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[thetrin]

Sometimes I question whether everyone who ever throws around "XXX is this generation's Citizen Kane", in any context and for any medium, actually knows why Citizen Kane has the legacy it does.

Well considering that "Citizen Kane moment" makes no sense at all, considering Citizen Kane's critical acclaim, I'm going to go ahead and say "no."

 

[antitrop]

did i miss it ?
sh*t

 

[Hanmik]

That's a lot of hyperbole but going off of comments on twitter by reviewers there is something about the game that people need to talk about. Not sure if it's good or bad but the story definitely goes places that need to be discussed.

I can't wait for this game. It's my most anticipated game of this year.

that has to wait for the release of the game.. you will not get the discussions via the reviews.. embargoes my friend, embargoes..

 

[Squire]

His Bioshock Infinite review was on the money, but he was a little too eager to exercise his UCLA English Degree vocabulary and compare it to famous literature and even Godot.

It was poetry. Every word.

 

[SlowRevolution]

Enslaved was a good game, but far from a perfect one and not what I'd consider GOTY material. More like a worthwhile rental. Moreover reading an Empire Online game review gives me the same feeling as reading a game review in a newspaper.

Enslaved is the Leatherheads of games.

 

[Fjordson]

Maybe the Citizen Kane moment in TLoU is just a really dope room trashing. Charles Foster really fucked up that room in that one scene.

 

[Earthpainting]

An absurdly hyperbolic first review of a highly anticipated game by a AAA developer? I am slapping my jaw in utter shock and disbelief.

 

[k_trout]

oh
ok i would be happier if they said this is gamings "night of the hunter"

 

[Sweet Aunt Nancys Panties]

I just pre-ordered from Amazon. They're throwing in 10 dollars worth of Instant Movie credit, so maybe I'll play the game and then rent Citizen Kane.

Who am I kidding. I'll probably just rent an Adam Sandler movie.

 

[MormaPope]

Just read some of the review, aka most of it:

The gameplay itself could easily have been a disappointment – broadly a mix of stealth and action, with innumerable sections of waist-high cover shooting, it doesn’t immediately offer anything new. Played with a shooter mindset, it doesn’t, in fact. However, it’s in avoiding combat when possible, incapacitating foes and only killing when absolutely, unavoidably necessary that the game stands apart. You’ll pause, consider options, listen, always aware that a mis-timed charge into action will prove fatal. You’re not playing a superhero, or even anyone as tough as Nathan Drake from Naughty Dog’s earlier Uncharted games – you’re playing a human, as fragile and vulnerable as any of us. When you are forced to fight, it’s short, sharp, shocking, and the game treats violence with almost disgust – necessary evils.

Seems conflicting, if you play it like a shooter you can progress and keep playing like a shooter. But if you play it like a stealth game, you can also progress that way and the gameplay seems better?

Dude should just say play on hard difficulty to experience the best the game has to offer.

 

[greycolumbus]

I now expect gameplay of awkwardly turning over cabinets.

 

[FlynnCL]

Again..the ending is out in the wild. Beware.

Wait, how?

Ah, a NeoGAF Pro Dark guy?

 

[akidnamededdy]

Dude should just say play on hard difficulty to experience the best the game has to offer.

Hard Mode is the Abbey Road of video game difficulty settings.

I have had Member status for a little while already, but only after seeing this gif in response to one of my posts do I feel that I am really part of this community.

GAF....I'm...I'm home.

 

[SlowRevolution]

I just pre-ordered from Amazon. They're throwing in 10 dollars worth of Instant Movie credit, so maybe I'll play the game and then rent Citizen Kane.

Who am I kidding. I'll probably just rent an Adam Sandler movie.

I keep hearing that Hotel Transylvania is the Mario Party 4 of movies.

 

[nkarafo]

Oh, its a movie-game. Starring Ellen Page. I'll pass.

 

[King Tubby]

Oh, its a movie-game. Starring Ellen Page. I'll pass.

You're thinking about Beyond: Two Souls.

 

[antitrop]

Hard Mode is the Abbey Road of video game difficulty settings.

 

[Sweet Aunt Nancys Panties]

Oh, its a movie-game. Starring Ellen Page. I'll pass.

What's a "movie game"?

 

[Fjordson]

I just pre-ordered from Amazon. They're throwing in 10 dollars worth of Instant Movie credit, so maybe I'll play the game and then rent Citizen Kane.

Who am I kidding. I'll probably just rent an Adam Sandler movie.

Rent Last of Us and buy Citizen Kane on blu-ray.

I now expect gameplay of awkwardly turning over cabinets.

