I said this many times, when a game gets 10/10 it doesn't mean its "perfect" it just means the reviewer enjoyed the game that much to give that score. Also what does it matter what score the reviewer gives? Read/watch actual review and see gameplay footage or play it and judge the game yourself.
Good, I barely call those "puzzles", I really like the original game's combat system but those so called "puzzles" sections weren't all that interesting.
Skill Up talks about this like it is a negative but to me it is a good thing. I didn't hate them but they didn't really add anything.
This is why people need to actually read the review instead just looking at scores, someone's negative points maybe positive point for you.
Kinda-sorta-but-not-really. I believe he lamented that Naughty Dog didn't bother to attempt to improve on them, or offer up meaningful alternative traversal or environmental puzzles - something to add challenge or discovery into traversing the world. From his perspective, Naughty Dog simply just removed all traversal or environmental puzzles all together. This, apparently, left a hole, with "walk blindly to destination" on one side, and "kill everything at said destination" on the other, with nothing to bridge the gulf, ala Uncharted traversal and exploration. Take from that what you will.
He had no problem with that type of thing in Doom..
I mean, DOOM isn't TLOU2, so... cool?
I guess what I would like to say is... Uncharted is a different game too and I feel that whimsical puzzles don't really fit the gritty tone of TLOU and distract from the rage that would drive someone to revenge because people that are driven by that are very singular in their thought / purpose.
I haven't met anyone who's ever been driven to murder literally hundreds of people like Ellie here, so I won't comment on what feels applicable. But, I wouldn't call the TLOU1's puzzles "whimsical", so there's clearly room for traversal puzzles that don't veer into "whimsical". The reviewer actually lamented that they were removed entirely, rather than improved, so clearly they agree with that too. As for "distract from the rage", we actually call it "pacing", and it's important for ensuring elements have the necessary context to land properly. Your mileage may vary, of course.
I disagree... but anyway, you're entitled to your view.
TLoU has always been very grounded in this respect. The ladders and planks always stuck out to me as a sore thumb in the first, an overall very gamey element in an otherwise extremely plausible universe that the experience would’ve lost nothing by their exclusion. Every time I replay the original I’m left wondering what was the reason for their inclusion at all. They added absolutely nothing except needless busywork. I can somewhat understand the plank as it was relevant to Ellie’s character development, but I think ND has made the right choice in trimming off the needless fat here.
It'll be available as soon as the counter hits 0.
He didn't like the first one either... his voice is an outlier and people who enjoyed the first one will enjoy the sequel. His points are really poor for the most part... any number of stories could substitute their characters, so what?
This is not true of course, he liked the first game, just didn't like its gameplay much, but loved the story and therefore the game on the whole as well.
Yeah, that's great... it has absolutely no bearing on my enjoyment. I'll decide myself and I don't really get this push to highlight the one negative review in the world.
Still they can review it based on their experience. They just aren't allowed to spoil it. But that doesnt change their take on the game and their review score.
He explained a whole lot more than that and I think excerpting the whole part of the no spoiler story review is a bit overkill. I don't know, wouldn't work either if I just paste off a single line of words.
The AIs follows a linear zipline waiting to be killed in queue, in one of the examples in his video. It's what I experienced in the first game too.
Give it up as in not playing it? This is a review thread, all positives and negatives in one place, even hype thread can't always be sunshine either.
Give it up, this is too sad.
Hype levels to play this Game of the generation contender are through the roof, bring on the 19th !
I could sorta understand that. If everyone is not likeable then we have no one to root for and attach to.
But that's just the problem, you end up having to believe the reviewer without getting enough proof that they were justified to give it a 9-10/10 score (or any other score for that matter). The reviews shouldn't spoil the key moments in the game, but it's just not right when they have to ignore talking about roughly half of the game.
Exactly. Imagine if reviewers were not allowed to show more than first level of the game. You would not know there is much more variety in later levels. Or imagine if they were not allowed to show platforming or talk about it. They would say "there is one new mechanic in doom eternal which is controversial but I liked it 10/10".
I've agreed with a majority of his reviews and they seem to reflect my feelings on those games so.. that's the point of trusted reviewers.
It's not about Sony games. These are some of my fav games(god of war, uc4, last guardian, DS, bloodborne etc). I have just not heard a single review depicting properly why they gave it a 10 our of 10. 25 hours of sneaking and not likeable characters does not sound good and the supporting gameplay footage did not showed anything new. Everyone just says it's bleak and violent and that's ok but how is that a 10? Explain to me dear reviewer. Maybe I've watched bad reviews
No one answered me...
Sure, maybe if they made too much of bad choices.