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I'm still not certain how streams of the full, entire game aren't an accurate representation of the game, but glowing reviews from the people who brought you glowing reviews of such fine games as Mass Effect 3, Fallout 3, Starcraft II, Borderlands 2, BioShock: Infinite, Assassin's Creed III, etc., are.
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Feb 22, 2017 08:16
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Forget it. This is loving dumb.
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Feb 22, 2017 08:36
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i only watch full playthroughs of games before launch when i have already decided to hate a game.
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Feb 22, 2017 09:29
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Lumpy the Cook posted:I'm still not certain how streams of the full, entire game aren't an accurate representation of the game, You don't have your hands on it. The person playing may suck at the game (sit your rear end down, Polygon, I see you trying to sneak out) or be constantly keeping up the streamer equivalent of "snappy patter," breaking immersion or drowning out dialogue. You aren't discovering the game's quirks or fine details on your own. You don't have a feel for how the game controls. You're attempting to get a feel for a personally crafted experience secondhand, through the filter of someone else, which will always be weak tea compared to doing it yourself. Watching a stream is a perfectly legitimate way to learn more about a game you might be interested in, and you're welcome to decide whether or not you'll play a game based upon such things, but it's nothing you should be hanging a critical judgment upon, just as you shouldn't critically evaluate a movie based upon its trailer. It'll always be a tyrannical "but": "I haven't played it, but--" As such, this new breed of goon commentator who feel compelled to poo poo all over a game on launch week because they watched their favorite twenty-something stream monkey mug their way through it gets right on my nerves. It's a profound display of poor critical thinking skills and they should be forced to sit in the corner and think about what they've done.
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Feb 22, 2017 09:42
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looks like another incredibly samey sandbox game with niceish graphics and robot dinosaurs, which is cool. it will be competent but forgotten within a year
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Feb 22, 2017 10:06
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I haven't played enough open-world games to really get burnt out on them, so I'm super excited for Horizon. I credit my incredible restraint in not blowing my load on boring near-future cities and grimdark poo poo-covered fantasy to hold out for robo dinosaurs in the post-post apocalypse.
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Feb 22, 2017 12:15
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You can really tell who doesn't have a PS4 in this terrible thread.
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Feb 22, 2017 12:29
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Wanderer posted:As such, this new breed of goon commentator who feel compelled to poo poo all over a game on launch week because they watched their favorite twenty-something stream monkey mug their way through it gets right on my nerves. It's a profound display of poor critical thinking skills and they should be forced to sit in the corner and think about what they've done. Very good post, Wanderer.
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Feb 22, 2017 14:09
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I don't have a particular horse in this race since I've only just become aware of this game but for the sake of balance here are a couple of non-glowing reviews from Mainstream Gaming Websites (TM): http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-02-19-horizon-zero-dawn-review http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2017/02/20/horizon-zero-dawn-the-good-the-bad-the-boring (Notably, neither has a numerical score.) I'm sure you can nitpick those reviews and other negative impressions, but it's not just a case of goon contrarianism. Maybe it's possible for people to have different opinions on things?
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Feb 22, 2017 14:43
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Gato posted:Maybe it's possible for people to have different opinions on things? More importantly, we need to play the game to have an opinion worth reading.
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Feb 22, 2017 14:54
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Gato posted:I don't have a particular horse in this race since I've only just become aware of this game but for the sake of balance here are a couple of non-glowing reviews from Mainstream Gaming Websites (TM): all of these people actually played the game. if "negative opinions not welcome" is what you got out of the last page or so then I feel extremely loving bad for you
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Feb 22, 2017 15:00
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Wanderer posted:You don't have your hands on it. The person playing may suck at the game (sit your rear end down, Polygon, I see you trying to sneak out) or be constantly keeping up the streamer equivalent of "snappy patter," breaking immersion or drowning out dialogue. You aren't discovering the game's quirks or fine details on your own. You don't have a feel for how the game controls. You're attempting to get a feel for a personally crafted experience secondhand, through the filter of someone else, which will always be weak tea compared to doing it yourself. This is a very good post. I like it a lot.
