Current Events > TLOU2 is getting review bombed.

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Siaperaz posted...

...it's a metaphor mate...

Okay so you feel being "pandering" is a legit reason to review bomb it? Like I really feel like we're losing the thread of "a message to paid reviewers" that you claim.

ThisGuyAreSick posted...

So you have no way of knowing whether or not the game is actually perfect or mediocre or downright awful?

Yeah, pretty much. Does that bug you?

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SwayM posted...

I know youre very excited desperate to make kind of point against me

But look up the definition of irony. The guy whos been arguing against yall for years form the platform of gamers are whiny children who dont understand the first thing about game development as it turns out my statement above, surprisingly, is still completely on brand.

Ive already told you this before multiple times but you dont matter to me at all. You seem to have this weird notion where you think youre more important than you actually are.

If its embarrassing to be around us gamers, then leave the site or stop posting in these types of threads.


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CyricZ posted...

Okay so you feel being "pandering" is a legit reason to review bomb it? Like I really feel like we're losing the thread of "a message to paid reviewers" that you claim.

Yeah, pretty much. Does that bug you?

I'm not the one getting upset that some people just don't like the game.
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boxington posted...

stuff like this is why I never take user reviews seriously.

I honestly wouldn't believe either side.

I think it's fucking supicious to say the least that after all the leaks all "profressonals" are giving it perfect or near perfect scores despite the huge backlash.

But I wouldn't trust on the user reviews either, because people are posting the lowest possible scores to voice their discontent with the game, even though that is not a fair score.

I personally have no interest in the game and I am just here to enjoy the shitshow that ensues.

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ScazarMeltex posted...

Yep, and I'm totally concerned about what animebigtiddy42069 thinks about the game.

What do you think of this game, BTW, @NeonOctopus ?

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ThisGuyAreSick posted...

I'm not the one getting upset that some people just don't like the game.

No you're the one getting upset because people aren't agreeing with your personal assessment of the game. Making posts pleading for people to agree with you that it's "mediocre" is enough evidence of that.

A game that I suppose you've completed already? Hasn't it only been out like nine hours?

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Veggeta X posted...

Like I said before, when YOU'RE doing the whining against a game it's all reasonable and valid but when someone is whining against a game you like then they are all being crazy blind haters.

If you want to be taken seriously then you have to be fair all across the board, not only when it's convenient or benefiting for you. People thinks TLoU2 is gonna bomb the same fucking way YOU thought Pokemon S&S was gonna bomb.

This sentence alone shows how clueless you are. It was literally just the other day that I reiterated what I was saying to you before S&S released. I never once said it wouldnt sell like crazy. Not once. I went on record many times saying its going to sell well. Regardless of how much hate the internet has it never reflects that in the sales.

Youre so blinded by your loyalty to Pokmon its a joke. Either you need to work on your memory, reading comprehension or just pay more attention. Pokmon is about the only game I actually seriously criticize and find unacceptable.

You see me criticizing one game and that doesnt undercut the points I try to make defending the vast majority of games out there. If anything, to anyone actually paying attention, it should highlight the state of that one game.

Again, you just havent been paying attention when Ive defended games like Anthem, No Mans Sky, Star Citizen. Or even shit like Epic Game Store

Cut the desperation Veggeta. Like I just told you, you cannot and will not spin valid criticisms against Pokmon into a blind ignorant hatred.


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I'm getting pretty reluctant to call myself a gamer at this point. I don't know when it happened, but we became the most petulant and socially regressive group in society. And somehow think we're the victims in all things. No wonder we're fertile ground for right wing radicalization.

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The_Scarecrow posted...

Ive already told you this before multiple times but you dont matter to me at all. You seem to have this weird notion where you think youre more important than you actually are.

lol then stop quoting my posts and using my name alone as some point against me. You cant come at me with some weak thats ironic YOU would say such a thing bullshit based completely on my reputation around here and then turn around and say Im not important

Pick one or the other bud

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CyricZ posted...

