Phantom Blade Zero | Review Thread

[voke]

Yeah, instead they're someone who looks down on westerners like yourself so there's that.

The way right winger glaze china these days = mission accomplished from Chinese propagandists. Them and the Russians just bamboozling our nations idiots with little to no effort.

On topic though, I'm glad to see Chinese developers giving the AAA industry more juice.

 

[Entropi]

The review I was waiting for

Phantom Blade Zero Review: Wuxian Wonder Abounds

Phantom Blade Zero (PlayStation 5) Review – 9.5/10: Though the action genre is always jam-packed with new releases, few are as special as Phantom Blade Zero. - Game Informer

gameinformer.com

 

[Yrassinad]

Whos looking down on westerners? Fekin moving goalpost ragebait lol only at shitlibs retards

Moving the goalposts? You're the retard here who wrongfully claimed IGN China isn't "owned by Blackrock" when IGN China is owned by the same parent company as all other IGN outlets.

The way right winger glaze china these days = mission accomplished from Chinese propagandists. Them and the Russians just bamboozling our nations idiots with little to no effort.

On topic though, I'm glad to see Chinese developers giving the AAA industry more juice.

There are plenty of things you can praise China for tbh but acting like they have the moral highground on political correctness is a massive joke. They're literally cancelling Kylian Mbappe over there right now because he posted a photoshop with his head on an illustration of Mao Zedong. There's far more red tape on what you can and can't say without getting cancelled, or much worse than that, in China.

 

[Airbus]

Moving the goalposts? You're the retard here who wrongfully claimed IGN China isn't "owned by Blackrock" when IGN China is owned by the same parent company as all other IGN outlets.

No youre the pretentious retard who dont know ign us are woke as hell and has been watered down many asian game lower like wu kong and stellar blade

9/10 for veilguard and mixtape eat that crap

 

[Yrassinad]

No youre the pretentious retard who dont know ign us are woke as hell and has been watered down many asian game lower like wu kong and stellar blade

9/10 for veilguard and mixtape eat that crap

The same IGN US that gave Asian games like Onimusha last month a 10/10? Just like they did for Elden Ring, Tears of the Kingdom, Breath of the Wild, Persona 5 and so on?

It's almost like giving Black Myth an 8/10 is a perfectly acceptable score. As is giving a 7/10 to Stellar Blade.

 

[Airbus]

The same IGN US that gave Asian games like Onimusha last month a 10/10? Just like they did for Elden Ring, Tears of the Kingdom, Breath of the Wild, Persona 5 and so on?

It's almost like giving Black Myth an 8/10 is a perfectly acceptable score. As is giving a 7/10 to Stellar Blade.

You can keep fooling yourself ign us is located in san fransisco homebase of leftard who held pride grown up adult who parade themselves naked in front of kids and family and those bioware crazies with leaks about unfair hiring practice

 

[Boswollox]

I'm glad China are making some decent games, it helps the industry when there's different flavours and takes on genres. It's one aspect where diversity really is our strength.

Eurojank, Brit games, westernised Japanese games and Japanese-inspired western RPGs were floating around in harmony during the golden era of gaming and it was great. A flavour for every taste.

 

[Yrassinad]

You can keep fooling yourself ign us is located in san fransisco homebase of leftard who held pride grown up adult who parade themselves naked in front of kids and family and those bioware crazies with leaks about unfair hiring practice

You're saying them being based in an inclusive city that is in the top 5 US cities by GDP is somehow a bad thing. Yeah, thank god they are and they're not based in some backwater MAGAloid town full of racists and pedos.

I'm glad China are making some decent games, it helps the industry when there's different flavours and takes on genres. It's one aspect where diversity really is our strength.

Eurojank, Brit games, westernised Japanese games and Japanese-inspired western RPGs were floating around in harmony during the golden era of gaming and it was great. A flavour for every taste.

I agree that these Chinese games are a positive addition but I do hope they'll start diversifying a little bit. At the moment it just feels like they're copying Japanese games. They need to find their own identity.

 

[Airbus]

 

[Say1nMan]

 

[Kokoloko]

It's gonna be the best melee gameplay ever in the gaming industry. Goons comparing this high-end gameplay to clunky ass souls-like is funny which has the second worst melee combat after the crown jewel of clunkiness The Blood of Dawnwalker which is extremely painful to watch let alone play.

