Bully: Scholarship Edition Review Discrepancies at IGN

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DMeisterJ said:

tabsina said:

DMeisterJ said:

--OkeyDokey-- said:

Kasz216 said:

--OkeyDokey-- said:

Kasz216 said:

It is sloppy editing. What can you do though. Judges have different standards.

After all the PS2 version got an 89.

How do you have a port of a game with stuff added that all works and it ends up with a lower score?

When it originally came out over a year ago?

See I don't agree with that. After all many people still consider the Ocarina of Time the best game ever.

If a game really has such shallow apeal that it's rating would drop so low do to nothing but graphical enhancements then you've got to question the original review score in the first place.

Standards change, the bar gets raised. Alot happens in a year.

Ocarina is far from a 10/10 by todays standards.

 

Quoted for mother-flippin truth.

You can't give a game a 10/10, then ten years later, it still deserves a ten out of ten. That means we as a group haven't moved forward. That is why I love IGN. They never give 10/10. They may give 9.7, but not tens. Because once you give a ten, that means that gaming has reached it's pinnacle.

 Ocarina got a 10/10 from IGN (among a few others i believe, but you were referring to Ocarina in part of the post), what on earth are you talking about

The game review is ~10 years old.  IGN has changed since then.  That wasn't ign, that was when IGN was a lot different.  That review was from N64world.com or something like that.  IGN wasn't formed for a few years after that.

IGN, hasn't given out 10/10s

At least not in the past couple of year.  Some have came close.

Edit:  The last ten out of ten they gave was in 2001.  [They gave a cell phone game that in 06, but that doesn't count]

Linky

 According to your own link, Ocarina got a 10/10 last year when it was released on VC...

 More to the point, did anyone else look at the list of games that IGN has given 10/10?

11 of the 17 are made by Nintendo (or in the case of Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons, made by Capcom with Nintendo's help). And a significant portion of those (5) are Zelda titles,

Also, 4 Capcom games (incl. OoA and OoS) are up there...

Looks to me like IGN reviews are right on target, for me at least.

Also, to anyone who says Ocarina of Time wouldn't get a 10 today... go back and play it.  There are numerous ways to do so; straight off the N64 if you have one, off of VC if you have a Wii, off the bonus disk that came with WW if you have a GC.  Somehow play it, and then tell me it doesn't withstand the test of time, because it most certainly does.