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twesterm on 22 January 2008
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ZenfoldorVGI said:

Look jabronies, Famitsu is far more respected than is this website, IGN, or anything in English, short of Gamerankings, and I'll tell you another thing, when Japanese gamers look for which game to purchase, they sure as hell ain't looking through translated magazines like we are right now, so get over yourselves, all of you who scoff at that magazine, and put more creedance in Gamespot than you do Famitsu, what are you smoking?

 


Oh really?

http://kotaku.com/gaming/famitsu/famitsu-for-beginners-222494.php

In case you don't feel like reading, I'll just show you the important part:

When Famitsu rates a game high, they do it out of respect for the readers -- avid players of Kingdom Hearts as most of them are. Avid players of Kingdom Hearts don't want to be told what Famitsu really thinks of their fucking piece of shit hobby. So Famitsu awards the "courtesy score" -- which used to be all nines and a ten, and is now all tens and a nine. When Famitsu KNOWS a game is going to sell 2 million copies in a week regardless of what they say, this is what they do.

You may think Famitsu is the shit because it's Japanese and must be awesome, but I gaurantee you that if IGN said something like that you would be bitching as loud as you possibly could and complaining how it's such a biased website.