If New Super Mario Bros U looked like Wii graphics to you then you must still be watching your television on a 4:3 CRT tube
Agree with the article. Really, no one else is excited about using the tablet as a scanner in a game, or finally playing an HD mario game?
Tomb Raider was the best part of their conference, and that's a multiplatform game. Doesn't say much
I remember my jaw dropping the first time I walked out of the crashed ship and saw the outdoor landscape.
And also that first time in that hallway when the walls went up and the lights went off one by one. Man what a great game that was
Oh no... you ARE serious.
If you can't see the aliasing in the Uncharted series, you haven't spent enough time on a solid gaming computer.
A lot of whiny people here just read the headline and not the article.
Not sure if serious...
@Neckbear
Atlus handled North America, Namco handled Europe. So he was actually right. Check your facts before accusing others of spouting crap.
I guess... I don't know. The combat was weak, the hacking minigames were pointless (no penalty for failing), the voice acting was horrendous, spelling errors everywhere, quirks and bugs left and right, super-intrusive tutorial prompts...
Maybe the game is a slow starter. But there's a LOT that would need to be forgiven to go any further.
I understand your point, certainly. I loved Journey as well, thought it was fantastic. But self-respecting reviewer ends up with a dissenting opinion from time to time. If they never disagree with a majority, ever, they're being dishonest.
I actually finally got a recent taste of this myself. I reviewed Dustforce and didn't like it. Expectedly got a bit flamed for it, but I couldn't pretend I liked it. It happens.
Although, it sounds like this guy...
I'm guessing you didn't watch the video
You do know that the management staff behind Gerstmann's firing are no longer the management staff, right? How is this a bad thing for him?
You've just got to consider the source, and find reviewers with opinions you respect.
You'll never find a reviewer that you always agree with (if you do, one of you is faking it), but you can still disagree with a review while understanding the angle it took.
There are plenty of well-thought and well-defended reviews out there. Just always take them with a grain of salt.
This situation is far more common than you think it is, especially when it comes to the big-name publishers with loads of ad money.
The big sites do actually lose ad money from time to time when giving a big game a less than favorable score. But what you HOPE for is that the site intends to keep its credibility intact by remaining honest and not allowing publishers to "buy" good review scores.
Don't be so naive. Gerstmann is one of the good guys...
Few managers of editorial staff would fire their editorial director for giving a review that was well-defended and honest. It doesn't really have anything to do with the managing staff being required to have the same opinion about the game. That would be ludicrous.
He wasn't fired for giving the game a bad review, he was fired for being the reason that advertising money was pulled, which destroyed the credibility of Gamespot at the time by confirming that publishers c...
Meh. Outstanding game, but the ending was nothing to write home about.
Both Mass Effect endings were great. Hoping that ME3 will rank among the best but we'll see!
While that ending was a powerful moment, the game did not do a great job of leading up to it, specifically due to the flawed morality system which feigned "choice" throughout the game while the only real choice you ever had was to the play the entire game good or play the entire game bad, unless you wanted to give up on getting the best powers. And the whole "Press L2 for good, R2 for evil" thing was laughable.
Good ending, doesn't rank as one of the b...
In my opinion, Red Dead Redemption had the most compelling video game ending I had ever seen. It had me staring at the credits in awe of what had just happened and the entirety of the experience that led me there.
That's the thing. I think most people are pissed because the conference didn't have that visceral "wow" factor that everyone expected, and that it ended on the Nintendo Land note. A lot of people allowed that to tarnish their view of the actual Wii U hardware and lineup, which are still pretty impressive.