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Infamous: Second Son Review Thread

VanWinkle said:
It honestly annoys me like crazy how much weight people put on Metacritic. It's ridiculous.



You were going to buy a PS4 just for this game, but now because it got the same or better reviews than the XB1 games you bought that system for, you're not longer interested. It doesn't make sense to me.
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It is, gaming needs to take on the rotten tomatoes approach, give it a thumbs up or down, and read the text to see if it is a game for you.
 
I'm mostly surprised by videogamer.com's review, with the way they were shitting on it in their latest podcast, I expected a 5 or something. Overall good average score, hopefully Zavvi manage to get it to me for tomorrow.
 
fuzzyreactor said:
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Why use a 10 point scale if you not going to use it all. By definition average should be 5. Wow!
 
This review stuff is just unbelievable. People obsessing over 7/10's, bias journalists pushing a certain console agenda etc. If you guys like a game, just buy it. Do people obsess this much over music, movie or tv review scores?
 
Jagsrock said:
I blame my mom for telling me B's are bad.
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not a good point to be honest.
IF not only your mom, but all the other people tell you a B is bad and other people do too, while other students did a lot worse but got a b- and people you did as good as you get a-, you will believe B is a bad score ;)
 
VanWinkle said:
It honestly annoys me like crazy how much weight people put on Metacritic. It's ridiculous. You were going to buy a PS4 just for this game, but now because it got the same or better reviews than the XB1 games you bought that system for, you're not longer interested. It doesn't make sense to me.
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Geeez. Last time.

I thought this game was going to be truly 'next-gen' , built for PS4 only and an absolute MUST HAVE NOW! game.

Instead it is these kind of reviews which make me not want to put down almost £400 to see if they are right. It's alright for people who already have a PS4, taking a £50 bet on the title. Not so easy if you need to pick up a PS4 as well.

C&VG said:
Review: InFamous Second Son delivers last-gen heroics

A day one patch increases the density of the population and traffic, but this is limited to pockets in specific areas; their behaviour remains unchanged, so impact is negligible.

At night, the luminescent ambience of the city is an impressive showing of lighting tech, but without a day and night cycle the display is limited to a single section of the game. Broad daylight serves as the backdrop for most of the game, and it just further accents how hollow the city actually is.

Given that GTA 5, Sleeping Dogs, and Assassin's Creed 4 present dynamic, lifelike worlds on last-gen hardware, it's difficult to overlook how barren and dull Second Son feels.

InFamous Second Son inherits a lot from its predecessors but offers too little to the mix. Rowe himself holds the game together, while the satisfying traversal and combat mechanics show flashes of excellence. At times it feels too safe and at others it glimmers with neat ideas, which overall is just enough to recommend it.

As one of the first major first-party releases for PlayStation 4, Second Son leaves a lot to be desired. Disappointingly, it's a game that clearly has one foot still planted firmly in the last-gen. This isn't the InFamous the PS4 deserves, but the one fans need right now.
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Eurogamer said:
Overall, it's good clean fun - so it's a shame that Second Son suffers from a consistent failure of imagination in how it's put together. There's not been much of an attempt to shake up the mission scenarios or structure of the game, leaving you with a very rote open-world adventure. Follow the waypoint marker, chase the suspect, investigate the scene, wipe out the jackboots; hunt the collectables and tick the boxes. You've been here many times before. The collectables and side missions all contribute to reclaiming districts from the DUP, which organises them into chunks and structures the reward usefully, and they've been judiciously pruned - but this is good admin rather than great game design.

As pretty and playable as it is, in no sense is inFamous: Second Son a post-Grand Theft Auto 5 open-world game. It's just a tidier, shorter and shinier one. It's easy to enjoy and has a winning personality, but it's reluctant to deviate from a stale streetmap of game city. It's no rebel, then. In fact, it's a conformist.
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EDGE said:
As an open-world game, Second Son feels emaciated. There’s little to do in the way of side missions, and what is here becomes repetitive, unlikely to sustain interest beyond a single playthrough.
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I'd rather wait and get a PS4 when I know I simply HAVE to have it.
 
okayfrog said:
8s are bad because modern reviewers are too afraid to go below a 5. An 8 is basically a 6 or so.
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Wait...you're complaining that reviewers use subjective rating scales, but then go on to introduce your own opinion as if it is some objective standard? lol

And FYI - your rating of 6 is equivalent to my rating of 9, so this game is AWESOME!
 
kaching said:
GTA3 (2001) - GTA5(2013) = 12 yrs
Infamous 1 (2009) - Infamous SS (2014) = 5yrs

Why are you giving GTA the benefit of more the double the time of Infamous to develop into a far more diverse game?
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Did you simply decide not to read what I was responding to?
 
