PeterVenkman
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So you admit you are working to dissuade people from buying it on console?
This is NeoGAF. We know about the PC version.
this is hysterical. Seriously I'm dying.
So you admit you are working to dissuade people from buying it on console?
This is NeoGAF. We know about the PC version.
DS4 + TV = delayed edition. 3PM Eastern, the far future. Buy it now on Steam. As the coupon code use GiveGriefGrief and get an exclusive Transistor hat.I was thinking the same thing lol.
I will get it on PS4. DS4 + TV = definitive edition
If he was he would've mentioned Valve's DRM policy and that your copy of the game will be stuck on PS4 when its successor comes out.
Bastion has really put me off from making hasty purchases from Kasavin and his team. Still wish them the best and hope this does well for them.
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.
If he was he would've mentioned Valve's DRM policy and that your copy of the game will be stuck on PS4 when its successor comes out.
With specific and well reasoned complaints like this its a wonder QT3 isn't banned.
DS4 + TV = delayed edition. 3PM Eastern, the far future. Buy it now on Steam. As the coupon code use GiveGriefGrief and get an exclusive Transistor hat.
Why so low?My review: Gamereactor UK - http://www.gamereactor.eu/reviews/123374/Transistor/ [8/10]
To keep the experience fresh, I usually don't read reviews on games I've been anticipating. My assumption was more based on that as opposed to purposely not reading it because it was a low score. Still, I wasn't being fair to the author's right to his opinion, and for that I apologize.
Why so low?
The second quote was specifically about buying a PS4 THEN the game. While I can't deny he's championing Steam pretty strongly it is sort of crazy to buy a $400 machine if you have another that can run the game as well.Dude, I don't get your weird championing of the Steam version. Yes, we know there's a Steam version. We know it's available now.
Some people are getting it on PS4. Relax.
8/10 is low? That's a pretty solid score.
It's his library of reviews. He has a history of some really off-base crap.
Edit: I'm not saying his review is definitely wrong here, as I've only played the game at E3, I'm just saying that in general his reviews have a tendency to rile people up.
I wonder if this will be as boring as Bastion.
I wonder if this will be as boring as Bastion.
wut?
I hate what PS+ and Steam sales have done to me. This looks marvelous but I'm having trouble convincing myself to drop 20 on a digital game I know I'll only play through once.
I've been spoiled.
BTW the game is up on the mobile PSN store. I just got to it from the PS app and bought it. Didn't click download though because I don't want it to slow down my Wolfenstein DL.
The long wait is over!
Not true. Try rephrasing it.Any digital purchases you made on PSN last gen are stuck on PS3 hardware.
The story is convoluted and brimming with extraneous detail, doled out at optional terminals and on unlockable screens you might never see. Names you’ve never heard waft into the game and suddenly one of them is important and you have no idea why. . .. Transistor is the story of a JRPG.Transistor revels in its extraneous text and detail, and it all sounds like noise after a while. Every exit is helpfully labeled to tell you to come closer, but beneath that is a pointless statistic, like a loose thread on a shirt. Is there any reason to read the terminals and wait for their text to unfurl?
There’s no sense of exploration or discovery. If there was a revelation, it was lost on me. There is only a glowing cyber-city, laid out end to end, dropping you back where you began with a few cutscenes along the way. At one point, you encounter a single puzzle that’s not even really a puzzle. There’s a terrible boss battle for a finale, unlike anything you’d done previously. Then there’s an ending that I didn’t understand and therefore didn’t care about, despite the music caring deeply.
Say what people will about Tom Chick, these bits of his review convinced me to pass because it comprises pretty much my biggest pet peeves about videogames:
Yeah, that shit. No thank indie game inspiring to be a bad JRPG.
Many do not. You would be surprised.
So you're just going to take his word for it instead of trying it yourself?
This will be my first game after Dark Souls II, need to ease myself back into other games.
After playing Dark Souls I, I jumped into Assassin's Creed II and I was thoroughly disgusted by it. I remember somewhat enjoying myself at the beginning, but the one button combat was just mind numbing after ~20 hours.
So you're just going to take his word for it instead of trying it yourself?
I understand we need filters, but maybe you wouldn't agree with him if you tried it.
Just bugs me when someone quotes a single opinion and says "there, no way am I playing this now! It's obviously terrible because this one person said so!".
Well, if some critic could offer counter points to those objections or demonstrate how they aren't true, I'd be willing to listen. But it does seem to me that the gaming press in general is all starry eyed for SupeGiant because Greg Kassavan was their buddy. I'm not saying it was a bad game but it sure as hell got more of a glowing free ride to amazing press than it should have.
it sure as hell got more of a glowing free ride to amazing press than it should have.