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Truly atrocious reviews.
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It's almost like it's a fun to play game.
People nitpick all the other aspects about it in forums because they don't like the (bad) story (that also doesn't contradict Metroid canon as they think, it's just poorly written).
This one immediately came to mind:
Unironically comparing Spyro's difficulty to Dark Souls is quite something.
Unironically comparing Spyro's difficulty to Dark Souls is quite something.
i agree with the ign alien isolation review. a good idea of a game with great attention to detail that becomes such a boring slog to get through.
Yeeeeeeeep.
Other M had its issues, but for it to receive positive reviews wasn't some absurdity.
And then of course the ones that didn't got all the flack in the comments.
I'm glad that for the most part this mentality is dead. Imagine if kids movies were given awful reviews because they were meant for kids.
I'd give Sonic 06 a 9/10 because I genuinely adore it's trash.
The only wrong thing is the gameplay, but even then, it's not an objectively good systemGod Hand. IGN.
what the fuck? did they not pay attention to literally any of the story? lmfao
Lmao talk about gamer melodrama. It's not 'lies' ffs. The late game does involve Surf and Dive to an extent not seen in other Pokemon games. This reviewer didn't like that. So fucking what.
It just doesn't make sense on any level. They start by saying they thought it was a well made game and that a lot of people would like it. Then they throw out that they think more people will dislike it than like it, because it's a kiddie game. You know, like Super Mario 64 was a kiddie game. Which even then doesn't make sense because the game has a substantially more mature story than a platformer Mario and is more narrative based, implying its intended for an older audience. And clearly more people that played it did like it considering it's got an amazing reputation among Nintendo fans and JRPGs in general. And then comparing it to the Ribbit King makes it sound like the most important factor in a review score is how wide of an audience the game appeals to, which is just a bizarre take in general. From Software games have a decidedly limited appeal, but they are still really well made games. And the end of them just saying "but hey, all that matters in the end is YOUR opinion" is such a cheap cop out, and seems like its throwing reviews themselves under the bus. Like they could have just said "I didn't like the game, I thought it was boring"... which is clearly the actual reasoning for the review, as the original review title was "Thousand Year Bore" and they complained about the excessive dialogue. The response they gave though just doesn't agree with the original review or addresses why people were upset, and was just a bad response.
Read my entire comment and the follow-up. Poor phrasing on my part though.
Look at this edge.
Some people are still angry one of the best games of the generation has one of the highest review scores on the site,
Fallout 3 absolutely deserves that score. Bloodlines was broken at launch so I'm not surprised it didn't get a great score.
That's the thing. That IGN review even praises the story!
I'd post here IGN's 10/10 they gave to Skyward Sword (easily the worst Zelda game this side of the CDi games) but I'm too tired to engage in a discussion against heathens who continue to defend SS.
I would not say it was a good or bad review but holy shit, it is a piece of goddamn game review history.
In 10 years we're gonna be quoting Splatoon reviews in exactly the same context. "The motion aiming is a terrible gimmick- I switched it off immediately."
Yeah the story quote is kinda bad, but at the time just before Other M I remember a lot of people wanting Metroid to be "more cinematic and story driven" because of Halo. So I guess a few felt like that's what they wanted. The pushback against this kind of storytelling and praise for it being a mostly silent series started after Other M.
Also Skyward Sword is the second best Zelda as well and a 10/10.
Except she's not doing that at all.
She's not even talking about the game, she's talking about the sudden shift in difficulty being like going from playing a children's board game to playing Dark Souls. It's exaggeration for effect. It's a joke ffs.
This one deserves a menion:
To this day I cannot work out if the review played the game and missed the point of it or just watched some gameplay and edited a dead rising 1 review.
To this day I cannot work out if the review played the game and missed the point of it or just watched some gameplay and edited a dead rising 1 review.
Not to mention ToEE (a game I genuinely love for how it's the most perfect translation of D&D rules to a CRPG) was unfinished and had stuff blatantly dumbied out. Really, aside from maybe Diablo 2, you can come up with perfectly acceptable reasons for all of those scores. Even NWN1 being the highest scoring one of the bunch isn't even a stretch depending on what your qualifiers were/are.
People may have forgotten how absolutely broken these games were at launch. It was a western RPG tradition. Although not an RPG per se, the first Stalker game is one of my favorite games of all time, but I wouldn't touch it unpatched/unmodded.
No joke. Honestly, if we go with the unlikely assumption that those were all by the same reviewer, I wouldn't be surprised if part of what made NWN score higher was that it was less of a mess out of the box than a lot of the others were.
No, we are the review reviewers, I'm asking who reviews the review reviewers. Think harder!!!
Ah, you're right and that's on me for not elaborating more because I would never vouch for someone to be fired because they simply "didn't like a game I like". Ever.
To be clear, the complaints in the review bordered on blatantly wrong, to the point where folks on this forum assessed that the reviewer basically lied about playing the game. When I read the review, I came away with the same impression, as if someone had an axe to grind or just felt like slamming a game because they didn't like the idea of it simply existing.
Wasn't there a game that got dinged down a bit because you strafe with the left stick and look with the right stick? Good stuff.
Aside from the ones already mentioned.
Skyward Sword 10/10 IGN. YIKES
MGS4 10/10 from some outlets is also pretty bad considering how garbage that game was.
Other M reviews that praised the story or the brain dead gameplay were also a complete mystery to me.
Skyward Sword 10/10 IGN. YIKES
MGS4 10/10 from some outlets is also pretty bad considering how garbage that game was.
Other M reviews that praised the story or the brain dead gameplay were also a complete mystery to me.
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1up gave Warhawk an 8.5 and said it deducted 1 point for $40 being too much for the amount of content and it should have been $30.
1up also gave Shawdowrun an 8 despite being the same or less amount of content for $60.
So basically, 1up is saying Warhawk would be a 9.5 and Shadowrun would be an 11 if they were $30.
Now please shower me with all your garbage justifications and defenses that games media wasn't completely anti PS3.
1up also gave Shawdowrun an 8 despite being the same or less amount of content for $60.
So basically, 1up is saying Warhawk would be a 9.5 and Shadowrun would be an 11 if they were $30.
Now please shower me with all your garbage justifications and defenses that games media wasn't completely anti PS3.
Pretty much all Skyrim reviews were shit. Game didn't even work properly and you had to actively use glitches in a buggy game to finish some quests. It's basically that dude spinning around with his Skyrim copy. That was the actual state. And everyone remembers the memory leak stuff with the PS3 ver., lol.
God Hand is another famous one. Vanquish and similar games didn't fare much better. They blast through the game on easy for 4 hours and then call the game too short. I partly blame devs for giving the option. We lost so many good arcade genres to this shit.
God Hand is another famous one. Vanquish and similar games didn't fare much better. They blast through the game on easy for 4 hours and then call the game too short. I partly blame devs for giving the option. We lost so many good arcade genres to this shit.
Yeah Alien Resurrection by Gamespot - https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/alien-resurrection-review/1900-2637344/
Oh my god, you're still angry about PS3 coverage after 13 years? This is just... beautiful.
I remember bouncing off of Fallout: New Vegas back when it first came out.
Close to a decade later it became my favorite entry in the series.
Criticism is never set in stone. People change.
Get this shit out of here.
Close to a decade later it became my favorite entry in the series.
Criticism is never set in stone. People change.
Oh FFS.
Get this shit out of here.