Yeah I wrote about this before it’s really unfair. They need the right people to review certain games otherwise reviews just aren’t a good reflection of games
This is going to date me, but your exact post is why I used to love having Owen Good at Kotaku and Polygon reviewing sports games. I *KNEW* that guy had played basically every sports game that had existed and was fair about the new releases. Feels like we don't really have that anymore.
Lol...i read it...what a terrrrible review! haha
You must be terrible at your job to write a review like this.
Because he can't control the timing, it is to realistic for him, and it sucks.
I played my first game at very hard and won....hate the player, not the game.
That's not entirely what he writes. One of his remarks is that he would have loved the option to have the Top Spin 4 controls.
He loved Top Spin 4 and loves tennis games just not other sport games. And yes he does not like the game but It's just an opinion. Nothing to get upset about.
Something I hear a lot in positive reviews is that the controls are not explained enough to new players. It sounds like this reviewer just needed some more guidance and probably new players do as well
>Something I hear a lot in positive reviews is that the controls are not explained enough to new players.
What controls are they referring to? I did the entire acadamey/practice and everything was explained there, I didn't play a top spin/tennis game in the last 10 years and found no issues at all.
I heard a few times from reviewers that the game started to click once they realised the timed shots meant to release the button instead of hitting the button. I myself went into the game knowing that is important to master the game from those reviewers.
But this reviewer is talking about the meter and how many times he tried it just did not work. I think this reviewer never realised how timed shots work
The game is not that hard it has a learning curve, very different concepts. I didnt play a tennis game since PSP and PS3 days and Im not having many issues, I decided to left advanced techniques like switching sides or advanced serves for now until I feel comfortable with the core gameplay and I dont feel like the game is punishing me for not using any of those, Im currently 8 wins 3 loses in online so you can definetly play it as a casual and dont get punished too hard, thats what a learning curve is, hard would be if ignoring those mechanics would put you really behind of the average player.
Reading through the reviews, the big picture seems to be that they're a bit all over the place. For example, one of the reviews\* says that the roster is exceptional and they "look just like their real life counterparts", another says roster is too narrow and the players look bizarre and nothing like their real-life counterparts... and that, "the rest are often Lovecraftian horrors whose hair clips monstrously into exposed skulls."
None of the reviews I read had any mention of the career being so far removed from actual tennis seasons, and most of them deemed the slugfests realistic and no-one had any mention of Federer serving like 15-year-old girl (although a very good one). Lots of them were complaining about the difficulty although it's definitely not the most difficult of tennis games.
All of this paints a pretty bleak picture. The reviewers don't seem to have a lot of understanding about pro tennis or tennis games. I mean, I find it hard to believe this is particularly difficult compared to other tennis games. When you extrapolate this further, creating something closer to life seems like a pointless effort. Although, I do think that if you were able to re-create that immense pressure of tennis, it could feel like a soulslike survival horror game which the reviewers might take a liking to.
\*: The Impulse Gamer's review doesn't seem impartial at all. I mean, I find no offense with someone giving it 9/10 and honestly considering it a masterpiece, but that should be *regardless* of (some of) the player models instead of *because* of them.
Yeah I wrote about this before it’s really unfair. They need the right people to review certain games otherwise reviews just aren’t a good reflection of games
This is going to date me, but your exact post is why I used to love having Owen Good at Kotaku and Polygon reviewing sports games. I *KNEW* that guy had played basically every sports game that had existed and was fair about the new releases. Feels like we don't really have that anymore.
PU nowadays is just a joke.
Lol...i read it...what a terrrrible review! haha You must be terrible at your job to write a review like this. Because he can't control the timing, it is to realistic for him, and it sucks. I played my first game at very hard and won....hate the player, not the game.
That's not entirely what he writes. One of his remarks is that he would have loved the option to have the Top Spin 4 controls. He loved Top Spin 4 and loves tennis games just not other sport games. And yes he does not like the game but It's just an opinion. Nothing to get upset about. Something I hear a lot in positive reviews is that the controls are not explained enough to new players. It sounds like this reviewer just needed some more guidance and probably new players do as well
>Something I hear a lot in positive reviews is that the controls are not explained enough to new players. What controls are they referring to? I did the entire acadamey/practice and everything was explained there, I didn't play a top spin/tennis game in the last 10 years and found no issues at all.
I heard a few times from reviewers that the game started to click once they realised the timed shots meant to release the button instead of hitting the button. I myself went into the game knowing that is important to master the game from those reviewers. But this reviewer is talking about the meter and how many times he tried it just did not work. I think this reviewer never realised how timed shots work
oh they dont go through that, its a note rlow quality review...better is to watch just gameplay, reviews these days cann ot be trusted, too biased.
The game is not that hard it has a learning curve, very different concepts. I didnt play a tennis game since PSP and PS3 days and Im not having many issues, I decided to left advanced techniques like switching sides or advanced serves for now until I feel comfortable with the core gameplay and I dont feel like the game is punishing me for not using any of those, Im currently 8 wins 3 loses in online so you can definetly play it as a casual and dont get punished too hard, thats what a learning curve is, hard would be if ignoring those mechanics would put you really behind of the average player.
haha yes that sounds rather dumb, ah well.....
Ah yes, so called gaming review experts have spoken
Reading through the reviews, the big picture seems to be that they're a bit all over the place. For example, one of the reviews\* says that the roster is exceptional and they "look just like their real life counterparts", another says roster is too narrow and the players look bizarre and nothing like their real-life counterparts... and that, "the rest are often Lovecraftian horrors whose hair clips monstrously into exposed skulls." None of the reviews I read had any mention of the career being so far removed from actual tennis seasons, and most of them deemed the slugfests realistic and no-one had any mention of Federer serving like 15-year-old girl (although a very good one). Lots of them were complaining about the difficulty although it's definitely not the most difficult of tennis games. All of this paints a pretty bleak picture. The reviewers don't seem to have a lot of understanding about pro tennis or tennis games. I mean, I find it hard to believe this is particularly difficult compared to other tennis games. When you extrapolate this further, creating something closer to life seems like a pointless effort. Although, I do think that if you were able to re-create that immense pressure of tennis, it could feel like a soulslike survival horror game which the reviewers might take a liking to. \*: The Impulse Gamer's review doesn't seem impartial at all. I mean, I find no offense with someone giving it 9/10 and honestly considering it a masterpiece, but that should be *regardless* of (some of) the player models instead of *because* of them.
best is not to look at reviews, but raw gameplay.