Gamespot - 8
http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/transistor-review/1900-6415763/
No bad yet it get's an 8? Carolyn pls.
Tom Chick's game of the year for 2011 was Bastion.
Fucking parody hack click baiter.
I, too, am always perplexed when someone that has played a game that I haven't played has an opinion on said game.I don't really see how a low-quality speaker pumping the narrator's voice would create the definitive edition.
Same score they gave Wolfenstein.
I've never heard of this. 10 seconds into the IGN video review they mentioned this is by the devs who did Bastion?
I immediately cut the review off. Say no more. I need a Playstation 4 like yesterday.
Well I would read what he has to say but that means giving him hits. Which I will not do.
Maybe the person prefers console and/or was looking for that last reason to pick it up.No need to drop that much money on a PS4, available on Steam right now.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/237930/
Reminds me when CNET gave things 4.5/5 and no cons... I fucking hate it when this happens...
Lookin' good. I liked Bastion's story/art/soundtrack/world a lot more than I liked the gameplay, but Transistor looks like it could be even better, so I'm in as soon as Steam lets me download. C'mon Steam.
I don't really see how a low-quality speaker pumping the narrator's voice would create the definitive edition.
Lookin' good. I liked Bastion's story/art/soundtrack/world a lot more than I liked the gameplay, but Transistor looks like it could be even better, so I'm in as soon as Steam lets me download. C'mon Steam.
Oh, it's up now? Awesome. Downloading..
What's funny is people who complain about this don't actually read the reviews.Why? A game isn't measured by how many flaws it has. Tetris is a perfect game, doesn't mean I think it's the greatest game ever.
I've already decided that I'll get Transistor (eventually). But this is the review I'm gonna reward with a click. What can I say, I like Tom's reviews.
Maybe he had some ridiculously high standards that didn't get met?
That's fine and all, but this game is pretty much the complete antithesis of those types of games.
I've already decided that I'll get Transistor (eventually). But this is the review I'm gonna reward with a click. What can I say, I like Tom's reviews.
Agreed lol. It's a minor thing. It does add to the immersion factor a touch though. Works great in other games too, like Shadow Fall for example.
So I assume you can't use this feature even if you're using a DS4 with your PC?
So glad this has been so warmly received! All I wanna do is download it. Why won't you let me download it??
Quarter to Three lol
Seems like every game I look forward to he gives a low score. We must have completely different tastes. All the power to the guy for giving out his opinions as long as he remains objective.
Why? A game isn't measured by how many flaws it has. Tetris is a perfect game, doesn't mean I think it's the greatest game ever.
Maybe you guys could, you know, actually read Tom Chick's review to see why he didn't like Transistor very much while he absolutely loved Bastion?
It's very convenient that he has a written review just sitting there waiting to be read so you can read it instead of making weird assumptions or guesses at what he's thinking.
The biggest problem with Transistor is that its a terribly confused game. Its own variety literally falls apart. You can use every power you find in one of three ways: as an attack, as a modifier to another attack, or as a passive ability. This is an intriguing system and the variety of configurations is staggering. If you look behind the walls of exposition, you can even admire all the possibility, laid out as an exhaustive screen of every possible combination for each power. Youll thrill to all the mix and match, getting your character build just right.
Then youll discover that the penalty for getting hurt is having one or your powers knocked out of commission until youve passed two more checkpoints. Now the combat has fallen apart. Now you have to rejigger your character. Now you have to play with fewer skills, or with skills you didnt want to use. Now you have to flounder through the atrocious interface for setting up your skills. Its bad enough that as youre playing, theres no way to call up the details of your current loadout. You can only reconfigure your character at checkpoints, which is fair enough. But why is that the only place you can get information on what your skills do? Why cant I check my skills while Im playing? Why does Transistor spend so much time with the stats locked up, especially since its going to force me to use the ones I dont want to use?
Furthermore, theres not much information about what the monsters are doing, or how theyre doing it, or what youre supposed to do in response. Some monsters cloak, some fire homing projectiles, some heal themselves. I just spammed attacks as best as I could, never the wiser about how to compromise cloaking, what determined how fast a homing attack would hit me, or how to prevent monsters from healing themselves. I dont doubt theres a relatively rich tactical interplay at work. But I had no easy way and no incentive to figure it out.
There is literally no such thing as an "objective" review.
Except for this, of course: http://www.objectivegamereviews.com/
He goes out of his way to give everything that is popular/well reviewed a low score, so I would not put much weight in his verdict.
edit: For those wondering, look at the big games on Metacritic, he nearly always gives a 2/3.
Welp, they gave me a chance to re-consider when I couldn't download at midnight, but those scores are good enough for me. I'm not reading them because fresh experience and I already wanted the game anyway.
*Pre-ordered*
Which is kinda weird considering it'll go live any minute/hour/day now.
Haven't played Bastion so really wasn't expecting anything from this but it's starting to sound really impressive!