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Wait did they really give the Order a 3/10?
Loss of any and all credibility if true.
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Edge cover revealed: Bloodborne, the verdict (review available tomorrow)
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Wait did they really give the Order a 3/10?
Loss of any and all credibility if true.
Shuggananas
Banned
"but it looks good it deserves 9 because I say it"
geez
Would be fun if it gets less than 9. Probably won't cause they'd get shat on if they did though.
Joke? The Order is pretty mediocre and Edge are usually pretty harsh with their reviews.
Messofanego
Banned
With all the Order threads lately and the posts in them, I really can't tell if this is sarcasm.
GhostTrick
Banned
It'll be a 9 or 10.
If they gave Dark Souls II, which was developped by a B-team, they can't go lower with that one.
If they gave Dark Souls II, which was developped by a B-team, they can't go lower with that one.
Why would it be fun?
Miles Quaritch
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That's a fantastic cover.
As for the review.
8.
A solid follow up to Demon's and Dark Soils, but fails to fully capitalise on being a new IP. Doesn't take enough risks, doesn't do enough to differentiate itself from past games, the new gun mechanic, while sounding like a revolution, actually turns out to be a failure in its execution.
Bloodbourne ultimately fails to capture what made Demon's and Dark such good games.
As for the review.
8.
A solid follow up to Demon's and Dark Soils, but fails to fully capitalise on being a new IP. Doesn't take enough risks, doesn't do enough to differentiate itself from past games, the new gun mechanic, while sounding like a revolution, actually turns out to be a failure in its execution.
Bloodbourne ultimately fails to capture what made Demon's and Dark such good games.
What does the team has to do with the score? If the game is good, it will get a good score. And Dark Souls II was good.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I know, it's just that these days most devs and publishers seem to favor protecting their products more than getting out reviews early. Back in the day, when the digital age was relatively young, it was important to get reviews of the final product as fast as possible, in order to make the biggest sales when the game came out. Now a days, where word travels in a millisecond, reviews are less so important, especially since a negative one, especially one that is the only singular review for the product, can ricochet across the crevices of twitter or even NeoGAF. These days, to release a review early(Especially since Edge is announcing it, and if true the review will be available later today/tomorrow) is risky not knowing the outcome, especially giving consumers enough time to parse through it and decide to cancel it.
So...yeah it's peculiar and odd for the review of Bloodborne, a very much anticipated game to be coming out so early.
what if its a ten tho?
Palette Swap
Member
Dock one more point if there's no Horse in the messages.
That shit saved DS2.
toythatkills
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£fivefifty
Presumably the review is 10/10 or it wouldn't really warrant this kind of cover. I can't think of many Edge covers which have been dedicated to reviews rather than previews/features.
Lucky for us, this is only your opinion
SlipperyFishes
Banned
When you say B-team do you say this as if to say "the less talented developers"? I doubt very much they'd refer to them as the "B-team" and it comes off as insulting to see this rhetoric put forward regularly as if Dark Souls 2 was some shameful production.
Why don't you just refer to them as the DS team, or BB teams? Let them stand on their own merits, not artificial, arbitrary ones such as A/B.
Which is shared by many people.
Or they know they have the first BB review which will get them a lot of attention, and there aren't that many already announced that would make for interesting previews at this time.
Magic Mushroom
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I take it you've never read Edge?
It it's a good game, it'll get a good score. And Dark Souls was their game of the generation.
Pretty much every PS retail exclusive has rated below or at average, with the one exception of Naughty Dog games. I don't see that changing. For whatever reason reviewer's tastes just don't match with Sony's tastes on the games they decide to fund.
Lol
What makes you think that?
Edit:
Ahh, an anti-Sony conspiracy. I see. You realise that they have far better reviews on average than the competition on Metacritic, right?
Neff
Member
When a game is more disproportionate and conflicted than ever before between what pulls you in (stunning visuals and production values) and what gives you a satisfying gaming experience (innovation, content, variety) like The Order is, it's always going to invite passionate feelings, from people who have played the game and people who haven't.
You should get used to it, because it's not going to end for a while.
DoubleTake
Member
From Software botched The Order 1886 so why should we expect better in Bloodborne?!
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
score = 6/10
I dunno probably because of Driveclub getting dinged for not being an open world racer when that's by no means the norm in racing games or what the game was designed to be at all.
Magic Mushroom
Member
Edge gave DC an eight.
Rhazer Fusion
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Lol @ some of you predicting 6s and even lower scores. Clueless people will be clueless no matter what.
Well, it is a somewhat niche Japanese game, so you never know..........
HORRORSHØW
Member
you're ruining his insulated delusions.
What Did Edge's review say though?
All three Souls games scored very well all across the board, niche or not.
Edge reviewing a game early, hmm that can only mean good things surely, those dudes are HARSH.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Have faith in Miyazaki.
Shuggananas
Banned
meltdown, drama, etc
MichaelFassbender
Member
"I can't believe I ate the whole thing!"
-Burger review, 9/10
"Had to turn the brightness way up, why does it have to be so dark?"
-Bloodborne review, 6/10
-Burger review, 9/10
"Had to turn the brightness way up, why does it have to be so dark?"
-Bloodborne review, 6/10
BabyFaceKillah
Member
Lol @ some of you predicting 6s and even lower scores. Clueless people will be clueless no matter what.
dont be a stan bro... its not cool
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