You havent even played it and your saying its the best ever lol.

Souls games have a specific combat, well Fromsoft, kinda strategy and specific, most game devs cant pull it off. And when they wanted to make something more normal, they did with Sekiro, which was awesome and new.

Looking forward to this too. But Im not comparing it to Souls Combat or DMC, they dont need to be

 

[Kokoloko]

Dude, stop bringing up bribery allegations against Microsoft for business dealings they were having abroad like 10-20 years ago as somehow meaning they definitely bribe gaming outlets to write negative reviews about other people's games. It doesn't stand up to scrutiny at all. If it was true then Sony games would never get high scores from these outlets, but they do, and Xbox games would never get low scores, but they do.

Im not gonna stop, Im just gonna get worse when I get back to asia and have my links.

2019 wasnt 10 years ago. And neither is is 2022……

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Settlements (2019)

• Microsoft Corporation agreed to pay over $16 million in July 2019 to settle SEC and Department of Justice (DOJ) charges for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations involving books and records and internal accounting controls.

Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa. Why is the SEC turning a blind eye?

After paying fines for violations in Hungary and South Africa, Microsoft agreed to stop the practice—but I have evidence that I believe shows they continue to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act elsewhere.By Yasser ElabdI was recruited by Microsoft in 1998, and I helped bring the company’s...

www.lioness.co

Maybe you like to turn a blind on corruption, or are so trusting that the separate microsoft divisions have morals lol.
I bet people like you were saying to stop when they did the first lot of corruption. Oh stop, daddy government said its ok now, I can trust media and microsoft now, because they fined…..

 

[Say1nMan]

 

[DarkLordOtaku]

You can keep fooling yourself ign us is located in san fransisco homebase of leftard who held pride grown up adult who parade themselves naked in front of kids and family and those bioware crazies with leaks about unfair hiring practice

I visited San Fran just last year. How did I miss out on this!?

Maybe the parades are only on Thursdays...

 

[anonpuffs]

Dude, stop bringing up bribery allegations against Microsoft for business dealings they were having abroad like 10-20 years ago as somehow meaning they definitely bribe gaming outlets to write negative reviews about other people's games. It doesn't stand up to scrutiny at all. If it was true then Sony games would never get high scores from these outlets, but they do, and Xbox games would never get low scores, but they do.

Microsoft encouraged console warring, ok? What do you think PlayStation has done? And Nintendo has absolutely encouraged platform warring against Sega and Sony in the 90s and early 2000s too.

Also if having some shady or dodgy actions totally unrelated to games media is enough to make a company suspicious then what about Nintendo's history with the yakuza? Or the fact that both Sony and Nintendo have been sued for price fixing in the past?

You wanna know something funny, out of these three companies only Sony has ever been caught trying to manipulate reviews. In the early 2000s they created a fake movie reviewer and featured quotes from "his" reviews on posters for those movies.



Well, I mean books and movies using 5-point scales is a decent argument for why games should too. A 5-point scale is not inherently worse than a 10-point one, but the problem is when both are getting mixed and matched on aggregate review sites like Metacritic.



You know the cost of living in the US is vastly higher and these game companies are competing for people with a lot of the technical skillset that the tech industry at large uses as well, where salaries are insanely high?

US studios were having $20-25m budgets in the past because games were far less ambitious and much smaller in scope. Japanese dev budgets have also skyrocketed compared to 20 years ago, it's just that the salaries that are livable in Japan are much lower and the yen has depreciated a lot compared to the dollar.



Nerds have made plenty of stinkers and dogshit games, and people from minority backgrounds can and often will be nerds as well. You guys are taking the greatest hits of the 90s and 2000s, ignore all the trash that came out during those years, and are comparing it to the mediocre and bad games of today that will be forgotten about in a handful of years.

Lmaoo imagine believing microsoft isn't constantly breaking laws and getting away with it. It's in their dna. That type of shit doesn't go away with a few slap on the wrist fines. They have been doing it since they first became big.

 

[Airbus]

PBZ to Gears E Day

 

[QuantumCringe]

Yeah, instead they're someone who looks down on westerners like yourself so there's that.

