IGN.com Reviews Bayonetta - MAJOR Score Difference!

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KylieDog said:

themanwithnoname said:

KylieDog said:
The reviews are worthless.


360 -

Presentation - 9
Graphics - 9
Sound - 9
Gameplay - 9
Lasting Appeal - 9.5

PS3 -

Presentation - 4.5
Graphics - 7.5
Sound - 9
Gameplay - 8.5
Lasting Appeal - 9


See what is wrong?

- Load times and framerate fall under presentation, which is a lower score on PS3. Fine.

- Graphics are said to be almost identical yet the PS3 a whole 1.5 lower.

- Sound is the same. Fine.


The next two are really wong though.

- The gameplay for both should be identical, there is no difference how the game plays (seeing that load times/framerate is already covered in Presentation).

- Lasting appeal should be identical also, the 360 doesn't have anything extra the PS3 does not.



Cannot even be consistant on the areas of the game that are consistant on both versions. Same reviewer so cannot use that excuse.


Worthless review(s).

The categories are not as clearcut as you'd like to think they are. Why on earth isn't gameplay going to be lower when there's slowdown in a game where slowdown really hurts it? Yes, it does affect how enjoyable the gameplay is and whether it works as well as it should. Also, the appeal doesn't have to be identical, as the reviewer thinks the technical issues in the game renders himself less likely to play it longer on the PS3 due to technical issues than he does on the 360. If you actually read his explanations of the scores, you will see that a lot of them cross over. But hey, if you wanna just write the review off as worthless without taking the time to read it, openly accusing the reviewer (who I will again state is on the PS3 team) of doing it just for website hits, when you haven't played both versions all the way through or have any substantial proof in your accusation other than "this score should be the same!"...hey, more power to you.

 

There are different catagories for a reason, they each cover a seperate thing otherwise they may as well just combine the catagories into fewer.

 

I did read the reviews and not just look at numbers, he even mentions framerate in the graphics score.   So that is Presentation, Graphics and Gameplay all lower because of framerate?   Sorry that that is just stupid, no other word for it.  Framerate should bring one of those down and one only, if gonna bring down multiples then all three should be merged.

 

That is the entire reason for seperate catagories...to score the different areas.  As such the reviews are worthless because individual points are all smeared because of 1 single thing affecting what it should not.

 

 

Ignorance is bliss, huh KylieDog? If you want clear cut review scores...form your own game review website. As for IGN, they carry over different aspects into a game into a number of review sections. As themanwithnoname CLEARLY stated...(see above bold & underlined text). To comepletely IGNORE this way of reviews from IGN, and just what makes sense means that you are not to use IGN as a source to accept reiew scores, and should look elsewhere. Once again...SLOWDOWN...FRAME RATE PROBLEMS...LONG LOADING & FREQUENT LOADING...will affect a game's Presentation, Graphics, Lasting Appeal (who wants to play a game that's supposed to be played over and over again with all these problems in comparison to the Xbox 360? Thus the .5 off), and ESPECIALLY Gameplay (just imagine it's like playing street fighter 4/soul calibur 4 online with lag, and tell me your enjoying the gameplay....yeaaaa...thought so...that's slow down..and that affects Gameplay. Thus the .5 off again.)