| teigaga said: You've taken supposed abstracts from various reviews (no quotes) and are complaining that they contradict each other? Has it ever occured to you that most aspects of a game are subjective and thus opinion will vary amongst reviewers. Some people may find the cutscenes excessive, others may find them too few; you will find disparity amongst all game receptions. And comparing it to skyrim is pointless, they are very different titles, with different redeeming factor which make them enjoyable. "Seriously, FF reviews are becoming the joke of the videogame industry". This is a gross exaggeration, Both XIII and XIII-2 have a metacritic average of 80, which sits nicely with your favoured IGN score. Most of the negativity towards recent titles comes from polarised fans and the association of the mediocre spin off titles. I wish all the fans of the recent titles would stop feeling sorry for themselves and just be happy that they enjoy the games. I liked XIII and enjoyed the XIII-2 demo, i just wish all games were reviewed as honestly as these titles are. |
The problem is that the final score isn't consistent with the review. The review itself ends up being contradiptory. Regarding the comparison each site should have at least its own consistent meter to judge games. It isn't acceptable that the most infected game of all, Skyrim, plagued with dozens of bad technical issues can be declared excellent, while FF XIII-2 gets trashed because of "long loading times". 30% of time in Skyrim is wasted on a loading screen. Still that's not an issue. And do not make me talking about the Skyrim's hundreds of bugs, even game-breaking. The technical execution in any Final Fantasy game has always been a full 10. Reviewers should and MUST not take this lightly. It adds up to the final score, which must be a normalized value for the FUN FACTOR. No matter how cool Skyrim is as game, it is a frustrating experience, thus it would deserve a 5.4 . FF games being technicaly perfect can mess up only on the design. So a 54/100 means a 4/100 for the story, music, bameplay, being that 50/100 has already been achieved for its nearly perfect implementation. Which is retarded. On the other side, Skyrim, which is a technical mess, can't go above 75/100. And instead it gets a 96.
I simply can't stand this, It goes against my idea of meritocracy. As simple as that.