Everyone should look down at CURRENT western culture. Stop with superiority crap as if West is always the police of what is right.

 

[rofif]

PBZ to Gears E Day

Shame. E day was amazing and lies about it made sure we won’t get another gears

 

[Vertigo]

Mega huge launch numbers for steam. Wow. Always crazy to see single player games pop like that

 

[Yrassinad]

Im not gonna stop, Im just gonna get worse when I get back to asia and have my links.

2019 wasnt 10 years ago. And neither is is 2022……

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Settlements (2019)

• Microsoft Corporation agreed to pay over $16 million in July 2019 to settle SEC and Department of Justice (DOJ) charges for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations involving books and records and internal accounting controls.

Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa. Why is the SEC turning a blind eye?

After paying fines for violations in Hungary and South Africa, Microsoft agreed to stop the practice—but I have evidence that I believe shows they continue to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act elsewhere.By Yasser ElabdI was recruited by Microsoft in 1998, and I helped bring the company’s...

www.lioness.co

Maybe you like to turn a blind on corruption, or are so trusting that the separate microsoft divisions have morals lol.
I bet people like you were saying to stop when they did the first lot of corruption. Oh stop, daddy government said its ok now, I can trust media and microsoft now, because they fined…..

Again, how do bribery allegations against Microsoft in developing countries have ANYTHING to do with game reviews in the US and Europe? Note the countries where they were able to do this: Hungary, South Africa, the "Middle East", these are countries already rife with corruption (not that western Europe or US is free of it, but you're generally more likely to get caught and punished for it). You somehow think that because they were able to do shady deals in these countries - it somehow proves they are bribing journalists in the west to smear and praise video games at their behest.

Never once did I say Microsoft are angels that have never done shady shit, and bribery is one of their lesser offenses in my book. But again, Nintendo and Sony have been sued for price fixing. Nintendo has had ties with organized crime in Japan. Sony specifically has been caught creating fake reviews for their movies. If a company having done shady shit in the past is enough of a reason for you to conclude they are definitely messing with video game reviews, then all three of them will be guilty of it which mean it doesn't matter because they'll cancel each other out.

This is not about me believing everything at face value - it's me not believing every bit of random bullshit accusation that gets tossed around, even against a company that I hate like Microsoft, with zero evidence. You're doing the opposite. You hate Microsoft and have already convinced yourself that they must be messing with reviews and media coverage because you're looking for a reason why a Sony game might get a low score or an Xbox game a high one (and ignore all the cases where the Sony games get the high scores and the Xbox game gets dunked on), so you start grasping at straws looking for totally unrelated accusations against them because you cannot actually find any evidence for the main accusation you are making against them. Yet for Sony and Nintendo you'll ignore their controversies, even though out of these three companies Sony has come the closest to messing around with reviews.

Lmaoo imagine believing microsoft isn't constantly breaking laws and getting away with it. It's in their dna. That type of shit doesn't go away with a few slap on the wrist fines. They have been doing it since they first became big.

But that's not the argument/accusation. I'm not arguing here that Microsoft is an innocent company. I'm saying that if the accusation is that they're bribing games journalists in reputable outlets like IGN, Eurogamer, GameSpot etc. to game review scores in their favor or in the disfavor of their "rivals" - I'm gonna need some more evidence than "Microsoft has done briberies for business deals in developing nations in the past". Because every company has done shady shit, and like I said above, Sony is the only one who has actually gotten caught trying to game reviews. I don't believe any of these companies is trying to influence video game reviews. There are far too many outlets to cover and the risk for both parties is far too high. The most you can accuse Microsoft of is giving codes and preview invites to Xbox fanboy sites, but again, Metacritic/Opencritic are the ones who allow these sites to affect the aggregate. And Nintendo does the same.

Everyone should look down at CURRENT western culture. Stop with superiority crap as if West is always the police of what is right.

I'm far more critical of the west than most people on this place but the west being more tolerant of minorities is definitely one of the areas where the west is better than China. I'm sorry but a Chinese writer mocking political correctness at western game studios when their own games get censored all the time over political outrage is peak irony. The Chinese are much bigger snowflakes than the minorities western studios are supposedly scared of offending.