Destructoid - We Happy Few Review

Chris Moyes - By choosing the fastidious "micro-management" path, We Happy Few distracts far too much from its true potential as a dystopian gaming classic. And that's the biggest downer of all.

[Bismarn]

Well I've been bitchin for over year now every time one of these articles about the "upcoming" release of We Happy Few shows up, a game that was reviewed poorly in early release. And every time someone counters "early preview release and finished product are completely different things". Well we now have the "finished product" and it got the same exact damn score as the early release from over a year ago.

[lxeasy]

curious to see what other sites give this game another site gave it an 8 out of 10.

[Eonjay]

Windows Central gave it a 90 because Microsoft over truth, Microsoft over gamers, Microsoft over dignity.

[-Foxtrot]

People like to think you NEED to see and play the games final release...there's no criticism allowed or making comments because it's something you haven't touched.

However even when you've seen all the trailers, all the gameplay videos, screenshots, read all the details and even in some cases like this play a god damn early preview it's still "not enough to go on, play the game". This is how developers and publishers make fools of us because they see people doing just that and when they realise something they already knew about the game it's too late they have their money.

[Nacho_Z]

It's always a shame when something with such a strong concept and visual flair to burn is crippled by bad gameplay.

[chris235]

this was one of the games that suddenly appeared on psn waaaaaaaay before the release date was set or any info was out. this was done a few times since the release of the ps4. none of these very early titles they put on top of the psn list was any good. just saying. so no surprise here.

[inxine]

aww thats a shame. i always thought it was a great concept.

[NecrumOddBoy]

Another mediocre game from a mediocre studio that Microsoft wasted their money on.

[crazyCoconuts]

What you don't realize is they will merge all these studios to create one friggin amazing game. A dystopian pirate zombie game with licensed race cars. It'll be epic just you wait.

[NecrumOddBoy]

You just make me sad there was never a WaterWorld game :( Give it to the Mad Max team damn youuuuu!!!

[Fist4achin]

I'm in!

[showtimefolks]

Ms announcing they bought this studio came with a lot of hype because of the potential of this game

[StarElite]

There was hype around this game?

[showtimefolks]

Big time from what I understand this was suppose to be like Bioshock type game

Hopefully they will learn from this and become better as they move forward

[nibblo]

There was zero hype, he is just using that as an argument to attack it.

[Rachel_Alucard]

Hype got killed right when gearbox announced they were publishing it and the price skyrocketed to $60. No way anyone was paying that for a procedurally generated open worldcrafting survival game. Ticked all of the most cliched tags to use in a game.

[rainslacker]

I like the look and premise of the game. I always enjoyed these kinds of stories.

But the game itself is rather generic otherwise.

[jukins]

Shame showed it too early basically went back and completly changed what they thought was wrong and still dropped the ball

[SpringHeeledJack]

And Microsoft bought these developers lol.

[Abnor_Mal]

Did Microsoft really buy this company? So why is the game appearing on the PS4? Same thing with Hellblade appearing first on PS4, then being informed Microsoft bought the company. Is this the start of a new trend?
*Asking for a friend.

[Blastoise]

Published by Gearbox so probably a contract or something keeping it multiplatform

[GTgamer]

You mean to tell me that ign was pushing this game down my throat all E3 with those annoying ads and the game turns out to be mediocre 😑

[ApocalypseShadow]

Don't know about the main game but the vr experience is definitely interesting and well made for what it does.

[Platformgamer]

bioshock "special" cousin

[Elda]

Wow & MS bought this developer.

[nibblo]

Why is the 5/10 review way more popular here on NG4 than the 9/10 review?

[AspiringProGenji]

Because Destructoid is a much bigger site, and the game is actually getting lukewarm reception overall

And two, because low reviews always get the most attention by bringing the worst of people to bash. Happens a lot with exclusives

It doesn’t sound like it is worth $60. Shame!

[Rachel_Alucard]

Positivity in any journalism doesn't bring hits. People are attracted to negativity and low scores from high ranking sites, since they see those sites as having a direct influence on the metascore.