Is EDGE Magasine

[heedstone]

Catlana said:

heedstone said:

Strategyking92 said:
*suprised*


You already made up your mind, didn't you?
I could tell when "biased toward xbox 360" was the first listed. I guess it's just my fanboy radar..

I made the poll as fair as possible, I'm sure nobody's clicking on "biased toward xbox 360" just because it's first on the list!!!

Yeah, I agree this is a much better post than last time. I also agreed there is a difference in FPS scores. I believe xbox fps stuff is rated higher than the games should be based on the article. All of this discussion made me go to the library and read Edge of all things, lol. I still refuse to subscribe (see Valkyria / Halo Wars / FFX reviews).

 

However, you mentioned system sellers in your last post. What do you define as system sellers? I for example buy a system based on three types of games: rpgs, third person games (tps / tpa), and strategy games. I rarely play fps type games that do not heavily incorporate other elements (aka fps / rpg such as Borderlands). I do believe that some people base their buying habits on fps but I believe that third person (Uncharted / Mass Effect 2 / Gears) atually influence alot more decisions. Your thoughts?

For me a system seller would be a big (often quite hyped) game that you can't play anything like it on your current system.  Halo, Left 4 dead, Mass Effect and Gears for Xbox.  Killzone, uncharted, heavy rain (possibly infamous) and LBP for PS3.  Mario Kart, Wii Fit, Mario Galaxy and NSMBW for wii.  I think that these are the games that would convince me to buy a system (although I bought my PS3 for GT5 - I thought the damn game would be out by now!)

 

Looking at the list though.... I guess if you removed Halo, L4D and Killzone, the scores would even out a bit.   I may have to agree that Edge only shows bias towards Xbox FPS (although I am still a bit pissed off about heavy rain!!).

 

However, that is still a bias towards Xbox, which a multi platform magazine really should never do.  I pissed off mostly due to the fact that I used to hold Edge reviews in very high regard,  their review system is totally crap now and if you can't trust an independent reviewer to review a game fairly, who can you trust?