| axumblade said: 8 is actually a really good score considering it's IGN who reviewed this. RPG's this generation tend to get torn apart critically. |
The 1st sentence does not make any sense as it implies that the IGN guys are some sort of harsh reviewers, who generally give lower scores than other media, which they aren't. IMO they are not a harsh review site, they are a bad review site.
The 2nd sentence is wrong, see Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Fallout 3, Oblivion... If you had claimed though that old-school style RPGs this gen often seem to be underrated by many western reviewers , I'd agreed.
As I said earlier in this thread, my most trusted game magazine gave DQIX a score of 87. The reviewer from this magazine clearly loves DQ games and describes excellently what these games are about and why he finds them fascinating (which was very informative for me as a DQ noob), but being a fan doesn't mean he will give out extremely high or even 90plus scores by default. He gave the DS remakes of DQIV a 82 and DQV a 85 afair. That's how a known franchise should be rated imo: Give it to someone who loves the specific (sub-)genre and who knows what he/she's talking about, but at the same time is informed and critical enough to detect the actual shortcomings.
