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No Man's Sky Review Thread: The Scores Have Arrived (read OP)
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Deadbeat dropping god damn truth bombs
because this game is as deep as a puddle on a sunny day
jmaine_ph
Member
This is hilarious LMAO!
you think they intentionally held back reviews because they were afraid of bad scores?
Kowashitai
Banned
A 7 is a fine score. Maybe it is just because I play a bunch of niche games that don't review into the 90s that I feel this way, but it makes me wonder how many games people buy when they say a 7 isn't worth it. Sure review inflation was a problem, but a lot of sites have toned it down and old IGN memes are necessarily true anymore. The text is what matters in the end anyway.
Shit happens. I paid $100 for the division digital. Shit burns man.
Of course I know what general consensus is, probably better than you do. In the case of metacritic, it's literally an average of review scores. With a divisive game, those review scores can vary drastically, increasing the standard deviation of what defines "general consensus" to the point that it becomes largely irrelevant to the individual. Some people will love it and some people will hate it. Trying to convince people otherwise is an effort in futility. But enjoy trying to convince people otherwise!
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
Expected. But for some reason much of GAF expected something different, not really sure why...
Anyway, sorry for those that didn't get what they were expecting. The game still looks decent, may pick it up down the line.
Anyway, sorry for those that didn't get what they were expecting. The game still looks decent, may pick it up down the line.
Yea, it really is insane how there's really nothing at all to do in this game.
I'm gonna see if I can bamboozle Best Buy into letting me get a refund on my LE, since they're sold out and can't replace it.
If not, I'll hold on to it in hopes that the post-release support is solid. But those boys better hurry the hell up, because that time of year when the big releases hit is not so far off.
I'm gonna see if I can bamboozle Best Buy into letting me get a refund on my LE, since they're sold out and can't replace it.
If not, I'll hold on to it in hopes that the post-release support is solid. But those boys better hurry the hell up, because that time of year when the big releases hit is not so far off.
Chill Penguin
Member
Yeah it's a personal thing though, I'm not saying anyone is right or wrong for buying this game. But yes, I'm 32 years old now and I rely on reviews to vet the games for me as my gaming time is limited nowadays. Ideally we'd try out games and form our own opinions, but in practice that's not really possible for many of us.
off duty ninja
Member
Facts:
Expectations: Met, Sean never said anything would be there that isn't from what I can tell. The MP thing is just ridiculous as it has been stated many times to EXPECT a SP experience.
Graphics: Absolutely gorgeous!
Scale: Biggest game I have ever played far and away.
10/10
I'd give it around an 8 based on my own criteria but you managed to turn it into a ten!
It is yellow in MC, yellow means mediocrity.
jk
Coffee Dog
Banned
I think that considering the positive first few hours of the game, prerelease reviews would have been beneficial.
LordOcidax
Member
69... this make Star Fox Zero relevant again. The battle for Space GOTY is going to be tight...
Im joking..
is getting a C- on your report card or a test good? No, its not very good
So yes, a 7/10 is mediocre by definition. 8/10 is good, 9/10 is great and 10/10 is perfection
Everyeye.it 8/10
http://www.everyeye.it/articoli/recensione-no-man-s-sky-30471.html
http://www.everyeye.it/articoli/recensione-no-man-s-sky-30471.html
ThaPhantom
Member
Honestly, the good and bad reviews have all made solid points. Its really hard to review and rate a game like this. Theyve pulled off something great though even if it didnt quite hit the mark.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Talking about "7s" seems like a blatant obsfucation when you can look at the scores and see they're not all sevens. The average is a seven because of how damn divisive it is.
Sun Bather
Member
Just one more point on average, and it will climb its way up to the metacritic score of the pc version of Arkham Knight.
NervousXtian
Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
This is such a cop out. I don't think it's far from what most people expected, just that we expected the systems to be done far better, for there to be more to do than basically discover and babysit bars of stamina.
I didn't expect epic space trading, finally crafted worlds or epic space battles... but I did expect more than a bare bones survival game system built into a procedural universe.
