Detroit: Become Human - OUT NOW (PS4)

[Harbinger]

Completed it. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Makes a guy wonder if a machine can be alive.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

I assume this game is kinda like Until Dawn? I love that game. I always read those choose your own adventure books as a kid so I feel I’d like this.

Might wait for a price drop though.

Yes, it has a similar vibe. I loved Until Dawn too.

 

[Nickmo82]

This'll be picked up when it's on sale.

 

[sa cyred]

Getting great to fantastic ratings pretty much everywhere. Even some of the most “David Cage Sucks” crowd is admitting it’s a pretty good game. Glad to see

 

[syz]

Getting great to fantastic ratings pretty much everywhere. Even some of the most “David Cage Sucks” crowd is admitting it’s a pretty good game. Glad to see

I've rarely seen a AAA game get dumped on this hard. Dunno what you're talking about.

 

[sa cyred]

I've rarely seen a AAA game get dumped on this hard. Dunno what you're talking about.

I’ll just post a bunch:

Google: 4.5/5
IGN: 8/10
Gamespot: 8.5/10
Open Critic: 8/10
Pocket-lint: 4/5
Metacritic: 79% critic, 8.7/10 User Score
Digital trend: 8/10
GamesRadar: 4/5

Only ones that disliked it from what I see are Polygon & Kotaku which are known to be big Anti-Cage fans so tough to really take anything they say as word. VG also dislikes it but they admit it’s “because it’s a David Cage story”

 

[The Crypto Guy]

I've rarely seen a AAA game get dumped on this hard. Dunno what you're talking about.

Huh?

I'll never understand the appeal of entirely story-driven games written by the worst writer I've ever seen.

Ah ok. Biased from the start. Cool. Must eat you up a bit inside to see it doing so well.

 

[syz]

It's at a 78 rating with several scathing reviews from insightful, veteran outlets being unscored. That's bad for a game with this budget.

Like everything else Cage has done, this game is a litmus test for determining how much/little any given video game critic/player understands about narrative. It's unfortunate to see that bar is still this low for so many people, but also not surprising.

Detroit is a beautiful game, one rendered with a level of visual care and detail that’s rare even in the lavish world of blockbuster video games. But all of that work feels wasted, tied to a story that, by the end, feels meaningless. In Detroit, androids can dream. But the game’s creators can’t seem to dream of anything new to say.

This should be on the box of every Quantic Dream game.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

It's at a 78 rating with several scathing reviews from insightful, veteran outlets being unscored. That's bad for a game with this budget.

Like everything else Cage has done, this game is a litmus test for determining how much/little any given video game critic/player understands about narrative. It's unfortunate to see that bar is still this low for so many people, but also not surprising.



This should be on the box of every Quantic Dream game.

Yawn, we get it..you don't like Cage. Move on. Or are you just going to keep coming in here to bash the game that you have no interest in playing? Think they call that trolling.

 

[ArGarBarGar]

Considering the surface level appearance of an allegory about black people in America with freaking Detroit as the setting, I will watch the Best Friends play this game and see how worth my time it will actually be.

It would need to do a lot to break from the small tidbits of stupidity that I have heard so far.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Considering the surface level appearance of an allegory about black people in America with freaking Detroit as the setting, I will watch the Best Friends play this game and see how worth my time it will actually be.

It would need to do a lot to break from the small tidbits of stupidity that I have heard so far.

Haha what????

 

[syz]

Considering the surface level appearance of an allegory about black people in America with freaking Detroit as the setting, I will watch the Best Friends play this game and see how worth my time it will actually be.

It would need to do a lot to break from the small tidbits of stupidity that I have heard so far.

David Cage doesn't know anything beyond surface level. From what I've seen the game never actually has anything meaningful to say about any of it, either. It's just like... hey, here's a shot of androids riding in the back of the bus. Get it? Are we being too subtle? Or a scene with a black woman telling an android that her people used to be thought of as less than human, too... and then that's it. Doesn't bother exploring any of it.

 

[aleshemsky83]

The game doesn't interest me at all except for the robot detective.

The actual social commentary by most accounts is super corny, but I like the Daniil Olivaw type detective they've got going on with that particular character.

 

[ArGarBarGar]

Haha what????

Did you not pay any attention to this game before it came out?

 

[Commander Clueless]

The game doesn't interest me at all except for the robot detective.

The actual social commentary by most accounts is super corny, but I like the Daniil Olivaw type detective they've got going on with that particular character.

I have to be honest - that's the part that drew me in as well.

The android negotiator story line seems extremely interesting. I sort of wish they did the whole game about him, but I haven't seen much from the other two so I'll hold off on that judgement.

 

[sa cyred]

Ok, trying to move this on from the typical "F David Cage" thing that has to get pushed every time, anyone that completed the game how long did it take them? I am off and on playing at the moment and just curious.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Did you not pay any attention to this game before it came out?

It’s a video game involving robots. Lets not make things into race wars. Jeeze

 

[Beau Knows]

It’s a video game involving robots. Lets not make things into race wars. Jeeze

Sci-Fi stories are often about our own society and history, just told through allegory.

 

[aleshemsky83]

There's a literal "I have a dream" dialogue prompt in one of the scenes.

 

[syz]

...It's a game about the civil rights movement of a subjugated class set in f***ing Detroit, where humans hate the androids because they're stealing their jobs.

Racism isn't even the subtext here, it's the ACTUAL TEXT.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

...It's a game about the civil rights movement of a subjugated class set in ****ing Detroit. Racism isn't even the subtext here, it's the ACTUAL TEXT.

IT'S A VIDEO GAME. Take your liberal agenda somewhere else.

 

[Beau Knows]

IT'S A VIDEO GAME. Take your liberal agenda somewhere else.

You're being really naive if you think video games don't contain social commentary, or that they shouldn't. The criticism you had originally responded to was just that the social commentary wasn't subtle enough.

 

[syz]

IT'S A VIDEO GAME. Take your liberal agenda somewhere else.

I'm... just explaining the very obvious and explicit plot of the game to you? I'm not sure how there would be an agenda there.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

I'm... just explaining the very obvious and explicit plot of the game to you? I'm not sure how there would be an agenda there.

Who the f*** cares? ITS A VIDEO GAME. Quit trolling the thread.

 

[ArGarBarGar]

That's not what trolling is.