評論

• gamedeal user

  Jan 2, 2023

  Before playing this game the lowest I've ever rated a game was a 3/10. The Quiet Man has the distinct honor of being my first ever 1/10. The combat is jank, barely works, repetitive button mashing, glitches out constantly, and the dodging system required to hit bosses is broken and only works when it feels like it. I can hardly classify this as a game because it's maybe 30 minutes of game play with an awkward mix of Full Motion Video and in game cutscenes. Honestly I think my first play through was more fun because you can improv what the dialogue might be which got a lot of laughs out of myself and a friend, but after just now finishing the true ending for this game (because you have to beat it a 2nd time if you want to hear dialogue). The acting is terrible, the script is embarrassing and the portrayal of deaf people is completely and utterly wrong. I took ASL (American Sign Language) in college with a deaf professor and while I wasn't the best at it, if you can't even get the sign for deaf correct during the first cutscene of the game, you know you're in for a wild ride. The subtitles for ASL aren't done correctly either. When written, ASL is in all caps and words like "at", "or", and "is" for example wouldn't have signs so when you gloss ASL it's not included. The grammar for ASL is very different from English, but any subtitled ASL uses English grammar which isn't correct. In addition to that, if Dane was born deaf, he would not talk as clearly as he does in this game. Even with practice (assuming he'd want to since a lot of the deaf community prefer sign over spoken language) Dane's voice is wrong for someone that is deaf. It's hard to tell sometimes if he's trying to talk like a deaf person or if his acting is just that stiff. It might be the latter because the acting in this game is awful. This game also seemingly has something against these 3 Hispanic guys, because you spend the majority of the game killing the same 3 guys because they seemingly couldn't be bothered to make more than a handful of character models for this game as if even the studio making this game knew it would suck on release rather than actually putting forth any effort. Ultimately I got this game knowing its reputation for being one of the worst games ever made. I got this game for 3 bucks and honestly that 3 bucks probably would've been better spent on literally anything else. Do not buy this game. If you really need to experience this game, it's 90% cutscenes anyways, so just watch it on youtube. Guess the plus side of this game being the first game I beat in 2023 is that it can only go up from here because The Quiet Man is genuinely the worst game I've ever played.
• CarbVan

  Aug 15, 2023

  This is the worst video game I have ever played. It is an amazing so-bad-its-good type of game. Get it on sale for a few bucks and stream it to a friend on hard mode. Play on hard and try not to lose your mind at how poorly it's balanced. Try keep a straight face during its nonsensical story, then do it again after you unlock sound and it somehow makes LESS sense! 10/10 get ready for the best worst game you've ever played.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 2, 2018

  Extremely clunky combat, was hoping for a somewhat solid cinemeatic beat-em-up like the old square underrated favorite The Bouncer. This is not that. The deaf-like 'muffled audio' just means you hear the same soft thud for everything - punches, people talking, etc., over and over, it gets old quick. They also don't subtitle scenes when it looks like the main character can either understand the conversation from lip reading, nor when characters who know him use sign language. Missed opportunity. No graphic settings besides 'low/med/high/ultra', resolutions only to 1080p. No ultrawide support but wasn't expecting it. Game runs fine but just isn't enjoyable, shallow revenge trope story isn't worth it, even on sale.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 2, 2018

  Damn. There are so much wasted potential and missed opurtunity in this game. Let me just say that I think, the idea of a deaf protagonist is brilliant. But the combat is cluncky, the gameplay is repetitive and I think it's just gets really boring really quick.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 2, 2018

  This "game" is a 3 hour long movie with sloppy beat 'em up sections in-between FMV cutscenes, do yourself a favor and watch a playthrough online instead of paying 15€ for the worst beat 'em up this year.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 2, 2018

  I feel like such a jerk, I hate to leave a negative review, I'm usually the sort of person that If i don't enjoy a product I simply don't give it any review at all. This game is so underwhelming. I mean its nice to include a game where the main character is deaf, as far as I'm aware that's pretty unique. But experiencing an FMV where nearly all the spoken dialogue is muted to the player is pretty lacklustre. Sorry to the devs but this experiment simply didn't work. The only positive is that the actual movie sequences are of very high quality.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 2, 2018

  Easily one of the worst games of 2018. Maybe even the worst game. The combat is horrendous. The story is just confusing and somehow boring and the game doesn't look good at all. It takes the premise of having a deaf character and literally does nothing with it other than muting the sound. It adds absolutely nothing, hell it even takes away from the game because you have absolutely no idea what's going on. Which would be fine if it was a 'fish out of water' kind of story. The issue is, is that the character you play can understand what others are saying, but the player cannot. So all this results in are 10-15 minutes cutscenes with JUST DIALOGUE that you have no idea what is being said. You can make out some of the live action but the animation on the CG cutscenes is too poor to make any guess as to what they're saying. Avoid this game no matter what.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 2, 2018

