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LordTheNightKnight said:
kitler53 said:

i meant both personally and in general.

I have two friends that played the game,...they both liked it a lot.

Here are 344 comments nearly all of which are cheering chinatown wars on

amazon reviews are glowing for both the ds and psp versions

that of course is very in line with ds and psp metacritic scores

i hate to derail this thread so i won't any further but your definition of good/bad word of mouth seems very subjective and easily influenced by whatever argument you are hoping to prove.

i like metacritic scores -- it is the absolute best way to remove as much subjectivity from and inheritly subjective task.


1. I meant in helping sales, which I agree is not the best use of that term. Sure people like Chinatown Wars, and it had better legs than its small openings, but the sale show it's a well liked niche game, instead of the mainstream games that the 3D games are.

2. Okay, listing the scores is technically objective (an opinion is subjective, but that someone has an opinion is an objective fact), but it still won't matter if the opinions of buyers differs, which is why I argued against the claim someone made here that reviews and gamer's opinions are the same. It's not just Nintendo systems which show that assumption is BS.

you're jump to "helping sales" seems a bit jarring when the root of this series of post is you asking uno to not let a review score influence his assessment of whether the conduit 2 is worth playing or not.

but anyways, i've thus far not read your thread about denouncing review scores (...not the way you put it but i can't remember the exact title atm).  i'll try reading that if i can find it but i'm doubtful i'll agree with you. xD