ganoncrotch said:
oniyide said:
ganoncrotch said:
if you for example dislike fighting games, but work at a website where you are part of a group who need to review a whole load of different fighting game mechanics and see which games either offer more than just a roster full of clone characters or a roster with few characters but each one built around unique ideas. Trust me to a person who doesn't like a genre each fps could be a Halo:CE or an Aliens CM if you don't like Fps to begin with you aren't going to be able to distinguish anything less annoying about the great ones.
You just can't expect people to go that far outta their way to praise something and see the good parts about something they've little to no interest in. |
And IMHO that seperates a good reviewer from a crap one. YOu dont need to like a specific genre or game to understand that some kind of quality went into it. For example, I dont like Xenoblade, found it to be quite boring, but alot of people like it. Now I would never call it a bad game, hell no I can tell it was greatly made, just not my cup of tea. I think their is a barometer for quality, if your game constantly glitches, framerate drops, screen tearing or just flat out is unplayable then thats a bad game by basic standards (steel battalion comes to mind)
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My only experience of that was the demo from XBLA and my god that was amazing to play, I would especially love to personally thank who ever it was decided to put the self destruct button inside the cabin next to about 5 other major controls and then make it a kinect only game.... I say kinect only, I mean you need to use kinect while holding a controller.
I'm honestly keeping my eyes peeled for a cheap copy of both this and sonic riders kinect just to have the 2 most broken games of the generation in my collection.
But yeah regarding the rest of your post I do agree that a good reviewer should be able to see that there was an amount of work gone into something such as a fighting game, but I don't believe someone who isn't a fan of the fighting genre would ever really get balance issues which are clear from the get go.
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Amazon has Steel Battalion for as low as 6.50 new. That was my example of one of the broken games, sure its subjective but a game that messed up HAS to go in the bad category it doesnt even work.
I agree they shouldnt put someone who has a disdain for a genre to review said genre, but sometimes crap and deadlines happen.
