Farcry 4 is Flop too ( 7.0 on GS ) lol.

Lol

THIS x a million. I applaud you good sir. Dragon Age Inquisition looks fantastic, worthy of many open wallets from gamers that like this kind of game. On the other hand, Sonic Boom can go to hell. Well at least people now see Ubisoft as mediocre crap, that at least gives me some hope in the gaming community.

My gods.

@finalstar2007: There were a couple high scoring games this year. Just, none of them were on PlayStation.

To be a flop there most be a hype thread where is Farcry 4 hype one.?

Very excellent points. Probably the best. It appears pc has won via Divinity Original Sin as best game of years my friend.

WTF .?

Incomplete list without Divinity .

This isn't a flop since there wasn't anyone hyping it 8+. It was a wait and see by all. A flop is when a game scores way below scoring expected by people. No one was expecting any score, therefore it isn't a flop. 7 is a decent score and not a flop score in and of itself either.

Oh well. I took COD AW and traded it it towards Dragon Age. Advanced Warefare SUCKS................ same scripted BS as every other COD before it. For all those who think there is nothing to play I would suggest a Wii U. I am playing through Super Mario 3D world and what a fantastic game. It a real breath of fresh air playing that. Between my PS4 and my Wii U I really have nothing to complain about. Was planning on getting this but now I dont think so.

I was also planning on getting a Xbox One but after the Halo review I am thinking not.

I respect Kevin's opinion. I'm still buying since every reviewer says it's basically FC3 but with some new stuff.

I'm ok with that.

Also, how the **** can it flop when it didn't have a hype thread?

People on SW don't even know how teh rules works.

Disappointed, enjoyed 3 despite its minor flaws.

Will probably pick it up when its $15. On PS4 of course.

Seems enjoyable regardless of what they say, besides with everybody on an anti-Ubisoft kick I'd say I have to factor it into the score it's getting. Regardless of GS score, it did well on MetaCritic.

Why wait? If you're wanting a game like what Far Cry is offering there's really nothing else to substitute for it in the meantime. Complaints were about story, and IMO that doesn't matter to me much. Far Cry 2 for instance had a shit story but I rather liked it to a great degree due to gamepaly, though I'd say my biggest problems with it were the AI issues. Far Cry 3 remedied much of these AI issues, and even though it improved story it wasn't necessarily a requirement for me. Besides, only the first half of the story was interesting, the later half wasn't. Any story Far Cry 4 will have is already at a disadvantage coming from FC3's shroomy trip of a setting.

The idea of needing to reclaim outposts appeals to me, as in Far Cry 3 once you claim everything you really find there's not much else to do. Though, sure, the review claim that if this happens right after leaving the outpost then sure yeah I can see that as being annoying. However, given I found myself with less to do after capturing outposts in Far Cry 3, I like the idea of enemies recapturing them. Gives me more to do, capturing outposts is just fun by itself. However, the criticism is right if the games enemies really do recapture them only seconds after leaving.

If I'm truly disappointed about anything regarding this game though it's that they didn't bring back Far Cry 2's kind of day/night cycle, which was the best of any game I've played. They for some stupid reason got rid of this in Far Cry 3, rather the day night cycle acts like the day night cycle in Toon Town from Who Framed Roger Rabbit...

Well, what franchises you like? Are Mario and Zelda games getting worse? What games in your eyes are getting better with each new game?

As much as the naysayers and financial analysts are bleating about how COD is dying, its still selling in record numbers despite being the same game in a new skin every year and this time around they cut out the most popular part of the COD series "Zombies" so they could sell it back to you as DLC.... From a business standpoint that is fucking genius but from a consumer point of view its downright disgusting yet people still, still lap it up and then complain that COD hasn't changed...

Looks fun ,,, with some bad choices and not OK story . Will pick it up sometime next year .

...That's not a flop considering it's not changed much from FC3, actually it's not changed at all except with a few new ways of take downs, new transportations and an awesome setting. FC3.5. And btw the rest sites gave it higher scores, so I would call it overrated not a flop :P

I was thinking more like this:

Standard practice for ubisoft games

Getting Dragon Age then. The only game being worth getting this month.