  You know, ever since this was revealed at E3, I was excited about this game. I really was. Then I sorta forgot about it. Fast forward to today, when I noticed that the game finally came out. Me, having time and $15 on hand, decided to give it a go. 4 hours or so later, after I beat the game, I felt like I wasted my time and money, and felt an immense amount of disappointment. The first issue I noticed was the 39GB file size, which I at first shrugged off because of the nature of the game itself, being an FMV-filled game. Then I actually opened up the game, and faced myself with an extremely barebones graphics options menu, with only general quality settings (low, medium, high, and ultra), and resolution. With a generic looking menu to top it all off. I, again, shrugged it off because I figured there wasn't much to configure, and also figured that this was a console game at heart, hence the barebones PC specific menus. I’m going to get back to the graphics thing a little later. Then I started the game, and found the intro cutscene to be fairly high-quality, so I forgot about the issues. Then I got into the first fight scene. I had absolutely zero idea what to do, since the game didn’t give me a tutorial besides a slightly cryptic thing in the pause menu. Then the game shut off the audio completely in the cutscenes besides some weird sounds. I had zero idea what any of the characters were trying to convey, even though their lips were moving and there was some sign language (which I barely understand). Look, I know the whole point of this game is that you’re a deaf guy or something, but please clue us in somewhat as to what’s going on, at least. So I slogged through the game more, beating up the same exact stereotypical thugs and businessmen from scene to scene, watching the long-ass cutscenes, look at some girl staring at me every time I died, and figuring out how to beat the bosses when I got to the final chapter. It all went downhill from there. The game started to drop frames down to like 30fps at times. Even though I’m using an GTX 1050 4GB-equipped gaming laptop, surely it’s enough to run the game parts at a locked 60fps, right? Wrong. At ultra, I couldn't run it at 60, naturally, at high, I could, but the end parts dropped to like 30fps, medium was the same but at around 45-50fps, and at low, it was fine, but it made the game look more ugly than it already did. If there was more graphic options than just general quality level and resolution, this wouldn’t be an issue at all, as I can just tweak whatever I don’t need. Then I got to the final boss, and just laughed. [spoiler]You have to fight your own dad from what I can tell, because the game doesn’t have much in the way of twists, I guess.[/spoiler] Then, after that, I listened to the (admittedly nice) ending theme, and quit the game. I contemplated about what the actual fuck I just played for five minutes, and decided to write this review. The cherry on top of the entire shitfest, however, is the fact that it’s riddled with Denuvo DRM for no good reason besides to treat paying customers like criminals, because you’re not missing much if you watch a playthrough of the game for free, and the game is $15 usually. And for a game that's $15, why even go through the effort of putting DRM on it? They said something about an update that will explain more stuff by enabling the sound in the cutscenes, but I highly doubt they’re gonna fix much beyond just that, and I don’t think I’ll gain enough energy to go through the game again. Overall, I think I played the worst game of 2018, and while that’s quite a bold statement, I have plenty of reason to give it that title. Shame on you, Square-Enix and Human Head Studios, I thought you guys were better than this. And lastly, I couldn't find the wallpapers I was promised. Grr. Edit: I just played through the first chapter or two with the sound update, and all I have to say is: why did the game have to go with the no sound thing in the first place? With that being said, I would have excused the game parts somewhat if there was sound in the cutscenes in the first playthrough. However, I still don't recommend the game due to the fact that you have to play through the game once to even get sound in the cutscenes. Still no wallpapers either. Double grr. And lastly, to everyone who thinks a GTX 1050 (the 4GB VRAM version especially) isn't that strong enough in general, shut the fuck up. Really. GTAV, MGSV, and Yakuza 0 run with most, if not every setting at very high and/or max at 1080p/60 on this card for me and not only run better, but look way better than this pile of garbage. There is no excuse on why a very simplistic beat-em-up like this should be dropping frames. It's not like I'm trying to run the game at 4K, either. And it could clearly run this at 1080p/60 had some of the lighting effects been toned down, which I can't even do, as again, it's only general quality level and resolution I can set.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 3, 2018

  This game is terrible and an embarrassment. If not the worst game I have ever played the combat is klunky, the cutscences are long and drawn out for no reason. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME instead spend it on Yakuza 0
• gamedeal user

  Nov 3, 2018

  This game could have been something good. Something special even. The quality of the live action scenes is really high. Very few FMV games delivered something similar in terms of production values. The first few minutes are great. They have complete audio. But that stops quickly. The rest of the 3 hour experience is silent except for some ambient noises. It just doesn't make any sense. There is no voice over and no subtitles. Yet the game is full of minutes-long dialog senses. After some minutes I thought this must be a mistake. I checked that the subtitles are activated in the menu. I browsed the forum. It had to be a bug. Well, it isn't. This is a deliberate choice. It is deliberate that you spend a significant chunk of your play time watching people have conversations that you don't understand. How could anyone think this was a good idea? The protagonist is obviously able to lip read and even talks himself several times. The quiet man is not so quiet after all. It's just you as the player who gets left out. Even when that happens you don't get audio or subtitles. So, everyone involved - including the guy you play - understands more than you. It just doesn't make sense. And the whole idea that the player is deaf doesn't even add anything to the experience. You could easily take that whole idea away, Let him hear normally - it wouldn't change anything about the story or the gameplay. So, story-wise this game is already a failure. All you can do is try to guess what the heck is going on. The gameplay is no better. The combat is extremely bad. The game doesn't explain anything. I still don't know what exactly the L1 ability is supposed to be. And when I can use it and when not. Does it charge, and that's the reason why it works only sometimes? No idea. The grab function seems utterrly useless. Evading barely ever works. The camera sometimes loses it completely. I have lost quite a few fights because neither my guy nor the enemy was visible. The save spots are super far apart. Which would not be a problem if the game didn't crash. But it does. I made it quite far. But then it crashed. So i started it up again, played 20 (!) minutes, was almost where i was before - and it crashed again. Not sure i'll even try to finish it. I love FMV games. I am willing to forgive a lot. Mediocre or even subpar gameplay is something I will happily accept as a trade-off for good FMV with a decent story. But this game doesn't deliver on any front. It is a wasted opportunity, nothing more. I still believe it is not completely hopeless. Fix the crashes. Add save spots after every fight and every cutscene. Give us the option to play wiith full audio. Then this might be a pleasant experience after all. Fiinal verdict: 2/10