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Snaps Tremor
The Tritan Industries
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.05.21 01:24:00 -
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I expected the reviews to be a wide spread. If you get it, you really get it. If you don't, you really don't. There are a few layers of frustrating bullshit to push through before you reach a broad understanding of the game, and many reviewers are not going to manage that in the week they have to review the game. This reviewer sounds like someone who has been playing longer than that, has gotten over the obvious short-term issues, and sees the heart and potential of it.
Now let's just hope he doesn't transcend to the next level of Dust, whining endlessly on the forums about nothing in particular. |
Snaps Tremor
The Tritan Industries
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.05.21 01:41:00 -
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Isarian Menoptra wrote:I continue to be baffled by the reviewers who rate DUST based on it's "promise" and "potential". Protip - rate it based on what we are actually playing instead?
Dreams are in short supply these days. When people buy the latest broshooter, there's nothing aspirational about it. You get what you get. The multiplayer you invest is guaranteed to stagnate as you improve, until you're left a master of something nobody plays. The cycle repeats, over and over. Even large-scale online games like Planetside rapidly reveal the lack of depth and cyclical nature of everything you fight for.
How many times can this happen before a player starts to yearn for something with a bit of scope to it? Something where you can not only play the game as it is, but maintain the same optimism for future content that most players only get prior to the release of a big name game, and receive sweeping changes that retain everything you've learnt up to that point, but ask you to use it in new ways. Dreaming is one thing, but a lot of the interesting future developments in Dust feel tantalisingly close now that everything is operating on the same backend. |
Snaps Tremor
The Tritan Industries
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.05.21 02:33:00 -
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Moejoe Omnipotent wrote:"Playstation Universe" reviewing a Playstation exclusive...definitely not a biased source....
What you're implying doesn't really happen, even on 'official' sites. The rare times some genuinely skullduggerous activity goes on in the gaming press, it's always just a massive publisher (indirectly) leaning on an editor to push a big game's agenda. This guy clearly just likes Dust, and CCP obviously spent all their brown envelope money on gin, which explains some of the more suspect development decisions. |
Snaps Tremor
The Tritan Industries
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.05.21 02:56:00 -
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Byozuma Kegawa wrote:Hate to break it to you Snaps but Playstation Undergrou-sorry, Universe is in Sony's pocket. Been in their pocket since the PS2 days when it was called Playstation Underground (to sound edgy). Had some nice demos, though, and the demo disks were sometimes entertaining with the menus.
Don't break it to me with internet conjecture, break it to me with a link to some kind of source that isn't just another guy on a forum saying the same thing. I know a lot of writers for these kinds of things, even for the official sites, and I can assure you Sony's pocket doesn't have two pieces of fluff to rub together for them. You can certainly accuse it of being staffed by what are essentially fanboys, but that's very different to throwing around lazy accusations of corruption. |
Snaps Tremor
The Tritan Industries
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.05.21 03:18:00 -
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Icy TIG3R wrote:We're not saying the review is wrong. It's his opinion. However, in MY opinion, the massive problems Dust has are worht more than the removal of 1 point. I'dgo far as to say 2.5 or 3.
Being Free isn't an excuse anymore when the quality of F2P games now surpasses some full priced games. DOTA, LoL, TF2, and potentially hundreds of PC F2P games have shown us this.
Dust isn't bad. But it's got a lot of work in the technical department to go.
I should probably point out I don't disagree. The review is a bit hyperbolic, the writing is average, and from the cold, objective viewpoint of the games press Dust can't be given more than a 7.
That said, I don't see why reviews have to be about correctly guessing the Metacritic average in advance. There is nothing worse than a reviewer enjoying a game, then getting to the score part and saying "Well I had a great time, but due to [list of things they didn't personally experience] it is definitely a 6..." and ignoring how they personally felt. This happens ALL THE TIME, especially at the bigger sites and magazines, and it's absolutely ridiculous. If everyone did this, there wouldn't be a positive review of Dust on the internet, and nobody would know that when the stars align you can actually have a pretty good time with it.
There is nothing wrong with reviewers putting their reputations on the line to make a point, but it doesn't happen much. One reason is people yelling about mythical payoffs and under the table deals the moment anyone breaks from the expected average. |
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