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Post by baihu1983 on Jan 24, 2024 19:32:44 GMT
Yes. Thought it was Tuesday but its a Friday release. Or you can pre order for early access.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 24, 2024 19:35:11 GMT
They still got time then. It has 7/10 all over it. I think some people will get really into it but from what I played 70 quid felt like a pisstake. Gamepass would be its perfect home.
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Post by baihu1983 on Jan 24, 2024 19:51:47 GMT
£54 at argos.
With my nectar points I could get it for £40.
Would like to see some uncut gameplay footage. Just one mission from start to end.
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Post by apollo on Jan 24, 2024 19:56:50 GMT
its going to drop in price quickly as I don't think its even 7/10 game. Will be on gamepass in about 10 to 12 months
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Post by Whizzo on Jan 24, 2024 20:04:01 GMT
Yes. Thought it was Tuesday but its a Friday release. Or you can pre order for early access.  |
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Post by dfunked on Jan 27, 2024 17:39:19 GMT
Sounds like review codes are going to be in reviewer's hands at the same time everybody who paid for early access gets in. Utter bullshit.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 27, 2024 18:37:43 GMT
I mean if nothing else this always the justification I need to not buy a game.
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Post by baihu1983 on Jan 27, 2024 18:46:31 GMT
Maybe WB just got fed up with 80% of them ignoring Hogwarts?
See this sitting in the low 60s.
Game size is only 45GB
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 27, 2024 18:54:19 GMT
Maybe WB just got fed up with 80% of them ignoring Hogwarts? See this sitting in the low 60s. Game size is only 45GB Well their last release MK1 got some pretty broad coverage from almost every outlet so I doubt it has anything to do with that. |
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Post by baihu1983 on Jan 27, 2024 18:59:23 GMT
Yeah wasn't being serious with that bit.
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Post by theguy on Jan 27, 2024 19:00:25 GMT
That's hardly a good sign, previews must have worried them.
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Post by Whizzo on Jan 27, 2024 19:00:51 GMT
Being charitable you could say that because it's an online title the servers wouldn't have been up and running so there was no point in providing reviewers keys before hand.
However that ignores that there were preview events and there was the closed test that regular people accessed as well that must have had servers to run on so why they couldn't have spun up test servers for reviewers to play the game on or by now the live servers should be up and running already anyway so it's not like they'll be switching them on once it hits midnight on early release date in New Zealand.
Not every game that doesn't put out review codes before release day is bad (Doom 2016 is a notable one) but for something with this game's reputation it's certainly raising the red (not Rick) flag.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 27, 2024 19:06:59 GMT
That's hardly a good sign, previews must have worried them. I think they've been worried since the first reveal at the State of Play presentation last year. |
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Post by baihu1983 on Jan 27, 2024 19:12:16 GMT
Yeah didn't the delay get announced within a week of that?
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Post by Vandelay on Jan 27, 2024 19:22:04 GMT
Not every game that doesn't put out review codes before release day is bad (Doom 2016 is a notable one) but for something with this game's reputation it's certainly raising the red (not Rick) flag. Pretty certain in the case of DOOM, that was because no early review codes was a Bethesda policy. An awful policy, but it was the same for all games they published, so couldn't really be used as a judgement on individual game. I assume that isn't the same for WB, so they have made a decision on this particular game to not send it out to reviewers before the game is in the hands of people. As you say, definitely a red flag. |
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Post by theguy on Jan 27, 2024 19:26:53 GMT
I think they've been worried since the first reveal at the State of Play presentation last year. Ha, that's fair. But I think with the delay they thought they could at least put a positive spin on things. Don't know what they did in that year mind, but it's very rare you see a AAA title preview badly at major gaming media sites. If the full game really is just not much more than what was in the Alpha then I'll understand the game and its existence far less than I already do. |
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Post by Derblington on Jan 27, 2024 19:35:00 GMT
I very much doubt the reviews are going to sway most people at this point regardless - you know if you’re interested or not already. This is just another thing to beat them with.
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Post by Syrette on Jan 27, 2024 19:50:50 GMT
Perhaps, but perhaps the critics will love I lt.
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Post by theguy on Jan 27, 2024 20:03:35 GMT
They've actually declined to send IGN a review copy at all lol
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 27, 2024 20:16:27 GMT
They've actually declined to send IGN a review copy at all lol Really?! |
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Post by Ulythium on Jan 27, 2024 20:22:04 GMT
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Post by baihu1983 on Jan 27, 2024 20:26:02 GMT
Yeah. Sounds like Destins preview really pissed them off
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Post by Ulythium on Jan 27, 2024 20:30:36 GMT
So IGN has pissed off a major publisher by speaking truth to power, and has effectively been blacklisted by said publisher (at least, where the game in question is concerned)?
We really are living in the end times.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 27, 2024 21:09:26 GMT
IT'S DRIV3R ALL OVER AGAIN!
Seriously though this will bring the worst kind of publicity on themselves through the sheer Streisand Effect of it all. Someone in PR has definitely fucked up there. However I can seem them definitely relying on influencers and content creators more than anything who don't really have anything to say apart from "OMG this is so sick" "so cool guys" and will play it no further than what their sponsorship entails.
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Post by Whizzo on Jan 27, 2024 21:24:01 GMT
Driv3r being mentioned reminded me of one of the dumbest things to have happened in that pretty broken game, I finally completed a mission that had been giving me trouble in it and decided I'd watch the replay to see it passively. The game's replay system actually replays the mission again with what you did but for some reason something changed and my successful mission actually failed. Oh well never mind it obviously would set the completion flag as soon as I had done it myself. Er no. The mission replay meant I failed it and would have to do it again... What a complete load of bollocks, I'm not sure I played it again after that.
Anyhow Driver: San Francisco was my GOTY of 2011, so the series didn't end with that shit show for me.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 27, 2024 21:28:44 GMT
Now I'm thinking of Kane and Lynch with all this nonsense and tbf it wasn't even that bad if you take into account the era of 3rd person shooters that it was released in. I really don't understand why the PR division of publishers do this as the damage always seems to overshadow the need for for first day sales.
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Post by Ulythium on Jan 27, 2024 21:39:23 GMT
IT'S DRIV3R ALL OVER AGAIN!
I understood that reference...
... Because I went and looked it up at Wikipedia!
Man, that's some sketchy shit. Didn't WB try something similar 10 years ago with Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor?
(This particular instance is likely due to incompetence, rather than malice - still kind of a needless own-goal, though.)
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 27, 2024 21:43:30 GMT
Nah, this is pure pettiness straight up.
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Post by Whizzo on Jan 27, 2024 21:46:56 GMT
There are some people who do like the Kane & Lynch games of course, me for example!
I've no idea why the first one got shat on so hard from some members of the gaming press. The second is one of the most grimy, horrible games that's not a horror title and I thought it was great.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 27, 2024 21:54:01 GMT
I can only surmise that is was released after OG Gears which did change how 3rd person shooters were perceived and in some part it shared a lot of DNA with PS2 era 3rd person games. The overhyping definitely did it no favours. I saw it as a AA game and I was ok with that. Kane and Lynch 2 was overly oppressive though with little redeeming factors to it imo.
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