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Infamous: Second Son Review Thread
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socomfanaticest2001
Neo Member
who gives a F about reviews? if you played every infamous game im sure you won;t either, im ready!!!!
metalslimer
Member
The scores don't really surprise me considering the past Infamous games. They are still fun as hell to play, but nothing groundbreaking.
If Infamous is budgeted like GTA, it would out sell GTA (on Playstation platforms). GTA is made by a 1000 people team. Sucker punch is a mid-budget 80 member team.
It is not possible to create detailed side missions with its own stories with such a small team and budget. I think it was by design, they wanted it to be a small fun game. It is not going to score in 9's and 10's.
It is what is it, if you like 10 hrs of fun. Then infamous is a great game. But any one looking for GTA with super powers.. need to wait for Rock star to make a game like that.
LookAtMeGo
Member
But it did score 9s and 10s. Just sayin.
Edit. Also most people on gaf have been reporting 15hrs for good and evil playthroughs so its more like 30hrs plus the 19 missions in the patch that is roughly an additional 5hrs.
Halo, Doctors exams, drive-by 'is this bad posts', next-gen gameplay, Metacritics
i still love you gaf
The Fifth Element came out 17 years ago, and I am still in love with Milla Jovovich
House Of Glass
Banned
I just noticed that. Crazy how far some will go.
Looking forward to playing this tomorrow. Damn Gamefly making me wait.
Winterfang
Banned
I don't understand people complaining about the scores. The game got perfect 10's out of some people, what more do you want?
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
I dunno, man. Now when I see her all I can think about are the god awful Resident Evil movies.
FritoBandito
Banned
Is this turning into Uncharted 3 all over again? Fanboys, put down your pitchforks!
CyberChulo
Member
I understand that some reviewers are giving it low scores cause... That's just their opinions. But I played it this morning and its.....
Edit - DAM! How do you get the gifs to display?
GOT IT! THANKS!
Edit - DAM! How do you get the gifs to display?
GOT IT! THANKS!
Fornaximus
Member
Perfect 10's from ALL THE PEOPLE.
Mr Moose
Member
Like this? http://www.metacritic.com/user/KWIKSILVA
I am guessing they don't have a PS4, and their eyes are filled with salty tears while they wrote that (which makes the visuals of the game look terrible).
They gave Titanfall a 10, lol.
Put it in the image tags (click the thing next to the hyperlink one):
You need to put image tags around your link.
Like this:
EDIT: Haha, beaten.
And wow, this thread became a graveyard.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
This thread is a graveyard. When was the last major review thread that got too crazy? Uncharted?
GAF with uncharted 3 was the worst Ive seen.
It isn't? The big map isn't the only aspect IF shares with your typical sandbox game. You're never forced to complete the main missions and side missions are strewn across the map so you can run around and do things whatever way you want. Pretty standard sandbox implementation, never thought I'd see anyone say otherwise.
Might as well. Let's be honest, your character is basically superhuman in those games already.
The thing is, if you asked most people on here about Uncharted 3 now, i bet a lot of people would say that its not as good as Uncharted 2 and the slightly lower reviews were probably right.
The game had a budget bigger than most blockbuster movies (260+ million). We cannot let that become the standard for a game to attain 9s and 10s. Reviews especially should not encourage their readers to set such high standards for any type of game.
This is true.
The people crying foul over reviews in most cases have not played the game yet, and are not interested in a critical perspective. They just want something to justify their hype and/or praise an exclusive game from the console manufacturer they've decided to become emotionally involved with. I can pretty much guarantee you that most of the people shitting on reviewers in this thread would instead hype them up had they given this game a 9 or a 10.
LifEndz
Member
Exactly. The score itself is meaningless. It's the content that I take issue with. When a game is criticized as having gameplay that doesn't feel next gen, I think it's more than fair to critique that review.
Just like with Twilight Princess or any other game that goes through review controversy.
TheSpaceBetween
Member
The better question would be when was the last one that DIDN'T get crazy? It's the same thing over and over again.
What's the problem? Seems like a lot of people dig TitanFall.
What's point of spending so much effort and money to make something that most people are not going to use. Read some of the Saints Row 4 reviews. A lot of them will talk about how useless cars are in that game. I pick polish over useless choices, which sometimes exists for the sake of having choices. You want to drive cars then play GTA games, they are very good.
Neuromancer
Member
But he's watched hours of it, man
A review at the end of the day is an opinion with the reviewer's case for the opinion.
Sessler enjoyed Titanfall more and he gave his reasons why. He enjoyed InFamous less and gave his reasons for that too.
You don't have to agree with him, but that is his opinion.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
There is no GAF consensus so whatever positive or negative impression you're extracting from "GAF" is surely filtered through your own expectations or desires.
You haven't been around long then 7.9!!!!!!
LookAtMeGo
Member
Which side?
