Video game critics, eh?
Were suspicious of their decisions when it comes to review scores.
It’s hard to trust whether they are genuinely held beliefs or bought by the game publishers.
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However, we cant stop going to the review sites to read up on the latest releases.
Video game critics are essentially ordinary gamers who got lucky and landed a job writing about video games.
I should know I am one of those people.
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Whatever it is, they dont always get it right.
Then, en-masse, a game that should receive luke-warm reception is lavished with an unjustifiable amount of praise.
My point is, they get a bit carried away.
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15BioShock Infinite
I loved the first two games in theBioShockseries.
Then, we gotBioShock Infinite.
Now, I dont consider myself an extreme intellectual by any stretch, but Im also not a Luddite.
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It is serviceable with its gunplay, but the Vigor powers felt shoehorned in to appease fans of plasmids.
In the end, I just stuck to running and gunning.
14Grand Theft Auto IV
Okay, we’re sort of cheating here.
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GTA IV is a last-gen title.
However, it is backwards compatible with Xbox One, so this entry makes sense,kinda.
I didnt say that to incite a reaction from people who were into the game.
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I said it because I meant it.
It is a thematic change of pace to other games in the series.
While narratively ambitious, they chased a sense of realism that we just didnt want.
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On that note, the driving in that game was atrocious.
As much as I love Niko, he deserved better.
13Assassins Creed
I got intoAssassins Creedlate into the franchise but wanted to play them in chronological order.
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Im a barman called Desmond Miles?
I thought I was an assassin.
Oh, you explore their memories?
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Okay, fine, Ill get behind that.
The thing is, it was all going fine for the first three memories.
I explored the cities of Jerusalem, Acre, and Damascus and stalked my targets.
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Mechanically, it is a bit rigid, but I understood the appeal.
Then on fourth memory, you go back to Jerusalem.
Been there, killed the Templar, got the t-shirt.
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I gave up and ejected the disc.
Not only was its skill tree system dumbed down and simplistic, and dialog options were painfully stripped back.
There was also the sense that nothing you did really mattered like it did in the previous games.
Sadly, it was the other way around.
It had an interesting premise but not much to glue it all together.
Or maybe Im just bad at it, who knows for sure?
Sadly, the problems didnt end there.
The plain and stale mission structure fromDead Islandpersisted and eventually, I just got bored of it.
Who are these people Im trying to work with and save?
Why dont I just go it alone?
These were the questions I was asking while leap-frogging cars and jumping between overturned buses.
10Xenoblade Chronicles X
Maybe I just dontgetJRPGs, but Xenoblade Chronicles Xwas an incredibly underwhelming game.
Moreover, the game’s generic (out of place) hip-hop music plays nonstop until your ears bled.
It was essentially to be an over-scripted, cut-scene laden,Call of Dutyclone.
Im in the camp that believes that going back to your roots isnt the foundation or guarantee of success.
Lets not suggest thatDOOMis a bad game.
Its a pretty good game if it came out in 2003.
DOOMis an extremely competent shooter, but by no means does this justify the review scores it had received.
There are many more and just as decent FPS games which didnt receive the same glistening reviews.
And then I had to question, “Am I playing the same game as everyone else?”
Apart from the nemesis system, this game was pretty muchBatman: Arkham KnightinLord of the Ringsclothing.
The combat was incessantly dull, and the open-world rendition of Mordor was unexciting.
It was more an arena for the boring combat.
Yet people loved it and theyre entitled to do so.
I just hope that the sequel releasing in 2017 will be more exciting.
7Gone Home
Can you believe that this game won a BAFTA for storytelling?
Are you for real?
Of all the walking simulators, or first-person interactive experiences, this isnt even in the top five.
So, what is it that makesGone Homeso special?
But if this was a book, film or television show, it wouldnt be BAFTA-worthy.
It wouldnt even be Golden Globe worthy.
6Heavy Rain
Jasoooonnnnnnnn.
Anyone who has sat through this cinematic gameplay experience will be familiar with the above quote.
Essentially, exercises in how to make video games as cinematic as possible before.
None of his releases were particularly successful and critics pick up on this.
But why isHeavy Rainso successfully in terms of review scores?
Probably I cant think of any other reasonHeavy Rainwould be heralded in the manner it was.
The protagonist, Ethan, is a bit of a drip too.
No wonder your son ran away from you, mate.
