Zim said:
badgenome said:
Zim said:
Bad badgenome! Nier got under 70%. It is worthless and shall never have a sequel. Joystiq gave it a 0% and refused to review it because it was so bad.
;-; ow my feelings. Joystiq's 'review' is still to this day utterly shameful. I actually entirely stopped reading their site when they did that.
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Haha, I remember that! They couldn't review it because the guy couldn't figure out how to catch a fish or something, right?
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Yes. When you get the fishing rod and have to go fishing. The guy's house is next to a beach and the reviewer assumed that was the right beach. So he posted a video showing how impossible to catch a fish it was. Then almost immediately someone pointed out that the entire time he was there that there was a BIG RED X on his map showing him where to go.
He panicked and said that having a big red x on the map to show where a quest needs to be done (something done throughout the game) is bad. And that it was bad game design because despite this quest marker players would assume the closest beach was the right one to fish at. Which is simply mind boggling. The game shows you to fish at a specific beach, he ignores this and tries fishing at the closest one anyway. Then blames it on the game and says it doesn't deserve a review and so get's a 0.
@d21 I'm not condeming reviews. I'm condeming the assigning of a score which seems to be the main thing players focus on. You didn't say you didn't want to spend $60 on a game light on content etc, but that you didn't want to spend it on a game that got less than 6/10. Maybe that was simply you using shorthand instead of writing what you meant. However I still feel it shows an attitude of the almighty score being the most important thing.
If you really want wait a few weeks/a month and I can guarantee Lollipop Chainsaw will be less than $60.
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What 0 ? I don't see him giving Nier a score at all. Sounds fine to me if he doesn't want to continue the review for whatever reason.