Sir_Crocodile
Member
It's pretty gross to see people trying to trash reviews that give Infamous a bad score. Take this guy deriding the 6/10 metro gamecentral review:
Well, quoting them in full without your ripping of the context away, we find:
Oh right, it was only touching upon the fact that thery're the first two important exclusives to be released and very close to each other, nothing about apples to oranges here.
Let's try adding the "context" again. What do we find?
Ah, a complaint about enemy variety given the genre.
Aaaaand one final attempt to discredit the review because it gave the game a bad score.
Ugh.
Well, quoting them in full without your ripping of the context away, we find:
Oh right, it was only touching upon the fact that thery're the first two important exclusives to be released and very close to each other, nothing about apples to oranges here.
Let's try adding the "context" again. What do we find?
Ah, a complaint about enemy variety given the genre.
Aaaaand one final attempt to discredit the review because it gave the game a bad score.
Ugh.
How much effort and money really goes into making vehicles controllable? Its a staple in every modern-day open world game so it should hardly be too much to ask if you want your game to play in this space. Especially now that SP decided to situate the game in a real city, the dissonance here only becomes more pronounced.
As for how much use they would get, that all depends on how well devs design their game. A little imagination goes a long way. Personally, I think it would be pretty cool if Delsin could hop on a motorcycle, use his smoke power to dematerialize with the bike to the top of a building and then start hopping from rooftop to rooftop across the city, a little like Ghost Rider (he does have the chain, after all). That'd certainly make for some cool gifs like the ones you posted earlier
zackmorris
Member
And people love Titanfall soooo....
I don't know why people were expecting this to be such a departure from previous infamous games. To me it always looked like an infamous game with next gen visuals and some minor tweaks. Personally I'm glad. That's what I wanted, I love infamous, the first two games are two of my favorites why would I want it to play differently? Same goes for the next uncharted, I want an uncharted game plain and simple. If you want something else there are plenty of games that will satisfy that need for you.
Which side? I don't think shaming people for acting like children makes you a pitchfork holder.
I agree that thing(s) you mentioned in the second paragraph sounds cool. Then there is the first paragraph...How much effort and money really goes into making vehicles controllable? Its a staple in every modern-day open world game so it should hardly be too much to ask if you want your game to play in this space. Especially now that SP decided to situate the game in a real city, the dissonance here only becomes more pronounced.
As for how much use they would get, that all depends on how well devs design their game. A little imagination goes a long way. Personally, I think it would be pretty cool if Delsin could hop on a motorcycle, use his smoke power to dematerialize with the bike to the top of a building and then start hopping from rooftop to rooftop across the city, a little like Ghost Rider. That'd certainly make for some cool gifs like the ones you posted earlier
Do you know how much effort it takes? Of the top my head, they would need to hire people who specialize in driving and driving physics. They need to make sure that driving is actually fine tuned and fun. They need to make sure that different cars have unique feel to them. All the while trying to hit moving target that was PS4 and polish it like they did. They are also not a very big studio. All of this for something I don't think most people will use.
I will ask again, how many people actually used cars in Saints Row 4 after getting superpowers?
RoyalLaFlame
Banned
Basically.
I was actually expecting grades like these. I bet it's a great game for those that like inFamous.
miDnIghtEr20C
Banned
Dead Rising 3 almost got it's finger tips on Infamous toes! We bringing you into the 70's!
Handy Fake
Member
It's like a poster said in another thread: It's like giving Spiderman a car.
PuppetMaster
Member
This game is stupidly good looking. The neon stuff is redonk.
I'm liking neon a lot more than smoke so far.
I'm liking neon a lot more than smoke so far.
Cthulhu_Steev
Member
Yep. It's gorgeous looking, and it feels like Infamous. I love Infamous, even though they've always felt like second tier (but as I've said many times, some of my alltime favourite games have been solid b-tier material) and SS still has the series' floaty movement, eagle-eyed AI and twitchy traversal that annoys me. Somehow the games add up to more than the sum of their parts though, and even though it's a little frustrating that some 'errors' have followed the series to this third game, it's not biggie.
Infamous is never going to hit the 10s consistently, not while the parkouring is still like it is. Delsin should auto-run over obstacles, and i know that seem like dumbing down but I want to feel like a superhero, and having him dick around refusing to grab a 6ft fence takes that feel away.
Fixed2BeBroken
Member
I just got the game, and just by looking at the game in it's shiny blue case...I give the game an.....8.153999999999E
Come at me GAF....
but seriously....if you are playing the game and enjoying it, then who cares what others think.
Come at me GAF....
but seriously....if you are playing the game and enjoying it, then who cares what others think.
I don't know how much effort it takes, but I know it's not atypical for this type of game, and practically a baseline. SP is already expending some amount of effort to model a variety of cars in the first place, implement AI routing and make them interactive objects in many ways except drive-ability. Taking the extra steps of making vehicles driveable has never been something I've seen cited as any kind of significant overhead for an open-world game.
Still missing the point of a sandbox game...