No you're the one getting upset because people aren't agreeing with your personal assessment of the game. Making posts pleading for people to agree with you that it's "mediocre" is enough evidence of that.

A game that I suppose you've completed already? Hasn't it only been out like nine hours?

I'm only pointing out that nothing was going to convince me this game was actually a 9 or a 10. The original was already an overrated hallway simulator. Now throw the MGS2 shit and rehashed gameplay and last generation graphics at it.

If I forced myself to complete this game I guarantee you it would take a flawless effort given what they have for me to give it a 7.
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ThisGuyAreSick posted...

I'm only pointing out that nothing was going to convince me this game was actually a 9 or a 10. The original was already an overrated hallway simulator.

Oh lawd... how we supposed to take you seriously when you say shit like that? Hallway simulator?
You don't have to like the game, but you're dead wrong in trying to reduce the element of snappy gameplay.

ThisGuyAreSick posted...

I'm only pointing out that nothing was going to convince me this game was actually a 9 or a 10. The original was already an overrated hallway simulator. Now throw the MGS2 shit and rehashed gameplay and last generation graphics at it.

If I forced myself to complete this game I guarantee you it would take a flawless effort given what they have for me to give it a 7.

Thank you for your candor.

In the future, I suggest not trying to rally people to agree with you on the rating of a game that you've not played.

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I don't like feeling I'm on rails for an entire game. That's just my preference.
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SwayM posted...

lol then stop quoting my posts and using my name alone as some point against me. You cant come at me with some weak thats ironic YOU would say such a thing bullshit based completely on my reputation around here and then turn around and say Im not important

Pick one or the other bud

Uh, thats you, champ lmao. This is the first time Ive initiated against you in a long time. Meanwhile, you have appeared in multiple topics calling my posts some of the worst on the board. Dont get it confused.

I like how whenever I mention your status on this board, it seems to be a sour spot for you. I dont think you recovered fully from my comments on you being a joke poster in the past.

Also, I cannot recall you saying Sword and Shield would flop. However, you did make some very stupid comments by comparing it to Crackdown 3 and giving the game a score before it even released unless you bought a game you clearly had a lot of issues with before it came out. Its funny that gamers are known for complaining about games theyre never played on internet message boards. Something you may have done yourself.

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The fact that it didn't drop like a rock to 0 is surprising.

Welcome to the modern era of AAA games. Is there something even minorly wrong with it? It's the worst thing in history!

Or something any group dislikes slightly.

R_Jackal posted...

The fact that it didn't drop like a rock to 0 is surprising.

Welcome to the modern era of AAA games. Is there something even minorly wrong with it? It's the worst thing in history!

Or something any group dislikes slightly.

And then gamers wonder why no one takes them or their medium seriously.

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Gamers are just Karens

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this will be the last jedi of video games

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boxington posted...

professional reviewers at least have the pretense of playing through the games they review

user reviews are full of people who don't have to be accountable for the scores they give, and many don't play the game, watch the movie, listen to the album, etc. beforehand.

meh

1. The logic that you have to finish a game to have an opinion on it is flawed

2. lots of reviews don't complete the game
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"AAA" trash

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Sad_Face posted...

Nailed it. The pendulum swings both ways. Reviewers are going to give Sony's AAA mulitmillion budget title, one they've been hyping for years, glowing reviews so as not to get blacklisted or to maintain their perks and benefits with the corporation. So what do gamers do in response? The only thing they can do, raise their voices and call them out.

Would you say this about any AAA game that gets universal praise from critics though? I highly doubt it and the big reason for this is politics.

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boxington posted...

professional reviewers at least have the pretense of playing through the games they review

user reviews are full of people who don't have to be accountable for the scores they give, and many don't play the game, watch the movie, listen to the album, etc. beforehand.

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What a bunch of man-children. Keep in mind, these are men who are in their 30s acting like this.

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ThisGuyAreSick posted...

I don't like feeling I'm on rails for an entire game. That's just my preference.