The way he describes the story and characters makes the game sound like a Michael Bay movie.

Cant hold that against you there's no real excuse for releasing a broken game.

After reading comments from the review and in this thread, it's obvious that people are stupid and can't think for themselves. The game is a flop by the meta game standards, but damn, people act like a 7 is garbage and that's just ridiculous.

It's one person's opinion and some of you guys act like it's suddenly "a bargain game" but if Kevin had raised the score by 1 or 2 points it would be "a must have game" ? How fucking idiotic?

This year has been a write-off. Time to start fresh with 2015.

Back in the NES days, you could have called R.B.I Baseball "mediocre" compare to The Legend of Zelda, but it doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the hell out of R.B.I

I also wouldn't call a 7 "mediocre". It's a decent score.

Actually after having read the review, this game is not bad. If I remember well, GS nagged F3 for its story as well, and in reality it was completely ok to me. I will check other reviews before stating my judgement. Besides 7 IS NOT a bad score.

It was a pretty lame story in FC3, but I doubt too many people care

While I do agree, I am a big believer in the free market. Let people piss away their money on what ever they wanna piss it away on

On a review stand point. What was Ubi's best rated title? Guessing Child of light.

After they hit such a home run with Blood Dragon...we are back to this blah crap.

I knew this would happen, it is Farcry 3.5

If you liked Farcry 3 you will love this, but i can see and agree with the review score

I'm still looking forward to FC4, no game can appeal to everyone and sometimes a game gets a lower score because of the reviewer's ethical beliefs. Right now it's at 86 on metacritic and that's still pretty good. It's probably day 1 for me unless it really plummets on metacritic, then I might become hesitant and wait for a better deal later on.

Edit: Just ordered a copy, will probably get it in a day or so, hopefully amd's drivers work well for it right from the start.

From what I've heard the game has 10 minute long unskippable cutscenes.

As am I but the big problem with the free market is the majority have the buying power. When the masses move, the world shakes so to speak. You will never get people to vote their wallets in enough numbers to make a difference now, people today really don't give a shit about anything unless it affects them directly. They don't care about world issues as long as they get what they want, be it a new iPhone or the latest COD game.

Maybe I'm getting old before my time or maybe I'm being a hypocrite but people today are selfish fucks.

@always_explicit: exactly... what's messed up is people saying the game sucks because Kevin didnt like the story

That's why I want FC4. I played FC3 over and over because of Reset Outpost mode, not the crap Jason SP campaign. If I can do that with FC4 then it's a must buy to me.

I'll still play it, when it's on sale of course, and after a get a PS4.

Doesn't sound like a bad score. Crysis 3 got around that, and I enjoyed the shit out of that on the PC. SP was better than Crysis 2s imo. In fact I was a little pissed. I held out on getting it because of that score and it was much better than the score made out.

So I guess now is the time to go out and buy Far Cry 3?

Welcome to system wars and the internet.

It's Ubisoft. They've been terrible since Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (with the exception of Far Cry 3). Now every AC game is a rehash and they've had a trend of downgrading games. Watch Dogs was mediocre.

WEED, MAN.

Im going to wait on this and Unity. Just too many games coming out and GTA V + Dragon age are no brainers.

From the previews of this game I hardly thought the characters were awful tbh, but maybe they get insufferable over time? They seemed pretty good to me.

This is no 7 from what I've seen. 8 sounds about right, and would have been my guess if we had a hype thread tbh.

Kevin V really dropped the ball on this review. Three blatant reasons

- This game reportedly runs and plays great, unlike AC:U which scored the same.

- Nobody plays a game for a good story, it's an apeshit dumb idea to rate a game by its story, people want good gameplay

- AC:U story sucks but didn't get a downgraded score for it

Indeed, that's what I came here to post. I caved in yesterday and purchased Far Cry 4, a great-looking fps sandbox game with great immersive environments, vehicles, and a varied animal population.....I never finished Far Cry 3, but I loved it for those reasons mostly, not its story. Oh, and being able to play campain with co-op online, huge plus.....looking forward to trying this in a few hours.

So what was the expected score in SW?

Picking up tomorrow