Reviews by The Walrus: Red Alert 3

[Dulfite]

Nintentacle said:

Dulfite said:

Nintentacle said:
I can understand how the review works, but I don't understand why you let one part effect the review so much. If a game has a focus on story, and has a terrible story, that's fair, but if it doesn't even focus on the story in the first place, then leave story out of the review. Overall, It's still a good review.

I do this because that one part of the game is more important to me than any other part of the game. Graphics are not NEARLY as important to me as story is. This type of review is geared towards story obsessed people lol.

I know, but it isn't really taking away bias in reviews like that. In the case of something like Donkey Kong or Mario, you're gonna give a low score to the story which greatly effects the overall score, but if It's like The Last of Us or something, the score will be fair. The fact that you have to put "*" if It's fun shows that.

I'm reviewing the quality of the game, not how fun it is to play. Splashing water colors on a sheet of paper can be a lot of fun, but painting with proper equipment on a canvas is just as fun, but with an improved quality. They COULD actually include a story in these siderscroller games, they just chose not to because they know they've conditioned people to think that it's too difficult for them to try to squeeze a story into a game like that. It's straight up mass consumer ignorance based on decades of operant conditioning by the video game industry, and that's it. These games CAN have stories and they SHOULD have stories. There are NO excuses.

Some of these games even include slight stories (like the 2-d mario ones) but they are LITERALLY 99% the same story every game. They've at least shown us that they can put a story in a game like that, they just chose to give us the same one everytime (which is ridiculous). Every game should have a good game if it want's to be considered a truly high quality game. Period.