Reviewers "trolled" by Yamauchi's damage test!

[FlyingLotus]

Ajescent said:

FlyingLotus said:

_BetterThanToast_ said:

scottie said:

For the 2nd time this week (and the second time in my life) I feel the need to defend IGN.

Reviewers CANNOT play games in their entirety. Well, some games they can - those that last about 6 hours. The majority of reviews are done to make money, which we cannot blame them for - everyone needs to eat. How long would you guess it would take to full experience every facet of GT5? It's just impractical to expect a reviewer to sink that much time into a game, especially when they need to get the review out as soon as they can, in order for it to actually be useful to anyone.

 

When reading reviews (and I do hope you read reviews in their entirity) you must always be aware that the reviewer did not play the game as much as you will over your  life.

Oh dear. This is wrong in so many ways.

Nope i agree with him. Do you really think reviews put 200 hours in starocean 4 to complete the game fully?

But why shouldn't they? If you want to give the game a fair roll of the dice then you investigate every nook and cranny not just skimm it.

As someone said earlier, movie reviews don't just watch the last 20mins of a movie or book reviewers the last 10 pages and say it's awesome/sucky. You need to go all out otherwise you just end up looking foolish.

I've never seen a movie over 200 hours.