Onyxmeth said:
.:Dark Prince:. said:
MontanaHatchet said:
venepe said:
I believe it can be plausible that GTAIV scores are a bit inflated to take away the spotlight from the Wii. Here are the reason I think it is plausible:
1. this is all happening right after an "anti-wii" week
2. the praise seems to be coming from ps3/xbox biased sites
This is all speculation and opinion, and since I haven't played any GTA game, it could be that GTAIV is indeed a perfect game.
"the truth is out there" ;)
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Ask the average gamer, IGN is definitely not a Nintendo-hating site, and they were one of the first reviewers to give it a 10. |
Reviewed by the guy who gave Jade Empire (a game with a GR score of 88) 9.9 and still thought it was underrating it. Give me a break, the IGN review is a joke. Now i don't think that PS3/360 biased sites only praise GTA IV, but the GameSpot thingie was a bit weird. Anyway, i wanna ask the people in this topic who own GTA IV (and have played it for more than a couple of hours so that the initial excitement is over) if they think the game is a 10. IMO the game is more like a 9.5, but that's just me, someone who hated all GTAs before IV and loves GTA IV so far but still i can't just ignore the technical problems in the game like most reviewers seem to be doing. |
Prematurely judging it after about 8 hours of play, i'd say about a 9.2 or so for me. I would like to point out though that I don't believe any of the games that have gotten 10's in reviews have ever deserved it, but if they should get those 10s constantly then so should GTA IV, because to me it's just as good as Ocarina of Time ever was to me.
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Agreed, a 9.2 sounds fair to me.
Speaking of GameSpot...
"We never posted a review with the score of 9.5. What you saw was a bug that sometimes causes scores to appear on the site before reviews go live. Sometimes that score is correct, sometimes it isn't. In this case, it wasn't."
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"Rather than claiming bias or money, I can tell you the reason for the score "bump" was simple.
The 9.5 was a red herring to see how people would react. Sure enough, people flipped out over it not getting a 10, and people are still angry that the score was "changed." The real score was 10, and if they felt it was a 9.5, it would have stayed that way. Whenever there's a change in the score or review, there's a note explaining why. In this case, everyone got duped when they put a 9.5 up."
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I can't help but put GameSpot on my ignore list ^_^
