@justthetip: Hmm, I see. Point taken. Makes me kind of sad really, when even the few good game companies that are left squander their integrity...In an industry where these days small developer companies keep getting bought up by big, cynical companies, only to be hung out to dry, there are few beams of light left...I thought CDPR was one of them...Maybe they were, but turned to the dark side along the way...Valve is nothing like they used to be for me either...I guess Santa Monica Studio is my only remaining hope...Sigh...I miss the good old golden days of the original incarnations of Rare, Westwood, Crystal Dynamics etc...
I must be missing something. Why are people so unforgiving of a game company making a mistake? This is the company that brought us The Witcher, correct? I've never had them pegged as someone who only cares about profit, and not about their consumers. The bugs in the game can surely be patched eventually anyway, right? Just play something else in the meantime. I hate asshole game companies like EA as much as the next one, but I've never gotten the impression CD Project Red is anything like them.
@trer24:Indeed. And that's exactly what I don't like. It used to be that game companies had more pride in their work, and actually cared about what was best for their fans, not just what was the best economical strategy for the company. There are a few companies left that I think are still like that, such as Santa Monica Studio and CD Project Red, but they are becoming increasingly rare...
@Thanatos2k: This so much. Games shouldn't have in-game paid features. Microtransactions and paid gambling features in games are the absolute worst, and honestly despicable, imo. I'm glad I personally don't play online multiplayer games (just because they're not my thing), so I at least get to avoid some of this stuff. I also hate how games these days are sometimes deliberately released unfinished, and then you have to pay for a DLC to complete it, which should have been part of the game disc from the beginning. Or all the in-game exclusive bonuses that you can only ever get if you preorder the game, and pay lots extra. I'm so tired of all these money hogging practices. It used to be that you bought a game, and then that was it. Extra content would be proper, full-on expansions that you could buy later on. DLC's should be reserved for free updates to add certain extra content (like the NG+ mode in God of War), or to fix bugs (the only good thing about DLC's). So many of today's games are released with DLC's announced way ahead of release, that I feel like I almost never get to buy a full game, it's awful...And what about when the digital extra content for a game becomes unavailable because the console and/or game is too old? If you didn't grab it in time, or if you lose your data for whatever reason, possibly through no fault of your own (console crashes etc), you're screwed out of that content forever. Just release the full game on the disc from the beginning dammit!
Not just Gamespot, but I stopped listening to the opinions and ratings of individual reviewers in general many years ago. I just check the overall critics score on Metacritic, based on all the critics, and then the overall user score on the same site, and go from there. Same with movies, I check the overall critic and user score on IMDB. I don't know why others don't just do the same, letting a single game reviewer/critic's subjective opinion on a game decide whether you will buy that game or not just seems very unwise. As a sidenote, out of 44 critics so far, only 3 of them have given the game a less than 80/8 out of a 100/10 score, Gamespot being one of them. Make of that what you will. Personally the only reason I still visit this site is because I use the "Stack" function to list and keep track of all the games I want/plan to buy and play. I haven't taken their reviews seriously in ages.
Looks awesome. Just wish it wasn't an Action-RPG though. I know I'm old and that it can't be helped that games and game developers have to evolve with the times, but I still long for the Final Fanatsy series to go back to its roots a bit...I prefer Turn based+Action based RPG hybrids to strictly Action based RPG's...For me, hybrid combat RPG's > Turn based RPG's > Action RPG's. Basically, Xenoblade Chronicles > Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door > Final Fantasy XV.
This is a personal thing, of course, and I know many will disagree, but for me, the new God of War excited me in a way no game has done in years, and has kind of ruined other games for me. I loved it to bits. Almost too much really...I replayed NG+ several times. For me it was GOTY for 2018. Consequently, while there are many other games I want to play, the new God of War sequel on the PS5 is what really really matters to me, nothing else comes close in priority. All of which is funny, really, because I've played through every single one of the old God of War games, and I only ever found each and every one of them to be mediocre at best. It's only the new one I really really like. It's a completely different beast to me. So if someone had told me in 2017 that a new God of War game was going to end up being my new favourite game in many years, I would be laughing in their face at the time. Funny how things can turn out.
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