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IGN Just Rated DBD 9/10 - What do you think?
So IGN just gave Dead By Daylight a 9/10 review, personally I would give it a 5.5-6/10 but what do you guys think? Does DBD in it's current state deserve to be rated so high?
"An incredible slasher film simulator, and the best asymmetrical multiplayer game around."
With their final verdict being:
"Dead by Daylight’s inventive concept for a competitive horror game strikes an incredible balance between two very different styles of play, and makes both compelling. Channeling the slasher movie spirit, each match feels like a mini horror movie on both sides. Whether you’re the efficient and unpredictable killer, or one of the strategically elusive survivors, the thrill of the chase and the ever-present threat that even the best-laid plans can go awry keep Dead by Daylight feeling timely, even after five years of thrill kills."
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I think IGN is a little behind with their reviews.
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Well, DBD doesn't have much water in it. So that makes sense.
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I think anyone who regularly posts here is too close to be objective.
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Eh, I do still enjoy this game personally despite having played it for almost 3 years, but I definitely would not rate it a 9/10. It's quite buggy and the devs take forever to do any major balance changes.
For me personally it's a 7/10 or 8/10 being extremely generous.
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You know a DbD review video is going to be good when the footage is rank 20 game play.
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It is one of the best games, this rating is deserved for the first three months of the game, The bad thing about this game is that it does not manage to retain deer a large number of players as well as they arrive so they leave to retain players is one of the worst games and would win a 4
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How did it take so long to get a review in the first place? I'd heard of Dead by Daylight for at least a year before I even played it the first time (in 2019). Not exactly the most low profile game, is featured in a lots of sales, etc.
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They've reviewed the game multiple times. A few places have started doing that with long running multiplayer games due to the constant balance changes and new content.
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This right here.
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Ah, I see. I wonder if any classic games have been docked points for having discontinued features or online.
And I'm interested to know what scores DbD had in past years, if you have the data.
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Imagine even wasting a single breath on IGN.
They probably have some dude locked up in their basement spinning one of those bingo ball tumblers. Whatever comes out is the score they give.
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I don't, I tend to forget that sort of stuff right after reading it. Probably just Google ign+Dead by Daylight.
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That was painful to read.
DBD is not a 9/10 - poor performance, bugs, and balance issues are just some of the reasons why it isn't even close to 9/10. Guessing BHVR used some of their cosmetic money to buy a positive review after all the negative steam reviews.
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IMO DBD is a 8/10 at best, moreso leaning towards 7/10.
Edit: I've edited this comment a few times rethinking about it, and this is my final thought. I want to try my best to be honest, so uh... I apologize lads.
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Ign is too generous with their reviews. I think dbd is a 4 or 5 out of 10 imo
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No way. New player experience is the drizzlin shyts, especially with the current matchmaking and thorough tutorial. The grind is aaaaaarrrrrgggggg. Console frames and support are aaaaarrrrrgggggg. Balance is aaaaarrrrrggggggg. Nope. Nada. Nien.
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All their gameplay clips are like played in brown ranks. At that stage of game of course you’re gonna rate it 9/10
however, once you put more time in it, it changes drastically. Bugs, balance, matchmaking, etc.. it easily become 5/10 or even lower the more you play.
personally I believe this review is payed by BhVR to bait more new players.
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They should get a member of staff to rate it that actually has some time in the game. The result would be a lot different I'm sure.
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There is no objectivity in rating games though...?
It boils down completely to "do I like this or not". It's purely subjective. Whether something is good or bad is subjective. What may be bad design to one person is good design to another person.
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IGN is known for being ignorant for a lot things, DBD isn't anywhere close to a 10. I'd give it a 6 or 7 at best personally
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If you trust mainstream game review sites to give accurate scores based on the true experience of any game, you're deluded.
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IGN is washed-up.
I wonder how much $ was involved in that 9/10 Score.
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I think that the only things to compare DbD to are so much worse that, no matter your stance on the game, they make it shine.
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Oh, that's an easy calculation:
Just look what it has not been spent on in terms of gamehealth
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I just wanna know how long they actually played it for.
