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[dorkimoe]

I read it a few months ago, it started from natethehate which is pretty reliable imo. here (I hope it was true because I didn't go straight to the source, I read it from the sites)

well you dont generally develop a game and predict its going to be low scoring

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Witless response from a halfwit, expected.

If I’m a halfwit that means I’m not witless

 

[Negotiator101]

If I’m a halfwit that means I’m not witless

Clever.

 

[zapper]

Funnily enough, low 90s is what you get when you aggregate the 8 Xbox-specific outlet scores. Not that they're the only brand who do that, of course.

I don't know, from what I know it's others who do these internal reviews and not "the press". they should be ex-reviewers or people within the publisher. that's what they explained to me

 

[sachos]

If kojima directed this walking sim it would get 10s

https://opencritic.com/game/7816/death-stranding Death Stranding actually got the same scores.

 

[demigod]

Upon further inspection of my warning because y’know, I just woke up. But what’s a Hellbalde?

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Funnily enough, low 90s is what you get when you aggregate the 8 Xbox-specific outlet scores. Not that they're the only brand who do that, of course.

Why don't we ever see other publisher internal review scores? We only ever hear about the Xbox ones.

 

[IDKFA]

Fuck me. Just saw the Eurogamer review.

This has GOTY written all over it. Possible GOTG material with Zelda: TOTK and BG3.

Wow.

 

[Johnny Concrete]

If kojima directed this walking sim it would get 10s

This one is more like a cinematic of a walking sim.

 

[LordCBH]

I read it a few months ago, it started from natethehate which is pretty reliable imo. here (I hope it was true because I didn't go straight to the source, I read it from the sites)

Ain’t no way they thought it would score overall in the 90’s. Ain’t no possible way. Who did their mock reviews? Klobrille, Colt, and Senjutsu?

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

some first impressions from Jaffe

 

[Arcane0ne]

I have poor performance and single digits sometimes with my humble pc with gtx 1660 Super and 16 gb of ram.Maybe i have bottleneck with Ryzen 1600X?
I will have to play in my Series S.

 

[demigod]

Fuck me. Just saw the Eurogamer review.

This has GOTY written all over it. Possible GOTG material with Zelda: TOTK and BG3.

Wow.

How dare you leave out the one true GOTG, Starfield.

 

[adamsapple]

I have poor performance and single digits sometimes with my humble pc with gtx 1660 Super and 16 gb of ram.Maybe i have bottleneck with Ryzen 1600X?
I will have to play in my Series S.

I think your 1660 is also a bottleneck. The games minimum requirement is 1070 and based on rudimentary googling. a 1660S is worse than that in some ways.

 

[Shakka43]

“Linear over shoulder cinematic experience? No thanks"

"No thanks if on PlayStation, in my veins! if on Xbox"

 

[Topher]

Response on Steam is really good so far. 86% positive

 

[Jaybe]

Why don't we ever see other publisher internal review scores? We only ever hear about the Xbox ones.

Because Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, spends his time discussing the internal review process and scores with the gaming media.

Xbox boss says Redfall ‘let a lot of people down,’ commits to fixing it

Phil Spencer says Arkane will continue to work on the game

www.polygon.com

“We do mock reviews for every game that we launch, and this is double digits lower than we thought we would be with this game,” Spencer explained. “That’s one of the disappointing things; we would never strive to launch a game that we thought was going to review in the low 60s — it’s not part of our goals. [Redfall] was significantly lower than our internal metrics in terms of where it actually reviewed. But that’s not on anybody but us. We have to own that.

 

[King Dazzar]

I know this was already shared. I just watched Mr Matty's take. And he said for the first 40 minutes all he did was push the left stick forward, hear it is time stamped:

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

I know this was already shared. I just watched Mr Matty's take. And he said for the first 40 minutes all he did was push the left stick forward, hear it is time stamped:

7 years to make a “game” where you push up on the analog stick

Masterpiece 10/klobrille

 

[LordCBH]

 

[Killjoy-NL]

7 years to make a “game” where you push up on the analog stick

Masterpiece 10/klobrille

Maybe they wanted to surpass Playstation walking sims.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Maybe they wanted to surpass Playstation walking sims.

The Order has a lot more gameplay than this

Trying to think of genuine walking sims here. Alan Wake 2 has more gameplay

 

[clarky]

Response on Steam is really good so far. 86% positive

Thats just 205 reviews though. Just wait until Ass of Can Whooping mobilises the squad, they eat under 1000 positives for breakfast.

 

[K' Dash]

Glad it reviewed well, with that embargo I thought it was going to do HORRIBLE.

 

[Madflavor]

How crazy is Amicia tho?

True. Amicia is sound minded, intelligent, courageous, and has strong family values. Not something a typical game critic/journalist can relate to.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

I absolutely loved stuff like Scorn but that actually has Myst-like puzzles and some of them were kind of tough.

