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[Lionel Richie]

Sony almost always releases GOTY contenders/winners.

Just pure facts.

And they are now forced to go third-party essentially because those "GOTY contenders" are not making enough money. And they STILL don't sell as well as Nintendo games that get made with a tiny fraction of the budget.

Just pure facts.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

well, I said that after mentioning about 2 other games. i wasn't referring to hb2 (which I haven't played) as you were...

Okay, but he wasn't talking about whatever you didn't like about the sequels. That's not what he means by inferior.

Though i'll add thinking TOTK is inferior to BOTW is daft lol. I'm not sure how you could possibly think that.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

um, who said anything about spider-man 2? not that i don't feel that it's, despite what you mention, inferior to the original, personally. tears of the kingdom also added the stuff you mention, & i feel it's inferior, as well. different strokes?...

Also take 20-30 points from those Sony centric sites that boost up Sony only game i.e. Spider-Man 2 that has been the same game thru 3 iterations.

 

[Alebrije]

Don't get why a developer can deliver those graphics with good gameplay , HB2 feels like You have to choose between those factors.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Don't get why a developer can deliver those graphics with good gameplay , HB2 feels like You have to choose between those factors.

I bet you ND’s next game looks better and is infinitely more playable as a game

 

[simpatico]

So the graphics look great. This game would be better received if it was positioned as "bonus game" in an otherwise packed release schedule. But leaning on it as the big exclusive for the year is just inviting very harsh critique towards a game that's basically in the same category as The Vanishing of Ethan Carter or The Stanley Parable. A nifty little gimmick game.

 

[FlyyGOD]

Someone didn't pay attention during the xbox one always online debacle.

What does that have to do with a new regime that has nothing to do with the Xbox one ?

 

[LordCBH]

Bruh the last 3 pages of this topic are a gift that keeps on giving.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

And they are now forced to go third-party essentially because those "GOTY contenders" are not making enough money. And they STILL don't sell as well as Nintendo games that get made with a tiny fraction of the budget.

Just pure facts.

A link saying Sony is going 3rd party?

 

[midnightAI]

Needed more ass.

Hmm, Stellar Ass or Hell Ass?

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Oh no they're fine, it's some of the users who seem to think there's a tax associated with their games being reviewed.

The whole thing sounds silly right ?

Starfield really wrecked these people.

 

[Topher]

Hope you don't seriously believe that major website like IGN and GameSpot don't favor Sony over Microsoft? You are delusional or are being disingenuous.

Right.....cuz Ryan McCaffrey and Destin Legaire don't work for IGN?

Come on man

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Oh no they're fine, it's some of the users who seem to think there's a tax associated with their games being reviewed.

The whole thing sounds silly right ?

No tax. Just a welfare given to certain highly overrated games made by a struggling company that doesn’t know how to make good timely games

 

[FlyyGOD]

Right.....cuz Ryan McCaffrey and Destin Legaire don't work for IGN?

Come on man

2 employees outta what 60 plus? The chief director Dan Stapleton is an admitted Microsoft hater.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

2 employees outta what 60?

This man knows the allegience's of 60+ people. Incredible

 

[adamsapple]

Hmm, Stellar Ass or Hell Ass?

Paper Ass and the Thousand Cheeks

 

[Topher]

2 employees outta what 60?

 

[Freelance Yakuza]

Right.....cuz Ryan McCaffrey and Destin Legaire don't work for IGN?

Come on man

Ryan gave 9 or 10 to Halo MCC and years latter made an article praising XBOX for fixing the game lmao

 

[DForce]

The weird hate this game have is absurd, there's definitely some console warring factor into it.

The funny/cringy part of it is that most of the arguments used to criticize this game are things that many of us that are mostly into other types of games (RPGs, Nintendo and mostly japanese stuff for me) use to criticize most Sony and western games, but those are praised somehow lol.

Get your mind together people, you don't like it don't get wild on internet trying others not to like it, the ones that like this game are pretty happy and even amazed by it, including myself.

The difference is that Hellblade 2 is a 5-6 hour game while the others are 15-40 hours long. Those walking and talking are somewhat forgivable because there's a lot of gameplay left in the game.

 

[Zones]

Fanboy metacritic reaction
Ghost of Tsushima 83 score : Masterpiece
Stellar Blade score 81 score: excellent
HellDivers 2 score 81 score : exceptional

Same Fanboy metacritic score reaction
Starfield 83 score : Trash
Hell Blade 2 81 score: Garbage
Forza Motorsport 8 84 score: ass

The irony of your comment is that you actually literally proved that the only likely legitimate review 'tax' around is a 'PlayStation Tax'.

