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Internal mock reviews for Hellblade 2 are in the low 90s - Nate the Hate. Rumour
DarthPutin
Member
1) I am sure it will be great, visceral artsy experience with wonderful visuals.
2) "Internal reviews" thought RedFall was fine, so by itself it tells us nothing.
2) "Internal reviews" thought RedFall was fine, so by itself it tells us nothing.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Should be more like a 9/100.
HB1 was among the most boring, unskippable cut scene filled games I've ever played.
For those of you who never played HB1, dont get teased by the action packed trailers. It's not that kind of game. As for HB2, it'll probably be that same kind of game again unless the studio added in much more gameplay and combat scenes.
If you are buying with money, be weary and wait for reviews unless you want a story heavy driven game. For the rest of us, we can try on Game Pass.
HB1 was among the most boring, unskippable cut scene filled games I've ever played.
For those of you who never played HB1, dont get teased by the action packed trailers. It's not that kind of game. As for HB2, it'll probably be that same kind of game again unless the studio added in much more gameplay and combat scenes.
If you are buying with money, be weary and wait for reviews unless you want a story heavy driven game. For the rest of us, we can try on Game Pass.
Kuranghi
Member
I quite enjoyed HB1, combat was trash but I turned it to easy and you could spam through them in seconds (maybe a minute for a boss), the main attraction was the amazing sound design and voice acting.
The puzzles weren't terrible but they weren't great either. If they can do that again with better graphics I'll be very happy.
The puzzles weren't terrible but they weren't great either. If they can do that again with better graphics I'll be very happy.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
It's already a 10/10 in my internal review.
Kuranghi
Member
I had a strong feeling you put Xbox products up your bottom, now its confirmed :xbum:
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
My company does the same thing when trying to gauge their own product quality.
And guess what? I've sat in them and even chimed in my own ratings. Internal reviews are stupid for numerous reasons:
1. We're all employees so it's pretty hard right off the bat to grill you're own prototypes or expect them to get meh reviews. Nobody wants to upset the marketing managers in charge of the product lines
2. Every marketing manager says their products and brand are top notch like 8/10 minimum. And amazingly, when they chime in with their reviews of competing products at the board room table, funny how most other competing products are crap like 5 or 6/10. It's retarded. We'd be all trying to give our honest opinion.... trust me I gave mine, and I probably pissed them off because I havent been invited back to one of those internal evaluation meetings in like 5 years! LOL) and some competing branded products are clearly better or have double the market share.... yet the marketing manager would score our brand and their brand both like an 8/10. wtf? The should get like a 9. We should get maybe a 6 score for the brand opinion question
3. Every marketing and product manager will push their products are great so execs will give it a green light so they keep their job. If they were to tell execs their product lines stink and nobody likes them bosses will get pissed they cant get new products in line, they'd probably get gassed
4. Focus group research is BS too. Not the research itself but the tallied scores. The managers in charge of promoting the new products as awesome giving a good score will cherry pick the questions the research company did that had positive results and feedback. But ignore the bad ones. That's why when we'd get tallies saying this or that product got like a 9.1/10 the comments and metrics used to tally the scores arent even the same questions
5. For those of you who work in an office and go through this stuff, never believe any product manager's sales estimates. They are overinflated 90% of the time. They push giant numbers to look good so execs love it. But in reality their numbers are junk and made up. All any of us in finance have to do is pull up similar product sales history to get a gauge. So when these egotistical marketing people say their new product will sell a million units in year one, all I do is say in the room how can that be when all similar kinds of products in the past have never sold more than 500,000 units in a year? Dead silence or..... "Uhhh lemme look at the numbers again". Exactly. Stop pushing BS numbers and come back to us with realistic financials. It gets to a point for some people the execs dont even care much for what they say and they just come to my finance dept for an estimate based on historical sales. And they'll use that as a logical foundation
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semiconscious
Member
'internal mock reviews'. aka 'whatever it takes, dammit!'....
