Not always.

Eternal Sonata has an avarage of 82% on Gamerankings and it's really mediocre. Disgaea 3 has also an avarage of 80% and it should be in the 70s. Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon have a good avarage for what they are though.

Ah...Eternal Sonata.....Too bad they never got around to creating an ending for it, and instead just phoned it in.

 No, it is not a 10. It is a good rpg mind you, I liked it, but a 10 it was not. I'd give it prolly an 8.7.

Looks like another Tales of Vesperia

Wow, this thread is hot at N4G. It's currently sitting at 1050 degrees flameage rating, hottest ATM. I wonder how hot it will get.

Anal rippage FTW!!!

http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-279924.aspx

Honestly.. what happened to Tri-Ace ???
They used to make AAA games only: Valkyrie profile, Valkyrie profile 2, Star ocean 1-2-3 , Radiata Stories........
Their 360 outings are troubling !!

and i have a better question as well: What the fuck happened to Square Enix ?? (Damn you Microsoft,,, it's not their fault obviously, but i though that i had to say it:)

One review and you're already counting out SO4??

Be patient. The 'good' reviews will start to flow in soon.

I wonder what the meltdown would have been if the first Killzone 2 review was the Edge review.

Yeah, thank god Maxim was the first :P

He's right.  Let's wait for reviews from sites that liked games in the series other than SO3 i.e. IGN

The fact that IGN's review is coming out tomorrow on the 19th, before the official release sate is a good indication that there was plenty to like in the game despite any flaws it has.