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Well, it's all fine until they poke at YOUR game.

Then, you've got a problem.



 

 

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@HappySquirrel - In the field of game reviews, 10% is a big difference. Personally I don't like to buy any games that score below a 90% overall.

 

EDIT: Actually, I think they do this mostly to get attention/site hits...only a small portion of it is their distaste towards the PS3... 



epsilon72 said:
@HappySquirrel - In the field of game reviews, 10% is a big difference. Personally I don't like to buy any games that score below a 90% overall.
That's kind of sad...

 



 

 

HappySqurriel said:
BrainBoxLtd said:
Astrodust said:
You guys are forming your oppinion having never played the game. At least Gamespot played it. They are below the average for sure but I don't think they are biased against Sony. They just aren't handing out high marks. They gave Metroid an 8.5 I think.

 Yes, they also gave Def Jam Icon an 8.1, Perfect Dark Zero a 9, and Wario Ware Smooth Moves a 9.1. So we can all see how extremely reliable and consistent they are in thier scoring process. =P


(From Metacritic)

Def Jam Avg Review score: ~7
Perfect Dark Zero Avg Review score: 8.1
Wario Ware Smooth Moves Avg Review score: 8.3

I don't see what is so wrong with being (approximately) 10% off of the average review score of any game ... It means that you enjoyed these games somewhat more than the average reviewer did. Its not like Play magazine giving Lair a 9 ...


 I was making the point Gamespot does give out generous reviews and high marks and to rather unpexpected games no less. I use to think they were simply one of the harsher review sites, but after reading more of thier reviews and it seems more likely they're actually just one of the lazier ones. From what I've read in some of thier reviews it seems like they often make thier decisions quickly if not before playing the game and seem to miss obvious things at times because they don't really care.

 Then again I've a general disdain for Gaming Media in general, so perhaps I'm not very good judge of these things. 

EDIT: I don't remember anything about them changing how they review games, just that they were going from
.# to .5 or .0 in thier scores. 



MontanaHatchet said:
epsilon72 said:
@HappySquirrel - In the field of game reviews, 10% is a big difference. Personally I don't like to buy any games that score below a 90% overall.
That's kind of sad...

 

That's mostly because I don't have the money or time to play subpar games - and most of the time the average scores (metacritic) are a fairly good indicator of the overall quality of a game. I do make exceptions every once in a while though, and the overall quality of gaming reviews has been dropping very quickly recently....

 



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epsilon72 said:

@HappySquirrel - In the field of game reviews, 10% is a big difference. Personally I don't like to buy any games that score below a 90% overall.

 

EDIT: Actually, I think they do this mostly to get attention/site hits...only a small portion of it is their distaste towards the PS3... 

I certainly do not agree ...

When you have reviewers scoring the same game as B+, 4/5 and 9/10 and how those are translated into a percentage scale it is easy for a reviewer to be off by more than 10%



HappySqurriel said:
epsilon72 said:

@HappySquirrel - In the field of game reviews, 10% is a big difference. Personally I don't like to buy any games that score below a 90% overall.

 

EDIT: Actually, I think they do this mostly to get attention/site hits...only a small portion of it is their distaste towards the PS3...

I certainly do not agree ...

When you have reviewers scoring the same game as B+, 4/5 and 9/10 and how those are translated into a percentage scale it is easy for a reviewer to be off by more than 10%

I suppose it is different with */5 scale games.  I didn't think of that.

 



MontanaHatchet said:
Well, it's all fine until they poke at YOUR game.

Then, you've got a problem.

 BINGO!

Fanboys do not know the meaning of the word empathy.

When Zelda TP and MP3 got those scores, Sony alliance told the Nintendo fanboys it was ok. Now that they slam a big game from Sony and we all swicth the roles. GS is fine, it is just another sequel.

I am not touching this issue. I always said GS was inconsistent and full of fecal mass. I will not state my opinion about this game.



Satan said:

"You are for ever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."

Well after reading the review, he says the games too easy, but has a hard mode after you beat it. Doesn't say what the hard mode is like, or if satisfies his complaint, or that perhaps it should have been chooseable from the start. Just that it's there.

 Also he complains about it suffering from an identiy crisis, that it can't decide if it's a simple easy adventure or some sort of epic, which I found Kameo suffered from as well.

Other critisim include cliffhanger ending and too many minigames.

Again, I'd kill for more indeapth reviews. Which particular part irked him the most, he seems to bring up it being easy 
the most, so maybe that was his biggest complaint, but he doesn't mention what if anything hard mode is like.

Bah, I'm just killing time to be honest. I'll go do something slightly more constructive. =P 



I'm not blaming Gamespot for being bad reviewers, it's just that I don't think they are consistent enough and it really pisses me off. Some really good games are scored low and some really bad games are sometimes scored high.

I don't hate GS, in fact that's where I usually check for game reviews I just thought R&C was kinda scored low, but like Astrodust said we won't know if that's true until we play it.