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Words Of Wisdom said:

@forevercloud3000 and ameratsu

Let's have an English lesson.

Please tell me the difference between the following two items:

"This game got a 9/7/7/6 from Famitsu.  Seems mediocre."

and

"Famitsu gave this game a 9/7/7/6 so it's medicore."


Ding ding ding!  Time is up.

The first is a set of two independent clauses (sentence and sentence fragment) while the second consists of an independent clause and a dependent clause joined together with a coordinating conjunction. In the first set, the items are not necessarily related.  In the second set, the items are definitely related due to the use of the coordinating conjunction.

Now, you typically learn about these things in the 3rd, 4th, or 5th grades depending on your school and I tend to assume that most posters here have at least a 3rd grade education. 

Perhaps my assumption is wrong.

Who gives a shit.

 



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ameratsu said:

@WoW: So why say that a game "seems mediocre" based off of only a famitsu review? Sorry for lifting your statement out of context.

Actually I based my opinion of the triplechat review.  I just happened to have seen the Famitsu review so I figured I'd post the scores.

Seems mediocre to me because this game sounds like one that does most things reasonably well.  My impression from what I've read is that it won't shock or amaze or inspire, but it will get the job done.  You'll walk away with a fun experience but but not a bunch of great memories of epic moments.  I set my expectations of this game as an average dungeon crawler.



Words Of Wisdom said:

@forevercloud3000 and ameratsu

Let's have an English lesson.

Please tell me the difference between the following two items:

and

"Famitsu gave this game a 9/7/7/6 so it's medicore."


Ding ding ding!  Time is up.

The first is a set of two independent clauses (sentence and sentence fragment) while the second consists of an independent clause and a dependent clause joined together with a coordinating conjunction. In the first set, the items are not necessarily related.  In the second set, the items are definitely related due to the use of the coordinating conjunction.

Now, you typically learn about these things in the 3rd, 4th, or 5th grades depending on your school and I tend to assume that most posters here have at least a 3rd grade education. 

Perhaps my assumption is wrong.

You seem to have taken offense, when no one has offended you 0_O?!

you said, "This game got a 9/7/7/6 from Famitsu.  Seems mediocre."

Black: first you gave a source of information that gives an unfavorable review of the game.

Red: you gave an inclination that you have begun to percieve an opinion on the game.

Blue: you gave a discription of your percieved opinion deriving from your source.

 

Me and Amat simply were saying that the source is not the best. They have been way off base before.

And your reply seems to incline that you were not calling the game mediocre which is completely contradictary to how you phrased your sentence. You gave two direct statements. A source of data, and a opinion in the following sentence. When combining them together it makes it seem as if your second statement derives from the information layed by the first statement. If that was not the impression you wished to make you could have said something like...

"This game got a 9/7/7/6 from Famitsu.  Seems mediocre to them."

or

"This game got a 9/7/7/6,a mediocre review, from Famitsu. "

 

 

 



      

      

      

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Words Of Wisdom said:

Actually I based my opinion of the triplechat review.  I just happened to have seen the Famitsu review so I figured I'd post the scores.

Seems mediocre to me because this game sounds like one that does most things reasonably well.  My impression from what I've read is that it won't shock or amaze or inspire, but it will get the job done.  You'll walk away with a fun experience but but not a bunch of great memories of epic moments.  I set my expectations of this game as an average dungeon crawler.

 

maybe not all the game reviewers are hardcore lover .

the difficulty of this game is like its title =.=

 



Words Of Wisdom said:
ameratsu said:

@WoW: So why say that a game "seems mediocre" based off of only a famitsu review? Sorry for lifting your statement out of context.

Actually I based my opinion of the triplechat review.  I just happened to have seen the Famitsu review so I figured I'd post the scores.

Seems mediocre to me because this game sounds like one that does most things reasonably well.  My impression from what I've read is that it won't shock or amaze or inspire, but it will get the job done.  You'll walk away with a fun experience but but not a bunch of great memories of epic moments.  I set my expectations of this game as an average dungeon crawler.

 

He doesn't use the word "epic" because he thinks it's overused. The impression that I get from reading that review is quite positive. He even describes it as a "game that RPGamers should treasure for a long time come". That's not the impression you'd think he'd give to an average dunegon crawler. Overall the review was pretty glowing, but I understand your hesitancy towards accepting his take at face value. He only fleetingly mentions things like the bloodstains, messages and ghosts, something that adds quite a bit of character and feel to the game. He also fails to mention character tendancy, world tendancy, co-operative play and the well-implemented player vs player raiding and combat. All of these elements, among others are important yet strangely lacking from his review.

Not a bad review, but it really only gives a brief overview. There is a lot more to the game than is disclosed.

 



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CGI-Quality said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
ameratsu said:

@WoW: So why say that a game "seems mediocre" based off of only a famitsu review? Sorry for lifting your statement out of context.

Actually I based my opinion of the triplechat review.  I just happened to have seen the Famitsu review so I figured I'd post the scores.

Seems mediocre to me because this game sounds like one that does most things reasonably well.  My impression from what I've read is that it won't shock or amaze or inspire, but it will get the job done.  You'll walk away with a fun experience but but not a bunch of great memories of epic moments.  I set my expectations of this game as an average dungeon crawler.

Well, in all honesty, you should play the game first, then draw a conclusion. I'm not going to go out on a limb and needlessly call you a troll, because I don't think your words were trolling. I just say: try it out before rating it yourself

 

I didn't rate it.  I'm managing my expectations. 

I'd rather not read a review from someone giving the game an 11/10 score (in one category) and set my hopes as though this were really an 11/10 game.  It's just begging for disappointment.



That sounds freaking awesome and my PS3 could definatley use some more awesome RPG's. I'm a little worried about it being overly difficult but I can deal with that since the story sounds awesome and unique for a JRPG. Any word at all about a possible release for the West?



If I had the cash I would so import this.



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i saw alot of gameplay videos on Justin.tv , you have to have very good timing against bosses and you might need to evade alot and the fights take long. and i also noticed that the game has alot of "Ye Old English" language.