This Quick Look really doesn't make the game look good.
Everything I dislike or am tired of from modern gaming trends seems to be here. Pages of useless and redundant crafting materials, dumbed down stealth, complete with look through wall vision, dumb as bricks AI, and a checklist of seemingly repetitive map objectives to check off.
An observation, but just a stray one that may be incorrect, is that the bow seems completely unsatisfying to use. It seems to behave like a rifle with a short charge time, not an actual bow. Maybe it feels better in game, but it just does not look good.
Another thing that annoyed me was when Jeff was getting shot up, the character had no reaction. The health bar showed that it hurt, but if there weren't blood splatters, they might as well have been pelting her with nerf guns.
The fact that you can craft at any time seems to take a lot of the challenge out of it too, it seems like you don't have to do any actual prep work to hunt the enemies, just go "oh this guy is weak to lightning, better craft some lighting arrows before I shoot him". Even Far Cry limited you a handful of weapons at once, you had to decide what you were going to carry going in to whatever you were doing. Not to mention games like the Witcher, where preparation is essential. This game seems afraid to put you in to situations you can't win.
I don't know. Maybe the game feels great to play, maybe the story is fantastic, but this video does not do a good job selling me on this being a 5 star game.
I agree with just about everything you've said. It doesn't seem like this game solves any open-world problems and rather just adds a few more; all on top of seemingly being rather boring combat.
Perhaps this is one of those 'you have to play it to understand it' types of games, but I won't spend full price on it. That's reserved for Mass Effect.
@ripelivejam: I was only speaking for myself, not what others have claimed. Again, nothing wrong with Jeff's review. I just don't like the particulars being shown here. It is indeed backlash, since I'm sold on this being a 5-star game, but it just doesn't look like one. But that's normal, no?
@jijipose: It looks horrible. It's some PS2 type stuff. Especially on the guns.
@ripelivejam I don't think there is anything wrong with Jeff's review. He clearly liked it. I just don't really like what I'm seeing here. It doesn't look like 5-star material, that doesn't mean someone else can't think that it is.
Disappointing Quick Look. I didn't see a lot that I liked. Honestly seems a little boring. Also, that water looks terrible, the bow shot looks bad, poor collision detection for those arrows too.
Story must be great, but I am probably going to hold off on this one until it's on sale.
@zevvion: Gamespot's 10 point scale was really a 100 point scale because of decimals while GB's is really a 10 point scale because of half stars. Depending on how you like to round it compared to 4.5, 5 stars is equivalent to the 9.5-10 range on the Gamespot scale.
And GB specifically went with stars because it leaves this wiggle room on how good a game is so there's less time agonising over what exact score something deserves. 5/5 stars doesn't meant perfect. It means a perfect star score, but not a perfect game.
Jeff refused to give Zelda 10/10 back in the day and that was according to everyone else a great game...if he gives this 5/5 it must be some sort of masterpiece. That is great news =)
And he turned out 100% right re: Zelda - 8.8 was actually quite generous.
A 5/5 is not a 10/10. While a 10/10 means "Perfect", 5/5 just mean "Fucking Great!"
I try not to allow myself to follow hype for games anymore, but now this review is here I can get excited to play this Fucking Great game.
What is your argument for 5/5 not meaning perfect and 10/10 has to mean perfect? That just doesn't make sense. 10 out of 10 is the same as 5 out of 5. It's both 100% of the score, the scale is just different. Neither have to mean perfect. Both can mean perfect.
@nethlem: I dislike their games not being on Steam far more than being Windows 10 exclusive. I have Windows 10. I don't have any (known) issues with it.
I don't think Microsoft puts out enough games to warrant their own storefront. Origin I have no issue with, other than the fact that they rolled out Origin-exclusivity at the absolute worst time (already owned Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 on Steam, then ME3 was Origin exclusive ugh).
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