| TheBigFatJ said: Didn't OPM give Haze and Lair amazing 10/10 reviews? |
No--that was the SDF.
| TheBigFatJ said: Didn't OPM give Haze and Lair amazing 10/10 reviews? |
No--that was the SDF.
all the reviews were from playstation magazines little bias maybe?
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I doubt MGS4 will even make it onto the top 10 of gamerankings.
The series, while popular is a sort of niche on it's own, it tends to irritate and frustrate the purist reviewer by its inordinate amount of cutscenes and complex storylines.
While MGS3 made certain story related concessions to make the title more appealing to the average reviewer, the gameplay was mildly flawed and was interwined with an enormous amount of cutscenes which prevented it from reaching anywhere near the top ten all time list.
MGS4 seems likely to repeat the same "mistakes" as MGS2 did, at least in reviewers eyes with an obscene amount of cutscenes and complex storyarch. While MGS2 initially recieved critical praise eventually a blacklash set in where it became the series whipping boy. I doubt MGS4 will get away with the so called shortcomings (though I do not consider them as such) that MGS2 did and so it's likely that scores will drag down considerably below what would be enough to secure a place in the Top 10.
If anything, I expect this game to possibly surpass MGS2 as the best rated in the series based on hype alone, but it's simply a type of game that really pushes the wrong buttons with a lot of gameplay purists.
| rocketpig said: unless the industry finds a whipping boy like Haze, then they all pile on it and give it a ridiculously low score. Sure, it's a bad game ,but "4.5 bad"? Nah. |
lol, anything looks good after two bottles of Jager. That's how I got my first wife.
They were really harsh on Haze!
Poor game

TheRealMafoo said:
lol, anything looks good after two bottles of Jager. That's how I got my first wife. |
ROFL. No, actually Haze's gameplay isn't terrible. Uninspired, but not terrible.
It's everything else about the game that sucks giant donkey dick.

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who really cares about the reviews, i'm getting this no matter what any magazine or internet site has to say about it.
You really should try and make up your own mind on games and not let others do it for you.
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I doubt many people will look at reviews before deciding to buy this game. But, sure that's only beacuse I think Hideo Kojima hasn't produced a single game worthy of less than an "excelent" grade in his whole career.
Gamepro (magazine - July edition) just gave MGS4 a 5/5 (100), and they are not even tied specifically to the PS3 or Sony.
Among other things, the reviewer says that this is the "game of the year", and maybe even "the decade".
O.o
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