Metacritic Prediction Thread, haven't done one of these in a while

[Legend]

With gamescom and E3, there are a lot of new games. Let's predict if they will suck or not!

ReCore: 66, the game feels fishy to me.
Halo 5: 89
Tomb Raider 86
Forza 6: 88
Quantum Break: 78
CrackDown 3: 73
Scalebound: 86
Gears 4: 82
Cuphead: 90
Halo Wars 2: 79
Legend of Zelda: 84
Metroid Prime Federation Force: 65
Uncharted 4: 91
Horizon: 89
Dreams: 83
Until Dawn: 72
Tearaway Unfolded: 87
No Man's Sky: 80
Rime: 83
Tomorrow Children: 81
FF7:R 98
Shenmue 3: 79
Rigs: 61
VizionEck: 101
Fallout 4: 84
Assassin's Creed Syndicate: 72
Destiny Taken King: 79
Homefront: 84
Battlefront: 85

[Xbro]

I'll start working on a list, but did you put thought into a lot of those? Because those scores are all over the place.

[the-pi-guy]

I'll start working on a list, but did you put thought into a lot of those? Because those scores are all over the place.

Nah, he just put it all through a random number generator.  




Actually I expect about the same.  Give or take a few points for some.

[Legend]

I'll start working on a list, but did you put thought into a lot of those? Because those scores are all over the place.

I put thought into all of those!

Which ones seem off?

[Xevross]

With gamescom and E3, there are a lot of new games. Let's predict if they will suck or not!

ReCore: 76
Halo 5: 83
Tomb Raider 87
Forza 6: 84
Quantum Break: 80
CrackDown 3: 61
Scalebound: 89
Gears 4: 78
Cuphead: 85
Halo Wars 2: 83
Legend of Zelda: 92
Metroid Prime Federation Force: 65
Uncharted 4: 96
Horizon: 93
Dreams: 85
Until Dawn: 69
Tearaway Unfolded: 88
No Man's Sky: 84
Rime: 78
Tomorrow Children: 76
FF7:R 84
Shenmue 3: 81
Rigs: 79
VizionEck: 84
Fallout 4: 90
Assassin's Creed Syndicate: 78
Destiny Taken King: 83
Homefront: 80
Battlefront: 84

Black Ops 3: 87
Uncharted collection: 92
The Last Guardian: 88
Street Fighter V: 91
Hitman: 80
Persona 5: 92

Didn't put much thought into it

[Xbro]

I put thought into all of those!

Which ones seem off?

FF7:R 98
ReCore: 66
Zelda U: 84

[Xevross]

I put thought into all of those!

Which ones seem off?

VizionEck is too low.

[Xbro]

Was just looking through some past scores and apparently Wind Waker is now a 96 instead of a 95.

[Legend]

FF7:R 98
ReCore: 66
Zelda U: 84

I'm feeling really good about FF7:R.

It's been in the works for a long time, has a huge budget, is using Unreal Engine, and isn't afraid to make changes. Should be great.



ReCore is supposedly releasing in Spring 2016, yet all we've seen is a CGI concept trailer. Also "We started around 14 months ago, ... And we're just going into full production right now. We've done a demo internally. So we're at that point where we can start making the game for real." This combined with the dev's portfolio make it sound like it's a small low budget game. Nothing wrong with that, but Microsoft is giving the impression that it's a big AAA title, basically hiding what the true game is.

Also Armature Studio mostly does ports. They're doing the Wii U and Vita ports for Bloodstained, they ported Borderlands collection to PS4 and Xbox One, they did the poor PS4 and Vita port for The Unfinished Swan, they ported Injustice: Gods Among Us to Vita, and they ported MGS HD collection to Vita. The only game in their 4 year portfolio that isn't a port is Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate for 3DS and Vita. It has a meta of 68 and 61 respectively. If ReCore is like the past games they've made, it's going to be poorly received.

Plus Inafune/comcept doesn't have the best history either. Soul Sacrifice Delta: 82, Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z: 46, Guild02 – Bugs vs. Tanks: unrated, Soul Sacrifice: 77, and  Sweet Fuse: At Your Side: 82, with all those games being co-developed. On top of that, Inafune has all the Mighty Number 9 and Red Ash controversy/backlash right now. Not the best environment for him to focus on making a third game great.

A meta of 66 seems very probable to me.



Zelda U is probably going to be a cross gen NX launch title. I think that's going to negatively impact the game. Same with all the general negativity towards Nintendo right now. The game is going to viewed under harsher circumstances than normal I feel.

[Xbro]

I'm feeling really good about FF7:R.

It's been in the works for a long time, has a huge budget, is using Unreal Engine, and isn't afraid to make changes. Should be great.