First, remove Stellar Blade from this because it's not a Sony owned game. I would personally add Days Gone there instead (Metascore: 71).

Second, you said fanboys... but in reality all those three Sony games (GOT, DG, and HDII) have sold around 10 million units each, which means the general (read: non-console war centric) gaming audience have in large number found those lower-rated Sony games to be worthy of purchasing, whereas in contrast, Starfield performed extremely underwhelming compared to other mainline Bethesda games, and both HBII and Forza bombed in a catastrophic manner.

A good illustration for this is Days Gone (Metascore: 71) versus Hellblade II (Metascore: 81). DG was released 3 years ago on PC (and that's 2 years after the initial PS4 launch), and it currently has a slightly higher player count on Steam versus the 2-days old Hellblade II which had a day-and-date PC release (and an 81 Metascore).

So either critics are biased against those very popular PlaySation games (read: PlayStation Tax), or somehow the better user reception and higher player count on Steam is... because of PlayStation fanboys? (it sounds dumb to even write / hypothesize this last bit).

P.S. check out that user review score of Days Gone on Steam (91.4%) versus its Metascore (71), and that should tell you all you need to know about this so called 'tax' allegation.

 

[adamsapple]

The irony of your comment is that you actually literally proved that the only likely legitimate review 'tax' around is a 'PlayStation Tax'

 

[Mr Moose]

 

[adamsapple]

 

[Topher]

The chief director Dan Stapleton is an admitted Microsoft hater.

Prove it

 

[ShadowkillXNA]

It's not. Definition of a victim complex is someone who complains about being a victim, even often in spite of evidence to the contrary. I'm not complaining about anything. Just observing. There's also no evidence to the contrary. The evidence supports my observation.

Please educate yourself. Thanks.

It's a victim complex. Please educate yourself. Thanks.

 

[Mortisfacio]

It's a victim complex. Please educate yourself. Thanks.

So you confirm you're room temp IQ. Thanks.

 

[ShadowkillXNA]

So you confirm you're room temp IQ. Thanks.

Thanks for confirming your persecution complex.

 

[Mortisfacio]

Thanks for confirming your persecution complex.

Put my initial post into ChatGPT and have it explain it to you. Nowhere in my post was there anything of the sort. You'd know that if you could read.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Hellblade 2 is bombing far worse than Hi Fi Rush....they employ more people.....in a higher cost of living country......I don't see how they escape this unless they have a gameplan to turn things around and start making real games again

 

[adamsapple]

Holy shit Ass of Can Whooping really*did* get a Series S ?

No wonder Ryan left. Probably said 'Son, I am disappoint' on the way out.

 

[Danjin44]

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Holy shit Ass of Can Whooping really*did* get a Series S ?

No wonder Ryan left. Probably said 'Son, I am disappoint' on the way out.

The problem with my shtick is no one fucking believes what I say anymore lmao

 

[ShadowkillXNA]

Put my initial post into ChatGPT and have it explain it to you. Nowhere in my post was there anything of the sort. You'd know that if you could read.

You weren't complaining?

There's no victim complex. Demigod, Ass of Can and James Sawyer all have a history of being pro-Sony and anti-Microsoft. Feel free to check their post history and confirm that.

They also happen to be the most outspoken in this thread. That's not a victim complex. That's connecting the dots.

If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck....

 

[adamsapple]

The problem with my shtick is no one fucking believes what I say anymore lmao

Yes, I did not believe it until you posted about it twice in the DF thread, lol.

 

[XXL]

Put my initial post into ChatGPT and have it explain it to you. Nowhere in my post was there anything of the sort. You'd know that if you could read.

I swear there's some reading comprehension issue here with you and Giallo.

Player count has nothing to do with views on the game. There's plenty of "good" or "bad" games with low player count. That's not the topic of discussion at all.

Maybe put my prior post into ChatGPT and ask it to explain it to you?

Wtf is with you telling people to use Chat GPT?

You said the exact same thing to me earlier. Lol.

 

[Mortisfacio]

You weren't complaining?



If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck....

Making an observation that the people most vocal in a negative way have a history of being sony fanboys is not complaining. Nowhere did I complain about it. I simply mentioned it. You got your panties in a twist.

This is why I asked you to run this through ChatGPT for you. You clearly having some learning disability as your reading comprehension is worse than my 1st graders.

 

[sncvsrtoip]

The more Im playing HB2 the more I admire graphics (unfortunetly not gameplay ;d) . Its definitely for me number 1 in terms of visuals and will be hard to surpass it on xsx/ps5 taking into account linearity, how limited interaction and gameplay is, ~2.5m pixels thx to black borders and 30fps. Dont think these consoles have much more power.