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I think anyone that likes a casual pvp, is drawn to horror, clicks with the presentation, likes to grind, and has less than a few hundred hours-- will give it a 9/10 rating. That doesn't surprise me at all because with low hours, you don't really know what's unbalanced or buggy, especially if you're casual-- you just know what's fun, and this game has at least a few hundred hours of that in it.. perfect for the average gamer.
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With a good MMR it would be 9/10.
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I will never take IGN seriously anymore.
That said dbd is a good game. It is probably a 8/10. It is the best in it's genre there is no denying that.
Everybody who gives it a score lower then 6 need to look at their hours. People wouldn't spend thousands of hours on a 6/10 game.
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I think it's hilarious. Tbf I think even with it's problems it's probably a 7.5/8 out of 10.
I remember watching a video when the Stranger Things chapter was released. The 3 people playing the game were basically just calling it crap the whole time lol if anyone else remembers this then let me know.
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I don’t think you make 3000+ posts about a game you don’t like
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I mean, for the type of game it is, it’s the best of its kind, so I’m not surprised to see it rated so high. What other game can I play where I can be hunted down by Michael, Freddy and Leatherface? For a horror lover like myself, this game is a dream come true. It obviously has its faults like every multiplayer game I’ve played but most of my frustrations come from the player base and not the actual game.
DBD is love. DBD is life.
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It's the only game of its kind, you have 23 killer personalities to choose from and its 100% against human players. Based on his roots and foundations, yes a 9 is justified.
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“The number of bloodpoints you earn in a match also determines whether or not you’ll gain or lose progress towards your survivor or killer matchmaking rank, which does a surprisingly great job at bringing together killers and survivor teams of comparable skill.”
Yeah they barely touched the game because this is straight up not true. I see rainbow ranks every single day now. Unless the bigger audience in N/A than EU is allowing matchmaking to actually match similar ranks
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The game itself is pretty cool dispite bugs. Its just the community that is trash
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Way too generous. 9/10 means DbD is high quality game with not many issues on it and well... we've got a lot of issues. At most I'd give DbD a 7/10 and that's it. Yes DbD is the only game of it's type to succeed but that doesn't mean it's a golden game with no flaws.
For this game to be 9/10 material I think we need more:
- Bug fixes
- Higher quality control
- Optimization updates
- A change to game progression
- A better new/solo player experience
- Better matchmaking
- More qol changes
- A good game balance
I think dbd could be a 9/10 game but it's got too many little things and issues to be that high up. I mean 9/10 mean close to perfect and DbD is not there imo.
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If you wanna count it as a fun party game in kill your friends mode than I think that score is fair.
But if you're looking to play it long term than that is way too high.
- Only one game mode
- Holiday "events" are just glorified free promotion to get people to buy PAID ONLY cosmetics. No unlockables. No extra modes. No variation in the gameplay.
- The progression is garbage. The hundreds of perks with three tiers each. With both sides using at most just 12 different ones combined. a lot of garbage to sort thru. Not to mention all the garbage addons and items. The most they ever did to alleviate the stupid grind post legacy was when they introduced the paid battle pass but that doesn't even cover getting one character to level 40.
- Performance is a joke especially on console,
- Bugs happen often enough if you play regularly that it can throw your whole match off.
- terrible map collision
- Some games have questionable match making. but dbd's matchmaking is a whole different kind of beast itself since things like parties can throw it all to whack and change a whole trial's gameplay loop.
- A ton of paid content.
- reptitive killer powers and designs just being repurposed powers of one another. but it looks like they twins and trickster wants to test the waters out to be more experimental.
On those merits I'd knock it down a few more steps. Maybe a 5 or a 6.
If those first fours could be updated, and the game had more extra content and unlockables, a co-op only, practice or story mode I'd give it that 8 or 9 score maybe. hell i'd give it a 10/10 especially if they can have a scraping/dismantling system.
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I'd give a solid 8/10. More if the matchmaking was better and the Rift was less grindy.
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I don't think you read my post properly lad. Since when is me saying a game is 7.5 at least mean that I don't like a game lol
All I was saying was I found IGN a bit hypocritical. They laughed at how bad the game was while playing it over a year ago but now calling it a 9/10. I remember it was them on Thompsons House playing as I believe the Stranger Things characters.
