Wii Music has sold 2.65 million

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Katilian said:

Zlejedi said:

So? Your point is ?

We on this forum are as hardcore gamers as you can get to the point of talking of our hobby and having huge disputes about it. Those reviews clearly show that for audience like ours this is shovelware.

 

(Disclaimer, I've never actually played Wii music, so my rant below is being generic)

My point is that it isn't a disappointment that a game like this has sold well. Any true "hardcore" gamer would be happy that the market is expanding into new areas because a hardcore gamer plays and appreciates all types of games, not just those with an M rating on the packaging or a bunch of other people said was good so they don't have to think about what to buy next.

All the reviews show us is that the game journalism industry has its head up its arse and won't be drawing in new readers while they keep pandering to the crowd that needs to come on forums like these and reaffirm their manhood by pointing out how disappointing it is that games which don't involve killing everything that moves are selling.

For a group of people who truly apprecitate gaming, they should be happy that others can enjoy their passion. A lot of "hardcore" games are extremely complex for people who don't game seriously and are never going to have the skills to control a console FPS. Sure I expect a bit of fanboyism going on and people not to like everything that comes out, but there have been so many threads that go far beyond this into the land of arrogance and ignorance.

That's right, reviewers only like games that involve killing everything that moves.

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ps3/littlebigplanet

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/wii/worldofgoo

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/portalstillalive

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/forzamotorsport2

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ds/mariokartds

And several more.

All have 90+ on Metacritic, none involve violence or killing in any significant way.

*DISCLAIMER: I have also never played Wii Music, so again, just a generic rant*

What people seemingly can't accept is the possibility that this isn't actually a good game, or that the reviewers didn't like it. It's their opinion. What do you mean, they're "playing it wrong"? How do you play a game wrong? If you don't like it, you have the right to express your opinion. You can publish your opinion. Your opinion, and 1UP's opinion, are no more correct than IGN or GameSpot's opinion! It's just that reviewers are (supposedly) trained to remain as objective as possible, and evaluate a game based on its own merits. Nobody will ever, though, be completely unbiased.

So every review is an opinion. Whether it's written by IGN, GameSpot, EuroGamer, 1UP, you, me, Machina-AX, Torillian, or Carmina2008, it's an opinion. The mark of a good review is not sharing everybody's opinion, it is mentioning all of the facts, and assessing it fairly, giving it a score that reflects the quality of the game and the statements of the review. That's why the same game can have two excellent reviews, one giving it a 9.5, one giving it a 7.

I'm not saying that it is bad (I have no way of knowing that), I'm just saying that it isn't necessarily that great. I mean, really. Assuming that 75+ is a "positive review", do you know how many reviewers gave it a positive review, on Metacritic? 12 out of 43. Less than a third. If a "negative review" is below 50, 8 reviewers gave it a negative review. Which is less than the number of positive reviews, but it seems that the large majority of reviewers (23 of them) thought it was just average. I doubt IGN's reviewer played for six hours, thought "Meh, 5/10", then played for another week and thought "ZOMG THIS IS PWNAGE! BEST GAME EVAR! 9.7/10!". People don't tend to change their opinions like that.

And one final statement: Wii owners, the world is not against you. A Wii game receiving negative reviews is not an anti-innovation conspiracy, or even Wii hating. It's just a subpar Wii game.

/rant.