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Slimebeast said:

I feel so bad for the developers, they openly expressed how they hope that Alan Wake would become a cross-media franchise to extend into movies, TV and whatnot. All that polish in vain, the game was basically finished for over a year and they just kept polishing to make it perfect.

Remedy must be so disappointed. Extremely disappointed.

I feel so bad for the Xbox and us Xbox fans. We could have gotten that super game and well needed weapon in the console war now that the X360 is struggling. And it's not even 90%. We barely have any use for non-AAA game in list wars.

But it's still a great game for me, I have it pre-ordered for day 1.

I'm sorry, but what u talkin about? LOL



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It's plenty of games in my opinion got 90+ scores & the games were garbage
but I guess people still let reviews run their life decisions



patapon said:
EyeAmTJ said:
Seece said:
leo-j said:
well they certainly seemed fairly impressed and comment on the graphics being just amazing too

Your post here is fine

 

Hey, if I tell you I don't think Alan Wake looks as good as Uncharted 2 and Killzone 2 (which I believe is true) will you promise not to argue with anyone in my thread should anyone try? for me?!

Uncharted 2 looked like crap to me...

Hmm... I've seen this condition before. Very dreadful but there is hope!!!

 

Problem solved

I'm just sayin it is overly praised for lookin great...Hell GOW3 looked better in my opinion



EyeAmTJ said:
patapon said:
EyeAmTJ said:
Seece said:
leo-j said:
well they certainly seemed fairly impressed and comment on the graphics being just amazing too

Your post here is fine

 

Hey, if I tell you I don't think Alan Wake looks as good as Uncharted 2 and Killzone 2 (which I believe is true) will you promise not to argue with anyone in my thread should anyone try? for me?!

Uncharted 2 looked like crap to me...

Hmm... I've seen this condition before. Very dreadful but there is hope!!!

 

Problem solved

I'm just sayin it is overly praised for lookin great...Hell GOW3 looked better in my opinion

But some people consider GOW3 the best looking game on consoles (I don't) but a lot do. I'm not saying that uncharted 2 is stylized, but if stylized has no matter

Crysis Flat out looks better than anything else ever.

That said if style matters, none of these games win IMO



Halo Wars has got a 82 on Metacritic and I had the most fun with this game (hundreds of hours over XLive) next to BF BC2 and MassEffect.

Allan Wake has at the moment a 84 - what I want to say is:

This game can be fun. There is no game that needs a 90+ to make fun. It's all up to YOU - if you like it or not.

@Slimebeast:

YOU ARE A PUSSY!



 

 

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value..."

 

Alan Greenspan, 1967

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Phobos said:
Halo Wars has got a 82 on Metacritic and I had the most fun with this game (hundreds of hours over XLive) next to BF BC2 and MassEffect.

Allan Wake has at the moment a 84 - what I want to say is:

This game can be fun. There is no game that needs a 90+ to make fun. It's all up to YOU - if you like it or not.

@Slimebeast:

YOU ARE A PUSSY!

Well if that's true, let me introduce you to the greatest gaming machine ever, where you can play your favourite games that doesn't suck due to poor controls:

DAT PC! Enjoy your RTS's the way they were ment to be played!



MY HYPE LIST: 1) Gran Turismo 5; 2) Civilization V; 3) Starcraft II; 4) The Last Guardian; 5) Metal Gear Solid: Rising

Phobos said:
Halo Wars has got a 82 on Metacritic and I had the most fun with this game (hundreds of hours over XLive) next to BF BC2 and MassEffect.

Allan Wake has at the moment a 84 - what I want to say is:

This game can be fun. There is no game that needs a 90+ to make fun. It's all up to YOU - if you like it or not.

@Slimebeast:

YOU ARE A PUSSY!

lol

Explanation to anyone who might get me wrong. I have Alan Wake limited edition pre-ordered, I am very excited and Im confident it is an amazing game and it's my top1 GOTY this year. Personally these reviews don't mean much to my own decision and opinion of the game. I know it's amazing and it will be mentioned as one of the most underrated games in this gen.

The thing is that reviews are important for the sucess of a game. If there's that magical +90% label on a game, people will recognice it. It's as simple as that. And we, or at least some of us, are interested in the console wars. As an Xbox fan I want the X360 to succeed. I am disappointed because I expected better reviews from Alan Wake, an AAA title that we can brag about lol. Well, not just that, but a great game to strengthen the X360 library so the console is not seen just as the 'shooter-box' or 'PC-box'.

 



you know what pees me off the fact that people are so obsessed with games being over 90 nowadays, i mean back in the ps2 days you knew that if it was over 7 there was still a really good chance that you would enjoy it, on both sides i have seen games classified as "flops" if they did not score over 90 or did not sell well, i really do not like this trend, we should just all chill out and learn to enjoy our games and forget about being obsessed with scores and sales



aragod said:
Phobos said:
Halo Wars has got a 82 on Metacritic and I had the most fun with this game (hundreds of hours over XLive) next to BF BC2 and MassEffect.

Allan Wake has at the moment a 84 - what I want to say is:

This game can be fun. There is no game that needs a 90+ to make fun. It's all up to YOU - if you like it or not.

@Slimebeast:

YOU ARE A PUSSY!

Well if that's true, let me introduce you to the greatest gaming machine ever, where you can play your favourite games that doesn't suck due to poor controls:

DAT PC! Enjoy your RTS's the way they were ment to be played!

 

Best RTS and turnbased SG are Starcraft and JaggdAlliance2 - for me. And I played the hell out of this two games.

HaloWars on PC?

have you ever played HaloWars? I guess not- you don't need mous and keyboard to comand your units ->HW proofs it.

And don't start that shit: Strateygames are meant to be played on PC. 

....FPS are meant to be played on PC!? -------> Look what Halo CE has done...

OK-That was off topic, sorry Seece

 



 

 

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value..."

 

Alan Greenspan, 1967

Slimebeast said:
Phobos said:
Halo Wars has got a 82 on Metacritic and I had the most fun with this game (hundreds of hours over XLive) next to BF BC2 and MassEffect.

Allan Wake has at the moment a 84 - what I want to say is:

This game can be fun. There is no game that needs a 90+ to make fun. It's all up to YOU - if you like it or not.

@Slimebeast:

YOU ARE A PUSSY!

lol

Explanation to anyone who might get me wrong. I have Alan Wake limited edition pre-ordered, I am very excited and Im confident it is an amazing game and it's my top1 GOTY this year. Personally these reviews don't mean much to my own decision and opinion of the game. I know it's amazing and it will be mentioned as one of the most underrated games in this gen.

The thing is that reviews are important for the sucess of a game. If there's that magical +90% label on a game, people will recognice it. It's as simple as that. And we, or at least some of us, are interested in the console wars. As an Xbox fan I want the X360 to succeed. I am disappointed because I expected better reviews from Alan Wake, an AAA title that we can brag about lol. Well, not just that, but a great game to strengthen the X360 library so the console is not seen just as the 'shooter-box' or 'PC-box'.

 

Hardly



Leo-j said: If a dvd for a pc game holds what? Crysis at 3000p or something, why in the world cant a blu-ray disc do the same?

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