Conkers bad fur day is a kids game! Too colorful and fun.


Anyway, statements like this are just stupid.

So was this entire thread made because you thought the game deserved a higher score, or because the cartoony graphics rendered it a kids game?

Sometimes the casual crowd is just as judgemental as the hardcore crowd. Everyone is saying things like "I'm 30 years old and I play games to have fun". And "Us Wii owners know what's really a video game".

First of all I think everyone plays video games to have fun. Sometimes fun is playing Call of Duty, or Halo, and sometimes fun is relaxing with some Braid or Mario. I see nothing wrong with IGN calling it "a kids" game, and a lot of you are missing the point.

Every system has snowboarding games. So you'd agree that for the most part, not all snowboarding games are referred to as kids games. However, when the graphics are stylized to the point of being larger and more colorful than aaaalll of the other snowboarding games out there, you could make the argument that its tailored towards kids. I'm not sure what the outrage is about.

You could not have cherrypicked the article more if you wanted to

- The first thing you should note is that this game is aimed squarely at kids. Everything from the simple arcade gameplay to the exaggerated graphics to the Saturday Morning cartoon humor is very kid friendly. That's not a bad thing -- it works well as a kids' game. Just know that this isn't the realistic snowboard sim that a seasoned gamer might want. For example, you don't even have to jump onto rails in World Stage -- if you come close to a rail your rider will automatically hop on.

So he's establishing that the game is /easier/ than usual. He's also saying that the humor is tailored towards children.

You can earn up to three stars in each event and every time you earn a star you go up one rank. It's a fun system but I beat the game in a day so don't expect it to last you all winter.

So he also establishes that the game is fairly easy to beat. Again. Easy. Something not always in snowboarding games.

Is your real axe to grind with the game, or just because you feel oppressed as a Wii owner?

That's fine, but some of us like knowing if a game is excessively easy or short. All of us who are still waiting patiently for a current-gen snowboard game that can rival last-generation SSX games appreciate reviewers being completely frank in saying it's targeted primarly at kids or families so people like me can avoid it altogether. I have certain expectations from the games I pay retail price for, and at least a few things pointed out in the IGN review, even though it's poor as an actual review, let me know it's not something I would be interested in. You mustn't forget who IGN writes these for after all.

When games that score a 7.5, 8, and 5.5 (Wii Sports, Wii fit, Wii Play) become the best selling games of all time and become beloved by millions of people, doesn't suggest to you that there is a disconnect between the reviewers and the customers?

I'm not sure but I think somewhere around 25 or more courses, and yes there are many race modes and objectives, like a knockout race mode and classic one or one where you pass checkpoints having done a required number of trick points and most courses have AI players, also it's waaaaaay better than the first one, we played the first one for a week to get acustomed to the game before the first version of world tour arrived, the game is a lot tighter, graphics are better, courses are better designed and generally a lot more fun. When you get the game tell me how many points you can pull off at a half pipe, some people on my team did 60k regularly, since we had to do 100% completion of the game meaning every course in the game in first place, unlocking every piece of gear and completing all achievements, where at some halfpipes was 60k points, at first it would take 2 days, later we could pull it of in 6 hours, and yes for me completing the campaing on the expert dificulty was a piece of cake, after having played it dozens of time over before that ofcourse.

@dorbin2009, This thread isn't even about this game really. We don't care about this one game. The point is that the review implied that simple fun gameplay is for kids, and that stylish visuals are for kids. He clearly stated this by saying those were the features that let him know it was marketed squarely at kids.

That's insulting. The opposite of simple, fun gameplay and stylish visuals is convoluted counter-intuitive button combos and post-Apocalyptic monochromatic brown/grey color schemes. That's what many reviewers want out of games. But the top 20 games of all time are very very colorful and easy to pick up and play. Customers prefer those types of games. And I highly doubt it's been millions of kids playing Tetris for 20 years.

Nordlead, you just gotta accentuate the positive (and eliminate the negative)

Sure it's a bad review, but IGN putting out bad reviews is a significant improvement over the reviews they were putting out earlier this gen.

Originally - "Its simple, fun gameplay makes it shit"
Currently - "Its simple fun gameplay makes it a good kids game"
Eventually - "It's simple fun gameplay makes it simply a fun game"

1 step at a time, eventually IGN reviews may become worth reading, I see this as a good step.

die...in...metal....slug.... does not compute, metal slug is easier than contra, and contra is a cakewalk