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[OmegaSupreme]

I'll be in Senua tonight. As a 40-year-old dad with a gf, these smaller big-budget games are exactly for me. The game length is perfect for me and for the price of a month of gamepass it's a great value.

 

[LordCBH]

I'll be in Senua tonight.

 

[Topher]

Game play seems fine to me....

 

[Sleepwalker]

My month of gamepass expires in 2 days, question is do I want to play this before it runs out?

 

[LordCBH]

My month of gamepass expires in 2 days, question is do I want to play this before it runs out?

Well it’ll only take you a few hours so there’s that.

 

[Mortisfacio]

The Order has a lot more gameplay than this

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

I haven't played 2 yet, but the first Hellblade had more gameplay in 6-7 hours it took me to beat than the 20~ hours of Death Stranding before I uninstalled it.

 

[TrippleA345]

I couldn't believe it. This is not a fake lmao. "legend".

 

[rodrigolfp]

"Most immersive combat".

On a 3rd person camera game. Or the person never played a 1st person/VR game.

 

[LordCBH]

I couldn't believe it. This is not a fake lmao. "legend".

I couldn’t figure out how to embed a Twix so I just screenshotted lol

 

[OmegaSupreme]

With the headphones, it's like I'll be inside her head. Just like the first game. Get your mind out of the gutter perv.

 

[LordCBH]

With the headphones, it's like I'll be inside her head. Just like the first game. Get your mind out of the gutter perv.

But without the gutter I have nothing

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

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:

This is why it’s good to experience things for yourself instead of relying on gaming personalities. I’m not even 40 minutes in and I’ve already fought like eight enemies, found a couple collectibles and had an amazing boss fight.

 

[Mr Moose]

I couldn’t figure out how to embed a Twix so I just screenshotted lol

Just copy and paste the link.

 

[Eiknarf]

So chapter 3 has you run around setting fires for one hour in a six hour game???

Say it ain’t so

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

I haven't played 2 yet, but the first Hellblade had more gameplay in 6-7 hours it took me to beat than the 20~ hours of Death Stranding before I uninstalled it.

Death stranding has lots of gameplay systems in it. Far more than HB2

 

[LordCBH]

Just copy and paste the link.

So you guys aren’t wizards then.

 

[winjer]

 

[FunkMiller]

I haven't played 2 yet, but the first Hellblade had more gameplay in 6-7 hours it took me to beat than the 20~ hours of Death Stranding before I uninstalled it.

Death Stranding has plenty of gameplay. It's just that it's inventory management gameplay, combined with terrain management gameplay. You might find that boring, but it's still there, over the course of a 50 plus hour long game with a fucked up storyline.

 

[demigod]

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

You didn’t stay up to start the game? Disappointed in you.

 

[kaizenkko]

This is sadly funny. lol

 

[Mortisfacio]

Death stranding has lots of gameplay systems in it. Far more than HB2

In my 20 hours before uninstalling it, it did not.

 

[Mowcno]

How come when I search "metacritic hellblade 2" in google it's the first result but when I search it on bing it doesn't show up even on the second page.

MS is weaponizing their search engine!

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

I haven't played 2 yet, but the first Hellblade had more gameplay in 6-7 hours it took me to beat than the 20~ hours of Death Stranding before I uninstalled it.

 

[XXL]

Game play seems fine to me....

 

[FoxMcChief]

I still need to get around to playing the first game.

 

[Matsuchezz]

This is why it’s good to experience things for yourself instead of relying on gaming personalities. I’m not even 40 minutes in and I’ve already fought like eight enemies, found a couple collectibles and had an amazing boss fight.

WOW!! whole 8 enemies!! A couple of collectibles!! That is crazyness, And 1 amazin' boss fight!!
If the game has like 80+ enemies in total and more amazing boss fights this will be the GOTG.
...Not really your comment seems made up.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

In my 20 hours before uninstalling it, it did not.

For you.

Objectively these games aren’t in the same galaxy in terms of content and gameplay variety

 

[Giallo Corsa]

I haven't played 2 yet, but the first Hellblade had more gameplay in 6-7 hours it took me to beat than the 20~ hours of Death Stranding before I uninstalled it.

