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[samoilaaa]

i started playing this game and i think im at almost 50% and the game is awsome , the only things that i didnt like was at the beginning when the game took the control away from you too often and going throught tight spaces felt like an eternity but other than that nothing , the story was great , the gameplay is satisfying , i really liked the fact that the AI wasnt braindead like in most games these days

the enemies actually move and try to flank you , dodge bullets , the skills that you have are pretty cool , the characters are interesting , the level design/verticality could have been a little more complex but still it was good enough

everytime i heard people talking about quantum break was only about negative things and i didnt play it because of that

 

[Warnen]

Was one of my fav Xbox games last gen. Even loved the show between levels. I feel a lot of video game critics look down on tv as a lesser medium.

You can see how this game evolved into control witch most people loved.

Didn’t help that it’s was Xbox and pc only too.

 

[The_Mike]

Xbox exclusive.

No master piece, but fun.

 

[Kuranghi]

Big tech issues at launch on PC, ironed out later but tainted it, nowadays you can brute force it into running well on recent HW. I played it a year after launch on a 970 so was able to get it running relatively well, took some work though. People disliked the live action aspect from what I remember and they didn't like the pacing of the game. I like Lance Reddick and Aidan Gillen so I thought it was alright for what it was.

I enjoyed finding the hidden secrets that gave more story/dialogue and think the environmental graphics and animation are superb even to this day. The combat I really love aside from a few annoyances, I loved Max Payne 1-3 a lot though. The sound design is fantastic and I liked the variety in what you do in the game.

I plan to play it again at full whack 4K without the temporal reconstruction when I get my new GPU.

Glad you enjoyed it too OP.

 

[killatopak]

This is the first time I heard that QB is hated.

 

[Skyfox]

Love the game but show me a single happy character in the entire thing

 

[Esppiral]

Xbox exclusive.

No master piece, but fun.

We can close the thread now.

 

[The Cockatrice]

on PC it ran like a pos unless you used their shitty resolution scaler thing which made the game a blurry eyesore. Also so weird to have those real live action cutscenes. Other than that, if your PC nowadays can handle it, at max, the game can look incredible. Gameplay was ok. Story was ok.

 

[M1chl]

Last boss fight fucking sucks, also it loads before the cutscene 0/10

 

[Doctor Hades]

It was alright I suppose. Graphically stunning for its time but those 30 minute live action scenes between the gameplay sections, many boring in my opinion, gave the game a really unbalanced feel for me and I would have preferred in-game cutscenes using the engine (and shorter!). Also, the gameplay really wasn't that great. Fun for a while but it never really evolves and I got bored of it toward the end. I cannot remember if I actually finished the game or not.

Control was another game I only thought was okay; it felt like a remixed Quantum Break to me with a very similar gameplay loop.

P.S. Also forgot to ask... does anyone enjoy reading reams of boring text logs in games like this to get background info on the world. Remedy also did this in Control too. Personally, I find it not only boring but it ruins the pace of the game if you have to keep stopping to read text. Why not have a voice-over reading the info out as you play? That would surely be more interesting?

 

[Reckheim]

I don't think people 'hate it'; but its definitely quite overrated. It was a decent game with very good graphics.

 

[GustavoLT]

I finally played this game this year... great story, actors!

 

[Ezquimacore]

It was the tv stuff

 

[SF Kosmo]

I don't think it's hated, but I do think it's generally seen as Remedy's weakest, or at least it was until CrossfireX.

 

[Hobbygaming]

I loved it but the TV show thing rubbed gamers the wrong way, even though I was fine with it

The powers were good and so were the graphics even with it being 900P on the XB1

 

[Hobbygaming]

Double post

 

[Three]

I don't think people hate it. People just didn't care for it much.

 

[solidus12]

Because of the way he reloads his guns

 

[Haggard]

The TV-Part of it was just plain bad and the game part suffered from massive technical hiccups at release with less than stellar minute-to minute gameplay.
Just a really "meh" game.
"Hated" is too strong a word, though. People simply didn`t care much about it, deservedly so.

 

[DaGwaphics]

I think a lot of players just avoided it on release due to the poor reception in the media, particularly the live action integration. Hopefully GP has let the holdouts give it a chance, it had a good premise and was fun.

 

[Filben]

Finished it like four times. Love the locations, the combat, the visuals... GOD, the fucking visuals!

 

[Krappadizzle]

It's Remedy's worst game in 20 years. Not a terrible game, but not particularly good one either. Awful writing, with incredibly cheesy ass acting. A lame ending and boring/nonsensical plotline.

Just about the best thing going for it was Remedy's tech. Everything else was painfully mediocre. I say this as a HUGE Remedy fan and have been a fan of literally everything they've put out since Max Payne.

 

[Stuart360]

As others already said, Xbox console exclusive.

