He is always a little extreme for me. The only time I consult his reviews is for musou titles, lol. He actually gives them a fair shake and loves them like I do.
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Just Cause 3 Review Thread
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He is always a little extreme for me. The only time I consult his reviews is for musou titles, lol. He actually gives them a fair shake and loves them like I do.
QuantumSquid
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I can't imagine being a reviewer these days and having to play through all of these open world games that come out with the same copy-pasted mechanics, challenges, and activities. I don't blame Jim for a second for the scores he gives the majority of open-world games these days, the genre desperately needs some innovation.
WhateverItTakes
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Sterling review is what I expected. Lucky for me I've stayed away from far cry and ass creed so I don't think I'll have fatigue. Still gonna wait for a price drop though
About what I expected. Call me stale, but I wanted a shinier and better JC2, and that sounds like exactly what I'm getting. Sweet. For some reason with each JC, I never get the open-world fatigue that I'm normally very susceptible to. I just love fucking around in it's world and want every reason to stay in it.
Want to see the technical issues for myself, but hopefully if they're too invasive they will be ironed out. If they are, this will easily make my personal top 5 games of the year. I just have way too much fun with these games.
4 1/2 more hours, can't fucking wait!
Want to see the technical issues for myself, but hopefully if they're too invasive they will be ironed out. If they are, this will easily make my personal top 5 games of the year. I just have way too much fun with these games.
4 1/2 more hours, can't fucking wait!
Weird thing too - he praised Metal Gear Solid V as not being padded with filler content or it's +100 side-ops not feeling repetitive or nebulous, even though that game had crazy amounts of downtime moving between distances and performing the same tired tasks of "blow up tank, extract prisoner etc." but with so much more tedium associated with it.
Karak
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Totally agree. Even without the tech issues.
Vire
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Seems odd to me that Fallout gets multiple reviews for the lackluster performance in the console versions and this only gets one despite the framerate in this performing like utter shit on consoles.
MHWilliams
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I dig that kind of open-world play. Honestly, I find it's like cleaning. I just move from point to point, cleaning things up and having fun.
I think I enjoyed Mad Max way more than it deserved in spite of the tired open world objectives. I think I'll still grab this. I don't care about story I just want to fly around and blow shit up. I've never played a JC before so this being more of the same doesn't apply to me really.
A lot of reviewers seemed to ignore the fact that MGSV had a bland open world and shit tons of bland boring busy work (as well as many more of its flaws) when they were handing out 9's and 10's.
Xenoblade X got a 9 from him today.
Exactly. Playing Just Cause is kind of like watching a Bollywood flick. It is funny, over the top and absurd in all the best ways.
You are not there for the story or polish.
He did give Xenoblade Chronicles 9/10
Exactly. Playing Just Cause is kind of like watching a Bollywood flick. It is funny, over the top and absurd in all the best ways.
You are not there for the story or polish.
Over the top, story and especially polish do not exclude each other.
KnownAsEpic
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MHWilliams
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User 479360
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It's a solid 6.5-7. Just Cause 2 was the better game.
reptilescorpio
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No, but that is not what I am looking for in a game like this. I just want to create my own crazy fun with the tools provided in a giant and beautiful world. This game delivers that from everything that I have seen.
Consoles versions are a mess.
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Deleted member 17706
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Doesn't sound like it really affects the gameplay that much compared to Fallout 4. Different reviewers, too.
He gave Xenoblade Chronicles X a pretty high score though and that review was today as well.
Death Metalist
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It's because too many came out in a very short amount of time. Mad Max, MGSV, Batman: Arkham Knight, Fallout 4, Witcher 3, Need For Speed, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Rise of the Tomb Raider & Just Cause 3. Jesus. You have to be doing something special or exceptionally good to impress.
Edit: I had the game for more than a week but just played 2 hours lol, I was waiting for the patch. From what I played I felt the shooting and controls felt tighter than JC2 thanks to the sound mixing in this game making things feel real satisfying.
Just Cause 2 actually had an alarming amount of polish compared to the first. I was so surprised by how it turned out considering the first could've easily been dead in the water, and I couldn't have been happier with the way it turned out considering I didn't evem expect it to get a sequel im the first place. This one seems to try to follow suit. Albiet some tech difficulties.
I want this in my viens right now so bad.
I want this in my viens right now so bad.
You forgot AC Syndicate.
Performance is essential for fun, especially for crazy over the top action.
Saw your edit :]
I bolded the interesting part of your post :]
Vire
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Hmmm, I watched that ACG review and I beg to differ. Granted I haven't played it yet but some of those drops were abominable.
Indeed, but dips to into the 20's is not a deal breaker for me. I am actually quite used to it in huge games like this on consoles. I have seen tons of footage and the game looks more than playable.
The discrepancy between Fallout 4's versions and Just Cause 3's versions sounds a lot bigger in the former case honestly.
Dan seems to be saying Just Cause 3 has some frame rate slowdown that is disappointing but not gamebreaking, whereas Jeff said of Fallout 4 PS4 there were some sections the frame rate dropped so low the shooting was too difficult and he had to switch to VATS.
MHWilliams
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56-61 in normal play, dips during big ass explosions.Solid 60 on that setup?
That's exactly mine and want to make sureThanks!
Karak
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LOl. like a 7. Its much much better on PC than that.
I will say the odd thing is the console performance on like systems being so wonky.
Initial load was 45 seconds on one system 1+ minute on another. Same console type same harddrive. Same damned everything.
This game isn't popular enough to warrant that amount of extra review time? GOTY stuff is starting up and I know Dan still has stuff to play.
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Deleted member 325805
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I love open world games but I'm getting burned out on them as well, so JC3 will have to wait awhile before I get it. Honestly I could go for a super linear but great game right about now, one that doesn't take 50 hours to finish.
orthodoxy1095
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I could understand that feeling for him (I'm certainly burnt out), but is that really true?
Fallout 4: 9.5/10
MGSV: 9/10
XCX: 9/10
TW3: 8.5/10
AC: Syndicate: 7/10
Saints Row: Gat Out Of Hell: 7/10
JC3: 6.5/10.
Batman: AK: 5/10
Dying Light: 5/10
Mad Max: 4/10
It's kin of interesting to see that Avalanche created two of the games that he scored lowest this year. It seemed like Jim was actually in fact rather liked a number of open worlds like XCX, MGSV, FO4 and TW3.
Reviewed by different people.
Death Metalist
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Yeah that too. Open World is a pain in the ass this year even if the games are good.
SlasherJPC
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Can totally tell why they wanted this in the hands of the popular youtube masses earmy and to promote. Best game ever quotes and all that jazz. Lol
I am so swamped my head is spinning. So I can see why many may be burned out with them.
Brizzo24
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And that notion is perfectly fine with me. I wasn't expecting anything much from the game other than a more glorified JC2 with better explosions, visuals, and locales. What's tripping me up is the negative comments regarding the crazy load times (30 seconds to two whole minutes in between deaths) and the framerate dips on PS4. I'm not sure if it's day one, or I can wait for a sale.
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Deleted member 325805
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He gave Dying Light a 5? The fuck? It was amazing, it shocked the shit out of me it was so good. An easy 9 for me. Mad Max was better than a 4 too, 6 would be fair.
Ooccoo
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That's why I don't bother with Youtubers for the most part. Angry Joe is great and more real than most other reviewers. Jimquisition is also fine. A lot of people are just bad at reviewing stuff and basically work for the publishers as free marketing for them.