Half-Glass Gaming writes: "I'm reading a lot of Biomutant reviews that make it feel like people are playing a completely different game than the one I sank 100 hours into.Kotaku’s review, for example, makes me think the reviewer didn’t actually play the game."
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This game could have been huge, but sadly it fails big time at just being a lot o fun to play... Which is what it should be because that's how it looks when you first hear about the game.
-But at every turn they fail at fun to play.. What do I mean? Glad you asked -(remember Mario from Nintendo, any Mario, the first time you played it, there was one thing really clear right off the back) -It's super fun to play... Period, no matter what your doing it's fun.
Bungie once said the secret to good game design is take something that is really fun about the game, and extending it to all over the game.
Biomutant could have hit that bar with very little effort. The game has so much going for it. In my opinion the only thing they needed to nail was how it plays / and that's where it fails the most. This is a game that could have sold 23 million copies and instead did 1 million...
I'm still wondering "what do you mean". I've not played the game and am genuinely interested in what your argument is. But your argument boils down to:
Biomutant devs failed at every turn, because Nintendo made their games fun? Because Biomutant fails at "how it plays". Are we talking control scheme? Combat? Exploration? What exactly?
Again, genuinely interested to hear more of your thoughts on this because it seems you know exactly why this game didn't work.
@ Glemt
Ok, I'll explain... I guess if you have not played the game then you are lost on what I was saying. So ok I get that. -but I think for anyone that played the game you know what I mean because it stands out like a soar thumb, what's bad in the game.
I'll try to keep this short / I'll try / the game has bad combat, bad exploration, bad overall game mechanics, in the way it feels... Now mind you, that's just one persons opinion but it's also just a gaming thing. (meaning as a gamer you know what you like and what you don't) So for example:
Iin Grand tursimo 7 gas, or making the car go forward on the track is the R2 button on the PS5 controller / as a game designer you can change this to something else, but it is a bad idea because it's a universal idea.. Something people have just come to expect and something they know without reading instructions.
People start to play a racing game or just start driving and they expect R2 to be gas or to go forward...
So expectation is important in game design. (I remember the Watchdogs developer was doing an interview and he said all the playtest they did / people hated the driving, it didn't feel right. And it was bringing their view of the game way down. Because they were expecting it to drive like Grand theft Auto. And he said, "But our game is not about driving, that's a small part of the game." --> But that is Gamers Expectation.. or you can call it we are Spoiled because of Whatever game did driving really well / that becomes your standard or expectation.
Biomutant does not play like what you expect. It's very dry, very un-rewarding, and overall boring. Not fun.
Some will push pass this but most gamers won't. They won't forgive the game for that and will stop playing very quickly. Why?
It's like just how gamers are, some get really into your game mechanics and push past what's hard and find the sweet spot, but most gamers just want fun, so if it's not fun right off the back they stop playing or move on.
It's why a ton of gamers look at game reviews, they want to know if the game is any good, worth my time. Will it be fun to play in the end. People want their game time to be interesting and fun.
I can get into how you would do this step by step in making the game, but I don't think you want to hear all of that.
So let's just say this, Steve Jobs, never made or invented anything at apple, he was the person who decided what needed to be made or designed. (they put five of apples best iPods or Mp3 players as they were called back then on a table and Steve played with each one, and then he picked the one Apple would go with) that became the iPod we know today with the scroll wheel / he knew the feel of that would be a game changer it made it work in a way that was really interesting and fun to scroll thru your music. Keep in mind No one else of the people at the top of the company knew which one would be good or why.
Game design seems to be the same way, they need a Steve Jobs leading the team, or just someone who's really into gaming / someone that really get's Gamers, a gamer like me. To explain why this is fun and why this is not. (I think I really need to start a company to help game companies) I would have showed them how to make that game sell 23 million copies instead of 1 million...
Right now I'm sure Biomutant could have made the character walk 22 different ways, but only one of those ways is going to be really good, and fun to play, who is deciding which one is the one to go with? You need that person to make decisions on all aspects of the game.
Biomutant received a surprise release by THQ Nordic on the Nintendo Switch and while it has various compromises to run on Nintendo’s now aging Switch hardware, it is still good fun.
Good for them, I miss games like this is, was rough at some points but by now I feel it must have got better. Maybe I'm just a sucker for fuzzy things like Ratchet and Clank, and the old Conker and Jak/Dax games. Don't know, just reminds me of those times.
After launching three years ago in a relatively disappointing state, how does Experiment 101's open-world action title hold up?
I played it on the PS5 in 40fps mode and it was pretty decent. Looked great, gameplay was a little but clunky at time, and fairly repetitive, but there's a large map to explore, LOADS of things to do, and you're a gun-toting, kung-fu'ing racoon !!
Accept the game for what it is, and you'll have a good time like I did.
Can't speak for how it was at launch, but the game I played was a 7.5/10
I would like to see this game get a sequel with all the lessons learnt from the rocky launch and with newer tech.
I finished this not too long ago, definitely one of my most favorites I was really in tune with it, I didn't silence the narrator cause it always felt like I was being told a story, lol just like real life I enjoy old people telling me stories every since I was a kid I've always enjoyed that, biomutant 2 would be so mf nice to happen, definitely going for a 2nd playthrough on ps5 this time around
Here's my overall impression from higher quality reviews:
- It's a pretty game, and if you're a more relaxed gamer that prefers taking in the scenery, there's a lot to get out of the game.
- It's a pretty dead world though with very sparsely populated enemy groups, which makes it difficult to take advantage of the various systems that overlap to make the combat.
- The combat is interesting, but it by and large doesn't flow super well with the combo attacks and abilities, while actual weapon balancing is pretty horribly done.
- The story is just kind of clunky and hard to get invested in.
As a whole, it's an open world game that didn't need to be open world, and would have benefitted greatly from reigning it in quite a bit to make a more targeted experience. It's a game trying to fit larger shoes than it could actually fill, and the beautiful but empty world highlights that well.
And with that understanding, this is a game that's likely on my life long pass list unless it gets patched with significant improvements. There's too much to play to settle on a pretty game that misses the mark in basically every other way.
Still an amazing feat for 20 devs. Congratulations regardless
That was a good read. And it illustrates the biggest issue with reviews. Most reviewers don't spend enough time playing most games to give them a fair and accurate review. It's impossible to do that when you're trying to review every single game. I get it. But that's why I think trying to review every single game is a bad idea. There has to be another way.
"makes me think the reviewer didn’t actually play the game." This seems to be the default argument whenever people disagree over a video-game right now. Same with Days Gone. At least he's not being literal in this case but I hope people move on from this line of argument.
"Biomutant is a pretty good time if all you want is something strange and nice to look at." "I think I would probably agree to this. Only, in the aforementioned review, this is stated like it’s a bad thing. Is it, though? I personally like looking at weird things."
The reviewer he's responding to is not insulting the aesthetic of the game, he's criticizing the other aspects of the game and saying "At least it looks cool". C'mon, man. That's just basic English comprehension.
it seem an average game. The combat seems boring, but just watch videos. maybe its better...