I've binged on plenty of actions games and not got bored, if the game has flaws that become apparent during extended sessions that's not the fault of the user.
That's not really what I was saying. I was saying that if you have to binge the game to rush out a review you will get more frustrated at
any problems no matter how small (experienced this myself in reviewing) because you're on a tight deadline. Whenever you come up against an obstacle/error, you
need to push past it to get on with your review. Which can be so, so annoying. You're just trying to finish the game and get your thoughts out, any barriers can be annoying - emotional ones (eg Polygon's 7/10 for TLoU) or difficulty ones (eg any lower score for a Souls game). I think a lot of similar games which always have good lead times (eg GTA or Far Cry) will have similar problems – but those games' problems wont be exacerbated by a crazy 'asap' deadline.
It's entirely on Techland that this is the situation, if I'm anywhere near right in thinking it might have contributed to the poorer reviews.
Also I've personally had plenty of games ruined by binging them too much. Eg Red Dead Redemption, Alan Wake, Shadow of Mordor. You'll still get a lot of hours in, but you'll just be going through the motions by the end. And the hype will begin to drain by hour 5... Be totally gone by hour 8... Etc. This will obviously vary from person to person, might not be your experience at all. I've seen it happen with Twitchers who are loving a game at the start of a whole day's streaming when they begin, but by late in the afternoon they are doing little aside from complain.
Same thing is happening in the Destiny OT.
This could be said of pretty much every OT for a game on GAF though. An OT is typically where people who are enjoying the game go to converse about it and get people to play with. Those threads are always skewed towards the positive. If someone has a big enough problem with a game they usually make their own thread.
Haha, yes I'm realising this now. Of course an OT will be mostly people excited with a few cynics thrown in. Ignore this 'thread' of my argument.
I can actually picture myself constantly meeting people IRL who aren't fans of DL in coming years, or didn't care for it, with me going 'man, it's one of my favourite games ever'.
Outside of the OT opinions have seemed mixed to me, but I've not been paying 100% attention. Is the concensus in other threads echoing the OT?
I'm interested, but I also remember how I loved DI for about 2-3 hours then never played it again... £45 is a lot to drop on a game I may not finish.
I've been seeing the same mix as in here - mainly people liking it with a few people not sold entirely. Maybe confirmation bias on my part though.
I really didn't like DI very much at all. Tried it once and quit after 90 minutes. Came back to it when it was free on XBL GWG, and for free it was... kinda good? Quite immersive but so much clunk and jank and unbearable writing.
Dying Light is bloody great, though. Co-oped for the first time tonight with a bud. Discovered so many little things I didn't know you could do. Was amazing.