 

[Mortisfacio]

Wtf is with you telling people to use Chat GPT?

You said the exact same thing to me earlier. Lol.

Because you're not intelligent enough to read, so it's an easy to use reference to have someone or something else dumb it down for you.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Making an observation that the people most vocal in a negative way have a history of being sony fanboys is not complaining. Nowhere did I complain about it. I simply mentioned it. You got your panties in a twist.

This is why I asked you to run this through ChatGPT for you. You clearly having some learning disability as your reading comprehension is worse than my 1st graders.

None of us arguing with you are dumb enough or low IQ enough to actually think Hellblade 2 is a good game.

Type that into chatgpt and see what that makes you.

 

[Mortisfacio]

None of us arguing with you are dumb enough or low IQ enough to actually think Hellblade 2 is a good game.

Type that into chatgpt and see what that makes you.

You're a shill. We know that already.

 

[ShadowkillXNA]

Making an observation that the people most vocal in a negative way have a history of being sony fanboys is not complaining. Nowhere did I complain about it. I simply mentioned it. You got your panties in a twist.

This is why I asked you to run this through ChatGPT for you. You clearly having some learning disability as your reading comprehension is worse than my 1st graders.

 

[FlyyGOD]

Prove it

IGN Starfield Review by Dan Stapleton A Stark Betrayal of Journalistic Integrity

A bumpy, biased crash landing

www.smashjt.com

 

[XXL]

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

IGN Starfield Review by Dan Stapleton A Stark Betrayal of Journalistic Integrity

A bumpy, biased crash landing

www.smashjt.com

Where's the anti-MS bias?

He gave Starfield a 7/10 when it deserves worse than that.

 

[Giallo Corsa]

You're a shill. We know that already.

See, you're doing it again man, you're defending the undefendable, you're taking sides ('cause you're not impartial as you might think), you're calling people idiots and fanboys, but, when people call you out you pull out the chatGTP and the "hey, i'm just making an observation" schtick.

This doesn't work they way you think it should work, you're allowed to your "unbiased" opinion but when people need to retort, you should allow them, this is how a discussion should go, otherwise, it's just a monologue.

 

[XXL]

IGN Starfield Review by Dan Stapleton A Stark Betrayal of Journalistic Integrity

A bumpy, biased crash landing

www.smashjt.com

I knew you were gonna post that when Topher asked for proof.

 

[FlyyGOD]

The irony of your comment is that you actually literally proved that the only likely legitimate review 'tax' around is a 'PlayStation Tax'.

First, remove Stellar Blade from this because it's not a Sony owned game. I would personally add Days Gone there instead (Metascore: 71).

Second, you said fanboys... but in reality all those three Sony games (GOT, DG, and HDII) have sold around 10 million units each, which means the general (read: non-console war centric) gaming audience have in large number found those lower-rated Sony games to be worthy of purchasing, whereas in contrast, Starfield performed extremely underwhelming compared to other mainline Bethesda games, and both HBII and Forza bombed in a catastrophic manner.

A good illustration for this is Days Gone (Metascore: 71) versus Hellblade II (Metascore: 81). DG was released 3 years ago on PC (and that's 2 years after the initial PS4 launch), and it currently has a slightly higher player count on Steam versus the 2-days old Hellblade II which had a day-and-date PC release (and an 81 Metascore).

So either critics are biased against those very popular PlaySation games (read: PlayStation Tax), or somehow the better user reception and higher player count on Steam is... because of PlayStation fanboys? (it sounds dumb to even write / hypothesize this last bit).

P.S. check out that user review score of Days Gone on Steam (91.4%) versus its Metascore (71), and that should tell you all you need to know about this so called 'tax' allegation.

I'm not talking about a review tax. I'm talking about hypocrites on NeoGaf.

 

[nikolino840]

You're free to eat their bullshit, as always. Don't expect us to do the same though.

What were they doing between 2017 and 2020 then? Of course, they were working on Hellblade 2. Don't forget that they showed Hellblade 2 in 2019.

And there is always a period of multiple years before full production begins. That's how game development works. You still count that period as part of the full development cycle.

You should take your advice of checking before posting nonsense

Bleeding edge plus all the burocracy and meeting for the acquisition and they have build an another studio?

 

[sigrad]

I'm an 1 1/2 hours in and I like this game much more then Hellblade 1. I still do not like the puzzles. Everything else in my opinion is very good.

 

[sigrad]

Where's the anti-MS bias?

He gave Starfield a 7/10 when it deserves worse than that.

It really doesn't . I enjoyed almost every second of my 7d 2h 28m (170 hours) play through of Starfield. And yes, he shit all over MS when they bought Zenimax.