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Polygon's marathon Xbox One live stream

This stream just confused me and seemed unlike a team that game this system an 8.0 review score. So much seemed unpolished, even buggy, and it was [perhaps rightfully] slammed pretty much throughout the stream.

Who wrote the review? It was probably Gies.
 
An 8 is an awfully generous score for a piece of hardware that so often fails work as advertised. What I watched of the stream seemed to be a much more honest assessment of the system.
 
What the fuck is going on

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"The infinite loop of pain, dread, and torture that is life"

That about sums up the stream too





David Fish theyre trying soooo hard to not say the PS4 is better...they beat around it sooo much

Yeah that too
 
I cants believe how bad theses load times are for these xbone games. What's up? Are there any ps4 games with load times like these.
 
A lot of PS4 love in this ending segment. maybe they got the review numbers mixed up?

Maybe it's one of those things that you realize after spending some time with both devices. You know buyers remorse and all that.

On paper, people might like the Xbone better but holy shit is all of it really bad right now.
 
I absolutely love The Besties and Polygon, and these streams do it for me. They hit all the important points (I think), and they entertain the hell out of me.

Also, gifworthy.

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And I'm happy to see actual visual representations of Russ' awful The Besties characters.

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How are these guys supposed to be journalists? I would never put up with participating in this awkward bullshit. You have real critics like Ebert and then you have these goofballs who apparently lack any taste or self respect. Jesus.

I'm not watching the stream, but are you talking about them dancing to a dance game and having fun?

These are video games, you guys.
 
Ok so even forgetting the fact that Polygon scored the Xbone higher than the PS4, how do these people reconcile the fact that the stream we all just saw in no way, shape, or form lines up with their glowing written review of the same product? I mean it's one thing to be inconsistent across multiple products, but the same product? WTF? I seriously can't wait until these corporate shithole gaming sites go the way of the Dodo.
 
Ok so even forgetting the fact that Polygon scored the Xbone higher than the PS4, how do these people reconcile the fact that the stream we all just saw in no way, shape, or form lines up with their glowing written review of the same product? I mean it's one thing to be inconsistent across multiple products, but the same product? WTF? I seriously can't wait until these corporate shithole gaming sites go the way of the Dodo.

Reconcile it with 750k cash money is how.
 
There is a distinct difference between this Polygon video review of the Xbox One and what they actually demonstrated for the past 12 hours.

It is quite surprising how much the two differ. It is borderline misleading. Especially considering how rough the voice control was in the livestream. For such a central feature it really leaves a lot to be desired.

That said, voice control was never something I intended to use anyways. I just wish they made the UI more intuitive for use with a controller instead of designing it around a feature that isn't particularly accurate.
 
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