Alyx and Ori's score wasn't surprising, both from a great series with the negative VR talk from people who've never used VR or have any basic concept of Valve's quality, wasn't exactly big-brain rocket science.
Final Fantasy is doing better than expected given how the series was never good.
CP2077 wont even stand as the best RPG of 2020. Final Fantasy 7 Remake will take dumps on CP2077.
I have no doubt FF7R will achieve a higher MC
Golden words by BoxRekt
Cyberpunk 2077 is made by devs who have make wonky gameplay titles that are glitchy projects that need patch after patch before they are even competent to play.
So, don't hold your cheeks on expecting CP2077 to have a higher score than FF7R just because of TW3. CDPR are generally bad at making good gameplay and going 1st person hadn't done a whole lot to cover that fact up.
Well this seems rather standard. Reviews only matter when its pushes agenda favorable to your own. For the rest of gamers, well they don't care. They play what they like.
In combat, you can seamlessly switch between weapons, each having its own properties and playstyle :>#screenshotsaturday#madewithunity#gamedev#indiegamedev#indiegamespic.twitter.com/qaG81xiwG5
Half-Life: Alyx review — A great VR game for the wrong time
Reviewing Half-Life: Alyx has been a stressful endeavor. Part of that is the usual rigors of critiquing a game (trying to beat it before a deadline). But this VR experience is landing at a time when a pandemic is taking hold over the world. So, you know, I may already be a bit on edge. Bundle that with how playing VR can be uncomfortable and Alyx’s more survival-horror take on the franchise, and I often wished that I didn’t have to play this game at this particular moment in history.
What you won’t like
Playing this game right now
I almost feel bad holding this against the game, but now is a rough time to play something that immerses you into an intense, 10-hour long experience in a postapocalyptic world filled with monsters and lots of other things that want to kill you.
Compared to Half-Life 2, Alyx leans more into the survival-horror genre. Enemies hit harder, ammo is scarce, and health is limited. It’s not as fast or action-based as Half-Life 2. Now, this makes a lot of sense for the VR transition. Atmosphere is a big part of VR, and leaning more into horror elements is one way to create a more visceral experience.
But it can become mentally exhausting. I would play in sessions between one or two hours long, and I’d be straight up fatigued after them. Now, I suppose that means that the game is doing its job. But considering how stressed out I already am about being in shelter-in-place and practicing social distancing, I have to say that I’m envious of my friends who were spending all of their time catching virtual fish and paying off digital home loans.
Half-Life: Alyx review — A great VR game for the wrong time
Reviewing Half-Life: Alyx has been a stressful endeavor. Part of that is the usual rigors of critiquing a game (trying to beat it before a deadline). But this VR experience is landing at a time when a pandemic is taking hold over the world. So, you know, I may already be a bit on edge. Bundle that with how playing VR can be uncomfortable and Alyx’s more survival-horror take on the franchise, and I often wished that I didn’t have to play this game at this particular moment in history.
What you won’t like
Playing this game right now
I almost feel bad holding this against the game, but now is a rough time to play something that immerses you into an intense, 10-hour long experience in a postapocalyptic world filled with monsters and lots of other things that want to kill you.
Compared to Half-Life 2, Alyx leans more into the survival-horror genre. Enemies hit harder, ammo is scarce, and health is limited. It’s not as fast or action-based as Half-Life 2. Now, this makes a lot of sense for the VR transition. Atmosphere is a big part of VR, and leaning more into horror elements is one way to create a more visceral experience.
But it can become mentally exhausting. I would play in sessions between one or two hours long, and I’d be straight up fatigued after them. Now, I suppose that means that the game is doing its job. But considering how stressed out I already am about being in shelter-in-place and practicing social distancing, I have to say that I’m envious of my friends who were spending all of their time catching virtual fish and paying off digital home loans.
Come on, dude. Alyx sucks, just face it. So does VR.
@oliversnyders: nah if they had the same budget ms would have ruined it with unescary co op functions etc
It wouldnt reached the same scale as ff7 remake
But it would be really good still
Now imagine if the minds of square enix focused on indie level , small sized assets gameplay in ffv7 remake. The game would be 600 hours long with tons of gameplay options and content
@schu: just new fans & switch port beggars dont understand the atlus way of releasing games. They do this for all their products except for the mainline SMT games.
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