| epsilon72 said: Perhaps the time has come for me to really stop paying attention to the reviews... |
Or at very least stop paying attention to the meaningless scores which are probably often decided by advertising dollars. Game Trailers gave it a 9.1 but there actual video show off some very serious issues, and there's a lot of criticism involving combat being easy as hell once obtaining counter attacks and monk mode makes you invisible allowing you to kill in plain sight with no major consequences.
In response to the Penny Arcade counterpoint, I can't really take Gabe and Tyco or whatever their names are anymore seriously than any other internet based reviewer. I generally enjoy their comic, but that's about it. His initial response to seeing bad (7.7 is bad now?) reviews was to rush through the game so he can say they were full of shit. Clearly he already has an agenda and not interested in being objective, or he would have kept playing at his own pace, and not rushed through in attempt to spite those he felt wrong him, stopping only because it was dampening his own personal enjoyment.
He also doesn’t address a few of those issues above mentioned in the game trailers. Such as monk mode and counter attacks dominating combat. It’s also hard for me to buy “oh the story really is great, but I won’t spoil it” line either. Excluding it’s entirely subjective, if he wants to make a stronger argument, he should “spoil” it, after all this is the internet, spoiler tags are fairly easy to do. We do them here all the time.
I’ve argued before, good criticism doesn’t have to justify itself, the critique itself should be the justification. A well written review of any product covering as many possible reasonable concerns speaks volumes more than attacking other critiques.
It’s one the reasons I hate the idiotic scores which I’ve only found useful for observing different trends amongst reviewers and genres through GameRankings and such. Their intentionally designed to avoid being responsible reviewer by immediately drawing attention away from what they’ve actually written.
In closing I give Gabe’s counterpoint a 3.5/10. =P
