Random Video Game Crap
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Exactly! When you only have between 7 and 10 to rate a game what are you going to do?
Your scale goes all the way down to seven? Must be eurogamer.
No, it just needs to not be represented by idiots and assholes like those two. Which is sadly the majority.
I dunno, I think it needs to crash and die in order to really be rebuilt. Personal bias and beliefs get in the way of just talking about the game, or they're too busy fighting amongst themselves and becoming self-indulgent twats to focus on the industry and the quality of it and the products. Advertising and gift baskets sway reviews and you're honestly lucky to see anything score under like a 6 in any magazine or website review.
It's gotten to the point that I just don't trust reviews. I remember the days of GamePro and others, wherein it felt more like people cared about showing you whether a game was worth your time and money. I don't get that feeling from reviewers now.
See, the one criticsm against many of today's reviews that bugs me is how they're too bias or personal. Except that everyone has their own opinions on what makes a great game (or movie, book, comic). Everyone has their own personal history of fond or not-so-fond memories of video games growing up. Of COURSE their personal beliefs will bleed through.
There's no such thing as a 100% objective review. You can tell people why YOU think it's great and explain why to the best of your ability, but even then, there's nothing objective about it. Pure objectivity on reviews is a myth.
There's no such thing as a 100% objective review. You can tell people why YOU think it's great and explain why to the best of your ability, but even then, there's nothing objective about it. Pure objectivity on reviews is a myth.
My take on this? Joe's point is completely valid, even if he said nine and showed 8.9. He's simply pointing out that high profile titles often get review scores they don't deserve based on who made them and whether or not said maker will spend advertising dollars on the review site.
The other guy, however, was looking for something to nitpick because if he can discredit Joe, he doesn't have to approach his criticisms with merit. Also, he works at IGN and is therefore a fucking shill. IGN almost openly sells reviews review scores in the same way that Gamespot does. This is one of the reasons why their reviews don't contribute as much to Metacritic as something like... Rock Paper Shotgun.
Regardless, it's time we dropped the number scoring system. If we're just going to do 6-10, we might as well do letter grades.
A is a must buy.
B is a solid title or an excellent niche title.
C is ether an average game or a solid niche title.
D is a game. Barely.
F is for games so fundamentally broken that they can't even be called games.
Do that and EVERYONE will stop bitching about the meaningless numbers and start bitching about subjectivity again.
The IGN guy was correct too, Joe was taking their preview coverage and representing it as review coverage. He was being just as misleading with his points.
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Also, the US is one of the only places in the world that uses letter grades.
But I got a gold star...
It would still be clearer than the 4 point scale. At this point, scoring something lower than 60 is basically saying "This is completely unplayable and I want to destroy my relationship with advertisers by throwing off their averages with a low score."
I stopped reading that sort of reviews years ago. Blogs of interesting people with simialr tastes tell me everything I need to know. *shrug*
On a lighter note:
I know some people don't care for acapella, but Smooth gets better at this shit every week.
I know some people don't care for acapella, but Smooth gets better at this shit every week.
GasBandit
Staff member
So you guys might find this funny... I'm playing War Thunder last night, in realistic mode event, so tense, wow, very concentrate. I'm chasing down a BF-110, which the aircraft-savvy among you will recognize as a heavy fighter with a rear gunner, which makes it all the more difficult to chase and shoot down. Given that I'm in realistic mode, my ammo is limited, my plane is fragile, and as we're at an altitude of mere dozens of feet, the threat of slamming into a tree/the ground/a cliff is ever present. And just as I've got him lined up in my sights and am about to chew his wing off, the cat leaps off the desk to my left and lands on my head.
figmentPez
Staff member
My Pokemon Black character is named My ass, because I am a responsible, working adult and butt/fart humor is hilarious.
I almost posted this thought in the Games on Sale thread but didn't want to get anyone's hopes up...
Aren't we due for a big Steam sale? Feels like we haven't had one in awhile.
Aren't we due for a big Steam sale? Feels like we haven't had one in awhile.
Summer Sale is usually around July or August. So yeah... a month or two.
I thought we might get a Spring sale.
Humble Bundle is currently running a Spring sale in their store, if you're interested.
I'm sure most of us have enough unfinished and even unplayed Steam games.
I know I have at least 5 or 6 and I barely buy anything.
With Steam Family Sharing, I suddenly have 100+ games I haven't played. It's really eating into my time.
figmentPez
Staff member
There are weekend and mid-week sales every week, daily sales, week long sales (mostly on indie and smaller titles), and Humble Bundle has a Weekly bundle every week, and a major bundle every two weeks, plus regular sales in their store... Not to mention sales on games that redeem on Steam at other storefronts like Greenman Gaming... Just because I'm not posting them all to the thread doesn't mean that games haven't been on sale, and on sale a lot.
So, Mount and Blade: Warband. The War Sword (Warhammer) mod.
I'm teaching the peasants in my little village how to fight off a group of bandits. I know this is always punctuated with a battle with bandits. I've done this a few times with these peasants already. The time comes for the fight and I see that I'm facing down my own number in trolls. Trolls are a huge "super" infantry that you usually have less than a dozen of at most in your army (ogres, minotaurs, trolls). They cost upwards of 10 times what a normal unit costs in pay. One of them can drop me in two hits.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? I have 25 soldiers and 25 villagers and the mod decides I need to fight 50 God damn trolls?
Needless to say I ran out of ranged ammunition and had to retreat after my force was slaughtered in seconds.
THOSE AREN'T FUCKING BANDITS VILLAGERS. THAT'S A HORDE THAT NECESSITATES AN ARMY.
I'm teaching the peasants in my little village how to fight off a group of bandits. I know this is always punctuated with a battle with bandits. I've done this a few times with these peasants already. The time comes for the fight and I see that I'm facing down my own number in trolls. Trolls are a huge "super" infantry that you usually have less than a dozen of at most in your army (ogres, minotaurs, trolls). They cost upwards of 10 times what a normal unit costs in pay. One of them can drop me in two hits.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? I have 25 soldiers and 25 villagers and the mod decides I need to fight 50 God damn trolls?
Needless to say I ran out of ranged ammunition and had to retreat after my force was slaughtered in seconds.
THOSE AREN'T FUCKING BANDITS VILLAGERS. THAT'S A HORDE THAT NECESSITATES AN ARMY.
