with it and it at least gives you a little bit of an idea.
Also keep an eye on r/ps4deals for sales on most things ps4 related.
A lot of people buy those games because they are usually quite good.
Just being new does not mean a game is good, at the moment Call of Cthulu have a 66/100 rating on Opencritic.
I did not even know the game existed, so obviously the sales will be poor.
But no, it's our fault and we deserve micro-transactions etc because we did not buy this sub-par game that was never marketed...
Here's a selection of other reviews. Currently at around 80% based on 7 reviews.
https://opencritic.com/game/6158/jurassic-world-evolution
edit:
Here are more reviews . Also looking like most average at around 70-80%
I hate metacritic, the practices there and slanting the scores based on current popularity of site is nonsense in my eyes, would far prefer to support OpenCritic but they aren't very good at keeping up to date with VR games and releases.
Yeah. After seeing Super Bunnyhop's review of PSVR & the stellar reviews of God of War, I'm saving money right now to buy a PS4 Pro w/ PSVR bundle. Can't wait!
take the score as it is or find a critic that has similar taste as you and follow them. if the game is on pc, specifically steam, steam store page will have more user reviews for you to check out
> The difference now is that Sega has pretty much all but confirmed it at this point > > https://opencritic.com/news/1928/sega-wants-to-release-more-of-the-atlus-game-catalog-on-new-platforms > > They released Persona 4 Golden on Steam (and not PS4 btw) the game blew their sales expectations out of the water and now they're going to put more Atlus games on other platforms. > > The fact is Persona has become way too big to stay exclusive anymore hence why Sega blue-balled Sony when they put P4G on Steam and skipped PS4
I do agree that mainline Persona is probably no longer gonna be exclusive to Playstation, but I think the odds are much higher of Nintendo getting Persona 4 Golden well before Xbox does. Like Atlus has Persona 5 Strikes coming to everything but Xbox and SMT3 coming to PS4 and Switch rumor for PC as well and then SMTV as an exclusive and Switch last year got a port of Catherine full body. Meanwhile Atlus hasn't published a game for Xbox since the 360 days and the 360 versions likely sold poorly, which would explain why Full Body aint on Xbox while the original was. But even then I aint holding my breathe since you would think Joker being in Smash, the Switch would get a port of the original Persona 5 at least. Though if the Switch does get Golden, I do think it will come to Xbox viva Gamepass a year or two down the line due to MS paying for a port.
It's pretty similar so far. The Witcher 3 had an aggregate score of 92, Cyberpunk has an aggregate score of 91.
Granted Cyberpunk is going to have a lot more reviews roll in so things can change, but the difference isn't massive. The Witcher really hit its stride a year or two after the game came out.
Invisible Inc is a very good turn-based tactics and stealth indie. It scores 83 on OpenCritic, and 92% positive on Steam. Note that the Switch version includes the Contingency Plan DLC, which is sold separately on Steam for $4.99. So at $14.99 the Switch version is a pretty good deal.
One thing I really appreciate about opencritic over metacritic is how in addition to an aggregate score it also offers a percentage of how many reviewers recomend a game.
https://opencritic.com/game/7879/the-surge-2
What I really like about it is how friendly it is to games that are worthwhile expiriences enough to recomend but are flawed enough to not get the highest scores ever (like the surge 2).
My take away from Xbox Game Studios this year is that while Sony still outshines them in terms of critical acclaim they actually had a pretty damn great year in 2020. I mean they released two critically acclaimed games (Flight Simulator and Ori 2), the solidly reviewed Gears Tactics, had a sleeper hit with Grounded early access, and I mean even Battletoads which is on the lower end of games they released this year still got the recommendation of over 50% of the reviewers who reviewed it
https://opencritic.com/game/10017/battletoads
Granted Flight Simulator and Gears Tactics still need to be ported to consoles but hey progress is progress.
Here is a list of all of his review scores: https://opencritic.com/critic/2579/jonathon-dornbush
-He rarely gives anything a 9+ rating
-His only 10/10 was God of War
-He’s reviewed several of The Walking Dead installments
I don't see how IGN ruined its potential success. The game has gotten a lot of updates - though bugs still exist. Well a few obvious reasons for the review issue. Reviewers have their own opinions, some things are facts but some things are opinions. They have to review a lot of games so they can only put so many hours into a single game.
It's the opinion of many, including professional journalists.
FFXIV Shadowbringers has received a 93% average so far for reviews, https://opencritic.com/game/7836/final-fantasy-xiv-shadowbringers. Most of the reviews are largely based off the story.
Here's the Metacritic page, sitting at 91.
Here's the OpenCritic page, which has even more reviews counted, sitting at 93.
I'm not including ports in this, because the 2007 and 2014 ports of VI sit at 91 as well, but they're not "new" games.
I don't know your tastes. If you like Fromsoft RPGs, try Dark Souls 1. Just expect the combat to be slower than BB.
Opencritic is a lot more trustworthy than Metacritic, and their top PS4 games reflects this pretty well. Pretty much every game on the first 2 pages is a killer.
