"When it comes to videogame reviewing, critics should exercise a degree of professional subjectivity by not appraising games for the sake of peer conformity; nor should they review games while focusing only on appeasing the demands of hardcore franchise fanatics. However, by that token, reviewers should also resist the temptation to unfairly kneecap a high-profile release just for the sake of standing out from the critical crowd."
What an absolutely pretentious piece ...
Stereotypical? Maybe, now that you mention it. But I was being completely serious. I was concerned for my fellow man. He seemed to have no reason to go on. I figured a girl would probably turn his fortunes around.
Get a girlfriend? Maybe she'll motivate you.
I agree with BulletToothTony that this article is lame. For 1 reason:
1) Because Raiden is awesome.
This is cool. I like it!
I really hope this makes MANA KHEMIA: ALCHEMISTS OF AL-REVIS compatible with the 80gb PS3. It wasn't compatible before, and it just came out in March! I bought it because Sony doesn't list it on their website for compatibility, and none of the reviewers who reviewed it said anything about compatibility, so I just assumed that a brand-new game would be made so that it would work on the PS3, but I was wrong! So I've owned it for a couple of months now and still haven't gotten the chance to p...
Honestly, since when is gameplay length such an important factor? Replay value is far more important, which MGS4 has in spades. The gameplay in MGS4 is so much damn fun and it's just simply so stylish, with so many varied forms of gameplay (each act is practically a different style of game altogether) that I see myself playing through it time and time again for years to come. Nobody will argue that Castlevania Symphony of the Night, Super Metroid, or Super Mario Bros. are among the greates...
Kotaku can shove their holier-than-thou attitude. They act like Konami is evil and that EGM are gods for not reviewing one of the biggest games of the year? It's bull. They should give the game a score. It deserves one, after all. If Konami request you don't talk about something in the review, they must have a reason for it. If you can't mention 90 minute cutscenes, but feel that the cutscenes need to be mentioned, just say "the cutscenes are numerous and often lengthy, but you can...
"When will reviewers learn that there is no such things as a game that is 100% perfect???"
Look, a 10 doesn't mean it's perfect. OK?
If you say nobody ever gives a 10 because nothing is ever perfect, then you're just setting the bar of perfection at a lower digit. Then a 9 becomes the new 10. Just like in Spinal Tap, "Well this amp goes to 11..." yeah sure, but 11 on your amp is really just 100%, just like 10 on somebody else's amp is 100%....
Yeah all these "critics" who give a game like MGS an 8 are a bunch of ignoramuses (ignorami?). Game development is a high-risk business, criticism is extremely low-risk. The people who poured their hearts & souls into making MGS 4 a competent game that runs smooth and is fun to play, the powerful & creative minds who invented this story and tell it with such cinematic flair... these people are the real heroes of our industry. The critics who undermine their creativity and ...
Yeah, but you don't ask a sports hater & especially an America Football hater or someone who's ignorant about the rules of the game, etc., to review Madden.
Videogames aren't movies, where a critic has to be an aficionado of all types of genres and be willing to objectively criticise all movies based on their various merits. A videogame is more personal, because it involves the user to a much more important degree. If a game is not your type of game, you shouldn't be the ...
I'm confused. MGS has a cover system.
Absolutely true. Why do Greenberg and Kim have to talk trash all the time? At least the Sony exec's have been showing some class lately, as evidenced by this interview. I can't it's always been that way, but the present is most important, eh? For a while there it was more trash talk from Kim or Greenberg every single day, at least that seems to have stopped for now. I don't know how anyone could disagree with you, though, Condi. The evidence is right before our noses. Click the link, ...
Hey I said the room is kickass, didn't I? It's not jealousy, it's befuddlement. I don't understand why somebody would make such a kickass space for playing games, they clearly have a passion for gaming, and yet they completely ignore all of the good gaming that can be done on systems other than Xbox. It just seems so ridiculous to me to put all your eggs in one basket. I don't get it.
I don't collect videogames, but I collect comic books. Right, my favorite comic writer is...
I agree with a lot of what he said, but there were 3 points where I think his fact or fiction decision is wrong.
He says that the Blu-Ray making games better is fiction. Well, he's wrong. It does make games better. First of all, Metal Gear Solid 4 is a massive game that takes up 50 Gigabytes. Without Blu-Ray, everything would be more compressed. That's not a big deal, most people wouldn't even notice it. But the proof is in Oblivion, which has much faster loading times an...
Absolutely kickass room, but I'm starting to get really fed up with seeing all these rich moron fanboys who obsess over the 360 like it's gods gift to gaming and completely ignore all other games. A proper game room would have a PS3 and a Wii hooked up as well, at the very least. I mean, there was that guy a while ago who owned three 360s and every single game and accessory for it. This guy, with his whole room devoted solely to the 360. Where do these people come from and why are they so...
This is good news for gaming, why'd you have to go and mention the USD?
WHoops
Fair enough. Shows how much I actually care about reviews. Read: almost not at all.
"At this point, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is fully deserving of the drooling adoration it’s presently bathing in. And, in terms of graphics, audio, music, gameplay, options, variety, action and suspense, you’d be right... Gameplay is king and, in that sense, Guns of the Patriots undoubtedly rules with an iron fist of longstanding expertise thanks to its thrilling gun fights, suspenseful sneaking, a gamut of enthralling gadgetry, and a de...