It’s a denial that a score is actually pointless and they gave their expectation of a number too much power to start with. They gave too much power to a meaningless number and then turn back realising this one particular number does not compute and argue against it. Like if someone thinks it’s very important that a game has an certain score then it’s on them. What I meant is arguing especially about a meaningless score isn’t relevant. I personally don’t rely on reviews that I know by experience are from people with different expectation or gaming experience. Everyone tries to be careful with what they buy in their own way. Yet you've settled on the legitimacy of the reviewer's opinion anyway. Your stance makes no sense because you have no opinion on the game for you to compare against this reviewer's opinion.
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If you considered this review a more objective breakdown of the game, then I'd understand, but the fact you defend the 'it's just an opinion' argument, then take it as fact is what boggles my mind on how the professional reviews are done and used.Īt least the people who don't agree with the review because they've experienced the game first hand and have that reasoning behind it (even if it's bias), and their opinion is clearly at odds with the reviewers. More so than people on these forums, more so so the opinions of other reviewers who also get paid to give opinions. You've arbitrarily decided that this one person's opinion is somehow more valid than everybody elses. So the author just saved me 25 euros and I'll either wait for a sale or to come to PS+."īut why though?. Mon 4th Oct "The review is a personal opinion of the person reviewing the game.Alan Wake had dated gameplay even in 2010 so another decade has really left it behind the times. Nostalgia lets us look past a great many sins in gaming. If you played Alan Wake in 2010 and loved it, then it stands to reason that a lick of paint and some bonus stuff will mean that revisiting the game today might treat you well.īut if you didn't play it in 2010 and you have no nostalgia for it, and you're approaching Alan Wake today in 2021 as a PlayStation fan used to playing games like The Last of Us, Uncharted, Ghost, God of War, whatever, and you've been hearing about how great Alan Wake is for a decade, do you seriously think it's not going to leave those players disappointed?
The point was that depending on what angle you're approaching this from you might have very different opinions about how this game meets your expectations. Mon 4th Oct Not wishing to get drawn into comments section drama or whatever, but the point of the bit in the review you seem to have a big issue with wasn't to be like, "PlayStation games are better than Xbox games!" or whatever.If this were a five minute diversion in a more narrative-focused game it would work fine as a change of pace, but as the main crux of the experience, it's dull and repetitive beyond measure. So you torch and shoot, basically, then torch and shoot again. In order to defeat The Taken, you must shine your torch on them to rid them of the protection the darkness provides, and then they're vulnerable to gunfire. Your main enemies are The Taken - people who have succumbed to an evil force called The Dark Presence and are now out for blood. As you wander from one cookie-cutter location to the next, you'll face waves of copy-paste baddies that require near identical tactics to defeat, repeatedly, forever. Combat is dreadful to the point that it would actually be better if most of it wasn't included. Unfortunately, actually playing Alan Wake is a miserable, tedious slog, and so most of the bits between the set pieces will likely leave many players frustrated. In terms of atmosphere, Alan Wake truly excels for the most part.
She hopes the picturesque surrounding will get his creative juices flowing, and maybe it will, but not in the way she thinks. Once it's out of the way, the story begins proper: Alan Wake is an author of thrillers suffering from writer's block who travels to a log cabin in Bright Falls, Washington with his wife. The game begins with a dream sequence - an opportunity to teach you how combat works without being quite as crass as to just overtly tell you it's a tutorial. But PlayStation owners used to best-in-class third person narrative adventures experiencing Alan Wake for the first time in 2021 might be left scratching their heads and wondering just what all the fuss is about. For existing fans, this is an opportunity to soak in the nostalgia and revisit a beloved title from yesteryear, now looking better than ever. Over a decade after the original release, former Xbox exclusive psychological thriller Alan Wake is finally making its way to PlayStation consoles as Alan Wake Remastered.
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