GT review of SMG.

[twesterm]

konnichiwa said:

twesterm said:
I really like GT Reviews though I've never understood why exactly they put story in their scores (though not all of them). It's just always seemed weird to put that in the reviews for any game with a story since in some cases, like Mario, the story isn't the driving force or any force other than just a small motivation to be there.

Anyways, great review.

Euhm because some gamers love stories like me.

They gived a 7.9 for FFXII especially because the story was horrible and I agree with them.

I completely agree that some games thrive on story and that should be mentioned somewhere in the review, but having a seperate catagory for story is silly. For games that just don't have story they don't bother including it (and they even don't include it for some games that do have story) and then for every other game they include it when it really has no effect on the game.

Sure, for an FF game story goes somewhere but in a Mario game it's there for nothing more than motivation.

 

BenKenobi88 said:
Story is important, but not so much in a Mario game, and that's why even though it got a 7.5 for story, it didn't weigh in the final score very much. Some people don't understand the final score isn't an average...each score has its own weight depending on each game.

And I do understand that the final score isn't an average and that the story score really didn't even factor into the final score, but that is the exact reason why it's silly to even include the score. If it really doesn't matter, why even bother?