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It's IGN, so anything below a 6 is the equivalent of a 0 to them.
A 9 to them is a 7 to us, which doesn't sound too bad to me.
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DBD has many flaws and balance problems. So yes it does only deserve a score of 9.
It does amuse me to see people with so many posts saying this is a poor game. If you don't like it, why are you still here? Do you have as many posts on the Fortnight forums I wonder?
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If they're comparing it to other Asymmetrical games, then maybe, but only because the other options are dead, dying, or pushing daisies on arrival.
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IGN is just mainstream it's nothing to take serious at all. They give Uncharted and GTA 10/10 all the time because it's Uncharted and GTA. And living in this world you know that you can probably buy good reviews also so I would never trust any reviews from big mainstream site.
This said I don't think that score for DBD is crazy, but I would give it 7/10 and point out it's still very addictive which means they have a great concept.
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I have played DBD a lot since it came to PS4, so for the enjoyment I have got out of the game, yep it is worth a 9/10.
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Yeah way too close. 9 means almost perfect and DbD is far from it. It's a good bad game people care about because of it uniqueness. And also because it features good killers designs and licences. But it has way too many flaws for it, especially fundamental gameplay flaws that are hard to get rid of.
For people to stop playing a game it requires to actually stop caring about it, instead of hating what they once liked or got hooked. DbD is kinda good in it to keep people caring about it, even incentives them to play more than they actually want with a lot different progression systems. It's a good bad game in that sense.
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9/10 for aesthetically
9/10 for the concept of the game
4/10 for the gameplay (developers have simplified too many things, skill requirement is really low)
3/10 for the optimisation (this game runs poorly even on good hardware - i mean sub 100fps in 1080p with a rtx 2060 and a ryzen 2600x is a joke)
1/10 for the overall balance of the game
And i would rate it a 4 to 5/10 globally.
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If I'm being absolutely fair....I don't hate that review or rating.
How many of us have stuck around in some form or another, playing this game for the last 4-5 years? Seriously, I can't think of a single game released in my adult life that I've devoted as many hours as I have DBD. It IS technically the greatest Assymetrical game to exist at this point in time, and that is a feat considering how many of us remember Evolve and really wanted that game to be amazing (and I still secretly hope someone will bring that concept to fruition with better execution)
This game literally carved it's own niche, even had imitator games based on it. It's a cult classic. It's a pocket gem. I'm probably amongst the most critical of this game in many aspects, I find alot of things to disagree with... But I usually come back after some time. And when I think back to those original feelings I would get playing this game, the highs and lows... Yea, I don't think it's too indulgent to give the game such a high remark.
Hell, call me crazy, but given it basically inventing a staple genre, I could see the case for it being a 10 in some eyes... I think 9 is as high as I'd possibly go, personally, but think of this game in terms of say, a tetris in 1970whenever the hell it came out.. It created a space that didn't exist to the same degree before. A whole new formula of game interaction. From that perspective, it deserves its flowers.
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It isn't a 9/10, but it isn't a low ranking for me. I'd give it a 7 or a 8 out of 10. Pretty ######### but really fun.
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"Game is trash!"
*looks at xK hours*
*logs back in for 5 more hours*
"Trash!"
Although it still has issues, it's my most played PC game.
I think the score is justified, given the game's history, theme, mechanics.
The game's success has also inspired other companies to try similar/varied takes on the genre, to varying degrees of success.
I'm also a fan, personally, of the dev presence on the forums - Regardless of whether you agree/disagree with their actions, they're still here, seeing information/complaints/ideas/etc from the community, firsthand.
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Played time on the account of the person who wrote the review- 1.5 hours.
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A beginner's experience with the game can be anywhere from amazing to awful entirely based on factors outside of their control, so not exactly surprising. Make 100 people play the game for a bit and give a rating and you'll probably get ratings from 0/10 to 10/10 as a result.
And of course most of the time a reviewer won't play a game nearly as much as the people playing it regularly, especially multiplayer games. Not even talking about the people with several thousand hours, even a 50 hour player which is considered new to the game might very well be way more than a reviewer plays the game. Reviews of multiplayer games are pretty much a "first impressions" more than anything else.
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