I defended Polygon when that website first went up, but they have proven themselves less trustworthy than IGN and their reviews section is probably the worst of any major gaming site.
Too bad, I wanted Polygon to be cool.
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IGN's hyperbole and circle-jerking of GTA5 is pretty embarassing
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Too bad, I wanted Polygon to be cool.
For every fan, there's three people claiming it's the worst game since bread came sliced.
VeryGooster
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Faux outrage and overreaction from the OP if I ever saw it.
Uno Venova
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I know some people are jumping to kneejerk defenses but you're making no sense.
:-( I thought it was a new type of bowling.
Oh, I'm not saying it's all that matters but TLOU is a game that is generally accepted as a very good game. I have yet to find many haters and pretty much everyone likes it.
Now, compare it with GTA IV. The one GTA game where people either love it or hate it. There's actually a pretty big group that dislikes the game. So yeah, the many 10/10s felt weird.
CambriaRising
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Neuromancer
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I hear you. Sleepy Dogs was quite good as well. My point is, even in its genre GTAIV wasn't even at the top.
That said I have an incredible amount of optimism for GTA V, but previews like this just remind me of what happened with GTA IV and my hackles get raised a bit.
Again, problem is not enjoying game. Problem is their descriptions being even worse than any official PR could ever hope to achieve (seriously, 5 pages for a masturbatory preview when a lot of games deserving of such a thorough REVIEW hardly get more than 1 page at the site) IN ADDITION to how IGN wrote about GTAIV as if it's some flawless masterpiece that has even triumphed most of Hollywood when it comes to storytelling, even though the story was flawed beyond belief and gameplay had fucktons of issues.
CrackPebbles
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Hahahaha...oh man.
BRocknRolla
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I started reading their initial "exclusive coverage" and promptly stopped once I realized it was going to read like a 13 year old's journal entry.
(bolding is mine) ROFL. Come on dude.
I need to remember this thread for a few months from now.
I think a 97 might be possible. That's my guess. That's not what I'm guessing it will deserve, that's what I'm guessing it will end up with.
I imagine games played this way--in carefully selected chunks, before everyone knows everything, in carefully controlled environments--are the most fun, most enjoyable, best games. The bad parts of a game can be hidden entirely, nothing has time to get old and boring, and everything is shiny and new.
So hyperbolic previews may be entirely representative of the true feelings of the previewed, but they're also relatively useless for anything more than very broad impressions along the lines of "Is the game horribly broken?" It's reviewing a movie based on the trailer, letting your brain fill in all the best bits that must surely be in the final product.
Prerelease hype of things as BEST EVER at this point just makes me tired. I like previews that highlight warts, because it's easier to believe they represent the real final product.
So hyperbolic previews may be entirely representative of the true feelings of the previewed, but they're also relatively useless for anything more than very broad impressions along the lines of "Is the game horribly broken?" It's reviewing a movie based on the trailer, letting your brain fill in all the best bits that must surely be in the final product.
Prerelease hype of things as BEST EVER at this point just makes me tired. I like previews that highlight warts, because it's easier to believe they represent the real final product.
Oscar-worthy storytelling. 10/10.
And you know GTAV isn't... how?
Conciliator
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Ten thousand years from now, historians will look unto the past and divide the eras of human civilization into pre- and post- GTA V.
I bet nobody knew how fucking annoying the cell phone would turn out to be in GTA IV from those preview "slices"...
flyinpiranha
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A lot of people pissed off at opinions up in here.
CBOATese?
You mean the expression of opinions?
I think the basis for the thread was how poorly written and presented these opinions are.
imfinnegan
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God forbid a person who is paid to write tries to write his pieces well.
EdibleExplosives
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Meus Renaissance
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Video game 'journalism'
Uno Venova
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We were talking about GTA IV
The initial post seemed to be embarrassed by GTAV receiving all 10s, like GTAIV before it:
I don't think there's anything embarrassing in that, since it looks like it could be a 10/10 game (depending on your metric of course, but using the one that gave TLoU a 10).
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I still think the writing in these previews is shameless and embarrassing, just to be clear.
Was the hyperbole over the top in the last two IGN articles? Sure. They survive on mostly ad revenue so they play it up when they get one of year's best exclusives.
But at the same time I read a lot of hyperbole at GAF. "OMGz GTA IV was no fun" "It was sooo boring I quit after only 30 hours"
You have to extract what you want from it.
But at the same time I read a lot of hyperbole at GAF. "OMGz GTA IV was no fun" "It was sooo boring I quit after only 30 hours"
You have to extract what you want from it.
BlazingDarkness
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I like how that dude wrote '4 words I learnt from GAF' and then listed only 3 words. Cracks me up.
It certainly couldn't be about the specific content found within the articles, instead of your silly generalization, could it?
chancellor
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I thought lots of publications wrote articles to promote things every now and then. I don't see anything wrong the IGN articles apart from the childish writing style.
I do too. Even if this game turns out to be really really good. It's the sort of text people look back at with shame months after the game got released.
AgentOtaku
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agree with OP
shit is gonna be GTAIV all over again
shit is gonna be GTAIV all over again
BlazingDarkness
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The writing style is pretty much getting the brunt of the criticism in here.
It began when V was announced. It makes some people so pissed that GTA is still the best thing in gaming despite all their efforts to diminish what makes the series so great, especially since IV...ludonarrative warts and all.
Well, the childish writing style is kind of the entire point of the thread...
EDIT: I got beat.
flyinpiranha
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Well, what is their audience? Does IGN cater to 45 year old academics or more of the sitcom crowd?
Was it a little over the top? A bit. But it was used to convey how much the writer enjoyed the little time he got with the game. I honestly don't see a problem with this. It's like the second somebody really enjoys something (not just likes, but we're talking really enjoys) it's all moneyhats, conspiracies, and catering to 12 year olds (which isn't inherently wrong).
I mean, were you expecting citations and thesis submissions? I've read a variety of things on their site and with a game like GTA, it's going to be teenagers playing it. So I would say they are just targeting their core market.
I don't think 30 year old college educated heavily-entrenched into the gaming scene market is much of a thing outside of GAF.