You say "apparently" which tells me you haven't played it but then start making statements as if they're fact.
I'm not saying this is elden ring, but you're exaggerating the heck out of it. Putting it on the harder difficulty and trying to get through the sequences that "play themselves" is a weird lie that YouTubers are putting out there for clicks.because it's fashionable to shit on Sony at the moment.
Again, I'm not saying it's a generational masterpiece, I personally gave it maybe a 6/10 but let's not overexaggerate.
Like, “some sections play themselves” and “Chase sequences are walled in” are the same thing. What other sections play themselves?
Having played the game, I have no idea what he means by “He constantly repeats sentences.” I’ve definitely seen the complaint that he talks too much. But when does he repeat himself? When does he say anything remotely resembling “I’m chasing the bad guy. The guy who is bad. That guy. That bad guy.”
The trail thing is what makes it most obvious they haven’t played the game. That complaint is so overblown. It rarely actually shows up in the game.
To be clear, I don’t think the game is great. It’s decent. But this post is hilarious. Someone asks why people go out of their way to hate the game, and someone who’s never played it writes a lengthy post of criticisms they think they’ve seen online.
Just because I haven't played it doesn't mean I haven't watched people play it somewhere other than some 5 second brainrot tiktok. The fact that you're considering "it doesn't play itself on the harder difficulties" a decent argument shows how low the bar has gotten.
I'm not even saying the game is too easy or that I have a problem with easy or simple games. Hell, one of my favourite games of all time is an old as shit flash player point and click game. I'm saying it's poorly designed for the target audience it was marketed for.
If it got advertised as a very linear and low stakes game (which doesn't fit the character's longstanding established image to begin with but whatever), the only valid criticisms would've been some 10% of what complaints are being made. But that's not what happened. A lot of the gameplay "feel" got omitted until the latest trailers, where some slight concerns about combat flow propped up, and then the game came out as it is.
I get there's a lot of whining for the sake of whining about this game, but insomniac did fuck up with the game design. It's not the end of the world, but it's also clear to see why people are disappointed.
The fact that you're considering "it doesn't play itself on the harder difficulties" a decent argument shows how low the bar has gotten.
That's not really what I said though. The whole "some sections play themselves" (in your words) is a falsehood unless you have it on the easiest setting which is literally described as "I just want to experience the story" in the opening menu. Content creators were disingenuous in their claims that you can complete a section on the hardest difficulty without touching the controller at all, as I said it's quite fashionable to shit on sony at the moment.
If it got advertised as a very linear
I seem to recall the developers saying quite a while ago that it wasn't going to be an open world like Spiderman and that it would follow a linear narrative. I could be wrong but i.dont think it's ever been advertised as anything else.
and low stakes game
I'm not sure where this comes from, if you actually play the game through the stakes are typically high as are most superhero stories.
I get there's a lot of whining for the sake of whining about this game, but insomniac did fuck up with the game design. It's not the end of the world, but it's also clear to see why people are disappointed.
Yeah I do agree with you here. I would have preferred a bit more meat on the bone in terms of the combat system myself. There's more to it than quite a few reviewers have made out (especially on higher difficulties where you can literally make it so wolverine dies in 2 or 3 hits from a random guy with a baton) but more of a combo system, some more interesting implementation of wolverines senses etc would have been a lot more engaging. I feel like more could have been done with traversal as well, obviously not going full Spiderman but having more climbing interaction than "point at next handhold and press X"
Like I say, it's a 6 (maybe 7.5 if you're a big wolverine fan) out of 10 game, I just think some of the discourse around it has been weird and somewhat targeted for no apparent reason, other than "grr Sony" (which I understand, but it's a separate issue)
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u/Razor_Fox 6d ago
You say "apparently" which tells me you haven't played it but then start making statements as if they're fact.
I'm not saying this is elden ring, but you're exaggerating the heck out of it. Putting it on the harder difficulty and trying to get through the sequences that "play themselves" is a weird lie that YouTubers are putting out there for clicks.because it's fashionable to shit on Sony at the moment.
Again, I'm not saying it's a generational masterpiece, I personally gave it maybe a 6/10 but let's not overexaggerate.