You could argue that Heavy Rain and The Walking Dead did a lot of good for these types of games.
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Until Dawn - Review Thread
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You could argue that Heavy Rain and The Walking Dead did a lot of good for these types of games.
"Because Until Dawn isn't just one of the most delightful, ghoulish surprises of this yearit's one of the best horror games ever made."
Just finished it an hour ago. I agree with this person.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
It's a short game, but I felt it was worth the $60. Especially since I'm going to go back in and try different things. I think it's a good way to kill some time until Tuesday.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
That's some mighty big praise!
Ya that's what I love about it, the story is really well told, about to do my second play through. Really surprised at how much i enjoyed this game.
jmaine_ph
Member
Yup. Happened around 3-4am EST. I was watching Forza 6 scores come in and noticed it went from 79 to 80!
Manny Calavera
Member
Just noticed it myself today and makes me happy the game gets the good reviews it deserves. That 80 and 8.1 sure looks nice.
Acquiescence
Member
The Edge review is going to come along and fuck up that nice round number in about a couple of weeks time. Enjoy it while you can!
jmaine_ph
Member
What did they score it?
They gave it a 7/10
jmaine_ph
Member
Oh man. I hope it doesn't bring it down but it might like you guys have said. What website can I go to to read their review?
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Doesn't matter really. Word of mouth is really good, people buying it in the stores because others have recommended it. Look at the user score, it's pretty good 
Keyser Soze
Member
I believe Metacritic added my review over the course of the night. You are welcome OCD GAF!
StrongBlackVine
Banned
Sony should sign Super massive up for another game right away. They have proven they are solid studio when given proper resources. I wonder of they go horror again or pick another genre. And make it another movie game as we don't have enough of these.
Keyser Soze
Member
I settled on them tackling a different horror sub genre. If UD was slasher, than UD2 could tackle Asian Horror tropes.
I would be happy to jump into 6 hours of....
That!
xrnzaaas
Member
I settled on them tackling a different horror sub genre. If UD was slasher, than UD2 could tackle Asian Horror tropes.
I would be happy to jump into 6 hours of....
That!
Oh yeah, gimme gimme!
Yaaay
Noooo
MisterR
Member
Funny thing is that it will drop the metacritic rating, but a 7 from them is a really good score.
visiblemode
Member
Wish it would stay at 80. Seems trivial, but there is something symbolic about it and I genuinely believe this dev deserves as much credit as possible for creating a fantastic game that will help move this genre forward.
As for Supermassive, Sony should put a ring on it.
As for Supermassive, Sony should put a ring on it.
Emulated Hype
Member
I mean, if we wanna split hairs, it's not like the 80 really matters at this point in it's life. I feel like most of the people who are interested, but haven't picked it up yet, aren't waiting because of Metacritic. They're probably on a budget and are holding out for the seasonal sales or price drops.
This game is still giveing me sleeper-hit vibes, so hopefully it does well in the sales charts. I wouldn't mind seeing Sony leapfrog between Supermassive and Quantic Dream this generation.
This game is still giveing me sleeper-hit vibes, so hopefully it does well in the sales charts. I wouldn't mind seeing Sony leapfrog between Supermassive and Quantic Dream this generation.
What often bugs me with scores of such story heavy cinematic games is that they get scored like films; or rather, that all other games aren't. A seven to eight I think is a perfectly fine score, it's a well acted and pretty innovative indie slasher, but there are a number of remarks to be made about the story and the cliches. Not quite the level of Cabin in the Woods, but with the interactivity you can see it score three or four stars.
The problem with more regular games is that they lack a benchmark of a hundred year of film criticism (by often actual critics instead of hobbyist reviewers), and so the reviews trend to their own game score benchmark which is heavily inflated to the point a 79 means avoid. And so emotionally moving games such as The Walking Dead score in the seventies but then end up as people's GOTY. Doesn't make sense, and I'm afraid impacts sales.
But what am I complaining about, I pretty much go to Eurogamer and nothing else partially because of this. If you don't know what your own scores mean, stop giving them.
The problem with more regular games is that they lack a benchmark of a hundred year of film criticism (by often actual critics instead of hobbyist reviewers), and so the reviews trend to their own game score benchmark which is heavily inflated to the point a 79 means avoid. And so emotionally moving games such as The Walking Dead score in the seventies but then end up as people's GOTY. Doesn't make sense, and I'm afraid impacts sales.
But what am I complaining about, I pretty much go to Eurogamer and nothing else partially because of this. If you don't know what your own scores mean, stop giving them.
Back to 79 now
Hell yeah they should. Still a small studio, just go and make a big deal with them
Hell yeah they should. Still a small studio, just go and make a big deal with them
SolidSnakex
Member
Yoshida has posted and tweeted a lot about UD since it's release. And that's the guy you want to impress most as a dev.
