English MobsterStarfield review controversy traces game journalism's orbital decay
saigotI don’t understand the purpose of big company reviewers (for subjective stuff like media at least). If I’m watching a smaller reviewer my goal is figure out their tastes so I can ignore the criticisms that I know don’t bother me, and pay very close attention to where their tastes align with mine. Like if dunky calls a game buggy or slow paced, that’s probably more a positive than a negative, but if he says the controls are clunky, I’ll probably agree. ACG tends to like games that are less mechanically adventious and easy compared to what I like, and we have evry different tastes in storylines, but he’s a really good barometer for sound and graphics.
If kotaku or whatever releases a review it’s really hard for me to understand whose voice I’m getting, so the review is pretty useless, how do I know if the guy calling the game a challenge is the guy that infamous cuphead reviewer or a guy that has been beating dark souls since he was 4.
Jordan LundI have a hard time when people complain about loading screens. I’ve been gaming since the 70s guys, let me tell you about load times:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starpath_Supercharger
You’d start loading a game from tape and then you might as well go have dinner with your family because it would be 30 to 60 minutes before you could play.
Or, it could hit a loading error 5 minutes after you walked away and now you have to start all over again…
Also, the Commodore 1541 floppy drive had a serial transfer rate of 2 bytes per second. Nothing loaded quickly in the 80’s either.
But it was soooo much faster than tape! ;)
Cool dudes had fast load cartridges.
NeatoI bet you'd complain about your new car having roll up windows or no ac. Times have changed and we can do better. Especially with their budget and 6 years. It's pathetic.
BigBananaDealeryeah the half a second to 2 second loading screens are horrible. any game with loading screens i immideately uninstall
This shows you've missed the point and haven't researched the game.
It's all the animation transitions between space and ground. No Man's Sky had fifteen developers and accomplished this years ago. Bethesda is pathetically incompetent.
no mans sky had deep quests and deep conversations with unique characters? and they also used creation engine? i had no idea no mans sky was so brilliant! youve changed my mind!
Bethesda doesn't have deep quests either. The creation engine is a weight around the devs necks. I'm not sure what you're trying to say but you're making my points for me.
nah they do. and creation engine is why the modding scene is the biggest out of almost any game