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toMsons7551 said:

I hope it's never.

I just think people who will get to rate it will be HUGE Halo fanboys and rate it a 10 before they even get to play it. Fair reviews no a days is just expecting way to much in my opinion. So yea, I don't care what some biased nit-wit reviewer will say about the game. Last I check it's more of the same, and doesn't deserve good marks unless they did a total 180 from the previous games. But even the graphics looks the same, they cannot even make it look good. And for multiplayer it looks even worse, god knows why they downgrade it. It's not like Halo campaign is even that demanding.

I am just saying, hate most "big game" reviews, especially when they come out early. They only get permission if it's good, or other stupid stipulations. Not like they can do what ever, they sign a contract/agreement. Everyone has some objective, and how shady MS has been recently, I expect nothing more but something pathetic. I will honestly be happy if Halo Reach gets a "9.0" from IGN and stuff, so I can actually read it and see faults. Halo's have been far from perfect and a lower-ish rating will probably be the "real" reviews. When games are exclusive, this is where it's worst in my opinion. Cause sometimes reviewers give the feeling that they are standing up for a console, rather than rating the game alone.


I hate review sites, they need to have like 5-10 people review a game for a average score. So one biased idiot doesn't ruin it. I like honest reviews from objective people. It's like, all cause I think Uncharted 2 is in the top 2-3 best games this generation, I still wouldn't give it a 10. Sorry for many rant, just thought I'd say how I hate what campany's do, on both sides of the spectrum.

So you bitch about reviewers not playing a game enough before reviewing it and in the same breath you say that Halo: Reach is more of the same without ever having played it. Thats called being a hypocrite.

I also love how you say none of the Halo games deserved the scores they got when Halo 3 is still at the top of xbl charts week after week even 3 years after release. If people bought the games because of hype they wouldn't still be playing it so long out. Not to mention the one Halo game that wasn't as stellar as the rest got reviews reflecting such, that game being ODST.

So all your complaining about reviewer bias is pretty much just you whining that you don't like Halo so you don't get why everyone else does.



                                           

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IGN's review comes out Saturday September 11.



tuscaniman said:

IGN's review comes out Saturday September 11.

Do you know if thats the first review for Halo Reach (not including little fanboy blogs that pretend to reveiw.)



tuscaniman said:

IGN's review comes out Saturday September 11.

Damn thats late ...

And that date... gosh dont want to remind :/



I honestly don't care about the review, I'm still gonna buy it and I'm going to enjoy it A LOT!



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yo_john117 said:
tuscaniman said:

IGN's review comes out Saturday September 11.

Do you know if thats the first review for Halo Reach (not including little fanboy blogs that pretend to reveiw.)


No I don't know if its the first one or not. I'm sure its not. It actually comes out at 9:01 pm Pacific time September 11. So technically after midnight Sept 12 for east coasters.



toMsons7551 said:

I hope it's never.

I just think people who will get to rate it will be HUGE Halo fanboys and rate it a 10 before they even get to play it. Fair reviews no a days is just expecting way to much in my opinion. So yea, I don't care what some biased nit-wit reviewer will say about the game. Last I check it's more of the same, and doesn't deserve good marks unless they did a total 180 from the previous games. But even the graphics looks the same, they cannot even make it look good. And for multiplayer it looks even worse, god knows why they downgrade it. It's not like Halo campaign is even that demanding.

I am just saying, hate most "big game" reviews, especially when they come out early. They only get permission if it's good, or other stupid stipulations. Not like they can do what ever, they sign a contract/agreement. Everyone has some objective, and how shady MS has been recently, I expect nothing more but something pathetic. I will honestly be happy if Halo Reach gets a "9.0" from IGN and stuff, so I can actually read it and see faults. Halo's have been far from perfect and a lower-ish rating will probably be the "real" reviews. When games are exclusive, this is where it's worst in my opinion. Cause sometimes reviewers give the feeling that they are standing up for a console, rather than rating the game alone.


I hate review sites, they need to have like 5-10 people review a game for a average score. So one biased idiot doesn't ruin it. I like honest reviews from objective people. It's like, all cause I think Uncharted 2 is in the top 2-3 best games this generation, I still wouldn't give it a 10. Sorry for many rant, just thought I'd say how I hate what campany's do, on both sides of the spectrum.

There is so much wrong with this post I don't even know where to begin and if I did then it would take far too long to post it here so here lets make a summary.....

You have clearly never played Halo.  Ever. 

Your bias is overtly obvious.  

OT:  I'm sure not until pretty darn close to release.  With a game as massive as Halo is MS is going to want to keep spoilers and such to an absolute minimum especially after the disaster that they had with leaking the game early.



I've seen the pirate version of it...

While I don't give a shit about the game, my friend says he likes it better than Modern Warfare 2 (and he's already at the 10th prestige).

Knowing the fact that he didn't give a shit about Halo 3, neither did he about ODST, I suppose this is a big game.

 

Conclusion: 10/10

Metacritic: 97



simple question, 2nd post PS3 fan hating on Halo.

I really thought we would have been past that.



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toMsons7551 said:

I hope it's never.

I just think people who will get to rate it will be HUGE Halo fanboys and rate it a 10 before they even get to play it. Fair reviews no a days is just expecting way to much in my opinion. So yea, I don't care what some biased nit-wit reviewer will say about the game. Last I check it's more of the same, and doesn't deserve good marks unless they did a total 180 from the previous games. But even the graphics looks the same, they cannot even make it look good. And for multiplayer it looks even worse, god knows why they downgrade it. It's not like Halo campaign is even that demanding.

I am just saying, hate most "big game" reviews, especially when they come out early. They only get permission if it's good, or other stupid stipulations. Not like they can do what ever, they sign a contract/agreement. Everyone has some objective, and how shady MS has been recently, I expect nothing more but something pathetic. I will honestly be happy if Halo Reach gets a "9.0" from IGN and stuff, so I can actually read it and see faults. Halo's have been far from perfect and a lower-ish rating will probably be the "real" reviews. When games are exclusive, this is where it's worst in my opinion. Cause sometimes reviewers give the feeling that they are standing up for a console, rather than rating the game alone.


I hate review sites, they need to have like 5-10 people review a game for a average score. So one biased idiot doesn't ruin it. I like honest reviews from objective people. It's like, all cause I think Uncharted 2 is in the top 2-3 best games this generation, I still wouldn't give it a 10. Sorry for many rant, just thought I'd say how I hate what campany's do, on both sides of the spectrum.

XD, there's always one.



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