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Gotham Knights | Review Thread

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This is almost trolling levels of groveling to a publisher.
The Medium isnt a bad game.....but it certainly isnt a GOTY contender title with a score of 95.
Babylons Fall is straight up bad, this cat gives it an 80?

Its understandable....he owns the website, so better to make publishers happy and get games early and get that paycheck.
But absolutely should be banned from metacritic weighings.
Man gave 80 to Babylon's Fall. A game that won't be here next year hahaha. That's some crackhead wanting new games.

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Gamers Heroes - Blaine Smith - 95 / 100
Gotham Knights is up there with Elden Ring as a Game of the Year contender. Its fast, responsive, and action-packed combat is surpassed only by a narrative that had me glued from the very first cutscene. A must-play for fans of open-world titles, and an easy pickup for anyone invested with the Gotham Knights or DC Universe.
Jesus christ. Tell me you know nothing about games without telling me you know nothing about games. People actually get paid for opinions like these? Truly embarrassing.
 

Needlecrash

Member
Gamer Heroes: "Gotham Knights is up there with Elden Ring as a Game of the Year contender. Its fast, responsive, and action-packed combat is surpassed only by a narrative that had me glued from the very first cutscene. A must-play for fans of open-world titles, and an easy pickup for anyone invested with the Gotham Knights or DC Universe.Gotham Knights is up there with Elden Ring as a Game of the Year contender. Its fast, responsive, and action-packed combat is surpassed only by a narrative that had me glued from the very first cutscene. A must-play for fans of open-world titles, and an easy pickup for anyone invested with the Gotham Knights or DC Universe."

UMM....NO. The fuck is that reviewer smoking???
 
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Needlecrash

Member
EA had Anthem. Square Enix had The Avengers. Now Warner has this. Hopefully they learn from this. Should have been a single player heavily story focused game. They've effectively ruined Batman exactly how EA ruined Dead Space. I'm worried about Suicide Squad as well.
Suicide Squad I am not worried about since the developer is Rocksteady.
 

RiccochetJ

Gold Member
I was looking forward to this, but now I'll wait. It'll probably be on a nice discount by Thanksgiving or during the end of the year sales. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if it hits MS and Sony's subscription service sooner rather than later.
 

Vitter.

Member
If you ever wondered what a paid shill actually looked like......wonder no more.

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This is almost trolling levels of groveling to a publisher.
The Medium isnt a bad game.....but it certainly isnt a GOTY contender title with a score of 95.
Babylons Fall is straight up bad, this cat gives it an 80?

Its understandable....he owns the website, so better to make publishers happy and get games early and get that paycheck.
But absolutely should be banned from metacritic weighings.
The Medium is a TERRIBLE game. Worried about that Silent Hill 2 Remake... oh well
 
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rofif

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What a piece of shit lol.
Even on 1080p 30 arkham knight, the amazing details, speed of vehicle, rain, amazing motion blur... all make the game feel more dynamic, faster and generally better.
The DF video part when they compare driving a GK bike vs AK batmobile... wow what a stark difference.
I used to dfive the dlc Tumbler around in AK for fun. It's so cool.
The pc version of AK works really good btw
 

DeepEnigma

Gold Member
The Medium is a TERRIBLE game. Worried about that Silent Hill 2 Remake... oh well
I'm actually playing through it right now. It's not that bad, and not any more jank than the old survival horror games or most Indies. I was expecting far, far worse, going by the divided this was.

Then again, I am just at Niwa after the first monster moth man encounter. They have the atmosphere and sound/music down. Story has me interested so far, but I heard that was the main issue with the game, is that the story falls apart. I soon shall see.

Good thing SH2 has an already established story. And outside of 1-3 and maybe 4, all their other games had stories that fell apart or were too "on the nose."

But a 95, even in the first couple of hours, nah. Solid 7 for me so far.
 
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wvnative

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Warning signs were all there, from a dev that already made a bad game (Arkham Origins) to a gear focus and RPG focus, to visuals that don't impress that much on PS4/XB1, let alone next gen only. Still, hoped to have at least a decent online superhero game and now the wait continues.
 

FunkMiller

Member
Sometimes you can tell a game is going to be an absolute turd with all the pre-release stuff they put out.

This is definitely one of those times.
 

Ristifer

Member
Pretty disappointing stuff. I was rooting for this game to at least be good. I'll try it at some point, but I'm not inspired by these reviews.
 

Ozriel

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If you ever wondered what a paid shill actually looked like......wonder no more.

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This is almost trolling levels of groveling to a publisher.
The Medium isnt a bad game.....but it certainly isnt a GOTY contender title with a score of 95.
Babylons Fall is straight up bad, this cat gives it an 80?

Its understandable....he owns the website, so better to make publishers happy and get games early and get that paycheck.
But absolutely should be banned from metacritic weighings.


Probably less of being a paid shill and more of being someone desperate to keep receiving free games to ‘review’

Seems like a profitable gig. Rebrand yourself as a reviewer and get access to all the games you can dream of. Completely free.

Metacritic really should have better standards. Any jackass can throw up a word press site with a cool looking theme and slap the "journalist" label under their name. This is one such example.

For sure. Man’s in it for the free games + swag.
 

Ozriel

M$FT
If you ever wondered what a paid shill actually looked like......wonder no more.

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This is almost trolling levels of groveling to a publisher.
The Medium isnt a bad game.....but it certainly isnt a GOTY contender title with a score of 95.
Babylons Fall is straight up bad, this cat gives it an 80?

Its understandable....he owns the website, so better to make publishers happy and get games early and get that paycheck.
But absolutely should be banned from metacritic weighings.


Probably less of being a paid shill and more of being someone desperate to keep receiving free games to ‘review’

Seems like a profitable gig. Rebrand yourself as a reviewer and get access to all the games you can dream of. Completely free.

Metacritic really should have better standards. Any jackass can throw up a word press site with a cool looking theme and slap the "journalist" label under their name. This is one such example.

For sure. Man’s in it for the free games + swag.
 
reviewers not liking the combat is the most worrisome part. The gameplay vids always looked choppy and stilted.....with no smoothness in the gameplay. Where are the gadgets?
Warning signs were all there, from a dev that already made a bad game (Arkham Origins) to a gear focus and RPG focus, to visuals that don't impress that much on PS4/XB1, let alone next gen only. Still, hoped to have at least a decent online superhero game and now the wait continues.
but Arkham Origins is a good game. that had terrible performance for like a year. but then was fixed
 

Pey.

Member
I really don't understand all those low scores. I mean, it looks AMAZING and the combat is similar to Arkham games. It does have a heavy CPU bottleneck on PC (the RTX 3080 Ti won't run above 60-70% even with a Core-i9 12900K) so it can't maintain 60 FPS all the time at 4K with max settings (ray tracing included). If it weren't for that, I'd easily go for 8, or even 9. Here's the first hour captured on PC with said components, and some pics. I was truly impressed by the overall visuals. There a lot more here: https://www.pcmrace.com/2022/10/20/nuestras-imagenes-y-video-de-gameplay-de-gotham-knights-en-4k-con-detalles-al-maximo/



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