The official Endless Ocean: Blue world thread of pure Joy and Awesomeness

[Cheebee]

Gamerace said:

Cheebee said:

rastari said:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/feb/03/endless-ocean-2-game-review

Lol, definitely someone who clearly has no idea what Endless Ocean is al about, and who, on top of that, seems to be biased towards HD consoles. Complaining about the graphics and pacing of the game. This is not some action game. It's supposed to be realistic and slow-paced. That's what diving is like.

This is why so many reviewers simple fail.   By his own testimony he scored it so low because he didn't like it and it didn't have HD graphics.

'I gave it a good old go but didn't enjoy it, for the reasons outlined above - I can't pretend that I did.'

While it's fine that he didn't enjoy it, not everyone enjoys Fire Emblem either, doesn't stop it from being an awesome game.  Reviewers have an obligation to review a game for what it is and not's what it is - their personal tastes shouldn't factor into it.   It isn't a PS3 game, nor is it an action piece.  For what it sets out to do, on the system it's on, it does it masterfully, at least according to all other accounts.

This review is like having a 8 year old girl review God of War III and telling you it's utter crap.

I agree with you, totally. 'Professional' reviewers should be objective and unbiased, and this guy's definitely neither.

He actually compares EO2's graphics to a PS3 game. Well of course that would look better! Of course HD graphics would be most welcome, and of course the game would benefit from better graphics! Most games would. PS3 games could look better too, if they'd run on hardware that's like 10x more powerful. Why not compare it to similar games, like, say, EO 1?

And the fact that he didn't enjoy the game's slow pace and therefore scored it low is totally silly, because the slow-paced gameplay is the whole point of EO. He may not like it and that's fine, but the game's supposed to be slow-paced and not action-oriented. The controls are supposed to be simple. It's a game that simulates diving. Don't slam a game because it does what it's supposed to. Realistic diving is not about about battling huge sea monsters, figting, fast-paced action scenes or anything like that. By this guy's logic games like Harvest Moon would be terrible because they don't feature exploding spacestations. Or something. Now, if Arika had set out to make EO2 an underwater hardcore fantasy action-adventure or something, his point about the gameplay would be valid. But they didn't, so he's just... awkward.