Eurogame give MGS4 an 8

[bbsin]

ZenfoldorVGI said:

bbsin said:

This guy includes some spoilers in his review, BE WARNED!!!

Anyways, It seems like this review has never been a big fan of MGS in the past. From what I read, he's basically saying that MGS4 has gameplay that has advanced alot from the previous MGS games but hasn't been changed enough for his liking. He also keeps bringing up that he thinks players that have always disliked MGS before will continue to do so. And he concludes with MGS4 including some of the most classic moments in gaming and "exquisite" game elements, and even with that said, he's glad that this is the end of MG.

Oli Welsh's (the reviewer) entire review resume has been MarioKartWii (8/10), Army of Two , a re-review of WOW and Pirates of the burning sea . Based on his source history, he's pretty new at Eurogamer as his articles points to him joining the staff on February of this year.

 

I dunno how you can attempt to marginalize his review here when you were so stern on an obviously faulty reviews of another game, Ninja Gaiden 2.

....excuse me? If you hadn't noticed, I agreed with the general opinions that some of the reviews of NG2 were suspicious, mainly due to complaints of difficulty. I clearly said that I would not disregard any multiplatform independent review source no matter what I thought of the reviewers' credibility since my goal was to simply create a thread with various reviews (which I did). Regardless, the main problem (as any unbiased person would tell you) about NG2 was it's camera, dated level design and at times, it's framerate. Those 3 negatives were constant in just about every review that I compiled on that thread. From what I'm reading here, the reviewer at Eurogamer is already going into MGS4 with a bad taste in his mouth, without pointing out any negative aspect that he later on would not ironicly defend with a positive remark. All this only to end with cheeky remarks that even though the game has some of the best "moments ever" with some of the most effectively unique "touches" he's ever seen, he's glad that the MGS series is over with.

I'm sorry Zen, but if you can't see the difference between this review and the NG2 reviews, then there's something wrong with you. EDIT: which I now see that you know why I'm suspicious over this guy, other than the point that he's new and possibly trying to make a name for himself.

As for this:

"Perhaps you are simply a MGS fan and don't want to admit that this isn't the best game ever created according to everyone. "

don't play with fire Zen, You don't know me nearly well enough to make baseless assumptions such as that. I don't rule out any opinions except for those of a fanboy's but that doesn't change the fact that I'd like to see some consistant reasons on why game "A" is "x/10".