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fighter on 12 November 2012
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happydolphin said:
Jay520 said:
Mr Khan said:

DanneSandin illustrated it better. Bananaking is being deliberately obtuse. He could have said "i thought LBP was better," and then this thread would be half as long, if that.


I don't understand that. Why should people have to confirm that their opinion is....their opinion. If someone says blue is better than red, then it's obviously known that they're not speaking objectively, they're giving their opinion. If you give a statement that's obviously subjective, then it's pretty redundant to have to say "imo" or "i think."

But really though, my problem is really with the way he was responded to earlier in this thread. I don't have a problem with the debate honestly, no matter how silly I think it is; it's moreso his treatment in the first few pages that struck a nerve with me.

It's when he said (paraphrased) that a higher metacritic score makes LBP an objectively better game than NSMB that led to it imho.

 

I like what you're trying to do, but I'm also happy people reacted to a claim like that. And I'll also agree with Bananaking that sales =/= quality. That is a fact, as many games of lesser quality have sold better than games that have taken years to make. Sales is a measure of popularity, not quality. If a president is elected, does that make him the best? No, it makes him the most popular.


of course metacritics are a better indicator than sales regarding quality (obvious statement is obvious)

then you have to know that reviewers can give a higher or lower mark to a game in order to compare it to it's predecessor - which is the hard part for Mario

Any developper can multiply the features around the core gameplay (and LBP did very well there thus the high praise) but very few are able to constantly push the gameplay formula systematically and after 30 years and this is why reviewers would aknowledge Mario as the best platformer gameplaywise, even best game ever, despite giving it a lower than 9/10 score