Had to be delivery since Best Buys computers wont allow employees to sell anything before release date it will give them an error and tell them "Cannot be sold before X date" won't even let you go through the check out process. Even managers can't override it i remember fondly of customers getting pissed at me because i couldn't sell them something that wasn't supposed to be out on the floor.
Didn't get to any yet. Only completed the first couple story missions. Can't really play more until my son goes to bed (he just got back from school), since the game isn't really child appropriate lol.
Delivery.
This is the second time this has happened in the last couple weeks. I got XCOM 2 a few days early as well.
Always the same shit with steam
Not very long, ~8 hours, it's very linear with annoying driving sequences.
The vast majority of previews are done this way, that includes gaming websites, human beings aren't objective. I would recommend listening to the things he's saying about the game instead of questioning his "integrity" or "objectiveness."That's why I said his opinion is now meaningless.
I trust them because i am one of those people who gets flown out to events, put up in nice hotels and get stuff for free to review and not once have i ever felt the need to pad or give good reviews because of that nor has any of my friends who are in the same business. If Jeff Gerstmann who was fired for giving an honest opinion corrupt because he gets review copies? Goes to events? Is everyone who works at every single gaming outlet?
Not that we could check that tho
Yeah, and it sounds like he's saying very little in the way of critique. I'm not sure what your point is about "bu-bu-but other games do it too!" So? There's a reason why I have continually preached about previews being worthless hype machines.
Please. I'll question the integrity and objectivity of someone who goes on a paid trip with a game publisher ever damn time. Maybe they'll prove themselves undeserving of scrutiny, maybe they won't. But don't expect me to ignore it.
Jeff is a titan of the reviewer community, so I'm not sure why the comparison was brought up to begin with. There's a massive difference between getting a review copy, even a review copy of a collector's edition and being flown out of town, put up in a nice hotel, wined and dined, doted on by devs and shown "secret" things inside the development HQ. Give me a break. I mean treating the reviewers to special promo material is silly enough, and I already take my reviews with a grain of salt, but the paid trip kind of step is just a crazy step beyond that.
It's not a review, (title aside), it's a preview like all the other previews that came out of a press event.
But it's a preview, i've seen a lot of that dude's videos before, he's not trying to be a hardcore reviewer, just a guy who as the channel name implies, really likes open world games, i've seen him critique open world games before and he also critiques some aspects in that preview, (like saying the combat can be a bit rough despite him enjoying it). If anything the video is more about informing the audience about how the game systems work.
Oh so it's just part of the inauthentic hype machine process of the video game industry. Got you.
