Angry Joe Quantum Break Review 5/10

Holy shit....after watching this review I won't even be buying it for PC.

There are some major issues with this game. Everything Joe complained about had examples and most of it is the type of bullshit that ppl bitch about.

Immersion being broken due to the game not following its own rules and idiotic writing i.e. "You're a shit marksman" and the person is like 5ft away.

Holy shit....how is anyone liking this calling Joe out and not a casual themselves?

His complaints are totally valid. This game looks like complete shit.

I gotta say that I actually agree what Joe said in this QB review. I didn't even notice there comes a time that the Xbox One version crashes, I didn't enounter any problems on my end but still though, QB was fun but not enough to do a replay for me anytime soon.

Also looking forward to Joe when he reviews Ratchet & Clank PS4 later on.

I wish his reviews aren't long and full of spoilers.

Does this one have story spoiler?

@SolidButtCheakS said:

@dynamitecop said:

That was hard.

A. lol Metacritic.

B. Missing the point. You can't prove it. Not unless you go and question every single person who played the game.

C. Even if you did poll every person who played the game and 100% of them said they enjoyed it, that still wouldn't say anything of the games quality.

Thanks for playing.

I literally just did, seeing as this is the only verifiable metric of people who have actually played the game it's valid to use in an argument.

Also, where is all the negative feedback from users that would have actually of played it around here? There's only been a couple of people say negative things and most everyone else has been positive about it. It's a bunch of cows like StrongBlackVine trying to make a stink about a game he doesn't own, has never played on a system he doesn't even have...

@davillain-: I'm waiting in a deal or price drop to get it. It looks like one of those one play through games that's not worth $60 for me.

@dynamitecop: seeing as the game sits in the 70's both from users and critics I'm pretty sure a lot of those positive reviews are in the 70's.

That means it's average at best and not as many ppl will enjoy as something in the 80's or 90's.

Never knew the AI was that bad. Honestly it seems like a pretty spot on review after what gamespot had to say as well

Oh no!

User reviews on Metacritic are unverifiable data, that makes it useless information in both the negative and the positive, it can't be used to gauge anything.

You need to understand how averages work and how little they actually mean, for example, if you have 9 100/100 reviews of a game and someone puts in a 40/100 review, that drags down the aggregate to a 94/100, just from that one review it drops 6 points. Quantum Break is suffering from dissenting opinions, most people have rated it fairly high, while the minority of the bunch have rated the game unusually to quite low, that minority is also quite small, but their scores are low enough to the point that they pull the aggregate down points at a time, even in the face of overwhelmingly higher rated reviews.

Quantum Break's aggregate is the result of dissenting opinions, a few people in opposition of the vast majority, it's not an average built around the majority of views being in the high 70's to come to a 77, there's not 93 reviews scoring the game 77/100, most reviews are well above a 77.

65 reviews are 78 and above, 28 are 77 and below, that's 2.32 times the amount of reviews above that threshold yet the average is "77" (weighted bullshit), that goes to show you just how low the minority rated things and the impact their scores had on the overall picture.

@dynamitecop: yes I know how averages work.....I didn't know there were reviews THAT low.

Still doesn't make Joe's complaints invalid. There's some real dumb shit going on in that game regardless if it's on Xbox or PC.

Which particular points did he make that you agree with ?

LOL Nissan/10.

Man, it's been a while since Joe made me lol.

But i think Joe made a verry good point. There won't be any QB2 with the same cast if they will do the TV series thing again.

And boy, Joe knows how much psycho lems are, just look how much he backs off before saying the score. Lems must have done a number on him since the Halo 5 review.

@spitfire-six: the first post on this page is mine where I discuss this. I'm just on an an oying iPad and don't feel like typing it out again.

Just reply to that and I won't hesitate to discuss it.

That's one person's opinion... I think it's much better than a 5/10.

As usual his reviews are always honest, detailed and "no punches pulled" told just like it is.

People only don't like his reviews when he calls a turd a turd and the game happens to be on a system they are fanboying.

When you get his reviews, after shuffling through all the status quo journalist sites who have to cushion reviews to stay viable to mass groups, you know Joes review is the closes you'll probably get to the god's honest opinion of what you're actually playing.

Yeah, just like all of the people saying the PC version of the game is fucked beyond all belief and it's terrible, yet it's fine for me?

@dynamitecop: that's the glory of PC gaming.

Lots of ppl can have problems with a game but you might not....and vise versa.

only thing I see there is about breaking immersion. This would be true but they explained in the game that you can only do things at certain points. For instance when you see shadows of conversations those only happen at certain fracture points in time. He cannot rewind time as a power only manipulate fracture points. So is there anything else? My approach to playing this game was treating it like a netflix series and play an act and watch an episode a night or in different sittings. I could see trying to power through all of this would be exhausting, I thought it was a stupid decision to try that so i didnt.

The problem is the largest market share is Nvidia users thinking their graphics cards are gods gift to the Earth, DirectX 12 is showing them this is not the reality for the time being.

Never cared for Angry Joe, granted I can't think of a single Youtuber that I can stand watching for more than 2 seconds.

@kingtito: that's not true. He has a vast audience of subscribers that obviously value his opinion. His opinion means more than someone who is not known, simply by virtue of numbers. I'm not claiming it's the RIGHT opinion, but it certainly means more. That's why game publishers give him early review copies.

@dynamitecop: I was told that MS is pushing DX12 onto devs without them having a good amount of time with it. So if this is true considering the devs are lacking in the knowledge..... I can understand why ppl with $600 GPUs think they're game should run above 50fps.

Can't remember where I saw it (it was on YouTube) but at the lowest settings the game would not go above 50fps.

