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Crystalchild on 06 March 2010

So you saw Edge's Review of Final Fantasy XIII, but how did they come to this rating? let me explain.

so we need to understand how to imagine Edge as a whole. Edge is a Magazine at first, and what do they need to do? they want to sell those Mags of them.

Darth Vader would say:

but thats not all!

at first, we need to understand them, so lets take older Final Fantasy Review's to make a comparison, for Example FFXII's Rating:

'A work of progressive genius that hauls its staid genre up by the bootstraps and takes its place alongside the WOWs and Oblivions of this world. It's altogether too good to be true.' [Christmas 2006, p.74]. - 90/100

okay, thats a great Score given from Edge there. but lets take a look at a very special thing in this:

'takes its place alongside the WOWs and Oblivions of this world. 

so, they're compairing it with World of Warcraft and Oblivion, both RPGs, and both are Rated high from Edge. but lets take a closer look:

It’s a game designed to exhaust the world’s supply of adjectives. It’s a world littered with riches - tiny details sewn into a vast, varied and utterly spectacular canvas. [Sept 2005, p.90]

so we can say that they are very biased towards games of Open Worlds, as noted you can take World of Warcraft as an Example.

so its becoming clear, how they do their criticism for RPGs:

 

so Edge Rated after the Formula they have in stock for Games like this, and so we can tell:

Square-enix screwed it up by not giving them an Open World. shame on you square.

 



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jneul on 06 March 2010
Crystalchild said:

So you saw Edge's Review of Final Fantasy XIII, but how did they come to this rating? let me explain.

so we need to understand how to imagine Edge as a whole. Edge is a Magazine at first, and what do they need to do? they want to sell those Mags of them.

Darth Vader would say:

but thats not all!

at first, we need to understand them, so lets take older Final Fantasy Review's to make a comparison, for Example FFXII's Rating:

'A work of progressive genius that hauls its staid genre up by the bootstraps and takes its place alongside the WOWs and Oblivions of this world. It's altogether too good to be true.' [Christmas 2006, p.74]. - 90/100

okay, thats a great Score given from Edge there. but lets take a look at a very special thing in this:

'takes its place alongside the WOWs and Oblivions of this world. 

so, they're compairing it with World of Warcraft and Oblivion, both RPGs, and both are Rated high from Edge. but lets take a closer look:

It’s a game designed to exhaust the world’s supply of adjectives. It’s a world littered with riches - tiny details sewn into a vast, varied and utterly spectacular canvas. [Sept 2005, p.90]

so we can say that they are very biased towards games of Open Worlds, as noted you can take World of Warcraft as an Example.

so its becoming clear, how they do their criticism for RPGs:

 

so Edge Rated after the Formula they have in stock for Games like this, and so we can tell:

Square-enix screwed it up by not giving them an Open World. shame on you square.

 

lol add another one to that does it have guns?? didn't they score ME2 96 and that is classified as a RPG



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Kantor on 06 March 2010
jneul said:

lol add another one to that does it have guns?? didn't they score ME2 96 and that is classified as a RPG

No, because they only score in complete points (multiples of 10%).



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huaxiong90 on 06 March 2010
jneul said:
Crystalchild said:

So you saw Edge's Review of Final Fantasy XIII, but how did they come to this rating? let me explain.

so we need to understand how to imagine Edge as a whole. Edge is a Magazine at first, and what do they need to do? they want to sell those Mags of them.

Darth Vader would say:

but thats not all!

at first, we need to understand them, so lets take older Final Fantasy Review's to make a comparison, for Example FFXII's Rating:

'A work of progressive genius that hauls its staid genre up by the bootstraps and takes its place alongside the WOWs and Oblivions of this world. It's altogether too good to be true.' [Christmas 2006, p.74]. - 90/100

okay, thats a great Score given from Edge there. but lets take a look at a very special thing in this:

'takes its place alongside the WOWs and Oblivions of this world. 

so, they're compairing it with World of Warcraft and Oblivion, both RPGs, and both are Rated high from Edge. but lets take a closer look:

It’s a game designed to exhaust the world’s supply of adjectives. It’s a world littered with riches - tiny details sewn into a vast, varied and utterly spectacular canvas. [Sept 2005, p.90]

so we can say that they are very biased towards games of Open Worlds, as noted you can take World of Warcraft as an Example.

so its becoming clear, how they do their criticism for RPGs:

 

so Edge Rated after the Formula they have in stock for Games like this, and so we can tell:

Square-enix screwed it up by not giving them an Open World. shame on you square.

