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naznatips on 04 September 2007
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sinha said:
naznatips said:

I don't understand why people defend a bad game as if it's the blood of the very platform it's played on. I didn't see Wii fans rampantly defending Boogie...


Well, when discussing Boogie, some Wii fans will

-attack a site that give a game a bad score for being "anti-[my favorite console]"

-adopt the "it's too early to tell" strategy of damage control

-argue "bad reviews don't matter" for various reasons

-make the "how do you know it's bad if you haven't played it?" argument

 

DKII said:
Seriously who uses 1up for Wii reviews? They pretty much blatantly hate the system and motion controls in general.

 

shams said:

Guys, lets wait for a bunch of reviews to hit first. We know a bunch of sites traditionally "hard-mark" Wii titles - especially Wiimote heavy ones.

And this won't be a title whose sales are swayed by reviews - at all.

 

ClaudeLv250 said:

You've played it?

 

fazz said:
Ok, the guys at 1up tend to disagree with the other reviewers around... be it for bad or for good haha. That's why I don't believe on reviews anymore, because they are very very very subjective.

 

Lingyis said:
hmm, maybe this will become a cult favorite. seriously, some people would really like it. it looks pretty over the top to me.

i mean, you just don't know until you've tried it... it's just a totally new kind of game! if you say "it doesn't interest me", that means you're being close-minded.

 

Diomedes1976 said:
1Up and EGM actually HATES motion controls. The same happened with the Lair beta they happily reviewed.

 

Cobretti said:
meh who cares chicks will dig this game. [Boogie was reviewed by a woman]

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I have to agree with Legend11 and Bodhesatva from that thread:

"Fans of all consoles are more alike than they would ever admit to or even realize."

And if PS3 fans still defended Lair more than Wii fans defended Boogie (and they did), it's because (as Wii fans point out repeatedly in that Boogie thread) Boogie was never supposed to be the great AAA system-seller game that Lair was hyped up to be, plus the Wii is in much better shape than the PS3 and doesn't really require the same level of defending from its fanboys.

 


Cutting quotes from PS3 fanboys to make them apply to Wii fanboys are we? Those were bad picks on your part. Diomedes was obviously still bitter about their Lair review, and looking for the opportunity. Shams, Fazz, and DKII (doesn't even own a Wii) were attacking 1UP, which pretty much all Wii fans have been doing since this came out:

1UP Xbox 360: -3.5%
1UP PS3: -3.8%
1UP Wii: -9.5%

Shams also cautioned waiting for other reviews. I'd say that's pretty fair. So that leaves you with Lyngis, Claude, and Cobretti. Hardly a wall of defense for the game. As soon as the IGN reviews came out the Wii fans admitted it was bad and dropped it.

There are still topics defending Lair and attacking reviewers. These have been made as recently as hours ago. Disagreeing with one review I understand, but disagreeing with a unanimous opinion accross all credible review sources is different. The reasons it's getting defended are what really bothers me. It's like people think that everyone will hate the PS3 forever just because of one bad game. That's what I don't understand.  The only people who associate this game as being the defining factor for the PS3's library are ignorant anyway.  There is no reason to defend a bad game this vehemently.