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naznatips on 27 August 2007
Zim said:
RolStoppable said:

Are you seriously implying that Gamespot is 360 biased?


Personally I would say gamespot is more hype/advertising revenue/graphics/their reviewers suck bias. I stopped reading gamespot ages ago due to to things like Metroid DS being reviewed without the reviewer playing the game for more than 30mins (there were massive errors in his review), Savage being reviewed after only playing the game for 2hours, games like battlefield 2142 getting an 8 for graphics (while the site is covered in advertising and lots of hype) while Dark Messiah gets a 7 (no hype, little advertising, graphics are artistically miles better and technically at least on par but probably better).

With the metroid review they didn't even change the final score after they took down the made up review.

Naznatips it's not the score I care about I was just making a point.


That wasn't directed at you in specific, just anyone who feels that their actual number value for the review is justifiable.



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rasone77 on 27 August 2007

Gamespot is garbage. I suspected as much after their dual Twilight Princess reviews. In which they stated that the Wii version was better than the GC version but gave the Wii version a lower score.

I honestly think they are more biased than 1up now. F*** gamespot.



naznatips on 27 August 2007
rasone77 said:
Gamespot is garbage. I suspected as much after their dual Twilight Princess reviews. In which they stated that the Wii version was better than the GC version but gave the Wii version a lower score.

I honestly think they are more biased than 1up now. F*** gamespot.

I'm not sure they are biased as a site... I just think they are stupid and sensationalist. They don't care about artistic games, they care about Kill Nazis 32: Hitler in HD. I think in general that's how they always have been, and they will occaissionally give an extremely low review for a big name game to increase site traffic and raise their advertising dollars. They did it with Twilight Princess and they are doing it with Metroid Prime 3.



rasone77 on 27 August 2007
naznatips said:
rasone77 said:
Gamespot is garbage. I suspected as much after their dual Twilight Princess reviews. In which they stated that the Wii version was better than the GC version but gave the Wii version a lower score.

I honestly think they are more biased than 1up now. F*** gamespot.

I'm not sure they are biased as a site... I just think they are stupid and sensationalist.  They don't care about artistic games, they care about Kill Nazis 32: Hitler in HD.  I think in general that's how they always have been, and they will occaissionally give an extremely low review for a big name game to increase site traffic and rasie their advertising dollars.  They did it with Twilight Princess and they are doing it with Metroid Prime 3.


I agree completely, but if they continue to give lower scores to truly great games (especially for the system with the highest install base) they are going to find that people aren't going to trust their reviews anymore.

If Mario Gaxaly suffers the same fate as the other two stellar games on the Wii, I'm going to call for a boycott.  

 

 

EDIT: WTF! Warioware was actually given a higher score by GS than TP or MP3. !!! I'm not talking avout 8.6 or 8.8 difference. They gave it a 9.1. Seriously WTF!

http://www.gamespot.com/search.html?type=11&stype=all&qs=warioware



AllAll on 27 August 2007

Wait, nintendo supporters hate hard on FPS games and shooters in general. Why are you defending Metroid so much now that it has become more like a FPS them before.

Gamespot "Yet Corruption's focus on refined FPS mechanics and general sense of familiarity keep it from being as special as the other Prime titles. Just like Resident Evil 4 would have felt different--and arguably worse--had its controls been stripped down to a simple FPS scheme"

And i really love how when people say EGm is anti PS3 they get ridiculed yet alot of the wii supporters are doing it to Gamespot right now, for a 8.5 (great)!



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marcus1979 on 27 August 2007

are we shocked at gamespots review considering what the preview said we kinda saw this on the Horizon based on that.

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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption looks a lot like its predecessors, both in style and technology. However, everything is a little crisper and more detailed. For a Wii game, it also looks quite nice. The addition of voice acting--and lots of it--also seems fine, but we doubt we'll get a chance to hear Samus herself speak. But we'll find out for sure very soon. Look for our full review of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption next week.



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gamer9851 on 27 August 2007

let's wait for Galaxy and Smash Bros.

But Wario Ware better than Metroid Prime 3 ?

I think we have a problem here.



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BrainBoxLtd on 27 August 2007
naznatips said:

Why is Bioshock, an even easier game, not criticized for it's difficulty? 


 

I think they did complain about it being easier than Halo, which I found funny since Halo 1's campaign wasn't very 
hard, then again, I played it on PC. =P 

I actually find Gamespot's review the most (Relatively) helpful because since they're usually the lowest they often represent the worst case scenario and I can see if there's anything that'll be setting me up for disappointment.

Even that aside, they geek out over certain games, and aren’t useful for them, and they usually complain about things that don’t really matter. All though I don’t necessarily disagree with their score for Twilight Princess, I found most of the stuff they complained about were non-issues for me, and didn’t really mention the stuff that I took issue with.

So even as the counterpoint, they’re only somewhat useful. =P



Shido on 27 August 2007
naznatips said:

My problems with the Gamespot review:

The controls are too good and it makes the game easier?  Well, for one thing there is an advanced mode unlocked after you beat the game, which according to the other review sources is signifficantly more challenging (IGN hadn't even beat it yet).  Isn't bad control just a false difficulty?  Basically the game less difficult than other shooters because it controls infinitely better.  That's fair.  Why is Bioshock, an even easier game, not criticized for it's difficulty?  

Since when was familiarty with past titles something to take off points for?  3 Ratchet and Clank games don't seem to be affected by the fact that nothing changes between them.  Nor does Halo 2, Call of Duty 2 and 3, Metal Gear Solid 3 and Subsistence, Madden 08, GTA3 and it's various nearly identical reproductions,  Dead or Alive 4, Guitar Hero 2, Half-Life 2, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, oh and about 100 other games that are identical or nearly identical to their predecessors yet scored higher than them, and higher Metroid Prime 3.  Are you seriously going to try and tell me that ANY of those games changed more than was changed in Metroid Prime 3?  That's a problem people.  We are past the point of double standard, and to the point of outright BS.  

So yeah, defend gamespot's review all you want, but 1.5 points off for a control scheme that's too good and a game being similar to it's sequels (despite them having an extremely long history of not taking off for that) is complete crap.  I expected better from gamespot.

Agree 100%. They don't seem to apply the same standar on all the games.

 



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naznatips on 27 August 2007
AllAll said:
Wait, nintendo supporters hate hard on FPS games and shooters in general. Why are you defending Metroid so much now that it has become more like a FPS them before.

Gamespot "Yet Corruption's focus on refined FPS mechanics and general sense of familiarity keep it from being as special as the other Prime titles. Just like Resident Evil 4 would have felt different--and arguably worse--had its controls been stripped down to a simple FPS scheme"

And i really love how when people say EGm is anti PS3 they get ridiculed yet alot of the wii supporters are doing it to Gamespot right now, for a 8.5 (great)!

Because I trust IGN's statement above Gamespot's.

You'll still explore and travel across epic environments, but re-traversing the locations is made just a little easier thanks to several additions. The first is that you can fly between planets or even to different locales on a single body using Aran's Gunship. This inclusion alone eliminates so much of the excessive cross-world back-tracking and as a bonus it's very pretty on the eyes because the flying cinematics are downright gorgeous.

Meanwhile, the title delivers everything a Metroid fan could hope for, including spectacular environmental puzzles, epic boss fights and intense combat, all wrapped up in a package that spans multiple worlds and is filled with re-traversal exploration.

Excuse me for believing the site that has scores exactly in line with industry average above the site that gave Twilight Princess an 8.8...

Edit: and as I said, I don't think they are biased, I just think they are sensationalists.  They score big games low occaissionally in order to increase site traffic.