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Starhawk Review | Edge

Edge: "Light on personality, but an ambitious, beautifully freeform addition to PS3's multiplayer roster."

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arbitor3655114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

this is, what? the 8th PS3 exclusive this year that edge has rated below the metascore. keeping the tradition alive

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

coolbeans5114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

- A magazine's opinion often differing from the aggregate score on metacritic?

or

- Someone actually being compelled to slam them based solely on those unpopular scores?

arbitor3655114d ago

" Someone actually being compelled to slam them based solely on those unpopular scores?"

that is a clear straw man.

there are plenty of sites who frequently differ from the metascore, such as destructoid and eurogamer. and I have no problem with them. why? because in their cases, it isn't consistently against a certain platform or company. it tends to naturally balance out.

The platform bias is the problem, not extremism. and, sorry, if you CONSISTENTLY disagree with the aggregate in extreme favor or disfavor to a certain platform, that makes you a fringe site/magazine. and there is no reason why people should take your reviews of said platform seriously.

Ducky5114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

EDGE usually gives games a low score. It isn't exactly a platform bias.
Besides, is them giving Starhawk a 7 going to change anything?

The other recent game, MaxPayne3, got a 7 too.

coolbeans5114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

-"why? because in their cases, it isn't consistently against a certain platform or company. it tends to naturally balance out."

So...you essentially admit that an act of balancing with the aggregate score on metacritic for one specific platform is more important to you then what the reviewer(s) have to say? We're suppose to determine whether the review(er) in question makes consistent points, not by looking at fluctuations on a flow chart.

-"if you CONSISTENTLY disagree with the aggregate in extreme favor or disfavor to a certain platform, that makes you a fringe site/magazine. and there is no reason why people should take your reviews of said platform seriously."

Problem #1: They don't consistently disagree with the aggregate.

Problem #2: The logic behind this is just awful to begin with.

OmniSlashPT5114d ago

EDGE: "This game is great, I think it deserves an 8. Wait, is it a PS3 exclusive? Cut 1 point off! 7 it is!"

HarryMasonHerpderp5114d ago

"The Razorback, for example, is a less manoeuvrable facsimile of the Warthog; the Vulture jetpack is a riff on Halo: Reach’s more tightly designed Armor Ability; and the character models, while heavily customisable, lack the iconic impact of Gears’ Marcus or, in the Scrappers’ case, the Locust"

sounds like a fanboy.

arbitor3655114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

they arent even trying to be subtle anymore

Blastoise5114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

I forgot Halo invented jetpacks...
/s

smashcrashbash5114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

Almost sounds like they are trolling. How about you review the game and stop making it sound as if Starhawk is a rip off or something else.

@ Blastoise. Exactly.

dragonyght5114d ago

Warhawk had jetpack im pretty sure that b4 reach

coolbeans5114d ago

Grabbing context from the review in order to raise questions of whether or not partiality is involved. Well done!

Hicken5114d ago

So the review disfavorably compares aspects of one game to another- actually two- when their impartiality is in question, and no one SHOULD say anything about it? Please explain to me why it's wrong to point out such things.

coolbeans5114d ago

Wrong? What are you talking about? That's the very reason why I said well done!

lol...did everyone miss that? I was only prepared to faint because I didn't suspect someone would DO something I've actually said for quite some time.

Hicken5114d ago

Probably because it seemed sarcastic, especially in lieu of your comments higher up.

coolbeans5114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

My comments higher up are solely questioning the logic behind slamming a website's/magazine's opinion solely over their score, instead of going after their context. Since HarryMasonHerpDer provides an example of questionable judgement found in the written portion of the review, I almost fainted because someone actually did something I've been telling others to do for a long time.

Sooo......technically....any sort of sarcasm shouldn't be detected, more so when looking at my comments higher up.

But whatever. It happens, I suppose.

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ElementX5114d ago

I loved the jetpack in Duke Nukem 3D

Xenial5114d ago

WarHawk had the same vehicles.

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Best Sci-Fi Games on the PS3

From the cosmos to crash-landing back on good old planet Earth, come read through the best sci-fi-nastically games on the PS3

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zaanan767d ago

Not a single Reistance? Fuck this article.

mastershredder767d ago (Edited 767d ago )

Starhawk over Warhawk?...... Dude, NO ONE should listen to you.

Odd choices for "best" more like you settled as these being the "best" that available to you at the time, cause a lot of these blow or were average to poor performers that ended up in bargain bin.

Missing too many great sci-fi titles here. The Void, The Resistance Series, Killzone 2 and 3, Enslaved, man.. there were so many, this is redicu-list.

FreeckyCake767d ago

Nobody should listen to you either with that attitude.

OtterX767d ago

I agree that Starhawk shouldn't be above Warhawk, however I must say that Starhawk multiplayer was incredible for its time! Many people wrote it off bc the single player was quite terrible, bc it was basically 1 huge tutorial for the multiplayer. But I can tell you never spent any significant amount of time in MP. It was doing incredibly tense base building w air, foot and land vehicle (and mech!) combat long before Fortnite was ever a thing.

I bet it would have been much better received if it had just ditched the story mode all together. So many people like yourself completely wrote it off based on reviews by reviewers that let the criticism of single player weigh heavily on their scores. I bet you didn't even play it.

Friendlygamer767d ago

The riddick games are some of the best stealth titles ever, highly underrated

YourMommySpoils767d ago

What games? All recall plating was Escape from Butcher Bay.

Friendlygamer767d ago (Edited 767d ago )

There's also the less acclaimed 'assault on dark Athena'

( also, not saying this to you specifically but there's both resistance and killzone games on the list, it's amazing how even something so simple and innocent as a game list can be turned into misinformed vitriol here lol )

jznrpg767d ago

Glad to see Resonance of Fate. Enslaved was pretty good too. I’m sure there are others nobody has listed but I’m too tired to try and think of anything

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Roundtable: Dead Game Franchises We Miss

With every big game now belonging to a big intellectual property, there are those that have become redundant. Here are the series' we miss.

RPGer1844d ago

I miss Dark Cloud I mean damn, Dark Cloud 2 is one of the best Action RPG game ever made. The game have: Rich Worlds, different setting, tons of contents, vareity in gameplay like never before (and even after), best buliding mechanics, crafting system like no one did and finally impressive graphics.

Most underrated game ever. It deserved the popularity and sales of Zelda and Final Fantasy. ut unfortunately, Level-5 and Sony didn't advertise it at all.

titans99991844d ago

My franchises I wish would make a come back, are Battlefront by pandemic studios - galactic conquest was the best, mercenaries 1 and 2, and prototype 1 and 2...great games!

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Pure Reminiscing: Starhawk

Pure PlayStation: Pure Reminiscing is a brand new feature from our very own Kyle Durant. It’s… different. Think of it like a mini-novel full of Kyle’s most weird and wonderful musings about games of yesteryear. If nothing else, at least it’s long enough to give you something to do on your journey to work in the morning….

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