Quantum Break (Xbox One/PC) - Time Is Power. Alan Wake TV Show in development.

Saint of Killers wrote:Sounds like John from Digital Foundry wished he could review games for a living.

He did seem to love the game alright.

I'm looking forward to this, seems totally like a remedy game. Loved Alan wake and that had poor scores from some, I agree with Degoose, a single player campaign at about 10hrs seems right up my street.

NickSCFC wrote:This is basically the Xbox One unveil all over, a lot of TV and very little game.

Very little in the way of games more accurately describes Sony's output at this point.

4.5/5 From Easy Allies (GT)

Why not just score out of ten?

Does seem a bit odd, maybe they wanted to use stars. From the way they were talking about their 'new reviews system that's a bit different and will take getting used to' I was expecting something a bit more out there :lol:

Mine will be here tomorrow :mrgreen:

haven't gotta wait for any servers to get switched on either :datass:

Who gives a toss about reviews? If you think it looks good and you'd enjoy playing it then ignore the reviews and get it regardless of how many stars it got. I've never once bought a game based on reviews.

Looks great and would love to play through this myself and maybe I will if I get an Xbone in a couple of months.

KjGarly wrote:Who gives a toss about reviews? If you think it looks good and you'd enjoy playing it then ignore the reviews and get it regardless of how many stars it got. I've never once bought a game based on reviews.

Looks great and would love to play through this myself and maybe I will if I get an Xbone in a couple of months.

KjGarly wrote:Who gives a toss about reviews? If you think it looks good and you'd enjoy playing it then ignore the reviews and get it regardless of how many stars it got. I've never once bought a game based on reviews.

You've never bought a game because of a good review you read? Or ignored one because of a bad review?

I don't really understand how that is seen as good.

To be honest I'm not really sure I believe it if that is what you are saying. Of course you shouldn't only take reviews into account all of the time no matter where the review is from or how much you like the look of the game, but that's not the same as saying you've never taken any reviews into consideration at all.

One of the reasons I read reviews is to allow them to get me excited about a game I might have either not known about or not considered beforehand. And if there is a game you are interested in and it gets an absolutely terrible review from a place you've trusted before, you'd be mad not to reconsider your interest in the game after reading the text to see why they didn't like the game. Again not to say you would always then follow the reviews 'advice' but to say you've never done that at all...its not something to be bragging about as if it was an achievement to ignore other people's opinion as far as I can see.

NickSCFC

I don't really read reviews themselves, I prefer to just go off general consensus.

If I like the look of a game and it has a high Metacritic average then I'll buy it. I don't have a particular taste or anything, I like variety and playing great games.

I don't even go with anything like Metacritic. Perfectly capable of making my own decisions on if I'm interested in a game, if I wasn't it wouldn't of grabbed my attention in the first place. And besides you could have the total opposite taste to the reviewer who's rated a game a right out dog turd. Another mans rubbish and all that.

So no Hugo, I've never based my purchase on what it's reviewed game-wise! Don't get me wrong, I read reviews I just don't let them sway a decision on if I'd like to buy said game or not and I couldn't care less if you'd think I'm lying about that. I mean, why the hell would someone lie about that for Christs sake? :slol:

And I loved The Order 1886! So have that!!

My GAME pre-order was shipped this morning. Hoping it might arrive tomorrow since it went First Class.

KjGarly wrote:I don't even go with anything like Metacritic. Perfectly capable of making my own decisions on if I'm interested in a game, if I wasn't it wouldn't of grabbed my attention in the first place. And besides you could have the total opposite taste to the reviewer who's rated a game a right out dog turd. Another mans rubbish and all that.

So no Hugo, I've never based my purchase on what it's reviewed game-wise! Don't get me wrong, I read reviews I just don't let them sway a decision on if I'd like to buy said game or not and I couldn't care less if you'd think I'm lying about that. I mean, why the hell would someone lie about that for Christs sake? :slol:

And I loved The Order 1886! So have that!!

I don't think you are lying I just can't quite believe it.

I've been a big fan of games that haven't got great review scores and I've hated others that have reviewed well, that's not really the point.

I'll give you an example. When the Gamecube was first coming out, I knew a little about the launch lineup, but a game I'd never really heard of called 'Super Monkey Ball' wasn't really on my radar, it looked weird and it wasn't really something that interested me...then I read the review in EDGE giving it a 9/10. Not so much the review score, but the text convinced me that it was a game that I would enjoy and obviously that was correct.

I can't honestly believe that some time you didn't read a review of a game you hadn't really considered and it proved to be the tipping point from not wanting a game to being willing to give it a go.

You make it sound like the reviewers are out to 'get' you and you are holding out against their bad influence. At the end of the day the people writing reviews have played the games (at least you'd hope they have) and you haven't. If you are reading the reviews then no matter what you think they must somewhere in your subconscious be at least slightly influencing your decisions, even if you don't want to admit it to yourself.

Like I said its not a case of taking every single review as gospel and buying or not buying whatever gets good scores/reviews, but you'd have to be almost not human to not let at least some of them influence your purchasing decisions.

EDIT - I will say that I agree that Metascore's in general are not worth taking any note of at all.

Slow Friday, Hugo?

I take less and less attention to metacritic these days, also, this looks like a game id enjoy. It does seem to have very polarising reviews. I suspect that at the very least it's slick as fook.

Quantum Break: the Digital Foundry verdict

Ultimately, Quantum Break is one of the most technically accomplished games on Xbox One but it's not without its issues. Northlight produces beautifully detailed worlds with remarkable effects work and lighting but image quality just isn't where it needs to be. The filmic look works to an extent but visible aliasing is still evident in motion making it clear that the solution employed here isn't quite on par with what we witnessed in Rainbow Six Siege. The issues with shadow quality and general stability due to heavy reliance on screen-space data also impacts the look of the game at times.

The real triumph here is the way in which the game's technology benefits the core gameplay. Quantum Break is an absolute joy to play - perhaps the best game Remedy has made to date - and much of that joy is the result of its technology. That perfect mix of high quality animation, effects, and feedback just feels right. It's an highly satisfying game to play.

In these days of Unreal Engine and Unity, it's becoming a rare treat to play a game running on specialised, in-house technology so it was a real treat experiencing Remedy's creation. It has its rough edges, but it's clear that the lofty goals for the project were never in question. The quality of the lighting and the flexibility of what can be achieved in each scene is impressive and it feels as if many of the right compromises were made in order to reach that vision. If you've been looking for a genuine showpiece for Xbox One, even considering its flaws, Quantum Break is it.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digit ... h-analysis

Shopto have delivered and gots me the game today. Just so happens im doing piss all today so will play couple hours and post some impressions later.

Alan Wake and both DLCs come on a card as one code to input for those wanting to know.

Install plus update is 45 GBish.

Got the alan wake code. Installing now. :mrgreen:

Just completed Act 1, great so far. Abilities are all cool and shooting etc is fun.

Graphics pretty good and level of details for faces/lip sync even for NPCs is mental.

Episodes high quality but streaming is shite for first episode so havent been able to finish it and the download link takes you to marketplace but dosent download anything. Hm.

Edit - managed to stream after few interupptions. Good first ep, production must have cost a lot, better than most tv series.

Might download the episodes.

Quantum Break (Xbox One/PC) - Time Is Power. Alan Wake TV Show in development.

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