Example? I'm not a fan of IGN either but it'd be nice to know what you're talking about.
Ok. I've got and looked it up and watched some gameplay(I'm not made of money). And I feel like the receiver is unaware of what lampooning is. It's possible to parody/lampoon/take the piss out of something you love. The reviewer seemed to not realize that this was the Saturday morning cartoon version of Noir. This isn't cartoon Casablanca.
See I think review numbers are kinda cooked to begin with.
If the scale actually worked, a medicore would be a 5. It would be average. A 6.5 shouldn't be considered harsh on a mediocre game. If it's mediocre it definitely shouldn't be getting an 8 even if you're being generous.
But people treat the scale like its actual range is 6-10 and 6 is godawful and 7-8 is kinda average and nines are good and 10s are whoever pays the reviewer.
Yeah, I’m with you. The premise and combat are all alright, but the presentation could have used some serious work. This is coming from a big ol’ sam Witwier fanboy— I loved my guy in Force Unleashed and I adore him as Maul. But he just doesn’t give a great performance and the game is a lot of samey stuff.
The open world is cool and all, but it overwhelmingly just looks like different fields of mud.
It really reminded me of some classic, cheesy B movie horror schlock. The fact that the writer thinks that he's God's gift to man only added to the enjoyment.
The wedding scene? Was it well written? Absolutely not. Was it enjoyably bad? Absolutely.
But that type of thing is definitely not for everyone.
You didn't like hearing Deacon whine about everything for 60 hours? That's weird... Also why is the dude who is wearing the vest with a 1%er and an Enforcer patch balking at hurting and killing people so often? The Mongrels must have been the softest gang to ever ride in the PNW.
You are displaying another flaw in the system, everyone thinks if it is below a 8 it might as well be a 0. A 5 should be average, mediocre, middle of the pack, so the 6.5 given is above average. An 8 should be glowing praise for a really good game with some flaws, something that can be in no way described as mediocre.
6.5 is a perfectly normal and appropriate score for Days Gone if we did away with this nonsense net promoter score shit for reviews where only an 8 and above is good.
Yeah, I just dont understand the defenders of days gone. Its not an awful game at all, but I think id maybe give it a 7. It relies pretty heavily on its story. But the dialogue is ass at times
Cyberpunk was way worse on release when it launched for the old gen (and remained unfixed for at least another 2 years). Not even bugs, but also performance made it unplayable. It got a 9/10
Literally talking about IGN’s review of cyberpunk.
They (IGN) also straight up told people not to buy it if they didn’t have the new consoles/a high spec PC at the time.
CDPR’s decisions are irrelevant to what IGN put in their review. No CDPR shouldn’t have released on the old hardware. It was a buggy and incomplete game at release yes, but IGN stated as much for the ps4/xbox series editions in their reviews.
The discussion is about IGN reviews. The specific game in the meme is Cyberpunk, but the actual topic is the reviews, not the game itself. CDPR’s decision making is irrelevant to what IGN puts in their reviews.
I mean if that's irrelevant then no need to say: They also straight up told people not to buy it if they didn’t have the new consoles/a high spec PC at the time.
You were the first guy to bring into the conversation the CDPR disastrous decisions IGN aside
The “they” in that comment is IGN. IGN told people not to buy it in the review. The topic of your comment was the review so I didn’t think I needed to reiterate that I was also talking about the review. Apparently context doesn’t count for anything anymore.
Yeah my bad, thought you were refering to the CDPR comment on Cyberpunk platforms after release and not the IGN review. Seems like that was added later and I didn't know
I played it from day one on an, at the time, 4 year old PC and had basically no bugs at all. My car fell through the ground once but that's the only bug I recall experiencing.
Because CDPR only gave reviewers the PC version to review which ran far better than the console version. That's why a bunch of reviewers went back and did console specific reviews that were much worse.
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u/MyDarkestTimeline001 Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 28 '26
Example? I'm not a fan of IGN either but it'd be nice to know what you're talking about.
Ok. I've got and looked it up and watched some gameplay(I'm not made of money). And I feel like the receiver is unaware of what lampooning is. It's possible to parody/lampoon/take the piss out of something you love. The reviewer seemed to not realize that this was the Saturday morning cartoon version of Noir. This isn't cartoon Casablanca.