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twesterm on 23 December 2009
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KylieDog said:
themanwithnoname said:

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.

 

 

The various sub-scores are related though.

If you have that presentation that constantly stops you from playing to load, that doesn't affect the actual gameplay, but it does slow you down and completely break the pacing. 

Those two are connected.  The presentation is actually so bad (4.5!) that it's pretty understandable that it can affect so many other things, even lasting appeal!  It makes you want to play the game less.

If the presentation were something 8+ and the score differences were that different between the sub-scores I think you would have a point, but 4.5 is a *terrible* score and it's pretty understandable that it affects everything else.