I wouldn't want InFamous to be GTA, padded with silly out of place minigames and game mechanics some of which feel defeating to the point of the game. Looking at you GTA4, you ruined the franchise for me.
 
serenewarfare said:
The concept of a "system seller" is just stupid. You don't buy a console for one game, at least not unless you just have money to blow. You buy a console for catalog or anticipation of a catalog. Infamous isn't a system seller, but neither is Titanfall. And I absolutely love Titanfall.
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Admittedly, at the time, I had money to blow, but I bought a Vita in October for P4G. I certainly got more games afterwards, but P4G sold the system to me. And while it has a decent catalogue, I certainly didn't get a PSV with the expectation of a great catalogue. So, "system sellers" exist.
 
SniperHunter said:
This review stuff is just unbelievable. People obsessing over 7/10's, bias journalists pushing a certain console agenda etc. If you guys like a game, just buy it. Do people obsess this much over music, movie or tv review scores?
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Very true. Personally, I'm a bit disappointed the series always seems to avoid the ability to become a media/critic darling like some of my other favorite series, but that will do nothing to detract my enjoyment of the game or my purchasing intent.
 
Its funny how a technically proficient game ins't appreciated more. I'm not saying that it should get better scores, but slap me in the face if it isn't an impressive looking game.

This looks like a must buy for anyone who owns a PS4 and for those who don't its a good strong reason to get one.

To bad no one waiter to review it with the day one patch.
 
The infamous thread was right. Reviewers were indeed going to knock the game down due to arbitrary rules on what is or what isn't next gen gameplay.
 
"Next gen gameplay" rears its ugly head in a professional review. Please get a grip, games are all rehashes of mechanics laid out for decades.
Stupid talking point to hold up when the game is disappointing you in some way
 
Lord Error said:
Was definitely true 5 or so years ago, but I don't think it's the case anymore. I know I don't see a score like 7 or 8 in the same light today as I saw it few years ago.
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The fact that it happens makes them all pretty worthless. I shouldn't need a decoder ring to figure out when a 7 means a 7 or if it means a 5. What happens if it starts trending upwards again? Am I going to get an alert on my phone notifying me? I personally don't put too much stock in these professional reviews score. I wait till the honeymoon is over and read some player impressions that don't give out some arbitrary score. Its real talk that anyone who has ever played a game can understand and form an opinion on. If someone in 3 weeks told me that the game play wasn't next gen enough I would probably not really pay them any mind.

Its just sad to me that there is financial gain or loss for the developers tied up in these schizophrenic reviews.
 
orthodoxy1095 said:
Admittedly, at the time, I had money to blow, but I bought a Vita in October for P4G. I certainly got more games afterwards, but P4G sold the system to me. And while it has a decent catalogue, I certainly didn't get a PSV with the expectation of a great catalogue. So, "system sellers" exist.
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Sigh, in that case every game is a system seller, thats makes the notion of a systems seller stupid. Look at PS4 sales at launch......systems, libraries, brand sell systems. The promise of future games sell systems. Everyone has a game or 2 that made them pull the trigger but if they were the ONLY games on those system ever, you get the point. This system seller nonsense is just that,.
 
I have to leave this thread. I don't know why I torture myself with review threads. I know I'm going to enjoy this, just like the people that are loving Titanfall do not care that it's 86/100 on Metacritic.

In the end it's not going to matter that somebody who really enjoyed the game still gave it a 7/10 and that dragged down some cumulative score. What's going to matter is how much fun I have tomorrow night.
 
81 is the highest major ps4 exclusive, its a good score

Any more and it would he higher than titanfall and there would be meltdown here .

Its the best ps4 aaa exclusive yet so be happy
 
EatinOlives said:
I'm skimming the list in the OP and I'm seeing tons of 9s and 8s, a few 7s and positive unscored reviews. What's so bad about that, exactly?
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Some of the BS excuses used to justify the lower scores. If they had proper critiques without that BS added in, there would be less of a reaction.

"not next-gen gameplay" is poor writing. That is all.
 
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