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Garcian Smith on 17 March 2010
Carl2291 said:

How is it the last 10 percent?

Do you know how big Gran Pulse is, or how much stuff there is to do when you get to Gran Pulse... NOT including the Story?

If anything, i would say he was about 70% through the game.

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That would be because Red is far, far superior to Blue.

It doesn't matter how good that part of the game is: If you need to sit through 30 hours of crap to get there, then it's not worth it.



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Spagoodle on 17 March 2010

This thread is making me a sad panda.

Trust me you guys are getting worked up for nothing. I know for a fact he reviewed the game based off of a debug copy he got sent by SE. It how this kind of thing works. You guys can have a debate about the merits of reviewing a game without finishing it, but you should realize those screen shots are not the smoking gun you think they are.



Samus Aran on 17 March 2010
outlawauron said:
Samus Aran said:
Carl2291 said:
He is no where near the end of the game, or completing the full game for that matter...


Seriously, Sterling is just one big troll.

I doubt playing the other 10% will turn him into a FF XIII fan all of a sudden.

 

If you've played through 90% of a game and didn't like it then what will that other 10% change? People seem to forget that reviews are subjective.

There's far more than 10% left.

It was just a random number. He's way more then half way through and if a game already sucks for 50% of the time I played it then I won't give it a good review.



rocketpig on 17 March 2010
Garcian Smith said:
rocketpig said:
Oh noes! He played ~90% of a game and didn't like it! Oh noes!

And a big LOL to anyone that brings up his Deadly Premonition review as proof of anything. Sarcasm is lost on some people.

Thing is, if it had been, say, Deadly Premonition that he'd only finished 90% of and then reviewed, nobody would care. But this is FFXIII we're talking about: a game that millions of Internet denizens would defend to the death even if it were nothing more than Motomu Toriyama's poo stuffed into a PS3 case. Any negative review of it would have received this kind of attention, and Final Fantasy fans across the 'net will do anything they can to discredit a reviewer that gives it a less-than-positive review. This is just one such case of grasping at straws.

I'm not arguing that he shouldn't have finished it. If anything, he should have finished the game BECAUSE he was going to give it a low score. No need to give his detractors ammunition.

On the other hand, gamers need to really grow up when it comes to review scores. Threads like this remind me of a petulant child that just had its binky taken away.




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Samus Aran on 17 March 2010
RolStoppable said:
Wait a second, is his review included on Metacritic?

Yeah.



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geddesmond2 on 17 March 2010

Well he has chapter 11s trophey unlocked and maybe he didn't sync his tropheys since finishing the game but with that said I think a lot of reviewers don't play the whole game before reviewing which sucks because a lot of people buy games based on reviews. The gaming industry is becoming a sham and its only set to get worse.



outlawauron on 17 March 2010
Samus Aran said:
outlawauron said:
Samus Aran said:
Carl2291 said:
He is no where near the end of the game, or completing the full game for that matter...


Seriously, Sterling is just one big troll.

I doubt playing the other 10% will turn him into a FF XIII fan all of a sudden.

 

If you've played through 90% of a game and didn't like it then what will that other 10% change? People seem to forget that reviews are subjective.

There's far more than 10% left.

It was just a random number. He's way more then half way through and if a game already sucks for 50% of the time I played it then I won't give it a good review.

Eh, Chapter 11 is the halfway point for the game. He just beat Chapter 11.



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Spagoodle on 17 March 2010

I'm going to do this one last time for those of you who don't know what the fuck you talking about.

Developers do not send retail copy's to reviewers. Reviewers have things call debug kits. They download the game from a service like PartnetNet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PartnerNet or the file is sent directly to them. WHEN YOU PLAY A GAME ON A DEBUG THERE ARE NO TROPHIES/ACHIEVEMENTS.

You guys can keep ignoring the facts. those screen shots prove nothing but how far he played it on a retail copy. For those of you who still can't figure it out he didn't review it based off of that play through. You guys are wrong and are talking out of your ass. When you take a shit on someone integrity you should try to not talk absolute shit in the process.


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Garcian Smith on 17 March 2010

In before someone who obviously didn't read Spagoodle's post above.



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 -Sean Malstrom

 

 

The_vagabond7 on 17 March 2010

Spagoodle is right. On podcasts alot of reviewers who also love achievements/trophies complain they have to beat a game twice to get them because the debugs they get for reviewing purposes don't give you trophies.



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