There’s actually a bunch of reviews in the 60% and lower range. Right now out of 84 reviews, it’s floating in the ~50 percentile of all games they’ve tracked.
> Borderlands 1 and 2
- Warframe is a F2P looter shooter
> witcher 3 and skyrim and oblivion
Witcher 1 & 2
Kingdom come deliverance
skyrim or oblivion with mods
fallout 3, fallout new vegas, or fallout 4 (with mods) if wanting an FPS
Assassin's creed odyssey or origins (requires a strong PC, pref. 6 core cpu)
Assassin's creed black flag
> Also liked little nightmares
limbo
inside
Machinarium
Botinicula
This war of mine
OP didn't ask for game recommendations!
Instead he asked if Zelda would appeal to a non-fan of JRPGs.
I don't know why he thinks this thread will enlighten home more than some casual research but here we are.
I'm still salty about this one but it seems to be an arena fighter, so I guess I can at least turn this into a PSA.
The game is published by Aplus games. Their last notable game is the little witch academia. So they must have some kind of deal with Trigger.
Here's a bit of the gameplay for the LWA game they did, so you have an idea of their "talent" as developpers...
Again look at reality:
Yes great third party games exist. But exclusives games are consistently higher performers. Very few are released in comparison yet they dominate the top game spots.
The only way this makes any logical sense is that the environment that they are produced in produces higher quality games. Otherwise, since far more third party games are released, exclusives would be few and far between in the top spots. Yet the opposite is the case.
I’m not saying no third party games are great. I’m saying reality has shown us that exclusives are far more likely to be great and most of the absolute best games are exclusive. This is simply fact, even if many don’t like it.
Opencritic is an alternative to metacritic. They may have different scores as their aggregation formula is a bit different.
Devs get bonuses for over 90 meta critic scores.
Also over 90 are always superb excellent games, unless the genre of the game is simply not for you.
I personally like opencritic more as they don't have user reviews into that score. So people cant dive bomb ones to lower the score.
An extremely well recieved Japanese RPG about a group of high school students that use a world called the metaverse to "steal the hearts" of corrupt individuals.
https://opencritic.com/game/1537/persona-5
^ if you wanna read reviews.
NookGaming - Thomas Knight - 8 / 10
>I had a lot of fun with Persona 5 Strikers. I was a little surprised at how much of it was like a JRPG as the trailers and discussion online seemed only focused on the combat aspect. How easy it was to get into for someone who hadn’t played the previous game was also impressive. The progress through the story is what kept me wanting to play through, along with the deep RPG mechanics. I felt like they mixed really well with the hack and slash aspect.
A day late because I hadn't quite finished up yet - Ryza 2 had me busy beforehand.
Definitely enjoyed it, but I think a lot of people will be surprised.
I really don't understand this, they made two bad games in their entire existence, Anthem and Mass Effect Andromeda, and Andromeda really wasn't even bad after it was patched. I'm sure I'm going to get the /r/pcgaming circlejerk of Inquisition and Dragon Age 2 being terrible, but Inquisition as an 88% on OpenCritic and Dragon Age 2 has a Metacritic score of 79%, might as well be 80 and yeah I know Metacritic but DA2 wasn't around when OpenCritic was a thing. Those are not bad scores.
https://opencritic.com/game/1662/the-surge
Only 42% recommending it with 73/100 average is really poor for aggregated scores. I couldn't even last full 2 hours (steam refund window) before refunding both of them. Yep - that's enough to fully realize I won't enjoy combat in the slightest.
You can use review sites like Metacritic, Opencritic, or any gaming website really.
For deals you can check DekuDeals, but they also show digital eshop versions.
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hope that helps.
Might grab this one. I love tinkering around with game mod type stuff.
I tend to use https://opencritic.com/game/7128/bqm-blockquest-maker- for an at a glance and so far their aggregate stuff hasn't disappointed me yet.
> I would give it 4/10.
Here is a list of games released in 2020 which aggregated to around 40/100 on OpenCritic, now explain to me how Cyberpunk 2077 is in any way comparable in quality to Tamarin
The biggest thing for me is that CDPR straight up hid and lied about the state of the game on both console and PC.
For console they didn't send out any review codes. They also said the Day 1 patch was a totally different game from the unpatched version(early copies leaked out and it was really bad). That wasn't true at all. Unpatched and 1.02 ran pretty much the same.
For PC they didn't allow reviewers to use their own footage in reviews. They had to use b-roll provided by CDPR.
This keeps getting dismissed as typical gamer outrage but it really isn't.
Open Critic wrote a blog post absolutely shredding CDPR for their actions and put a disclaimer on the game about the console versions.
tl;dr courtesy of Open Critic: They did it knowing that what they were doing was wrong. It was deceptive, selfish, and exploitative. They did it anyway.
> Do you think Bethesda would have back pedaled like CDPR and offered people refunds
They're not even offering refunds lol
They are telling people to return their copy to the retailer and beg for a refund(which obviously won't happen).
They are telling the people that bought the unplayable PS4/Xbone version that they get a free upgrade to the next gen version (which they can't play), so it's all good!