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Punished Miku
Gold Member
Toxic BS that just raises expectations. Annoying.
GHG
Member
Why is having high expectations annoying?
Do you not want the best games possible instead of constantly having to settle for mediocrity?
The expectations should be high and they should strive to meet them.
Sorcerer
Member
If one goes into Hellblade with expectations of God of War, one will be sorely disappointed. If you go into Hellblade with expectations of a walking simulator/visual novel type of vibe, you may end up loving it. (Story over action basically). Not sure if Hellblade 2 will be more of the same of the first game or if they are going to go for a more action-oriented type of game. I think with all the hype, if this game is not GOW in style, gamers are going to crap all over it.
Ninja Theory were known primarily for action games up to this point, so the turn they took with Hellblade is a bit strange. And I hear there is another IP in the works focusing on mental illness from them.
Ninja Theory were known primarily for action games up to this point, so the turn they took with Hellblade is a bit strange. And I hear there is another IP in the works focusing on mental illness from them.
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kiphalfton
Member
There are numerous high scoring games I've played that I did not care for.
I'd say review scores are largely meaningless.
I'd say review scores are largely meaningless.
ChuckeRearmed
Member
Get ready for media outlets to lower scores just out of spite.
rhodesianshepard
Member
I just hope it's not as linear as it looks. Alan Wake 2 worked because the games amazing atmosphere was fully explorable
Ass of Can Whooping
Member
Predicting 85 before Xbox tax
Husky
THE Prey 2 fanatic
Fuck, I love the first game and I'm very excited for this one, but this totally got me
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
Female lead battling mental health issues. The reviewers will eat that shit up. I can already hear some fuck talking about how he identifies with her struggle.
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Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Yup. This is Oscar Bait: Gaming Edition
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
We know
Sorcerer
Member
The catch is the idea is not new anymore and it's within the same ip.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
Nah. First game was legit amazing experience. Not really great to play but something I will remember
Is this the same crack crew who thought Halo Infinite was amazing and ready to release in the state it was at the first reveal? No fiath in internal reviews.
Honestly though, I expect this game and developer will escape the Xbox curse and delvier something good. We can only hope.
Honestly though, I expect this game and developer will escape the Xbox curse and delvier something good. We can only hope.
Senua
Member
It's way more about atmosphere and mystery, metaphors and great writing. Some people appreciate that stuff
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
ChorizoPicozo
Member
These 
never learn.
never learn.
Portugeezer
Member
If they never use the Redfall reviewers, then that's great news.
saintjules
Member
I actually enjoyed HB1. Definitely unique for what it achieved imo.
Guess I won't say much more lol.
Gojiira
Member
Lmao, Xbox have zero self awareness so this is par for the course.
Hellblade was a boring,shallow mess that was all pretentiousness with good viduals. Honestly not expecting anything but the same from the wildly overrated Ninja Theory, the same devs who thought their take on DmC was shakespearean and not the cringiest,shittest action game in years…
Hellblade was a boring,shallow mess that was all pretentiousness with good viduals. Honestly not expecting anything but the same from the wildly overrated Ninja Theory, the same devs who thought their take on DmC was shakespearean and not the cringiest,shittest action game in years…
SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
The bones of the game are really similar to something like God of War. If they can polish up and expand the combat and make the game world bigger and less linear there's alot of potential to take this well beyond the AA original.
Mr.Phoenix
Member
I am sure the people who are interested in it are aware that it's more Detroit than GOW.
At least I would like to hope so.
And for those that don't know what kinda game it is, I would say that in the first 1-3 showings of any game, that game would usually tell you what it is. Unless it's a Kojima game that is...
ChorizoPicozo
Member
forget about gaf. if this game now has an 80 something MC score.... bruh....prepare to hear the cries of the "Xbox Tax" all over Twitter and xbox podcasts.
SneakersSO
Member
So was Starfield.
Based on what I know, I would wait for this to release before attaching an expectation to it.
Based on what I know, I would wait for this to release before attaching an expectation to it.