--OkeyDokey-- said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
--OkeyDokey-- said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
BladeOfGod said:
@Nick
well, maybe, just MAYBE MW2 is NOT OVERRATED and it DESERVES the scores it gets, and IT IS AN IMPROVEMENT over COD 4. Have you ever thought of that??? Have you ever thought that lots of HD games are getting good scores NOT because of graphics but because of other important things???
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When reviewers specifically mention games like GTA and Halo IN their reviews for Wii games as a comparison for graphics and make pop shots to Wii games like WiiMusic and WiiFit consantly even when talking about other games (making it clear that they are comparing every game to WiiFit and consider the Wii as a whole a joke), its evident where the reviewers stand. Heck, its become so bad that reviewers just use a cop out now where if a game HAS some form of 'waggle' or does something innovative, they claim it 'isn't innovative enough'. Yet if a game doesn't try to implement these features, such as a game like Muramasa or Little King Story, they say the game 'lacks innovation'. The Wii is stuck in a catch 22, whereas the HD systems are getting a free ride of hype and publicity generated by the reviewers love of graphics and name brands.
Hell, a game with the quality and name brand power of MGSIV or Final Fantasy XIII could come out on the Wii now and they'd probably downscore it to a 9.3. Whereas games on the PS2 were generating scores up in the 9.8s by the end of its life cycle despite having FAR inferior graphics for its time. We'll be lucky if Monster Hunter Tri or Dragon Quest X can even surpass 9.0 at this rate.
It takes some pretty heavy blinders not to see what's going on.
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Can you try to keep your claptrap theories to yourself, please? I can't spare any more brain cells reading them.
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Then don't read it. No one is asking you to.
Seeing as other people are posting similar complaints against reviewers in this thread and other threads, you should have noticed by now its not just me stating these things.
And I won't make any comments about your brain cells, deal?
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"PS2 games were critically acclaimed last gen but they didn't have the best graphics. Now HD games are acclaimed and they have amazing graphics. ZOMG, conspiracy!"
WTF?
Okay then. If graphics, hype, brand power and not being on the Wii are the criteria for a AAA game why is Resident Evil 5 all the way down at 85 on Metacritic, lower than NSMB Wii?
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Funny, reviewers downscored RE5 because it was too much of the same thing compared to RE4. One of the highest rated GameCube and Wii games out there. And this has nothing to do with what I've been saying, its a completely cherry picked example of an HD game that was hyped but scored lower than expected. However, reviewers on the whole downscore games when they are a sequel and too much like their predecessor, or seemingly too much like their predecessor.
Look what they're doing to New Super Mario Bros Wii. Eventhough it clearly has a ton of new content, new power-ups and double the levels, it got downscored compared to NSMB on the DS and compared to a lot of other 2D Mario games. For being 'more of the same'. Its the same for RE5. However, for Wii games, scores get lowered much more often, and for reasons other than the 'sequel' effect.