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Feb 22, 2017 15:01
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Gato posted:I don't have a particular horse in this race since I've only just become aware of this game but for the sake of balance here are a couple of non-glowing reviews from Mainstream Gaming Websites (TM): Yeah, those make it sound like a decent game with some flaws. Still sounds worth playing to me. People can totally have different opinions on thing but I'm still going to poo poo on someone for telling us how bad a game is to play because they watched a stream while doing chores.
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Feb 22, 2017 15:08
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The most damning criticisms I've read say it adheres a little too closely to the conventional open world RPG formula, which is probably true if you're already burned out on them, but I've only played a couple over the past few years (DA:I, TW3, RotTR) so to me it's all still pretty fresh. These kinds of games live and die by their settings and I'm totally into the setting.
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Feb 22, 2017 15:15
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Scorps posted:This game looks incredible and all the reviews have been glowing so far, I haven't played many Ubi games in general so can't wait for this. By most accounts they cribbed only the "best parts" of those games any ways and didn't just copy/paste it. Some of the reviews are calling it the best PS4 exclusive yet. This is impossible in a world where Bloodborne exists
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exquisite tea posted:The most damning criticisms I've read say it adheres a little too closely to the conventional open world RPG formula, which is probably true if you're already burned out on them, but I've only played a couple over the past few years (DA:I, TW3, RotTR) so to me it's all still pretty fresh. These kinds of games live and die by their settings and I'm totally into the setting. Yeah, in terms of Ubisoft-style games I played uh, Black Flag like 4 years ago? And I got Shadows of Mordor for like a buck in a bundle but I ended up hating it.
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Pablo Gigante posted:This is impossible in a world where Bloodborne exists Yeah, Bloodborne and Nioh both exist.
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Relin posted:looks like another incredibly samey sandbox game with niceish graphics and robot dinosaurs, which is cool. it will be competent but forgotten within a year It's okay for games to not last forever.
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Feb 22, 2017 16:38
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Did this game gently caress your mothers? Jesus, it's not even out yet!
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Feb 22, 2017 17:34
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Really surprised to see so much hate straight out of the gate from this thread when this was probably in my top 3 "must-have" games from E3 last year, it looks incredible. I've also never had a huge issue with Ubisoft open world games and so far any news/gameplay i've seen has only made me want to play it more.
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Bogart posted:Did this game gently caress your mothers? Jesus, it's not even out yet! goons hate games
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Feb 22, 2017 17:37
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I'm cautiously hopeful that there is more to the game than meets the eye. But if I'm being honest it looks pretty boring like another Farcry Primal. I hope that intuition is wrong and there is a really rewarding game cause I need something new to play until Mass Effect comes out.
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This game looks like it might be pretty good but it also looks like it copies a lot of open world cliches that kinda suck so IDK. Not really seeing where the glowing reviews come from yet.
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Well,if the game winds up sucking,there's always Nier Automata which comes out a few days later. So there's no big loss for me if it turns out to be a garbage fire like Lumpy and others have predicted.
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Feb 23, 2017 00:46
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Nier: Automata's combat is stellar, with amazing control flow and a general dynamic that depends less on a player's ability to grind crafting materials and more on their skill and technique- it's doesn't belittle the intelligence of the player. While its graphics, admittedly, aren't as impressive, its visual fidelity and overall responsiveness really keep the player immersed. The general aesthetic and world design is also amazing- who would have thought that such a rusted, noxious world could feel alive in a way most other open world games fail to achieve? All in all, it's shaping up to be truly epic... A true, blue Game of the Year contender.