I actually found the game quite boring and tedious. Although less tedious and boring than Control, which seems to be universally loved on here, while i found it sleep inducing.

 

[ReBurn]

Fealty to plastic boxes mostly

 

[tommib]

I think it was the best console exclusive for Xbox at the time. I loved the protagonist and it was more interesting than Control IMO. I even liked the FMV.

No idea why it doesn’t get better recognition? Resolution obsessed nerds? It was one of the first Digital Foundry victims.

 

[.Pennywise]

TV TV TV TV TV TV

 

[Flabagast]

I don't think people hate it.

It just seems to me that they are vastly indifferent to it (and rightly so).

 

[existensmaximum]

I don't hate it, but I found it very boring. Couldn't play many hours before I had to give up (same with Control btw)

 

[Denton]

Best Remedy game and I played them all. Love its time travel story.

 

[Captain Toad]

Xbox exclusive.

No master piece, but fun.

Every. Single. Post.

It's all a conspiracy to keep Xbox down!!!@

 

[DevilMayFlyForAWhiteGuy]

I appreciated its attempt to do something different with integration of the tv episodes, but see the said episodes as a huge disadvantage to the game’s replayability. Every time I feel like playing it again I don’t want to sit through all the episodes, but realize I don’t remember all the story so I kinda need to. Then decide not to play it.

Also wish it was 60fps on Series X, but it’s still stuck at 30.

 

[AJUMP23]

It was pretty dumb.

 

[K' Dash]

You’re talking about an Xbox exclusive on a forum composed of mostly Sony fanboys.

The game is great and the little hints of a Remedy shared universe are just delicious.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Because it was an xbox exclusive on a gen that we all bummed ps4.

Was great though.

 

[sainraja]

Xbox exclusive.

No master piece, but fun.

You gotta stop with the persecution complex. If that game was a PlayStation exclusive, some of you would be the ones to downplay it due to the way it literally tried to combine live action TV show with the game, you'd downplay it by saying how it took the next step in making it cinematic by completely removing gameplay with the live action show part! Etc etc. I don't know why most of your posts have to be framed like that. Stop focusing on people that can't step out of the fictional console wars.

The point is, it's non-sense. Regardless of "which" side is doing it. And no it wasn't because it was simply an Xbox exclusive lol. Otherwise, Forza would have been treated the same.

EDIT

The whole TV TV TV fiasco with the launch of the console and a game that literally put that in the game most likely didn't help. Consider that.

 

[Ev1L AuRoN]

I don't think is hated, it just didn't live up to the hype, I remember being underwhelmed when I finally got to play it on PC.

 

[El Pistolero]

I have never played the game, so I have no personal appreciation of it, but I was not aware it was hated...

 

[reforen]

because some random youtuber said it and it became a trend

 

[GymWolf]

I don't really hate it, i just think it's pretty meh, both the serial part and the game part.

Graphic and temporal effects were the best thing.

Also at launch was one of the most broken games in history on pc.

 

[Drew1440]

Loved the game, one of the few I maxed the achievements for.

 

[CeeJay]

It was alright but a bit short and the last boss left a bit of a sour taste right at the end.

The visuals were superb though and had high production values for a game. I didn't mind the TV bits to be honest, it was an interesting experiment. The cover shooting felt a bit clumsy as well compared to The Division that came out around the same time and made me feel like overall the gameplay took a bit of a back seat compared to the story and the visuals during development. It's certainly no Max Pain that's for sure.

 

[adamsapple]

The damn game needs an FPS boost patch.

 

[Captain Toad]

You’re talking about an Xbox exclusive on a forum composed of mostly Sony fanboys.

The game is great and the little hints of a Remedy shared universe are just delicious.

Lmao. We still doing this? The vocal Xbox boys outnumber the PS one here 5 to 1 now.

 

[Calverz]

It was an Xbox exclusive and didn’t get 98 on metacritic.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

I liked it. Same with with Ryse

 

[Skifi28]

A game remarkable for being unremarkable. The best thing about it were the visuals and to pull those off it was blurry as fuck.

 

[Mr Wonderstuff]

Ah Quantum Break - it was ok. Never finished cos well, boss battles....

 

[Fbh]

Haven't seen a lot of hate for it to be honest. Just because people didn't love it or thought it was just ok doesn't mean they hated it.

I thought the visuals and combat were really nice, both still hold up.
But it's a very story heavy game and I thought the storytelling was terrible. The game makes you sit through in game cutscenes and multiple 25 minutes long C tier television show episodes .....and then somehow most of the important story bits are hidden in a never ending stream of in game documents, emails, notes, etc.

IMO Sam Lake is increasingly becoming the weaker link at Remedy

 

[64bitmodels]

Sunset Overdrive was better tbh

 

[Beechos]

It was the tv bullshit and the crazy amount of disk space require due to the tv show stuff that most people hated.