Machina-AX said:
Our presentation score covers a lot of different things (basically everything we talk about that doesn't fall into the gameplay or value categories), not just the visuals - it includes the graphics, art style, music and score, sound effects and voice acting, technical presentation, story and narrative etc. |
I'm sorry, but that sounds ridiculously counter intuitive. Story and narrative are very important aspects of many video games and not highlighting achievements within storytelling is essentially hiding one of the important elements people look for in games. Not every game needs this category obviously, but especially on HD systems story is becoming a bigger and bigger focus of developers and consumers. I for example do not buy any games in certain genre's that do not hold up to a standard of storytelling and I know 2 friends who are the same way. Scoring the storyline and going more indepth on it during reviews would allow many people to make a better decicion whether to buy the game or pass it.