ReCore is supposedly releasing in Spring 2016, yet all we've seen is a CGI concept trailer. Also "We started around 14 months ago, ... And we're just going into full production right now. We've done a demo internally. So we're at that point where we can start making the game for real." This combined with the dev's portfolio make it sound like it's a small low budget game. Nothing wrong with that, but Microsoft is giving the impression that it's a big AAA title, basically hiding what the true game is.

Also Armature Studio mostly does ports. They're doing the Wii U and Vita ports for Bloodstained, they ported Borderlands collection to PS4 and Xbox One, they did the poor PS4 and Vita port for The Unfinished Swan, they ported Injustice: Gods Among Us to Vita, and they ported MGS HD collection to Vita. The only game in their 4 year portfolio that isn't a port is Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate for 3DS and Vita. It has a meta of 68 and 61 respectively. If ReCore is like the past games they've made, it's going to be poorly received.

Plus Inafune/comcept doesn't have the best history either. Soul Sacrifice Delta: 82, Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z: 46, Guild02 – Bugs vs. Tanks: unrated, Soul Sacrifice: 77, and  Sweet Fuse: At Your Side: 82, with all those games being co-developed. On top of that, Inafune has all the Mighty Number 9 and Red Ash controversy/backlash right now. Not the best environment for him to focus on making a third game great.

A meta of 66 seems very probable to me.



Zelda U is probably going to be a cross gen NX launch title. I think that's going to negatively impact the game. Same with all the general negativity towards Nintendo right now. The game is going to viewed under harsher circumstances than normal I feel.

FFVII:R is going to be criticized harshly because of the changes. Those aren't going to help.

Yeah you make some good points on Recore. Gotta realize that Retro also did Prime in 2 years.

Zelda...even if it's cross-gen it won't do anything against it at all.
Twilight Princess Gamecube - 96
Twilight Princess Wii - 95
That really isn't an issue in this case.

[Dr. Pezus]

ReCore: 78
Halo 5: 84
Tomb Raider 87
Forza 6: 86
Quantum Break: 81
CrackDown 3: 72
Scalebound: 83
Gears 4: 79
Cuphead: 84
Halo Wars 2: 80
Legend of Zelda: 93
Metroid Prime Federation Force: 59
Uncharted 4: 92
Horizon: 88
Dreams: 86
Until Dawn: 75
Tearaway Unfolded: 85
No Man's Sky: 85
Rime: 83
Tomorrow Children: 79
FF7:R 85
Shenmue 3: 82
Rigs: 77
VizionEck: 81
Fallout 4: 94
Assassin's Creed Syndicate: 75
Destiny Taken King: 81
Homefront: 77
Battlefront: 86

Black Ops 3: 83
Uncharted collection: 91
The Last Guardian: 89
Street Fighter V: 90
Hitman: 78
Persona 5: 93

[the-pi-guy]

ReCore: 65
Halo 5: 82
Tomb Raider 87
Forza 6: 84
Quantum Break: 80
CrackDown 3: 61
Scalebound: 84
Gears 4: 80
Cuphead: 88
Halo Wars 2: 83
Legend of Zelda: 93
Metroid Prime Federation Force: 65
Uncharted 4: 96
Horizon: 93
Dreams: 85
Until Dawn: 69
Tearaway Unfolded: 88
No Man's Sky: 84
Rime: 78
Tomorrow Children: 76
FF7:R 92
Shenmue 3: 81
Rigs: 79
VizionEck: 87
Fallout 4: 90
Assassin's Creed Syndicate: 78
Destiny Taken King: 83
Homefront: 80
Battlefront: 84

Black Ops 3: 87
Uncharted collection: 92
The Last Guardian: 88
Street Fighter V: 91
Hitman: 80
Persona 5: 92

I just modified Xev's numbers

[Legend]

FFVII:R is going to be criticized harshly because of the changes. Those aren't going to help.

Yeah you make some good points on Recore. Gotta realize that Retro also did Prime in 2 years.

Zelda...even if it's cross-gen it won't do anything against it at all.
Twilight Princess Gamecube - 96
Twilight Princess Wii - 95
That really isn't an issue in this case.

Only silly fans are going to criticise it for 2 seconds. Once they see the changes are actually good, they're not going to care.

Making a game in 2 years is not a problem, in fact it's pretty come. But that's usually done for sequels with engines and concepts already finished. Plus ReCore is doing less than a year of full production. With just 30 people in the studio, it's got to be a smaller scale game. Also only the game director, art director, and principal technology engineer worked on Metroid.

Being cross gen itself wouldn't hurt, but being cross gen from Wii U to NX I think will. We'll have to wait and see!

[the-pi-guy]

Only silly fans are going to criticise it for 2 seconds. Once they see the changes are actually good, they're not going to care.

Being cross gen itself wouldn't hurt, but being cross gen from Wii U to NX I think will. We'll have to wait and see!

If the changes are good.  We shall see if they are.  

[Legend]

If the changes are good.  We shall see if they are.  

Haha yeah. If the changes make it worse, then all hell breaks loose.