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Fallout 3 early reviews out

XMan

XMan

Lifer
<sigh>

Google search for them yourselves. They're bad enough that I canceled my pre-order.

/wipes away a tear.
 
Originally posted by: XMan
<sigh>

Google search for them yourselves. They're bad enough that I canceled my pre-order.

/wipes away a tear.
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All I can find is 93% from some crappy French website?
 
Originally posted by: StinkyPinky
Originally posted by: XMan
Originally posted by: Jesusthewererabbit
PC Gamer Sweden gave it an 81% and said it is "Oblivion with guns".
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That's one of the ones I read. The other one I found was on No Mutants Allowed.
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Can you link them for the love of god. Why did you make this thread and then not include any links? It's common courtesy.
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Hmm, I guess it pointed to the Swedish review.

http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=45443

Does have screenshots though. Some of them are kinda meh.
 
Were you guys seriously expecting anything more than Oblivion with guns?

Yet another "could have been great" PC game turned into a shitty console port.
 
Not surprised, after watching a few of the gameplay videos on youtube- it looks thoroughly 'Meh..' nothing interesting for me to buy it- I'll pass.
 
considering that this game even happened makes me happy. I dont think any new game will capture the imagination or scope of the late 90's / early 2k design studios, comparing the two is really not fair.
 
Are you kidding? If we stop comparing them, EA console ports and the terrorists win.

Seriously, I don't think there's anything wrong with demanding a little intelligence and imagination in my computer games. Do you?
 
I am saddened by the rash of negative reviews for the two games that I've gotten excited about recently and the only one's I have ever pre-ordered (Fallout 3 and Far Cry 2). At a time in my life when I should be spending money on food and textbooks, I find myself instead scrimping and saving to buy PC components and these games. Maybe I am just a naive noob who is high on the initial euphoria of getting back into PC gaming for the first time since middle school.

With less and less time for gaming, what am I supposed to do? Hold out for the next big release that will be the second coming of gaming and not just another silly prophet? If it's not one thing (bad gameplay), it's something else (DRM). I just want to play what few games I have time for and be happy. That being said, after reading all this back and forth on these two games, I've decided to keep them both; they will find a loving home on my PC. And I hope they cause me less trouble than the red-headed step-children others are making them out to be.

Besides, they can't be worse than this...
 
I didn't like oblivion that much besides the graphics. Bethesda never really does it for me.

Dice, blizzard, rockstargames, are probably my favorite developers currently. Every now and then some developer surprises me.

At least Mirror's edge is coming out on the 11th. Should be very interesting from what I'm hearing.
 
Originally posted by: Canai
Were you guys seriously expecting anything more than Oblivion with guns?

Yet another "could have been great" PC game turned into a shitty console port.
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This is starting to really piss me off. They just don't get it. They've got this whole piracy thing backwards and now everything is prioritized on console or with console in mind. And then it's like "oh yeah, we'd better see if we can get it out on PC too....." The controls are always wonky on these ports, the FOV is kinda screwed up, the in game cameras are screwed up, more and more stuff in 3rd person....... *sigh*
 
I'm going to do what i do with all new releases. Wait. Let it get patched a couple times. Download the demo and try it myself.

Its pointless to speculate from random websites and screenshots.
 
Originally posted by: ultimahwhat
I am saddened by the rash of negative reviews for the two games that I've gotten excited about recently and the only one's I have ever pre-ordered (Fallout 3 and Far Cry 2). At a time in my life when I should be spending money on food and textbooks, I find myself instead scrimping and saving to buy PC components and these games. Maybe I am just a naive noob who is high on the initial euphoria of getting back into PC gaming for the first time since middle school.

With less and less time for gaming, what am I supposed to do? Hold out for the next big release that will be the second coming of gaming and not just another silly prophet? If it's not one thing (bad gameplay), it's something else (DRM). I just want to play what few games I have time for and be happy. That being said, after reading all this back and forth on these two games, I've decided to keep them both; they will find a loving home on my PC. And I hope they cause me less trouble than the red-headed step-children others are making them out to be.

Besides, they can't be worse than this...
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Negative reviews on farcry2? show me 1... meta critic is showing it at 88... thats pretty freaking solid game. most of the reviews are glowing.. what do you people expect 10s?
there is NO such thing as a perfect 10 game.. the several I have played that were rated at 10s were GTA4.. which was a solid 8 at best and that damn zelda game that was maybe a 7 to me.

reviews are in the eye of the beholder.. why dont you give it a shot and see what you think?

as for Oblivion with guns.. what exactly is wrong with that?
and Open world RPG with 100s of hours of playtime with FREAKING GUNS!.. that's great. Oblivion rocked.


http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/farcry2
 
Whatever. I have been finding that the margin of error when it comes to reviews vs the actual amount of fun that I have playing games keeps getting larger and larger and larger. Meanwhile, my initial reaction when I read about the facts concerning a game and how much fun that will be for me continue to be more and more accurate.

Reviews are a fine thing for collecting facts and even those facts are best verified by multiple sources. I really think that reviews are far more for the stock holders than the gamers themselves these days.
 
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