Lmao. Exactly what I meant earlier. A good ol' room thrashing.

 

[SirNinja]

I'm more interested in how people will react to the first score under a 9.

You know full well how. (Edit: beaten to it!)

I plan to make some popcorn when it happens.

 

[Chance Hale]

Ah, a NeoGAF Pro Dark guy?

Neogaf dark users should be the majority, it's so much better!

 

[nkarafo]

What's a "movie game"?

"press A for the next set-piece"

 

[lilltias]

We already had our Citizen Kane moment. It is called Super Metroid.

 

[NBtoaster]

Embarrassing 'review'. Provides no information you couldn't have gathered from previews minus the hyperbolic praise. Doubt they've played it.

 

[Chance Hale]

"press A for the next set-piece"

At least get your inputs right.

 

[Sweet Aunt Nancys Panties]

"press A for the next set-piece"

And you came to the conclusion that Last of Us is one of those based on what exactly? I just watched a 30 minute video of someone playing the demo and I saw none of that. Looked like a game to me. A really good game.

 

[Hanmik]

"press A for the next set-piece"

HELP::::::::::::::

 

[pharmboy044]

"press A for the next set-piece"

lol, learn your inputs before you start trolling.

 

[Hanmik]

lol, learn your inputs before you start trolling.

maybe its the A in "stArt" we are supposed to press..??

 

[nkarafo]

lol, learn your inputs before you start trolling.

The guy asked me "what's a movie game" in general. Don't get upset.

 

[Loudninja]

Not much of a review at all.

 

[Squire]

Seems conflicting, if you play it like a shooter you can progress and keep playing like a shooter. But if you play it like a stealth game, you can also progress that way and the gameplay seems better?

Dude should just say play on hard difficulty to experience the best the game has to offer.

You play review games on Normal. The only time this isn't the case is with Halo or something similar where the developers are often and actively stating they balanced the game around a difficulty other than normal and thus have set that expectation with anyone following the game.

 

[nofi]

Not much of a review at all.

It's really not.

Frustrating though, jumping the gun by a week.

 

[Hanmik]

Not much of a review at all.

they just forgot the P in the word "review"..

 

[FireVoa]

So The Last of Us or Bioshock Infinite, which transcends gaming more? Which is more art than art itself by the end of this year?

 

[Loudninja]

It's really not.

Frustrating though, jumping the gun by a week.

Someone always wants to be first.

 

[MormaPope]

You know full well how. (Edit: beaten to it!)

I plan to make some popcorn when it happens.

Oh my god, I wasn't around for that but I remember seeing that thread last year. The Last of Us review thread is going to be insanely fun.

 

[Squire]

Neogaf dark users should be the majority, it's so much better!

YES!

 

[k_trout]

So The Last of Us or Bioshock Infinite, which transcends gaming more? Which is more art than art itself by the end of this year?

jeeze i hope there is way less backtracking in the last of us

 

[PowderedToast]

hhhahahaahahahaha it delivered

 

[C4Lukins]

Oh wow. Little known internet website accidently leaks a review for a highly anticipated game before everyone else.

 

[twobear]

I'm super excited for TLOU.

 

[Trent Strong]

Hah, betting this honeymoon period will be shorter than Bioshock Infinite's.

Just a big hunch.

There's no way The Last of Us will be as bad as Infinite.

 

[NickMitch]

My wallet is not prepared to buy a ps3 just for this game. Damn the amazing games coming att a generation shift......

 

[Papercuts]

There's no way The Last of Us will be as bad as Infinite.

Have you played uncharted 3?

 

[k_trout]

There's no way The Last of Us will be as bad as Infinite.

i agree
infinte was just not enjoyable
and im a big fan of mr levines work

 

[Chance Hale]

Oh wow. Little known internet website accidently leaks a review for a highly anticipated game before everyone else.

Empire is pretty well known as far as I know, have seen their magazines in Barnes and Noble and while overseas.

Edit: That was poorly worded, but I imagine one can surmise the point. Even if the latter bit makes it seem anecdotal They're a house name(for better or worse).

 

[Trent Strong]

Have you played uncharted 3?

Uncharted 3 was decent.

 

[MormaPope]

If The Last of Us scores lower on Metacritic than Uncharted 3, some people are going to go apeshit. Poop thrown at monitors and walls, weird and non important critiques of reviewers, the spectacle will probably be as good as the game.

 

[Fabrik]

gaming’s Citizen Kane moment?

Such a silly and pompous comment. Plus gaming already has a Citizen Kane moment in Bioshock's famous twist for instance.