Polygon’s 2016 Games of the Year #10: The Last Guardian

In retrospect, one of the biggest downsides of The Last Guardian’s 10-year development cycle is that people knew about it. Not for those who worked on the game, of course.

[Overload]

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They tried to hate it, but couldn't.

"After half an hour with The Last Guardian, I'm concerned"
http://www.polygon.com/2016...

[psychometer]

Really ironic, I must say.

[naruga]

after finishing TLG who else thought that Uead s trilogy (Ico, trico ,sotC) and lore could easily become the more mature Zelda IP that Playstation needs ...they have consistent world and more games with different protagonits/creatures could easily fit in

[ecchiless]

Sony needs to keep Ueda doing games for PS, give him the resources and the team to expand his universe, i like the art and direction of his games, sotc is for my his best game yet.

[Rimeskeem]

The main protagonist should be named Chain XD

[Perjoss]

Iteresting proposal

I often wonder what a slighlty more mature Zelda might be like.

[coolbeans]

C'mon, detailing his worries with a bad first impression (in his opinion) now means they must've had it out for the game all along? Get real. In the end, they adore many qualities of it and want to put it on their reader's radars--if they haven't yet.

Do you see how immature your response looks in this context?

[Overload]

Polygon accepted $750,000 from Microsoft to create a ~$75,000 promotional documentary
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ko...

On top of that, Polygon had some very questionable scores for PlayStation games for a long time (and articles). It has gotten a bit better, but let's not pretend all of this didn't happen.

The History of Polygon - The Worst Gaming Journalists Around
http://www.accelerated-idea...

[gangsta_red]

@Overload

"Polygon had some very questionable scores for PlayStation games"

They have ONE score that the masses of playstation fanboys don't agree with and all of a sudden they are forever linked to being paid for by MS.

Let's not even take into consideration that Polygon has rated almost every Xbox game lower than any score given to Playstation games.

[coolbeans]

@Overload

Glad to see criticizing the framing of your first comment leads us back to the generic Polygon conspiracy.

"On top of that, Polygon had some very questionable scores for PlayStation games for a long time (and articles). It has gotten a bit better, but let's not pretend all of this didn't happen."

At this point, who doesn't have some "questionable scores" on PlayStation games according to a specific subset of petulant N4G users? EDGE could continuously get crap for a 7 or 8 given to God of War III and MGSIV respectively. Not all Playstation games are going to be considered to be made of gold to everyone. And I have to question some of these examples that article uses to try in proving your point too. For one, it doesn't really help to add random forum links recycling complaints just to bolster your numbers. Second, those examples used (TLOU, KZ: Shadowfall, etc.) don't really strike me as being some stealthy attempt to hurt PS exclusives when their scores aren't really so far off the beaten path. Considering TLOU just a good game instead of some absolute masterpiece is enough to sharpen the pitchforks? KZ: Shadowfall was quite a contentious launch game too where near-universal criticism was passed on its SP campaign. Third, a quick glance at Polygon's metacritic page shows they tend to score less than average critics in general.

http://www.metacritic.com/p...

Several of their PS-exclusive examples on the first couple of pages show higher averages than the metacritic score too.

In the end, all of this is really a distraction from my main point that's only tangentially related to the intention of my first response anyways. I'm criticizing the way you framed that reviewer's EARLY PREVIEW as him "trying to hate the game," despite coming out enjoying it in the long run and the site honoring it in their GOTY top 10. Naturally, this leads to questioning the WHOLE site's past actions to save face. Congrats on making me waste my time, I guess.

[TheColbertinator]

Polygon sure has low standards. TLG is simply not even a contender for GOTY.

[Aloy-Boyfriend]

Salt

[TheColbertinator]

N Pepa

[UCForce]

Nope. It's entirely up to their opinion. And you should know better.