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mike_intellivision on 14 December 2007

I honestly think they have been having some problems with the Gamerankings site.

One day, all the totals were rounded to the nearest percentage. The next day, there were expressed out to three decimal places. Previously, they had been displayed to two decimal places.

Also, I could not get the search function to bring up a list of worst games ... it just kept giving me the best ones.

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Non Sequor on 14 December 2007
Lost tears of Kain said:
phil said:
Yojimbo said:
darthdevidem said:
So are R & C n Uncharted AAA NOW??
No, bad sales and they did not move hardware.

 

Right. High Sales = Quality, Low Sales = Shit. I forgot.

LOL that would be a great comback if thats what he meant.....

Usually for some people AAA is

1Quality game

2. Moves hardware

3. Good sales.

Which he is saying that they are missing 2 and 3. However my definition of AAA is a great game.


 AAA is a marketing term for games with very large budgets. It basically means "heavily hyped game" rather than "good game". Nonetheless, forum dwellers find it necessary to try to equate this marketing term with some sort of concept of quality.

I estimate that the forum stupidity precipitated by the term AAA has set back the progress of mankind by decades.



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DKII on 14 December 2007
loadedstatement said:
Gamespot reviews HAVE been removed from GameRankings though.

Source: http://gonintendo.com/?p=31631

Why was it necessary to source gonintendo for something I posted when you can just go to GameRankings and see for yourself?  Especially when they reported it as if it were intentional.  Sheesh, some people.



BrainBoxLtd on 14 December 2007
Non Sequor said:
AAA is a marketing term for games with very large budgets. It basically means "heavily hyped game" rather than "good game". Nonetheless, forum dwellers find it necessary to try to equate this marketing term with some sort of concept of quality.

I estimate that the forum stupidity precipitated by the term AAA has set back the progress of mankind by decades.


 Combine that with the collective forum stupidity of every other gaming site abusing the term and we're back to the middle ages. =P



erikers on 14 December 2007
naznatips said:
erikers said:
loadedstatement said:
Gamespot reviews HAVE been removed from GameRankings though.

Source: http://gonintendo.com/?p=31631


WRONG

http://kotaku.com/gaming/urging-calm/gamerankings-drops-gamespot-review-scores-334340.php

GameRankings editor Lee Alessi writes today on his GameSpot blog, "No, I didn't get rid of their data 'on purpose'. I honestly have no clue how it disappeared and before anyone asks---no, I didn't delete the site. I am no Tech but I will take a guess and say there will have to be a restored backup to get close to 10,000 in reviews and 60,000 in other articles back on GR."

As usual, a false story comes out and everybody runs with it regardless of how untrue it sounds. Now you have the actual truth once again.


How does that prove him wrong? Were the reviews there before? Yes. Are they there now? No. They were removed. It may not have been intentional, but they were still removed. If you can't post respectfully then please save all of us the trouble of your company and don't post at all.


It's pretty simple.  It wasn't removed, they just disappeared through error.  When everything disappears off the main page of VGCharz it wasn't removed, it's due to an error.  It's the same way Harmonix just comes out and says Activision won't let them put out the patch and everybody starts railing on Activision for it.  Then you wait a little bit and Activision responds and things become a little more clear. 

It was a respectful post and your welcome for spending the time to get the link and quote and providing an answer for the whole thread.  Things like this should always register on peoples BS meters and hopefully they'll wait and find out more next time.  



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ssj12 on 14 December 2007
naznatips said:
ssj12 said:
Lost tears of Kain said:
phil said:
Yojimbo said:
darthdevidem said:
So are R & C n Uncharted AAA NOW??
No, bad sales and they did not move hardware.

 

Right. High Sales = Quality, Low Sales = Shit. I forgot.

LOL that would be a great comback if thats what he meant.....

Usually for some people AAA is

1Quality game

2. Moves hardware

3. Good sales.

Which he is saying that they are missing 2 and 3. However my definition of AAA is a great game.


like I said before though.

Okami = AAA title and its missing #2 and #3 from your list.


Now you are missing his point. He's saying your definition of AAA is not the same as yojimbo's. Yojimbo's definition is a game of high quality that also pushes hardware and has good sales. You are just defining it as high quality.


 I know that.. I was backing up his statement not going against it.. lol



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TheBigFatJ on 14 December 2007

The average rank for non-Xbox games goes up considerably.



ssj12 on 15 December 2007
TheBigFatJ said:
The average rank for non-Xbox games goes up considerably.

 you noticed



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epsilon72 on 15 December 2007
erikers said:
loadedstatement said:
Gamespot reviews HAVE been removed from GameRankings though.

Source: http://gonintendo.com/?p=31631


WRONG

http://kotaku.com/gaming/urging-calm/gamerankings-drops-gamespot-review-scores-334340.php

GameRankings editor Lee Alessi writes today on his GameSpot blog, "No, I didn't get rid of their data 'on purpose'. I honestly have no clue how it disappeared and before anyone asks---no, I didn't delete the site. I am no Tech but I will take a guess and say there will have to be a restored backup to get close to 10,000 in reviews and 60,000 in other articles back on GR."

As usual, a false story comes out and everybody runs with it regardless of how untrue it sounds. Now you have the actual truth once again.

How disappointing...

 



Kasz216 on 15 December 2007
ssj12 said:
Lost tears of Kain said:
phil said:
Yojimbo said:
darthdevidem said:
So are R & C n Uncharted AAA NOW??
No, bad sales and they did not move hardware.

Right. High Sales = Quality, Low Sales = Shit. I forgot.

LOL that would be a great comback if thats what he meant.....

Usually for some people AAA is

1Quality game

2. Moves hardware

3. Good sales.

Which he is saying that they are missing 2 and 3. However my definition of AAA is a great game.


like I said before though.

Okami = AAA title and its missing #2 and #3 from your list.


For now anyway. With any hope the Wii will fix that. They should slap a big "IGN's game of the year" sticker on the front.