This is too on rails. It’s a shame since it looks very expensive. I’ll for sure try it if they release it on PS5 because it looks very dark and that’s a win in my book.

There's a disconnect for me with third person Cinematic Experience (tm) games somehow.

I'm a huge fan of Point & Clicks, Puzzle games, Adventure games and so forth. I do not need "shooty bang bang" for games to be engaging but there is some weird thing for me that makes things like slow walking sections even for a minute unbearable for me third person games like this. There just is never anything else engaging going on and the controls and visuals constantly tell you "theres about to be action" or some shit?

 

[demigod]

There’s your marketing, folks.

 

[Topher]

Thats just 205 reviews though. Just wait until Ass of Can Whooping mobilises the squad, they eat under 1000 positives for breakfast.

 

[dotnotbot]

There’s your marketing, folks.

Now we know where all the marketing budget goes to.

 

[nosoynadie22]

Glad ut reviewed well, with that embargo I thought it was going to do HORRIBLE.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

some first impressions from Jaffe

This dude is a clown and yet...

 

[Zheph]

some first impressions from Jaffe

Still suffering from Connie's departure

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Because Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, spends his time discussing the internal review process and scores with the gaming media.

Xbox boss says Redfall ‘let a lot of people down,’ commits to fixing it

Phil Spencer says Arkane will continue to work on the game

www.polygon.com

“We do mock reviews for every game that we launch, and this is double digits lower than we thought we would be with this game,” Spencer explained. “That’s one of the disappointing things; we would never strive to launch a game that we thought was going to review in the low 60s — it’s not part of our goals. [Redfall] was significantly lower than our internal metrics in terms of where it actually reviewed. But that’s not on anybody but us. We have to own that.

That was one instance. I've heard of these "internal" review scores only for Xbox games. Maybe I'm wrong, but they're the only publisher that seems to have them leak.

 

[Pedro Motta]

There is your marketing, your "global rollout".

 

[Draugoth]

Response on Steam is really good so far. 86% positive

Not bad, but im still worried for Ninja Theory. Suits dont care about positive reviews

Glad it reviewed well, with that embargo I thought it was going to do HORRIBLE.

The game can be beaten in a day after all.

 

[Elios83]

So cringe, so fake.
They don't understand that they have destroyed the brand with this bullshit.

Lol review system is a joke.

 

[hinch7]

 

[Porticus]

How's possible that the head of marketing at Xbox behaves like this?

Isn't embarassing?

 

[David Ricardo]

Played around an hour, and there is barely any gameplay at all. Just push the analog stick forward, and press the right button if there is a fight. Doesn´t look interesting at all, but will keep playing to unlock the daily achievements for the rewards program.

Boring is the word that best describes the game for me

 

[Topher]

Not bad, but im still worried for Ninja Theory. Suits dont care about positive reviews

Agree. Sales still matter more than anything else

 

[graywolf323]

 

[Mr Moose]

Greenberg: Marketing budget well spent.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Thats just 205 reviews though. Just wait until Ass of Can Whooping mobilises the squad, they eat under 1000 positives for breakfast.

 

[Karak]

Looks great but thats about it for me. Either you love these types of things or you don't. I'm in the latter camp. I think Karak said something similar in his review, if your the type of person who is looking for the skip/fastforward button during dialogue and cut scenes in games then this is not the game for you.

Does look amazing mind you.

This is really it. As I said in the review, where some games offer something that may handhold you over the gulf between whatever genre you may like and a new genre that the title offers something intriguing in. Hellblade 2 doesn't do much of that and for better or worse it never even appears remotely like its attempting to. It is its own thing and pretty confident in that. For better or worse of course.

 

[j0hnnix]

 

[adamsapple]

This is really it. As I said in the review, where some games offer something that may handhold you over the gulf between whatever genre you may like and a new genre that the title offers something intriguing in. Hellblade 2 doesn't do much of that and for better or worse it never even appears remotely like its attempting to. It is its own thing and pretty confident in that. For better or worse of course.

Sounds great. Starting the game now, will get back to this thread after a bit with impressions.

 

[graywolf323]

How's possible that the head of marketing at Xbox behaves like this?

Isn't embarassing?

he’s been behaving like this for over a decade now, the fact Greenberg is still in charge of marketing (and has even been promoted) is one of the things I believe to be a knock against Phil Spencer’s tenure

 

[King Dazzar]

7 years to make a “game” where you push up on the analog stick

Masterpiece 10/klobrille

My question is, does it have auto run? Though I guess an elastic band would do.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

I give up. It’s not going to get any better with these people. Wasting my time and money.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

This is like when the girlfriend of the local band's singer tells him he's fucking amazing and should go solo. Five years later he works the night shift at 7-11 and has a daughter named Krystle.