Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Review - yet another high-profile release marred by technical issues - WGTC

'Survivor' expands on everything that made 'Fallen Order' so great, though the experience is sadly marred by performance problems.

[masterfox]

others 9s and this one 6 , yeah "professional reviewers " FTW ! lol, sadly honesty is going down the drain these days :(

[SullysCigar]

I actually just saw a 6.5/10 too, but they can do one, I've seen enough to know I'm in.

[blackblades]

Its always that 1 or 2

[XbladeTeddy]

Scoring a game down due to technical issues is actually an honest thing to do, commendable in fact. Sites ignore that all the time.

[dumahim]

@XbladeTeddy

I'm kind of split on that concept. Kind of like factoring in a game's price in the review score. The price and technical issues can change, but review scores often do not. I fully support people bringing attention to any technical issues, but don't think likely temporary issues should play a big part of the score.

But I guess on the other hand, if more games got bad scores at launch for these issues, maybe they'd stop shoving these games out there in a poor state.

[blackblades]

It can also be fix via patch, imagine doing a review and someone reads/listens and plays it and its nothing like what was said. Its not the 90s/00s and my comment still stands its always that 1 or 2 reviews thats the opposite.

[FTLmaster]

Just because it doesn’t align with other reviews, it doesn’t make it any less honest.

[CrimsonWing69]

So then no review can be right and no review can be wrong? Like at that point why do we have reviews?

[Sgt_Slaughter]

This just in: Not everyone agrees on everything.

If you can't handle a lower review because it goes against the grain, I'm not sure why you're looking at any of them.

[masterfox]

lol is not me not handling lower review scores, i give rat ass about it for higher and lower scores I only care of my own criteria, what Im trying to say here it doesnt make any sense there are 9s all over the place but suddenly someone put it a 5 or 6, and is not about someone reviewers has differente tastes , if you do a review for the general public based on that on your personal taste well sorry my friend you are being biased simple as that, and is not my problem that people cant even understand what impartiality means(google it lol), somebody the 9s or the 6s or lower are definitely lying or both, Im pretty sure Cyberpunk 9s and 10s score on release date are spot on right?, the game was near perfect .... haha. bu...but...they have different tastes!! XD

[VivaLaManual]

It sounds like it runs like a dog. That HAS to be part of the review score.

[SullysCigar]

Absolutely. If nothing else, I appreciate the heads up, because I'll hold off until I see a couple of patches have landed. Got plenty to play in the meantime, but I am drawn to this game.

[-Foxtrot]

To be fair here they are taking a stand and talking about poor technical issues

Maybe the others didn't talk about it because they usually don't which is annoying

Remember Pokemon Sword and Shields IGN score completely leaving out the technical issues and then the reviewer saying that a "review is not the time and place to talk about them". Some were even a little generous with Cyberpunk.

[Sonic1881]

That's the reason why I'm curious about the day one patch. Will it fix most of the technical issues 🤔

[Chris_GTR1]

somewhat concerning though , I bought Jedi fallen order at launch and it was glitchy , i actually got to a point where it was a game breaking black screen and couldnt progress until the next week when they patched it.

[kingnick]

Most of the professional reviewers and big YouTuber's get free review copies and they want that to continue so they don't write overly negative reviews or mention things the developer/publisher has asked them not to.

[Flewid638]

Are they supposed to all have the same score? This is my most anticipated game and I love the first one....doesnt mean everyone has to enjoy it.

[Einhander1971]

I felt this way about Calisto, but I still enjoyed it regardless of the negative reviews. Again this new Starwars title has been hyped up. It looks ok but not 147gb good. I will probably get it when it's cheap.

[Sniperwithacause]

No matter how cheap you buy it for, it will still take up the same amount of space.

[StarkR3ality]

@sniper

Hahahaha, that made me laugh but it's so true 😂

@OP

Just delete once you're done, that's the beautiful thing about story focused one and done games my dude, doesn't have to be COD where it sits on your hard drive for that odd game on warzone with your pals.

[Flewid638]

Everyone shitted on that game. I have ZERO interest in Dead Space...and yet....Callisto Protocol is one of the most amazing games I ever played. Graphically untouched as well.

[StarkR3ality]

Tbh as I understand it the reason why the couple of low review scores are because of the massive frame drops even in performance mode. Day 1 patch seems to have fixed a lot of issues, but still if that's the experience they got then the review score should reflect that.

All in all the game has already reviewed quite a lot better than fallen order, even with the performance issues present. If a few frame drops is all that's holding this game back, then we're in for a treat.

[jznrpg]

I am going to play this in next couple of months or so but I have too much on my plate right now gaming wise. It seems I would have ended up waiting either way .

[Pyrofire95]

Famous video game journalist site WEGOTTHISCOVERED.com give middling review to new Star Wars game.
Let's see how score bait turns out for this one! Let's get those RAGE CLICKS in buddies!

[XbladeTeddy]

They're scoring it down because technical issues. I wish more sites would have the balls to do that instead of ignoring performance problems.

[ravens52]

I don't believe technical issues should be in a review. You should definitely inform the readers, but not deduct points for it. What happens when it's all patched up and perfect but people see a terrible review score. They pass on it for problems that no longer exists.

[XbladeTeddy]

@ravens52: It's about honesty. Games are not cheap, any issues with performance should be taken into account. It's for the benefit of the consumer.

If a patch makes it better they should give reviewer said patch.

[GoodGuy09]

I imagine the PC version will be as bad a technical mess as the prev game.

[Flewid638]

Ran smooth on PC for me. Granted, PC is the home of poorly optimized games, but I ran into no challenges.

[anast]

This should happen with every game. Low score for poor technical performance.

[Flewid638]

There's a pre-release patch for all platforms to improve performance.

[hiroyukisanada]

Damn. Seems like every multiplat launch has tech issues. How unfortunate. Looking forward to the eventual patches then I'll buy it on sale this holiday, I think.