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Fusioncode said:

I don't get it. Are they tired of people not taking them seriously? Do they thinking giving lower scores is going to make them legit or something? Is it just their time of the month?

LBP3 has game breaking bugs and you said that didn't bother you.  Perhaps you aren't being hardass enough?



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Fusioncode said:

I don't get it. Are they tired of people not taking them seriously? Do they thinking giving lower scores is going to make them legit or something? Is it just their time of the month?

Everything they've done in the past 5 years, and continue to do, only reinforces how intelligent it is to do your own research.



lbp3 reviews are braking my heart
it is easily the best lbp by far



The fact that every website is being hard is kind of sketchy to me. They all decided to be more difficult at the same time? Sounds legit.

It's a conspiracy



super_etecoon said:
Fusioncode said:

I don't get it. Are they tired of people not taking them seriously? Do they thinking giving lower scores is going to make them legit or something? Is it just their time of the month?

LBP3 has game breaking bugs and you said that didn't bother you.  Perhaps you aren't being hardass enough?

Actually I said the bugs can be patched and I'll pick up the game later on when that has already happened. 

Reading is fun. 



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

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I think its because we havent had an innovative jump in some time now and i dont think we will for a long time. Like you think SNES going to N64, or 2D going to 3D. That was a jump. Or when Halo changed FPS games, or when XBL and ONline was going crazy or pretty much the entire quality of PS360 compared to PS2/XB etc. Id say it has something to do with its hard to surprise us anymore because we have played it all

That an i think a lot of stuff was inflated last generation anyways so i dont mind as long as people get use to a new scale




       

mZuzek said:
SlayerRondo said:
While I don't mind them being harsher with review scores, it bothers me how political some reviewers are getting when it comes to those scores.

Gamespot employers are prone to label games as sexist with little to go on.

Ugh, don't even get me started on this. As much as I usually like IGN when it comes to reviews, I just hate it when they decide a game simply doesn't deserve a 10, so instead of just saying "it's good, but not 10/10 kind of good" they have to make up some stupid excuse like "it's too hard" or "has too much water" or "my mom said I shouldn't play this kind of game" and stuff like that.

All good points and things that should not affect review criteria.

If the game's difficulty was poorly paced that may effect the score but if simply being hard was a valid criticis, the Demon Souls series would score in the seven's.

One of the best example's of non-sense review criteria was the telegraph review of dragon age origins which said it's plot fell short of Game of Thrones, which covers 100% of video games ever.



This is the Game of Thrones

Where you either win

or you DIE

Fusioncode said:
super_etecoon said:
Fusioncode said:

I don't get it. Are they tired of people not taking them seriously? Do they thinking giving lower scores is going to make them legit or something? Is it just their time of the month?

LBP3 has game breaking bugs and you said that didn't bother you.  Perhaps you aren't being hardass enough?

Actually I said the bugs can be patched and I'll pick up the game later on when that has already happened. 

Reading is fun. 


I read it...I just think you give to much leeway to the developer...and not enough to the reviewer.  I hate patches that fix things that should have been taken care of in alpha and beta testing.  Did they stop running those ads about being a game tester?  Maybe enough people aren't responding...or those that are just aren't up to snuff.  Either that or the developer knows the drill by now...they'll release a broken product and the consumer will buy it anyway because they don't know anything different.



super_etecoon said:

I read it...I just think you give to much leeway to the developer...and not enough to the reviewer.  I hate patches that fix things that should have been taken care of in alpha and beta testing.  Did they stop running those ads about being a game tester?  

Most devs nowadays just treat their consumers as bug testers that they don't have to pay. It's despicable and pathetic, but it's just the way things are in modern gaming, alas.



Oh nos... Games that don't deserve high scores aren't getting high scores... What ever shall we do



                  

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