 

lol add another one to that does it have guns?? didn't they score ME2 96 and that is classified as a RPG

Edge don't score in decimals. They gave it a 9.



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jneul on 06 March 2010
huaxiong90 said:
jneul said:
Crystalchild said:

So you saw Edge's Review of Final Fantasy XIII, but how did they come to this rating? let me explain.

so we need to understand how to imagine Edge as a whole. Edge is a Magazine at first, and what do they need to do? they want to sell those Mags of them.

Darth Vader would say:

but thats not all!

at first, we need to understand them, so lets take older Final Fantasy Review's to make a comparison, for Example FFXII's Rating:

'A work of progressive genius that hauls its staid genre up by the bootstraps and takes its place alongside the WOWs and Oblivions of this world. It's altogether too good to be true.' [Christmas 2006, p.74]. - 90/100

okay, thats a great Score given from Edge there. but lets take a look at a very special thing in this:

'takes its place alongside the WOWs and Oblivions of this world. 

so, they're compairing it with World of Warcraft and Oblivion, both RPGs, and both are Rated high from Edge. but lets take a closer look:

It’s a game designed to exhaust the world’s supply of adjectives. It’s a world littered with riches - tiny details sewn into a vast, varied and utterly spectacular canvas. [Sept 2005, p.90]

so we can say that they are very biased towards games of Open Worlds, as noted you can take World of Warcraft as an Example.

so its becoming clear, how they do their criticism for RPGs:

 

so Edge Rated after the Formula they have in stock for Games like this, and so we can tell:

Square-enix screwed it up by not giving them an Open World. shame on you square.

 

lol add another one to that does it have guns?? didn't they score ME2 96 and that is classified as a RPG

Edge don't score in decimals. They gave it a 9.

metacritic says otherwise, so if they misled me, then fine your right, still 9 is a good score and my point is valid, just wait for resonance of fate to come out, i bet you anything it gets more than FF XIII from Edge that is



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huaxiong90 on 06 March 2010
jneul said:
huaxiong90 said:
jneul said:
Crystalchild said:

So you saw Edge's Review of Final Fantasy XIII, but how did they come to this rating? let me explain.

so we need to understand how to imagine Edge as a whole. Edge is a Magazine at first, and what do they need to do? they want to sell those Mags of them.

Darth Vader would say:

but thats not all!

at first, we need to understand them, so lets take older Final Fantasy Review's to make a comparison, for Example FFXII's Rating:

'A work of progressive genius that hauls its staid genre up by the bootstraps and takes its place alongside the WOWs and Oblivions of this world. It's altogether too good to be true.' [Christmas 2006, p.74]. - 90/100

okay, thats a great Score given from Edge there. but lets take a look at a very special thing in this:

'takes its place alongside the WOWs and Oblivions of this world. 

so, they're compairing it with World of Warcraft and Oblivion, both RPGs, and both are Rated high from Edge. but lets take a closer look:

It’s a game designed to exhaust the world’s supply of adjectives. It’s a world littered with riches - tiny details sewn into a vast, varied and utterly spectacular canvas. [Sept 2005, p.90]

so we can say that they are very biased towards games of Open Worlds, as noted you can take World of Warcraft as an Example.

so its becoming clear, how they do their criticism for RPGs:

 

so Edge Rated after the Formula they have in stock for Games like this, and so we can tell:

Square-enix screwed it up by not giving them an Open World. shame on you square.

 

lol add another one to that does it have guns?? didn't they score ME2 96 and that is classified as a RPG

Edge don't score in decimals. They gave it a 9.

metacritic says otherwise, so if they misled me, then fine your right, still 9 is a good score and my point is valid, just wait for resonance of fate to come out, i bet you anything it gets more than FF XIII from Edge that is

That's the aggregate review on metacritic (96), but Edge's review on MC is registered as 90.

 

And if RoF is open world, then it's safe from Edge's wrath. XD



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binary solo on 06 March 2010

Interesting the Edge score is up for PS3 but not for 360. Team Xbox also gave it a 5/10, so that unfortunately would have dragged 360's version down below PS3's if Metacritic had put the Edge review up for both platforms.



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numonex on 06 March 2010

The fall out from Edge's review of FFXIII is epic. Final Fantasy Fan Melt down.



papflesje on 06 March 2010
numonex said:
The fall out from Edge's review of FFXIII is epic. Final Fantasy Fan Melt down.

Weren't you the one bashing the game in every thread and when people called you out on it, you ignored them and went on to respond to a post that you could use to bash the game again? :)



Reasonable on 06 March 2010

Completely off topic - but seeing that Darth Vader just reminds me of this (which from an audio perspective is not safe for work):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw

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