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Squilliam on 18 May 2009
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Staude said:
Squilliam said:
Staude said:
Squilliam said:
Wierd is relative, but its definately a quality that can be ascribed to a game. So a quality game can be wierd if wierd is the quality you're going for? Funny isn't it, all the debates we have here about sales vs quality and the word quality isn't even a defined concept.

 

If you hadn't noticed, most things people proclaim on this site are speculation and/or rumor based.

 

But i agree. Some can find a game of great quality while another person will find the same game a piece of shit. I believe that we're generally looking for the common opinion in these situations and/or any that agrees with ours :p

Unfortunately..

Anyhow whilst I really have loved several badly reviewed games, my hit/miss ratio as the scores get higher as an aggregate definately improve quite markedly. I.E. if I had to live in just the 90+ list on metacritic for gaming I would probably be happier than at the 80-89 level, in spite of having far far fewer games to play.

 

I concider scores irrelevent.. Mostly. I'm not gonna lie and say completely, but for games i'm fairly certain i'll get, scores mean little. Games i'm on the fence about.. they can make or break it. But I don't concider +90 to be the criteria. :p

If you'd only play highly reviewed games you could miss out on some gems.

 

I play too many games, but I always rent first and I've found that as a whole the games which I enjoy the most are the ones which get higher reviews. I still enjoy lower rated games a lot and some of my favourite games of the generation have gotten 6-7's as an average. However often I notice that many of the really enjoyable games in say the 80's and 70s especially have lacked in sometimes very important ways. For example two of my favourite games are Mercenaries 2 and Crackdown, both are really fun but the former can suffer from bugs and both suffer from repetitiveness which hurt the replayability for me and how the gameplay is designed just work as smoothly as higher rated examples. Genji: Days of the Blade and Dark Kingdom are two of the lowest rated games that I have enjoyed considerably.

 



Tease.