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Slimebeast on 07 August 2009
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outlawauron said:
Slimebeast said:
outlawauron said:
Slimebeast said:

Valkyrie is lifted to sky high on this site. I watched it on Playme (or what that play-through site is called) and it looked like a sub 80% game.

Bioshock is awesome, but not worthy of 95% it has on Metacritic. Although it's certainly not getting the praise it deserves here on VGC, because this site is strangely enough filled with JRPG-lovers.

You call something overrated that you haven't played.

Forza 3 is overrated! I saw a video and thought it was sub-par. See, that's just stupid.

The playthrough of Valkyrai on Game Anyone is at least 5 hours, maybe 10. You can't compared that to 3 minute doctored trailers of upcoming games lol.

And I noticed something else. The internet is filled with JRPG lovers, because those who love JRPGs have a very high chance of being the hardcore gamer who reads forums and the like.

Regardless of length, watching a video doesn't make you qualified call something overrated.

Internet is not filled with JRPG lovers, but yes they're a lil bit over-represented (shooter and sports lovers are probably dumber).

But on VGC the over-representation is unseen anywhere else. It's not at all like this on Gametrailers and Gamespot etc. Trailers of JRPGs for example get lower user grades than action games. 

The biggest factor is that there's almost no PC gamers here on VGC, and the reason is that the sales numbers are only for consoles. It's unnatural for PC gamers to hang here. So almost only console gamers are on these forums, and traditionally WRPG is a very new genre on consoles, while JRPG is much older and was popular in the past and has thus gained lots of hardcore console fans.

JRPG (and Mario/Nintendo) is almost exclusively a genre tied to consoles, unlike action games, shooters, WRPG etc.