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theprof00 on 27 January 2010
Galaki said:
Would it be okay for me to call it a no game as long as I rated 9+?

Have you ever watched Yahtzee's review of Silent Hill 2? He just bashes it the whole time, but starts the review along the lines of, SH2 is my favorite game/story/experience ever, if on an island->SH2, SH2 reinvented video games...etc etc etc. But then he bashes it the whole time. JAMES!!



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huaxiong90 on 27 January 2010
MDMAniac said:
The review in OP perfectly demonstrates how broken the reviewing system has become.

Upset about the score?

 

OT: I can't believe so many people misunderstood the cons.



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Riachu on 27 January 2010
theprof00 said:
Galaki said:
Would it be okay for me to call it a no game as long as I rated 9+?

Have you ever watched Yahtzee's review of Silent Hill 2? He just bashes it the whole time, but starts the review along the lines of, SH2 is my favorite game/story/experience ever, if on an island->SH2, SH2 reinvented video games...etc etc etc. But then he bashes it the whole time. JAMES!!

SH2 is a very unique game in a already unique series.  SH2 is all about the story and atmosphere.  The gameplay is just an excuse for the story and atmosphere to crawl under your skin.



 

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Ucraneo on 27 January 2010

We game for entertainment.

If we get entertained by an Interactive Movie I don't see the problem. It's still 9.2.



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Slimebeast on 27 January 2010
papflesje said:
stof said:
papflesje said:
@ stof: euphoria already explained on the previous page

No he didn't. He responded to people wondering why the review would give a high score to a game which, as he says "has no game".

My question is why would he say it "has no game" if one of his positives on the game is "spiffy gameplay" Gameplay makes a game. If one of the attractions to the game for him was that it has good gameplay, why on earth would he say it barely has a game?

When we do reviews, we sometimes put "no singleplayer?" as a downside, just to point out that this might be a problem for some people.

It's quite evident (to me) that this is something similar.

People expecting a game in the traditional sense will be put off by its weird approach to gaming (although it's merely a point&click by nature). That's why he (imho) put that as a downside.

This is correct.

 



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Adjudicator on 27 January 2010

I refuse to believe that so many people don't understand what the reviewer meant. I have more faith in humanity ............ no the VGC community than that.
maybe people aren't seeing where the quotation marks are



 

Porcupine_I on 27 January 2010

besides,

"This is not a Game!"

...is usually the part where the suspension begins!

...in the movies



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- George Orwell, ‘1984’

Ajescent on 27 January 2010

it worries me that folks are ignorant or pretending to be of the concept of inverted comments.



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ROBOTECHHEAVEN on 27 January 2010

i will give this game a shot, hopefully its worth it.



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okr on 27 January 2010

Wow, what a terribly written review - and I don't mean the funny Google translation posted on N4G which translates the word "Titel" to "book" instead of the correct and obviously a bit more similar word "title".

I mean the review in its original language. The reviewer gives no real reason WHY he enyjoyed the game so much. Basically he just says several times that he loved characters, graphics, sound, atmosphere, gameplay and again the graphics. Everything's brilliant and - quote -breathtaking. He's so enthusiastic about the game that he forgot to tell his audience why.

Also, he lists Kein "Spiel"? (No "game"?) as a con though it's obviously not HIS con, but it seems he unnecessarily and proactively tries to express with this clumsy wording that Heavy Rain might not be considered as game by many others. So it seems he's not only incapable of properly expressing his opinion but he's also insecure...

Anyway, I can't wait to play the game. I have one concern which none of the (few) videos or previews I've seen could dispell and which differs from anyone else's concerns. I'm probably alone with this and I'll find out in exactly one month.