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Sempuukyaku on 13 November 2009
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theprof00 said:
Sempuukyaku said:
In my eyes, IGN Wii takes some serious credibility hits if they dock the game because it doesn't have a feature they want. That's just blatant lobbyism instead of serious game critique.

It's not really a "feature they want" rather than a "industry-standard feature"

 

It's like COD:reflex not having mic support.

Here's the problem with that, it's been known now for 6 months that this game is not going to have online multiplayer. So for them to still lament about that fact in the review instead of review the game for how it actually plays is again....lobbyism. They've made no compelling argument that the gameplay stands to benefit from adding online at all, only that the game gets a reduced score because it doesn't have it. Should we ding games like Metroid Prime trilogy because it doesn't have online either?

 

Ingenious level design, smooth frame rates (which would suffer from online play), and tight controls for a 2D game should be "industry-standard fare". Everything else is extra. When a game gets a hit because of the lack of an "extra" even though the essentials are nailed perfectly...it's lobbyism. Sorry.