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jlauro on 08 December 2008

Any chance ubisoft is giving IGN kickbacks/advertising/whatever not to give it a bad review?



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Khuutra on 08 December 2008
megaman79 said:
Come on, at least the review is more open to interpreting a game while most other reviewers would smack it down with biased, subjective, hardcore elitist negative views. (btw do not smack babiez)

This is what being a critic is all about, having the balls to stand up at some point and tell the rest of us that we might be wrong.

Word.



thekitchensink on 08 December 2008

See, that's the thing. I don't mind mini-game collections, as long as they're well put together. I like Mario Party, I don't like Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 (1 and TV Party are good).

Looks like Ubi didn't farm this one out--a sign of things to come?



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WiiStation360 on 08 December 2008

Imagine BabyZ for the DS somehow sold 2.45M copies.  It would not surprise me to see this be a million seller as well.



noname2200 on 08 December 2008

First Shaun White, now this, and it looks like Petz Wii is decent as well.

What the fu, Ubisoft?

What the fu?



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WiiBox3 on 08 December 2008
Zucas said:
What's wrong with them liking it. Too many people associate bad things with things that don't relate to them. Hell I'm sure all those High School Musical things aren't that bad it is just it doesn't appeal to me. I'm not going to say it is awful because of that.

Same thing here. It's possible the game is quite good but I'll never be able to see that because it doesn't appeal to me. That doesn't give me a reason to rant on it unjustifiably though.

 

I totally agree. I am not interested, but there is a market for this type of game. If Ubi put the effort into it and made it into a great game for that market, good for them on not just cashing in on shovelware. I'm sure they want the people who buy it to like it so they will buy all of the other 'Z's.



BrainBoxLtd on 08 December 2008
thekitchensink said:
See, that's the thing. I don't mind mini-game collections, as long as they're well put together. I like Mario Party, I don't like Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 (1 and TV Party are good).

Looks like Ubi didn't farm this one out--a sign of things to come?

Looking at Visual Impact's Website, I'm more inclined to beleive Ubisoft did farm it out. But it sounds like they've may have accidentally farmed it out to people who do have some talent, but very little money or fame to their name.

Again, I'd like to remind people that De Blob developer, Blue Tongue Entertainment, did mostly Nicktoon liscense games for THQ before the De Blob. It's possible the people who work at Visual Impact have their own ideas, but are still paying their dues.

Or not, I'm just taking stabs in the dark here.

EDIT: To drive my point home, I assume Ubisoft, as the publisher, handles marketing. So I also assume they choose the cover art.

Severly doubt the same people who made the actual game got a say in that looking at the screenshots.



outlawauron on 08 December 2008

Cool. I def grab this over Dawn of the New World. This got a much better score!



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noname2200 on 08 December 2008
BrainBoxLtd said:
thekitchensink said:
See, that's the thing. I don't mind mini-game collections, as long as they're well put together. I like Mario Party, I don't like Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 (1 and TV Party are good).

Looks like Ubi didn't farm this one out--a sign of things to come?

Looking at Visual Impact's Website, I'm more inclined to beleive Ubisoft did farm it out. But it sounds like they've may have accidentally farmed it out to people who do have some talent, but very little money or fame to their name.

Again, I'd like to remind people that De Blob developer, Blue Tongue Entertainment, did mostly Nicktoon liscense games for THQ before the De Blob. It's possible the people who work at Visual Impact have their own ideas, but are still paying their dues.

Or not, I'm just taking stabs in the dark here.

New quality developers have to spring from somewhere, I suppose. I'm just still surprised by two things: that this game is supposed to have some actual quality in it (first I've heard of this), and that a reviewer for a major gaming site was actually willing to see that.

My head's still spinning...

 



BrainBoxLtd on 08 December 2008
noname2200 said:

New quality developers have to spring from somewhere, I suppose. I'm just still surprised by two things: that this game is supposed to have some actual quality in it (first I've heard of this), and that a reviewer for a major gaming site was actually willing to see that.

My head's still spinning...

To the first point, it seems most gaming reviewers always give things they don't personally love a hard time, and anything less then amazing seems to be written off as not worth your time. There's probably a few other titles out there that are well made or at very least have their strong points, but still limited to budgets and liscenses and generally under the radar of the gaming media.

To the second point, the reviewer in this case isn't part of IGN's normal staff. His opening paragraph claims he's a freelancer. I'm guessing he didn't feel any pressure from IGN since he's not formally employed by them.