| The_vagabond7 said: To put this into perspective, If it wasn't for the reviewers doling out the occasional 7.5 or 8, gamerankings and metacritics top 10s would be almost entirely dominated by this years games. That would mean that this year in gaming has seen more quality than the past two decades combined. Bioshock was great, but it was no mind blowing revolution. COD4 looks beautiful but after playing it, it doesn't seem like anything else other than a good FPS with high production quality, Halo 3 is just the third Halo, it didn't change the face of gaming at all, The orange box is 5 games in one, it's a bargain, but is it gaming beyond what we have ever seen? Or is it just 5 really good games. I could go on. I'm not knocking the above games, they are all great games, but reviewers are just tossing out 10s to anything that has either hype, graphics, or production values. It's been a good year, but certainly not better than the past two decades of gaming put together. Can anybody honestly say that in the past twenty some years of gaming, that there hasn't been as many incredible ground breaking games as this year alone? |
You seem to think a game can only get a 9 or 10 if it changes the face of gaming. I don't really agree. I hate dark, scary games and Bioshocks poduction and the way it sucked you into its world was so well done that I get it's 9s and 10s. Halo 3 isn't much different then prior outings but again I'm not much a multiplayer fps kind of guy, in fact I could have cared less about Halo 3 until about July or August and after getting the depth of the online community sucked me in, I'm amazed at how much is there.
And Orange Box I don't know if you played it or not, but Episode 2 is probably the best piece of gaming ever, It's simply amazing fun. Portal is revolutionary never has puzzle solving been explored to that degree in a fps, and with such a great concept with the computer talking to was brilliant.
And I think these titles are better then Splinter cell from last year that got great reveiws what about Perfect Dark Zeros review? that got near halo 3 reviews and it's not nearly as good.
