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naruball on 12 February 2013
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JayWood2010 said:
cheese_man said:
sales2099 said:
cheese_man said:
sales2099 said:
cheese_man said:
What the fuck? GT5 prologue, GT PSP, GT5 sold 15-20 mil between them. They've done great this gen, and their platform is 1/2 the size of last gen.

So they got the sales down nicely, but the reviews leave something to be desired in them all :P


Thinks game reviews aren't broken and uses emoticons on forums. Are you new to the internet?

Metacritic takes an average of them all so it weeds out the troll reviews to a degree, while also putting a heavier emphasis on major review sites/publications. I thought this was common sense but ok.

Saying the review system is broken is a sore losers excuse. Deal with it. Also the fact that all 3 games above didn't score the way their predessors did, id say its not the reviewers fault. The internet is pro Sony....are you new to the gaming internet?

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You mean the ones who get payed for high scores or receive contracts which disallow them from featuring many things in their reviews such as bugs.

 

The same could be said that using reviews can be a sore loser excuse for losing in sales?

 

What? You mean Vgchartz is.

No offense but Sales is right in what he is saying.  The sales have been good but the games themselves have had problems and that is not rigged in anyway.  Ill take GT5 for example which I believe has an 83 on metacritic.  It was really cool that they put some premium cars in the game that was relistic on the inside but they had 100s and 100s of copy and paste cars from GT4.  The trees was like cardboard and the crowd as well.  It also has no damage on cars like forza or customization.  Forza raised the bar in my opinion this gen with car simulators.  It added more gameplay elements and while it doesnt sell as well as GT by  many people who have played both will say Forza is the better game which the reviews reflect that.  A game that takes 5-6 years to make better be very good. If Turn 10 can make a better game in 2 years imagine with 6 years.

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Never played the game myself, but if memory serves, that was a comment by troll ign and the like reviewers who didn't even bother playing tha game much at all (as in the damage kicks in at a later level). May be wrong though. I remember them saying that they didn't want to include damage from the get go, so that players get used to the contols and the game in general first.

Also, several reviewers said that it was the best car simulator, just not that much of a fun game. So, they scored it down for something it probably never intended to be. That's why the sensible people here keep saying, don't look at the scores or even the average, read the actual reviews and make up your own mind.