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These reviews have kept me on the fence



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kowenicki said:

The metacritic average will probably settle sub 70... so it is an average game by most people's measure.

Does it really matter? If YOU enjoy it then just be happy.

It depends on what you mean. Yes, the critics review score may end up sub 70, but as of yet the user review score is 8.6 with nearly 6x the number of reviews, so I dunno if I would say average by most people's standards. However I fully agree with your second statement. If you enjoy a game, who cares if other people like it? Just play it and have fun.



 

pmaster4 said:
These reviews have kept me on the fence


Trust me I just bought it yesterday after silentmac convinced me... Even if it was just the single player story alone it wouldn't warrant a 4. Its much much better than that, its an 8 - 8.5 game... i am having fun with it and i haven't even taken it online yet.



Dazkarieh said:
The Conduit getting EDGE giving bad reviews to wii games? Isn't that old news?

fixed ;)



they rate psp games low too.



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Has anyone here played this game to confirm that it actually is good?



SaviorX said:
The only site that seems to have given The Conduit a sensible review was IGN. Maybe because it was a favorable review, it may seem why I think that way. However, literally 90% of the people here have opinions that match IGN's the most. The gaming media just hates the Wii too much to ever see its games for what they are, so why bother believing them.

For God's sake, Indiana Jones got a 3, with endless waggle, PS2 graphics, and brief length. The Conduit is better in every regard and only gets a 4? Cut the crap.


I have said this before and I will say it again:

From now on, NO 3rd Party Wii game will ever get a 90% average on metacritic, gamestats, gamerankings etc, again.

Metroid Prime 3 got metacritic score of 90. Not much hate there. But I thought Metroid Prime 3 is terrible. If this game is not that great you can't expect it too high.



SaviorX said:
The only site that seems to have given The Conduit a sensible review was IGN. Maybe because it was a favorable review, it may seem why I think that way. However, literally 90% of the people here have opinions that match IGN's the most. The gaming media just hates the Wii too much to ever see its games for what they are, so why bother believing them.

I can understand the backlash of Wii fans to a certain extent as near the beginning of the generation it was quite hard to argue otherwise. But even as one of Grampy's most recent threads shows, the has been getting much fairer treatment as of late (I'm inclined to believe that it has always been generally fair with some obvious exceptions).

User reviews and anecdotes are great and all. I often base some of my purchases on them as well. But none of that makes this review any less valid or biased. Edge is often criticized for its marking scheme, which I think is completely unjustified. I mean a 4 from Edge is the equivalent of a 6-7.5 from most other sites. They simply thought it was slightly below average.

It's not as simple as saying most gamers' line of thought aligned with IGNs moreso than any other and therefore all other reviews are 'hating'. Hell, I don't even know why I'm debating this... Edge gave many raving reviews for exclusive Wii titles.

For God's sake, Indiana Jones got a 3, with endless waggle, PS2 graphics, and brief length. The Conduit is better in every regard and only gets a 4? Cut the crap.

I have said this before and I will say it again:

From now on, NO 3rd Party Wii game will ever get a 90% average on metacritic, gamestats, gamerankings etc, again. There have already been four and I'm sure there will be more. My guess at the closest one - Beatles: Rock Band, maybe Little King's Sory.

Just for some context, here are some score Edge has given to some popular Wii games:

Galaxy - 10

Zelda:TP - 9

Brawl 9

Mario Kart Wii - 6

Punch Out!! - 8

MP3 - 7

RE4 - 9

LKS - 9

Zack and Wiki - 8

Boom Blox - 8

Super Paer Mario - 7

Mad World - 6

Wii Sports - 7

 



student said:
Has anyone here played this game to confirm that it actually is good?

yes a VGC member reviewed it and gave it an 8.3. Wether you want to take that as a reliable review is up to you, but it is deffinitly worth the read if you are interested in the game. I personally will not be picking this game up because it seems like it was a whole lot of hype for nothing (a la Lair, Haze, Too Human but not as bad as these).



Edge are Wii haters confirmed.....but they gave Killzone 2 a 7 and MGS4 an 8 (both scores are pretty deviant of their respective metascores), so they're PS3 haters too, I guess