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| kupomogli said: I'll post later, have to leave for work right now, but I will post one thing for now. This series was trashed by critics on the PS2. http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-2/monster-hunter Once it became a cult classic series after the popularity in Japan, every critic has been overrating and now it's one of the best franchises ever and the first to the last there's almost no change to the gameplay. It just shows how biased critics are and it's a shame it's taken everyone else this long to find out. |
Not that I disagree that critics are biased, but I wouldn't call a 68 (trashed.) And I wouldn't consider low 80%'s that much higher, especially when online, controls and overall polish were additons in the series over time. It could be very possible that most reviewers didn't give the original Playstation games and the first two PSP games much of a chance and quit early on. Or there were just so many fewer reviewers reviewing the game from a similar demographic of tastes. How much people like a certain type of game depends very much on their experiences with other games, and if more people are reviewing over a certain amount you should expect score differences. If I hadn't played Monster Hunter for example, I probably wouldn't have enjoyed MMORPG's when I later dabbled with them as much as I had.
Here are all review scores for monster hunter games.
Monster Hunter Freedom for IOS - 86
Monster Hunter Tri (Wii) - 84
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Wii U) - 82
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite - 81
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (3DS) - 79
Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (PSP) - 72
Monster Hunter Freedom (PSP) - 71
Monster Hunter (PS2) - 68
Let's comapre Gamespot and IGN reviews of Monster Hunter and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite.
Gamespot 57 vs. 65
Ign 72 vs. 80
And considering that MHFU is a better game, overall more polished, with much more content and a few editions to make it more streamlined that definitely seems fair. It's interesting how both scores increased by a similar amount.
