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Barozi on 29 May 2010
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ZenfoldorVGI said:
Barozi said:
CollectiveCynic said:
FaRmLaNd said:
Agreed.

I personally think that fallout 3, whilst a good to great game certainly wasn't as amazing as the originals and I think that games critics do have a sheep like mentality when its comes to reviewing hight profile releases.

It's been an on going trend amongst critics during this generation of gaming. Many games receive "rave" reviews despite their obvious flaws, they're so caught in the hype, that they become oblivious to the flaws.

Examples:

  • Grand Theft Auto IV (Excellent game, but not worthy of a 98 average rating)
  • Gears of War 2 (Great single-player mode and horde mode is a lot of fun, but the multi-player...)
  • Modern Warfare 2
  • Oblivion
  • Any Halo title after the Combat Evolved
  • Fable II
  • Fallout 3

They're all good games, but hardly deserving of the accolades that the influx of the media give it.

Total disagree and I'm not a game critic. All those games easily deserve 90+ scores and are the best of their respective genres. (Fable 2 being the exception).

conspiracy theory rejected.

...and I would probably agree with that. Just because I think GTAIV was over-rated, doesn't mean that I think it was bad. To the contrary, it was the best GTA game yet released imo, and Gears of War 2....definitely deservers AAA. MW2, while not as good as the first, again, is a great experience on consoles, AAA, Fable 2 I'd give an 85 or so, Fallout 3 best game of the generation, and Oblivion is also a pretty good game in that same genre.

Some over-rated games from this gen are, imo, LBP, Halo 3, Brawl, and Assassin's Creed.

Sure, GTA IV is overrated. Never deserves a 98.

I would give it a 92, but I think an average score of 90 is fair. (+/- 10 points for the individual taste) Anyone rating it below that (80) is either lying to themself or simply never played a game that would really fit in that department.

The only game where I really don't agree with high score is LBP. Low 80s for me.

Everything else lies within +/- 5 points and some others within +/- 10, which I would say is the normal value for a margin of error (error being the average of critics OR yourself !)