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Lumpy the Cook posted:Nier: Automata's combat is stellar, with amazing control flow and a general dynamic that depends less on a player's ability to grind crafting materials and more on their skill and technique- it's doesn't belittle the intelligence of the player. While its graphics, admittedly, aren't as impressive, its visual fidelity and overall responsiveness really keep the player immersed. The general aesthetic and world design is also amazing- who would have thought that such a rusted, noxious world could feel alive in a way most other open world games fail to achieve? All in all, it's shaping up to be truly epic... A true, blue Game of the Year contender. Can't believe we agree on something.(Unless you were being sarcastic,it's hard to tell.) On another note,it is kinda funny that both Nier and Horizon are about robot apocalypses and release only a few days apart from each other.
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Feb 23, 2017 01:39
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Jeff Gerstmann loves it and that's good enough for me. Been reading/listening to the dude for like fuckin almost 20 years now and I trust his opinion.
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Feb 23, 2017 01:40
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Any amusing meltdowns yet about the game having a female protagonist?
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chumbler posted:Any amusing meltdowns yet about the game having a female protagonist? https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/168644-horizon-zero-dawn
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chumbler posted:Any amusing meltdowns yet about the game having a female protagonist? It's one of the reasons why I'm excited about it 
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chumbler posted:Any amusing meltdowns yet about the game having a female protagonist? There's already at least one article complaining about people complaining about the game.
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chumbler posted:Any amusing meltdowns yet about the game having a female protagonist? "Can I be a guy?!" How is this not an acceptable question but "can I be a woman?" is?!?!?!?!?! False equivalency? Representation? What kind of culture destroying liberal propaganda buzzwords are those? No joke, I took a look at the first page and burst out laughing. Even though decisions of inclusiveness should never be made to piss off those kinds of gamers like some Twitter liberals say they should, seeing these reactions despite that is always loving funny.
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Evil Canadian posted:Jeff Gerstmann loves it and that's good enough for me. Been reading/listening to the dude for like fuckin almost 20 years now and I trust his opinion. I do not trust the man's opinions on yoshi
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:You can really tell who doesn't have a PS4 in this terrible thread. This. HZD loving owns and I just had a blast collecting 50 fireberries so I could upgrade my flameshot, climbing a robot giraffe and hacking the poo poo out of it which allowed me to unlock more sidequests
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Sir AIDS posted:This. HZD loving owns and I just had a blast collecting 50 fireberries so I could upgrade my flameshot, climbing a robot giraffe and hacking the poo poo out of it which allowed me to unlock more sidequests Have you tried starting an updraft with the fire arrows and using them to glide on with the pterowing so you could target the dino's weakpoint? Honestly loving blew my mind
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Lmao I can't believe any of these posts are real. quote:Yeah, I HAVE heard this game DOES create a very Democratic, liberal mentality. The way white men are portrayed as being either wimps or evil. You'd be better off with Andromeda. Atleast both sexes get their fair share where the Mass Effect franchise is concerned. It's the ideal egalitarian game where HZD is considered the ideal feminist game.To make it worse, they do the thing that I hate, using the words strong and independant as they do. I hate the way they use these words. There are pages and pages of posts like these in every thread.
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On one hand I am a little wary of any game story that Polygon and Kotaku praise for being lefty fan fiction, on the other the FO:NV guy wrote it so I'm sure it is legit good and not, say, a Bioware game written by first year gender studies majors who watched Star Trek/LOTR one time. If the mechanics are half as good as they're being made out to be, who gives a gently caress anyway?
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Evil Canadian posted:Jeff Gerstmann loves it and that's good enough for me. Been reading/listening to the dude for like fuckin almost 20 years now and I trust his opinion. I dunno, Jeff Gerstmann once gave a Zelda game like 4.8 points more than it deserved.
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Sir AIDS posted:This. HZD loving owns and I just had a blast collecting 50 fireberries so I could upgrade my flameshot, climbing a robot giraffe and hacking the poo poo out of it which allowed me to unlock more sidequests Hoodrich posted:Have you tried starting an updraft with the fire arrows and using them to glide on with the pterowing so you could target the dino's weakpoint? Honestly loving blew my mind drat... perhaps I was too hasty to judge this game.
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