SolidSnakex
Member
Well, they'd definitely be much cheaper. On the other hand, QD has a motion capture studio that's an extra source of income for them since a lot of French-based companies use it whenever they're doing motion or performance capture.
Yeah. There was also an interview with some high position dude of Quantic Dream (maybe it was David Cage, I honestly dont remember) in which he said the studio had a really good relationship with Sony and they were positive about Sony acquiring the studio. I think it was an IGN interview idk.
Majima Everywhere System
Member
This game is dope. I would have enjoyed the story well enough in movie form, but it's a bit of breakthrough in videogame form.
I have to say, the costume design was on point. No weird costumes with a missing sleeve because it is a videogame, but also not too generic.
I redboxed it and did it in a day, but I was glued. Worth the price if you are a slasher fan that rewatches your favorites annually. Please follow this template of you have little to offer in the way of gameplay systems. Hopefully it's something that can be sustained in the industry, like telltale (clearly I didn't contribute much, but I would consider it a year from now around Halloween).
I have to say, the costume design was on point. No weird costumes with a missing sleeve because it is a videogame, but also not too generic.
I redboxed it and did it in a day, but I was glued. Worth the price if you are a slasher fan that rewatches your favorites annually. Please follow this template of you have little to offer in the way of gameplay systems. Hopefully it's something that can be sustained in the industry, like telltale (clearly I didn't contribute much, but I would consider it a year from now around Halloween).
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
I settled on them tackling a different horror sub genre. If UD was slasher, than UD2 could tackle Asian Horror tropes.
I would be happy to jump into 6 hours of....
That!
I don't know if it would work so well. The scariest things about most Asian horror movies is that you're fucked.
SolidSnakex
Member
I think both Guillaume and David have said they'd be up to being acquired by Sony. But with Supermassive I just hope that Sony continues to work with them like they have with QD. The reception as a whole to UD seems super positive. Reviews are high, pretty much everyone that plays it loves it, and it seems to be selling well on all European charts.
I'd say another factor with Asian horror is that they tend to be psychological based. So there's a lot of world and tension building through essentially nothing happening aside from a really heavy atmosphere. Something like Ringu takes a long time to build up to a point where shit really starts to go crazy. Silent Hill edges toward that direction, particularly SH2 where things are much slower to really reveal itself. So it could work, but it'd obviously be a very different flavor compared to UD. The hard part would be keeping the "fun factor" that UD has because the style change would be drastic.
I settled on them tackling a different horror sub genre. If UD was slasher, than UD2 could tackle Asian Horror tropes.
I would be happy to jump into 6 hours of....
That!
A "sequel" (or like, just another story with different characters but same mechanics) that deals with the supernatural and ghosties would be freaking amazing for me, as i'm more of a fan of that genre. Especially japanese horror, although that it really hard to nail for western devs. I wonder if the writers of UD1 would be up for it too
If we're going by grudge rules, yep. Kayako is OP, pls nerf etc. But it would still be super funny
7/10 from Edge is like 9/10 from IGN, seriously that's a good score from Edge to a game like this, too bad it does gonna hurt the nice 8 even though that 7 is like an 8+ in most sites...
SolidSnakex
Member
Bloody Disgusting finally reviewed it
http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3359120/dawn-review-murder-house/
9/10
http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3359120/dawn-review-murder-house/
9/10
Yep its a good review.
IGN hasn't actually reviewed that generously in some of their reviews lately. Many of their scores have been close to the meta average, or even below in some cases.
Tearway Unfolded - 7.6 (meta avg 83)
Mario Maker - 9.0 (meta avg 89)
Until Dawn - 7.5 (meta avg 80)
Forza 6 - 9.0 (meta avg 88)
Metal Gear Solid V - 10 (meta avg 94)
Mad Max - 8.5 (meta avg 69)
Galak-Z - 8.3 (meta avg 82)
Rocket League - 8.0 (meta avg 85)
Everybody's Gone to Rapture - 8.5 (meta avg 78)
LifEndz
Member
I settled on them tackling a different horror sub genre. If UD was slasher, than UD2 could tackle Asian Horror tropes.
I would be happy to jump into 6 hours of....
That!
Oh, FUCK NO!!!
yes please
privitsan02
Member
So... Until Dawn 2 a certainty? How weird that it did much better than The Order: 1886 in the end. I was honestly expecting it to bomb.
What makes you think that? Until dawn has a star studded cast and was in development hell for a pretty long time. It's doing okay but not setting the charts on fire so I would be surprised if it did turn a profit. I'm just hoping that Sony is confident/farsighted enough that now that the creases are ironed out, and personally I think this is the best looking game yet, so they can reuse the engine for quite some time, that more games in this style are a good value proposition.
Manny Calavera
Member
And we're back to 80, probably not for long though. Seems to be daily back and forth now.
Acquiescence
Member
Oh lawd, what an emotional rollercoaster ride this turned out to be.
