Why did IGN give this game a 5?

[itsokmydadisrich]

I can't decide whether to get this or not. 5 is a very low score. Not sure if the people who are saying this is good are the vocal fanboys. How to decide?

P.S. I am a girl

[Miiiiaaa]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this thread has turned to MUSH! Everyone is stating the SAME THING OVER AND OVER! Everyone knows by now that IGN is ♥♥♥♥, and anyone who looks on this thread will see that! We don't need to fill this thread with any more stupidity!

[Palicai]

I know why he gave it a 5.

Heres the reason. He played the game in a way that made it boring, as he mentiones the used lockers over and over...and over...and over...and over....and ooooover.

This made him not enjoy the game, and its his own damn fault. U almost never have to use lockers as circling a small chair will do the same job, maybe even better.

When playing the game like this for 20 hours, my guess is he got incredibly bored, simply because he thought lockers were necessary to complete it.

IGN has become a VERY bad source for reviews, i agreed with them first, but once i completed the game myself,i knew they had played it the wrong way. Their reviews are purely based on personal preferance, and they almost ALWAYS lack to include some sort of "general" gameplay, like what most people and the standard would like.

They made a Review discussion where he explains with his coworkers, and i could just tell the guy was trying to save face.

Want he best source for reviews? Youtube Worth a Buy, Mack is the best reviewer on earth,and he is hilarious.

[Berserk Belta]

Are you an Alien fan?

I would say this is a must-play computer game for Alien fans.

[Palicai]

That is also a valid point, i dont think the reviewer for IGN even is a Alien fan, even tho he says so. Angry Joe is, u can tell by looking at him and LISTEN to his voice that he loves the Alien franchise.

The douche over at IGN couldnt care less. He got bored because he played it wrong and didnt adapt to the game.

[Pixelfetish]

Personally, I just like games which gave the reviewer an orghasm.

[#GetRektasaurus]

Pixelfetish님이 먼저 게시:

No, no, IGN's review is good. And valid. It is just the other type of gamer, who doesnt appeal to Alien Isolation. And that is how the reviewer felt about it, and you might as well.
Technically Alien Isolation is top notch. But for gameplay, everyone has to make his own opinion. I have seen female gamers on Twitch not able to continue because they were too scared, screaming, trying to turn away from the screen in order not to get scared, hittting the ESC key in every exciting situation in order to commit, etc. But also girls who were not appealed by the scary atmosphere at all, mostly with a comment like "this game bores me".
Perhaps they lack the experience of any advance in game, it can be tenacious and tense.
About half of all female gamers i watched on Twitch just loves the game.

The guy is a freelance reviewer who mostly plays stealth games... So the review is far from valid.

He moaned "The AI is to hard, the game is too hard and repetitive" yet he holds the Dark Souls games very highly, them games are known for being hard and repetitive.

The problem is the reviewer wanted the game to fail, you can tell it from the word go.

[#GetRektasaurus]

Ao2Elde님이 먼저 게시:

I know why he gave it a 5.

Heres the reason. He played the game in a way that made it boring, as he mentiones the used lockers over and over...and over...and over...and over....and ooooover.

This made him not enjoy the game, and its his own damn fault. U almost never have to use lockers as circling a small chair will do the same job, maybe even better.

When playing the game like this for 20 hours, my guess is he got incredibly bored, simply because he thought lockers were necessary to complete it.

IGN has become a VERY bad source for reviews, i agreed with them first, but once i completed the game myself,i knew they had played it the wrong way. Their reviews are purely based on personal preferance, and they almost ALWAYS lack to include some sort of "general" gameplay, like what most people and the standard would like.

They made a Review discussion where he explains with his coworkers, and i could just tell the guy was trying to save face.

Want he best source for reviews? Youtube Worth a Buy, Mack is the best reviewer on earth,and he is hilarious.

The whole discussion was IGN saying "Oh, we messed up asking this guy to review this, if we get a few other reviews to try and back him up, we might save face" but all they did is prove to most people, their reviews are biased. It's not CoD? The devs didn't pay us? -1000000/10 it's not CoD.

[Pixelfetish]

SOZD Monolith님이 먼저 게시:

Pixelfetish님이 먼저 게시:

No, no, IGN's review is good. And valid. It is just the other type of gamer, who doesnt appeal to Alien Isolation. And that is how the reviewer felt about it, and you might as well.
Technically Alien Isolation is top notch. But for gameplay, everyone has to make his own opinion. I have seen female gamers on Twitch not able to continue because they were too scared, screaming, trying to turn away from the screen in order not to get scared, hittting the ESC key in every exciting situation in order to commit, etc. But also girls who were not appealed by the scary atmosphere at all, mostly with a comment like "this game bores me".
Perhaps they lack the experience of any advance in game, it can be tenacious and tense.
About half of all female gamers i watched on Twitch just loves the game.

The guy is a freelance reviewer who mostly plays stealth games... So the review is far from valid.

He moaned "The AI is to hard, the game is too hard and repetitive" yet he holds the Dark Souls games very highly, them games are known for being hard and repetitive.

The problem is the reviewer wanted the game to fail, you can tell it from the word go.

Yes, that is true.
Compared to Dark Souls and its repetitive elements, Alien Isolation is far more polished,
without any DLC and patches yet. And I have to admit, Dark Souls itself is a masterpiece.
So, any question about Alien Isolation 's quality should be dispensable.

The real question is, what did the author intend?

I was quite amazed by Alien Isolation, and happy another milestone was done.
Maybe it is like this....'I Would Never Join A Club That Would Have Me As A Member'...?

[TheRealBeauregard]

IGN gave it a 5 because it's not another Call of Duty-type action fest.

[Jarilo]

I just finished it and I have no idea. I mean, it's seriously my personal favorite of 2014. So what gives with such an obnxiously low score that it doesn't even qualify as an opinion? it's just straight up hate on the game. If you don't like it as an opinion on production value alone it's worth at least a 7/10. If I was Creative Assembly I would have IGN and Gamespot blow me for an early copy of my games next time. They can review it with everyone else.

[TRAITOR]

IGN isn't very credible when it comes to game scores. It gives you somewhat of an idea of how a game is sometimes, though

[Cellprocessing]

This is my take. Find a reviewer with same or close to your tastes. Read there reviews and ignore the scores.

As for me I have long stopped trusting a lot of sites. IGN is one of them. Also Kotaku and PC Gamer. I like Gamespot but think they do dumb things. Last week they did a graphics compairson with the consoles and PC. On of the videos was a pre rendered seen. I would like to think the guy doing the b-roll for the video is not that dumb. But there on my watch like. I like Giant Bomb they at least amit they have some bias on things. And are really good at letting you know if someone that reviewed the game has one.

[Cats Are Friends Not Food]

game is so great I have to stop playing before i go to sleep I dont feel like having nightmares tonight

[David Davidson]

Because IGN are incompetent to massive stages.
Right down to their ladyboy reviewer; rather than hiring game reviewers who knew things about games they hired 'a more diverse crowd' (ie a bunch of underqualified nitwits with mental issues) who can't handle the fact that they might have to backtrack, manually save their progress and repeat a section if they forgot to save; they probably just got into gaming when they realised it was a way to make money by doing next to nothing, thus skipping all the amazing older games (MGS for example) and thinking everything is a linear hand-holding (though you do get a magical objective arrow early on) simulator.
Hell I think they just give some of the better games low reviews to get attention.

I give it a year before they hire Anita Sarkesian as a reviewer.

Personally the only thing that I found frustrating about the game was (spoiler ahead) the ending.