How far in did you get? Picking my copy up after work tbh

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The_Scarecrow posted...

Uh, thats you, champ lmao. This is the first time Ive initiated against you in a long time. Meanwhile, you have appeared in multiple topics calling my posts some of the worst on the board. Dont get it confused

Oh I havent forgot about when you tried to gatekeep Etikas suicide and I put you in your place.

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Tbf, TLOU 1 was $10 and id never buy it even at that price....

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ThisGuyAreSick posted...

So then how is the gameplay?

No one plays Resident Evil or Silent Hill for the plot. Or Dead Rising. Or literally any other zombie/horror game.

Most people played Silent Hill for the story.

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UnfairRepresent posted...

1. The logic that you have to finish a game to have an opinion on it is flawed

2. lots of reviews don't complete the game

Yeah UR is right here. If you need to be 20 hrs deep into a game to start enjoying it, that's a flaw with the game, not the reviewer.

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so are people downvoting just because there's a lesbian in it or what

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Anteaterking posted...

Yeah UR is right here. If you need to be 20 hrs deep into a game to start enjoying it, that's a flaw with the game, not the reviewer.

This reminds me of when I played FF13 and it was trash the whole way through.

Actually the first five hours were kinda fun. The remaining 35...

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Mecha Sonic posted...

so are people downvoting just because there's a lesbian in it or what

The writing is trash

Gameplay looks like same lame shit as the first one so theres nothing to prop it other than shills who got early access copies

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It may or may not be garbage, but a lot of politically reactionary people had their minds set to review bomb it no matter what

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kewldude475 posted...

People are saying the gameplay is much improved from the first. Also, the gameplay does look more smooth than the first game I'd say.

Also, "bad writing" is an empty criticism. People always say something they doesn't like has "bad writing" without giving any real reasons why. And in this case, without even playing the game. "Bad writing" means nothing these days. If someone says that with no explanation I immediately tune it out.

No one cares

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ChuckSDeuces posted...

No one cares

You cared enough to respond.

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User reviews are a waste of internet space

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Currently playing it, a few hours in, and I dont see a problem with the story so far.

not a 10/10 game, but at least in the 8/10-9/10 range for me so far

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Someone tag me when we have the sale numbers

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UnfairRepresent posted...

meh

1. The logic that you have to finish a game to have an opinion on it is flawed

2. lots of reviews don't complete the game

that's why I said "pretense".

and my argument was that with a user review, you don't need to have even played a game at all to leave one.

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I don't necessarily disagree, but people are often on the fence about trying something out, because they might have other options, issues with money, have concerns about a product's quality, etc. and reviews might help then make one decision or another

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SwayM posted...

Oh I havent forgot about when you tried to gatekeep Etikas suicide and I put you in your place.

Thats not what gatekeeping means. You suggested that I look up what irony means so take your own advice and look up what gatekeeping means. Everyone in that topic disagreed with you but youre too far gone to see that. You ignored almost every single of them quoting you and explaining to you why you were wrong because of your strange fixation to prove how Im some horrible human being time and time again even though you know nothing about me.

Address what I said about your Pokemon comments, too. Also, explain why youre still here if youre embarrassed to be around gamers. Youre throwing shade at people for shitting on TLOU Part II while many of them never played it even though you pulled the same stunt with Sword and Shield for months before it released.

I guess it takes a Francis to know one, huh?

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Mecha Sonic posted...

so are people downvoting just because there's a lesbian in it or what

Yes, and also because shes no longer underage.

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Good. Reviewers acting like this revenge tale is masterpiece story telling. Thinking its like Oldboy or I Saw the Devil levels of good. Yeah ok.

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will reserve judgment until i've played/finished it myself.

though i can't help but think it'll be wokeness the game.

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coh posted...

Would take that over the paid reviews by "professionals"

Yeah people who haven't played the game review bombing a game is the way to go. Making judgements with zero knowledge is always trustworthy.

TheAnthraxBunny posted...

Yes, and also because shes no longer underage.

What the actual fuck

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