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twesterm on 16 November 2009
scottie said:
psrock said:
twesterm said:
psrock said:
 

 

you think FAMITSU is a good at reviews ? lol

 

 

We are done talking.

 

 

I am still bothered by the FAMITSU one too.

You'll just have to remain bothered. we are done talking apparently.

 

@ Twesterm - On what basis do you claim what Yahtzee produces is not a review? The fact that it doesn't summarise itself with a number at the end?

They just aren't?  Play most any of the games he reviews and then watch his reviews and it's pretty blatantly obvious he plays the first two or three levels (in Ghostbusters case he only played the first and later even admitted it!) and then takes all the obvious jokes.

I guess Kylie is right in that it's a review since he critisizes it but that's like me saying Assassin's Creed II sucks because it has the word ass in it and then calling that a review.  Technically, it's a review!

 



 

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richardhutnik on 16 November 2009
Xxain said:
I say this time and time again: Metcritic and Reviewers need to disappear because ppl dont understand wat they mean and how to use...especially this gen where these numbers control ppl like sheep...somebody tell me difference between a 8.9 and 9( remember 9 up means AAA)..ppl cant make decisions for themselves

Game executives have now pushed into that area in regards to games, needing to have a game get high ratings on Metacritic to be able to get more sales.  Metacritic and so on are like Rotten Tomatoes.  Metacritic is more selective in who it lists though, as opposed to Gamerankings.

Rather than abolish these, one may want to come up with a quality review site that reviews the reviewers, and list the best review of a bunch read for different games.



blazinhead89 on 16 November 2009

It's not the review system that's broken. We as Human beings are flawed, so anything we do, say, think etc may be flawed.



hsrob on 16 November 2009
richardhutnik said:
Xxain said:
I say this time and time again: Metcritic and Reviewers need to disappear because ppl dont understand wat they mean and how to use...especially this gen where these numbers control ppl like sheep...somebody tell me difference between a 8.9 and 9( remember 9 up means AAA)..ppl cant make decisions for themselves

Game executives have now pushed into that area in regards to games, needing to have a game get high ratings on Metacritic to be able to get more sales.  Metacritic and so on are like Rotten Tomatoes.  Metacritic is more selective in who it lists though, as opposed to Gamerankings.

Rather than abolish these, one may want to come up with a quality review site that reviews the reviewers, and list the best review of a bunch read for different games.

You may already know this but this is how a proper medical/scientific metareview occurs. They sit down with all the papers/reviews on a particular topic and then a panel critically score the papers according to methods, standards, bias etc and then only the best ones that have adhered to the highest standards get included in the meta analysis.

I have my doubts whether many of the major game publications out there would survive such scrutiny.



Strategyking92 on 16 November 2009
richardhutnik said:
Strategyking92 said:

I believe a reviewing system should be as such:

Buy
Rent
Fans Only
Avoid.




It covers everything in the video game genre. With only 5 words you can sum up every score in the history of reviewing video games.

edit: and this way people couldn't bitch about .5 points off of a certain version because it would literally mean nothing in the categorization. This would also more often than naught remove any slight bias tward a late port.

Spill.com uses the following rating system:

* Better than Sex

* Full price

* Matinee

* Rental

* Some old BS

* FU (when it is beyond insulting)

 

So for videogames, you probably can go:
* Pre-Order

* Midnight pick up

* Day one purchase

* Price drop

* Budget bin

* Rental Only

* Avoid

 

I leave others to tweak this.  Also separate fans of genre vs not.

Well I mean for people who value their money... There should only be one classification for a truely bad game. Bad game is bad game.



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theRepublic on 16 November 2009
twesterm said:

Yeah, Famitsu about as big of a joke as Yahtzee.  The sad thing about that is people still do take Famitsu seriously.  It's like they don't realize they give out courtesy scores to heavily hyped games.

What reviewer doesn't?



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twesterm on 17 November 2009
theRepublic said:
twesterm said:

Yeah, Famitsu about as big of a joke as Yahtzee.  The sad thing about that is people still do take Famitsu seriously.  It's like they don't realize they give out courtesy scores to heavily hyped games.

What reviewer doesn't?

Yeah, but Famitsu actually comes out and says that pretty openly like they're proud of it for some reason.