Loud_Hot_White_Box said:
No. Subtract the plague of 10's that infected nearly all sites, not just IGN, for GTA IV, and there's no real trend or problem here. MGS4 deserves it. Provide average IGN review score data for 2008 and compare it to 2007, if you want. |
Loud_Hot_White_Box, don't kid yourself. Metal Gear Solid 4 is a title is obligated to work extra hard to appeal to gamers because it takes a very deep approach to storytelling and not everyone has played all the titles. It's not about how well a developer achieves their OWN goals, it's about how fun it is. Now, I played MGS4 at a friend's house yesterday, and the controls were great, the gameplay was great, the graphics were great, but being a stranger to the MGS series, the story was absolutely mind-stumping. The cutscenes felt like screeching halts to a ride. I understand that Kojima is trying to distinguish the way his games tell their epic stories, but in the words of Yahtzee, "Any game designer who sacrifices fun to make an artistic statement is obviously stuck so far up his own ass that he's in danger of choking on his own head." Ultimately, MGS4 does not lend a helping hand to the younger bunch.