They purposefully mislead and lied to those people to make sales.
Any of you still defending them are fucking sick in the head.
So you have no problem with them selling a completely broken game? It’s the consumers fault when a week prior they said it ran well? How they only let pc copies get reviewed because they knew it was such shit and nobody would buy it after that? That’s just corporate dick sucking to the 19th degree
https://opencritic.com/news/2000/they-knew-it-was-wrong-cd-projekt-red-deceived-consumers-anyway-
If you can read all that and still side with cdpr then you are too far gone or just can’t see outside your own bubble
> Most of the press refuses to punish broken games
Because they're playing an unfinished game where they would expect most of the major issues to be fixed by the day one patch. They're reviewing it for the consumers who'll get that day one patch not for other reviewers playing the unfinished game.
And in opencritic's blogpost https://opencritic.com/news/2000/they-knew-it-was-wrong-cd-projekt-red-deceived-consumers-anyway-
it seems that cdpr only gave review codes to reviewers that have a good pc so the reviewers would have a buggy but not a bug infested console game.
Saw this from opencritic
https://opencritic.com/game/8525/cyberpunk-2077
First time I saw them do a disclaimer like that. Pretty much has me all out of the hype and excitement for it. Just gonna give it 6 months and see. Seems clear those early review were sketch as all hell and not releasing footage of the base console versions is scummy.
More time to decide between the console or PC version. Assuming they knock out all the bugs and glitches, will make the console version better and I really do love playing games on the PS5. But a mod scene could develop on PC and that'd be fun to see.
I'll just link this Opencritic article, which underlines why exactly CD Projekt's actions are so egregious.
Why do you think she didn't like open world games. She gave red dead redemption 2 a 9
And also 7 to the newest call of duty game, her reviews are fair
Nota baixa só vi por conta dos bugs, e mesmo assim são franca minoria. Tá com nota 92 no OpenCritic:
https://opencritic.com/game/8525/cyberpunk-2077
Pra reviewer dar nota alta apesar dos vários e bem severos bugs relatados é sinal de que o jogo em si é muito bom (quando funciona).
GameSpew - Richard Seagrave - 10 / 10
>Cyberpunk 2077 isn’t perfect
GameSpew - Richard Seagrave - 10 / 10
> Cyberpunk 2077 isn’t perfect
https://opencritic.com/critic/200/kallie-plagge
she did the review for FE:TH, RDR2, death stranding, destiny, TLOU2. But sure, she's obviously never played an RPG before /s
<strong>Giant Bomb</strong> - Unscored
>Early Impressions Discussion: They should have delayed this game even more
One word: undercooked
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LOL, Jeff mad.
Given GOG are well known for their stance on publishing games without copy protection it seems odd they would put some on just for pre-release copies.
What I did find however was this article which asked everyone with access not to stream the game before Dec 9th 3am PST - they will aggressively take down any streams prior to that time. But once that time has passed, encourage people to stream it as much as possible.
https://opencritic.com/news/1974/cd-projekt-red-sends-out-warning-not-to-stream-cyberpunk-2077-early
I mean so far most reviews are really good. Most people will probably get what they expect, a really immersive world with an insanely beautiful city and a great story with a ton of side quests. Also looking at the clip from giant bomb, it seems like he just wants to get attention with a somewhat controversial opinion. Making a countdown and such and then starting it off like this, seems really clickbaity. I've read the reviews from Der Spiegel, IGN Japan and some english reviews and the consensus has been, that the bugs are really unfortunate and leave an otherwise amazing game with a bitter taste. If GiantBomb bases his opinion on the fact that the bugs have made the game unplayable for him, that is totally valid, but doesn't make the world and story around cyberpunk any less bad.
You understand that it is possible for an opinion to be harsh yeah? Like, he really hated the game, not for its mechanics, its bugs, or its story, which he called passable at best, but because it took from other games he did like. He gave it a 3, when his average score outside of this is a 7. Like, by any standard this is a harsh review, including his own.
I guess play better games? Looking at the top 20 best reviewed games this year, I don't think any of them have lootboxes of any sort. (I'm not 100% certain, but there might not be any in the top 50.) Out of the 2020 top ten bestselling in the US, only Madden has lootboxes.
I don't think Genshin Impact is "the hottest release this year", but sure, gacha games have lootboxes. When you stay away from them lootboxes are clearly on their way out. I'm not sure Chinese games really represent the larger market, at least in the English-speaking Reddit context.
> All card games are lootbox
Come on, how have you avoided all the Legends of Runeterra spam here lately? ;)
I'm not sure you know how math or critical analysis works. If you're looking at all the scores and saying that they're similar to the ("bandwagon") average that's because it's literally the mean of those scores.
Occam's razor my dude, the simplest explanation is just that the game isn't that good, not that there's some grand media conspiracy to rally against a new IP that will be forgotten in a year.
Here's the OpenCritic summary too
9% of critics recommend it, so if you want to continue your confirmation bias go read those reviews and tell yourself that you were right all along.