You can have fun with what we got, for sure.. it's fun to explore and travel.. but the problem is, you are hampered by bad systems, shitty FPS moments and horrible space combat in a universe that is completely devoid of feeling alive.
I think we can all agree that prerelease reviews are always beneficial, I can't think of a scenario or game where they wouldn't be.
Maybe I'm naive, but I don't think that lack of prerelease reviews are necessarily some nefarious plot to hide bad reviews and save day 1 sales in all cases. Sometimes games just come in hot
Without a doubt.
There were no pre-release review copies. And there was a significant day one patch. I don't think there were shenanigans with this on the part of critics, unlike say those cringey reviewer "events" that elicited gushing praise from critics, like the one Konami did for MGSV.
Kowashitai
Banned
Video games aren't in school.
DOT DASH DOT
Member
No Mans Pants.
Caayn
Member
Jup.
Metacritic average is 73/74 for all games, take it as you will
Then your perspective is very limited.
And it will happen again. Overpromising developers and hype culture are pretty much the name of the game for videogames. Players will never learn.
jmaine_ph
Member
I wasn't arguing his point I was just trying to understand his definition. This is not school so I don't know why always bring that up. We are talking video games.
personally, I determine all of my game purchases based on how many tokens a game would get at chuckee cheese for their report card
off duty ninja
Member
Not exactly sure what your point is regarding but I was simply using the criteria he listed. I love the game but it isn't a 10/10. It's also not trash. Go figure!
funroll-loops
Member
The most unexpected thing to me was that even the technology they built the game on doesn't look very impressive. Their rendition of star systems and galaxies is way more primitive than Elite Dangerous or Space Engine or in some ways even something like EVE Online or Independence War 2 or Freelancer (at least you could fly around stars in those games). And the creatures themselves don't surpass what Spore did in 2009.
I wonder if the game would have come out better if they had just focused on developing a few nice looking planets and made an 8 hourish walking simulator.
blastprocessor
The Amiga Brotherhood
Well you lose automatically because Chuckee Cheese were for failing kids because its a place of torture and not fun lol
I was just saying the grading system works well with the scores for the most part.
7/10 is not a bad score and its not a good score.........same as a C or C-
Watching. I like TB. He is talking about the difference in FoV.
LyleLanley
Banned
LOL, is this quote supposed to sell people on the game?
Methamatics101
Member
The amount of micromanaging seems like an absolute chore and getting in the way of exploration. Judging by streams I've watched, the amount of time you'll most likely spend in the menus is really off-putting, in my opinion.
Weltall Zero
Member
Sometimes letting go of ideas that don't work is the bravest and smartest thing to do. I really wish more people learned that skill, especially when there are sunken costs involved and things spiral into very expensive trainwrecks.
I may or may not be talking from work experience.
NervousXtian
Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
Well of course it would be, as typically on smaller releases there would be considerably less conversation. People who bought it on a whim, but didn't really like it probably wouldn't even bother commenting, so you'd by default have a much more positive outlook. People getting in the game after release based on that positivity would have a much clearer idea of what the game was and wasn't because of the discussions.
So yeah, NMS is really in the end a pretty niche game with some flawed systems. Much like most niche type games there are going to be people who love it, and a lot more who are "meh" on the whole thing.
NMS wasn't presented this way, it was a big time release, with a bunch of hype, with a lot of coverage.
We can argue if it's fair or not to argue whether someone should be upset it wasn't what they thought, but it's going to happen... like it does with movies, tv, music, books, etc. The bigger the hype/coverage, the more people who will speak up if they don't like it.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Oh there's not nothing do.
It's just that the game basically presents you with chores to do and you have to grind those same uninteresting chores fused with poor gameplay mechanics on every planet.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
90+ = 3 reviews
80-89 = 3 reviews
70-79 = 9 reviews
60-69 = 3 reviews
50-59 = 3 reviews
There's no majority opinion here, although "It's decent" is the most popular opinion. You could love it, hate it, or think it's somewhere in-between.
That quote is literally nothing.