That's not Nvidia fanboys being unreasonable.

Their point (which I find highly stupid) is why can't you do everything all the time, simple answer, it's a video game... How detrimental would it be to the game if you could alter timelines at all times, smash through any door you want? Remedy addressed this like you said by these instances only being at fracture points, that's their logic in the game world for why you can do something here but not over here.

Imagine Resident Evil if you could just lockpick any door, the game would be over in 5 minutes.

That's a rumor, and also that 50 FPS thing is the result of using 60hz monitors and it's going to be addressed, Remedy responded to and addressed lot of complaints/inquiries and will be following through with fixes.

http://community.remedygames.com/forum/games/quantum-break/261576-quantum-break-status-update

Damn son I wish I was pretending since I didn't have to waste my money on this game, but like any game I paid full price for I finish them star to end at least. And I hardly care for what reviews say, Alan Wake didn't get all 9s but I enjoyed that far more than QB, it's really down to personal taste so don't get it mixed for anything else. Just being frank.

I don't believe you own this game or have ever even played or seen it in person, if there's one thing I know around here is for something like this proof is required from an individual such as yourself.

If you can't take the 2 minutes required to prove you own the game it's fairly obvious you don't.

But that's not how it worked. He had powers before and could break stuff....then he couldnt.

That's something a lot of ppl don't like. its the same thing with The Witcher 3. Geralt can take several hits from a huge monster griffin but a slight fall off a ledge will kill him.

That shit is annoying.

but coupled with shitty writing....omg what a chore that game must be to play.

@mems_1224: It got him so excited he posted the thread twice.

Who told you MSFT was pushing DX12 on developers? So far its been moving at a standard rate while working towards parity between the two API's. So where did you read this?

None of that doesnt make the game a giant mess for lots of ppl.

You just proved how you don't have problems and some ppl do.

A mess a mess no matter how you try to justify it.

Sorry I don't believe you. Since you just finished it could you explain the last boss fight for me, with stuff like how many enemy waves there is, where is the ammunition refill point on the boss level, heck even what the ammunition refill point looks like. Just use the spoiler block so people don't accidently read it.

Surely if you just finished it you could tell me that and much, much more right?

What is listed there is within the bounds of a typical PC release in terms of "problems", things get sorted out in time.

In terms of the game performance though, the only ones who seem to be having problems are Nvidia users, and the issues they're having are directly reflected in every other DirectX 12 game to date.

@spitfire-six: Someone on here replied to a post of mine saying it.

i have no reason to not believe them when it was kinda beside the point of the thread and the reply would have been pretty petty if lied about.

at most I just saw it as someone's opinion on the state of DX12 in gaming right now.

@StrongBlackVine: his opinion is worth discussing because we what? What kind of backwater logic is that? Lol

So games being released and getting fixed later, which is something that gamers say is a plague....and you have used to bash consoles is now ok?

Sigh...it's just a $400 Xbone man, not a 2016 Mercedes SLK

Ever considered the fact maybe I was out before?

Consoles do not possess the hardware capability to overcome their shortcomings, if there are performance problems it's universal, on PC that is not the case.

@gpuking said:

Sigh...it's just a $400 Xbone man, not a 2016 Mercedes SLK

Ever considered the fact maybe I was out before?

Thank you.

That is how it works, they tell you during the game or actually the character realizes that he can only interact with fractured moments. Now maybe Joe didnt hear that or maybe he missed it but it is explained and its not something that is isolated to this particular game. This is a common design pattern for video games. I am not sure why he chose this particular game to gripe about it. Anymore points from him you agree with ?

Really? I've been playing quite a few games on my XBox1. What drought are you referring to?

"but he is popular so I'm linking it" -> no link to be seen

This is one of the weakest reviews joe has done.....joe just wasn't in the mood or forgot to take his medication. I love how it tries to find excuses or very small flaws to justify his opinion on the game, most of the stuff pointed it common design choices. Like with puzzle sections, OBVIOUSLY you won't able to open every fucking door, its designed for you to find the right path. Also bitching about checkpoints and mail you have to read which are too long......lol.

Also He finds one where a game freezes, which the majority won't find. Good on you joe pick on rare occurances that many won't experience nor complain about....overall the game is very solid and has some of the best animations and time use abilities, followed by interesting concepts and theories conernig time tavel, the story is well done. It just sucks you're not into shooters as much as other games and of course suck at them.

lmao QB was supposed to be the Uncharted killer

According to who? I keep seeing this and the only source I can find on any of it is people like yourself saying "Uncharted killer".

It seems like something cows introduced rather than anything anyone actually claimed.

@dynamitecop: it's a broken game for many on PC. Any way you want to spin that you go ahead....but it's still broke in some regards and fixing it later is a shitty excuse.

@dynamitecop: Plenty of people on here said Quantum Break looked better than Uncharted 4 and would score higher.

@spitfire-six: let me give you a better example.

you can climb a van but not a chest high wall. Or the stupid "puzzle" where you have to change time to wait for when the dumpster is out of the shed...why the **** couldn't you just pull the dumpster out yourself.

yes I get it they want you to figure out the time part....but it looks rushed and out of place which breaks immersion makes for stupid test.

it does look better, in terms of gameplay character models and facial/movement animations.

Were these people fanboys or actual real people who felt this way? There's no point of reference between Uncharted 4 and Quantum Break aside from them being graphically impressive and third person shooters. On top of this saying something looks better is subjective, and in terms of score that is still left to be seen, Uncharted 4 has not released yet as far as I am aware.

I didn't see anyone stating it was going to kill Uncharted 4.

A 5/10 was a bit low, it's definitely a 6/10...just.