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theRepublic on 05 July 2009

I believe it.

I don't think it is entirely intentional though. Fond memories of Super Mario Bros. or Super Mario 64 are going to color your reviews of the sequels. Let's not forget Famousringo's sig either:

"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event."

— Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing



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Legend11 on 05 July 2009

Well TC since you've mentioned Resident Evil 5, if the name is the reason for that game getting good reviews why didn't it work for Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil Survivor, Resident Evil Outbreak, etc?



Carl on 05 July 2009

Halo 3 and GTA4 say yes.



                            

theRepublic on 05 July 2009
Samus Aran said:
Yeah, TC isn't even a big name and look what happened with Gamepro. If they would give a game like super mario galaxy 2 an 80 for example... Well, I wouldn't want to be that reviewer tbh.

The uproar was not about the score.  It was about the content of the review.



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Samus Aran on 05 July 2009

I know that, but if they gave SMG an 80% it would cause an uproar, trust me :)



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theRepublic on 05 July 2009
Legend11 said:
Well TC since you've mentioned Resident Evil 5, if the name is the reason for that game getting good reviews why didn't it work for Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil Survivor, Resident Evil Outbreak, etc?

What makes you think it didn't work?  The reviews might have been even worse if it wasn't for the Resident Evil name.



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zaMy on 05 July 2009

No. Look at Halo, Halo 2 and Halo 3. All got extremly high reviews. Looks at Halo wars. It got 65/100 on alot of sites.



theRepublic on 05 July 2009
zaMy said:
No. Look at Halo, Halo 2 and Halo 3. All got extremly high reviews. Looks at Halo wars. It got 65/100 on alot of sites.

Halo Wars had 69 reviews.  It only got two 65% scores.  It had thirteen 90% scores.  It had twenty 80% scorse.  It's average score was a 81.60%.

You are just wrong on that.



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deadt0m on 05 July 2009
Samus Aran said:

All of Nintendo's first party games to be honest(only the good ones). Not by a lot of points, but a little... Just look at all those 100% scores SMG got... No matter how great a game is, it will never be perfect as it has its flaws. The average score on metacritic is about right for the game though.

The other side of that coin, though, is The Thousand Year Door, a game that got so ridiculously under-reviewed that it makes my head hurt to think about it.  I'm sure there are other examples of Nintendo 1st party games getting unneccessarily savaged, but that one is the most egregious.



Samus Aran on 05 July 2009

True, true, I haven't played the thousand years door though, but I've heared a lot of good things about it. But one I say over rated then I only mean a little bit as most games they make deserve to be AAA games(90% on metacritic if you will)