Holy shit, the hyperbole is real...

 

[Ozriel]

How did the developers take a wide swing? By reviews, HB2 seems like the safest possible sequel Ninja Theory could have possibly made. Outside of amazing graphics, what does it do differently than its predecessor? The combat is somehow even shallower than HB1, linear level design, and repetitive puzzles

‘Wide swing’ here refers to the scores. 5/10 - 10/10 is quite the wide range. How wasn’t that clear, when the sentence started with ‘review aggregates’?

 

[Itchy Tickles]

Whether the game is good or not, looking at the names of most of those reviewers / sites, I feel like this my is my first ever day on the internet, as I've never heard of most of these places / people.

Feels like all those "critic" websites should just have a pointless public pole at this point, because how can these "professional" reviewes mean anything if there is seemingly no bar to entry? Not that I would give any weight to just one source anyway or actually think gaming media is worth my time, but feels like anyone can just review it and add or subtract from the score that isn't the "user" score. Not sure why it stood out so badly to me this time.

 

[Skifi28]

So you guys aren’t wizards then.

I'm sure some of us are over 30 and still "pure".

 

[adamsapple]

In my 20 hours before uninstalling it, it did not.

To play devil's advocate. Once you hit the 30 hour mark and unlock ziplines, it gets a little more bearable than just walking over mountains for mail delivery.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Anyone play this yet on a 3080? How's the performance?

 

[kaizenkko]

I really don't know why people are comparing Hellblade with Death Stranding. The last one have literally a lot o deeper gameplay mechanics and I don't even need to talk about story.

The only reason apparently is the exclusivity of both titles, but that war is over, we all now that eventually Hellblade 2 will raise on PS5. lol

 

[nikolino840]

 

[Topher]

 

[Tomeru]

In my 20 hours before uninstalling it, it did not.

You didnt play in those 20 hours, because saying ds has less gameplay is factually wrong.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Nice tit window. She has my respect and trust.

 

[Topher]

 

[Windom Earle]

Death stranding has lots of gameplay systems in it. Far more than HB2

Death Stranding is the only "real" walking simulator where the walking is actually fun.

 

[Zheph]

I really don't know why people are comparing Hellblade with Death Stranding. The last one have literally a lot o deeper gameplay mechanics and I don't even need to talk about story.

Quite embarrassing honestly, Death Stranding might not be for everyone but there are solid gameplay systems there

 

[TrippleA345]

Thank you.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

WOW!! whole 8 enemies!! A couple of collectibles!! That is crazyness, And 1 amazin' boss fight!!
If the game has like 80+ enemies in total and more amazing boss fights this will be the GOTG.
...Not really your comment seems made up.

It’s ok kiddo, you can get GamePass or wait for the game to come to PS5 and see for yourself, or keep believing hyperbole. Doesn’t matter to me.

 

[Gambit2483]

lol so now metacritic scores are aligned on games based on what other games are doing? Hellblade is not intended to be a character action game. I can argue the character action game NT did with dmc has more depth than stellar blade but that was 2 generations ago. This game is about mental health not about how man combos you can string together. If anything if more people saw it through that lens's instead of the way you’re viewing it should definitely rate higher than 83.

Never said it was the exact same game or same genre but it has puzzles, combat and a cinematic story and as far as the "game" part I can't see being anywhere near the level of Stellar Blade...but we'll see where the Metacritic ends up over the next several days.

 

[adamsapple]

6 / 10

 

[FunkMiller]

Ouch. Luke is becoming one of the more level headed and sensible YouTube game reviewers out there.

 

[Shakka43]

 

[Midn1ght]

 

[graywolf323]

I couldn't believe it. This is not a fake lmao. "legend".

the comments on the tweet… Xbox really deserves the situation they’ve got themselves in because the cult mentality of their fanbase is just sad



why would you need the week off? you should be able to 100% it in a single day off work

 

[LordCBH]

6 / 10

You’re being generous here. She’s about a 4.5/10