@nessisonett I saw the tweet from Tamoor Hussein at gamespot, who talked about how hard it was to play and write the review in such a short space of time. It's like being forced to binge watch 5-6 seasons of a TV show over a few days. You can do that but really it's an experience that's meant to unfold over weeks if not months. I can't imagine anything worse than being stuck on some brutal boss and trying to figure out how to beat it without community help and figure out what to bloody write!! Props to @LiamCroft for powering through
@R1spam On the other hand - Mitchell from IGN tweeted that at no point was he forced to complete the game before the embargo (it could've been a review in progress like here on Push Square) but he did anyway because he loved it so much.
Buuuut he also said he played it for 87 hours so if he did that in a week... that's not a healthy amount of gaming, lol
I'd quickly get annoyed when I hit some sacred cow game with a lower score than my peers and was barraged with death threats from people because I messed up the game's precious metascore, lol.
Some games are very worthy but aren't 10s, 9s, or even 8s. And that's perfectly alright.
@kyleforrester87@Voltan that's just to play it, not to take notes, write the review, prep for any video or podcast content. If your on hourly rate, overtime and it only happens a couple of times a year, sweet!! If your salaried and happens regularly, not so much lol!
One more reason why random scores are useless most of the time. Gamers and reviewers would be better off without them.
The crowd, accepting this immediately, assumed the anti-Eurasian posters and banners everywhere were the result of acts of sabotage by agents of Goldstein and ripped them from the walls.
@R1spam I’m sure 87 hours includes time spent taking notes and putting together a framework as you play, unless he had a stopwatch as he picked up and put down the controller. Plus time spent away eating etc. Obviously I won’t assume to know the process so happy to be corrected but I am sure they don’t play the entire game and then pick up a pen and start making notes?
@R1spam It’s nice to get some appreciation on this front 😂 Yeah, I could have just powered through the night and played flat out or something, but I’m just not going to put myself through that for a review.
Like you also mention, I think a lot of people forget about the difficulty. They’re hard enough on their own, but I’ve had to play Elden Ring without the ability to summon other players and very little guidance in general.
I got stuck on a number of bosses during the process. I’m not going to bash my head against that wall for hours on end when my time could be spent elsewhere.
I recognise I’m extremely lucky to be in this position, but there are some drawbacks. Trying to finish Elden Ring in basically six days is an impossible task.
@kyleforrester87 no I would think you would take notes as you go but I doubt the time takes into account breaks though. The time measured is probs from either console or pc timer, so might take into account the times where you just put the controller down to write. I probably got an extra 20 hrs in MGSV that way from the dispatch missions and leaving the console on overnight! 😂
@R1spam I still reckon blatant copying of other peoples reviews is the best tactic. Basically I would review the way I play these games - lots of cheese.
@LiamCroft no worries, cheers for the review!! I'm looking forward to trying it out in a few days and having the benefits of summons to drag my useless scrub ass through if I'm struggling 🙈
@LiamCroft easy! “Elden Ring 2 expands on everything the first game achieved, and despite one or two frame pacing issues and some texture pop in it stands as From Softwares greatest game yet. 9/10.”
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