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[pearljammer]

dunno001 said:

Torillian said:

And what about Cave Story, Little King's Story, NMH2, World of Goo?  Did reviewers just not want those on HD consoles so they gave them undeservingly high scores for no reason?

Disagreeing with reviews is natural, everyone has their view on things and it makes complete sense not to take reviews as gospel.  On the other hand, believing that there's some anti-Wii conspiracy to try and take it down is just borderline insane.

Those games you gave as examples? Cave Story and World of Goo are both WiiWare. I've never claimed that DL games aren't judged fairly, I guess it was my bad in not clarifying that by "Wii game", I reference retail releases. I think that WW, XBLA and PSN releases seem to be judged more fairly and evenly. As for LKS, well, just look at the graphics. It's "kiddy." That's not what we want to see with gaming. And it ties in well to the "kiddy" audience of the Wii. So we'll review it for the kids. And NMH2 got a better review to hype the series for the remake of NMH1 coming to HD. Can't be trashing a series that we're going to be getting, after all. Make it seem good, and get a port for ourselves.

On the second part, yes, I knew some people would disagree with me, such is the nature of opinions. But I don't think it's "borderline insane" as you call it. Shanobi's post actually says some of what I think. Way back in the day, before the internet was big, we had to rely on magazines for information. They knew that gaming was expensive, and that we wanted the good games. So all games got fair, and truthfully, more harsh, reviews. (I still remember Nintendo Power giving Superman 64 a 1.9/5.) But then things took off, and more money and readers from the internet came. It became a case of catering to the readers and advertisers. Since the first to sites were the "hardcore" gamers, they were pandered to. And as things grew, the "professional" gaming media latched onto the "hardcore" mentality. It fed to their readers, the very ones paying the bills. No longer was it a case of honesty, it's a case of keeping the money coming in, journalistic integrity be damned.

Those are some ambiguous exceptions to the rule, don't you think?

I have to say, I'm with Torillian here, take what you will from a review, however, to think that there is some unspoken, anti-Wii conspiracy is laughable. I don't mean to say that you are laughable, simply the idea of it all.