I do agree with you. Buy what you like.
But asking advice from a friend who has the game would not be sheepish, right? When you do find a good set of reviewers, they can be like friends to ask. You learn which ones have your values and you take biases and weaknesses into account.
I guess the only way I know to find out if a game is good is to rent it if you don't ask someone. I don't want to pay $8 if it's trash, and I don't play enough games for gamefly to be fe...
I agree, this paragraph in particular stands out:
"The problem lies with the extremist nature of the games industry. Console manufactures pit the fans against each other through juvenile PR tactics, and by using closed platforms that encourage gamers to segregate under their banner."
I think this has nothing to do with reviews. It has to do with advertising and fan-boyism. Changing reviews is treating the symptom instead of the disease. As long as fan-b...
Wow... strange grading scale. 75% was an average C when I was in school (except in a private school, where it was 1 point above a D), and nowhere near a B or B+.
Anyway:
"Video games are supposed to be art. You would never see art critics describing paintings using a bell curve. They either like it or dislike it. There's no math, pie chart or graph, involved. Each reviewer is entitled to their own interpretation of the piece, and the same should go for gamin...
I've already said it plays the games fine.
The problem is that Microsoft bills the 360 as more than just a game machine, something that Nintendo never does:
"Amplify your music, photos, video, and TV. Watch progressive-scan DVD movies right out of the box. Rip music to the Xbox 360 Hard Drive and share your latest digital pictures with friends. Make the connection, and Xbox 360 instantly streams the digital media stored on your MP3 player, digital camera, Me...
Crippled (from m-w.com, Merriam Webster in case of future misdirection): "to deprive of capability for service or of strength, efficiency, or wholeness."
There's absolutely no way you can call the arcade complete or whole in comparison to the elite or the standard 360, anymore than you can call a six cylinder mustang whole compared to one with a V8. The whole purpose of the arcade was to remove as many costly features as possible in order to reduce cost.
"The crippled version. Let me see. Oh, yeah, it has no hard drive. Wait a minute. Neither does the Wii. Hey, it has HDMI, it plays 720p (yeah, what ever, 360 fanboys, 1080, too, if you want), it plays DVD-Video, too. It has a wire less controller. Yeah, right. Crippled version. (Yeah, RRoD, that I could agree on). But, you are right, the Wii has WiFi, the Arcade does not. That must be it, then."
Yep. The crippled version of their (MS's) console. I can provide a defini...
So the crippled version of one console is almost as cheap as the full version of another console?
I'm sure that'll matter to Joe Consumer.
Way to verify the other person's argument.
"EVEN IF the console is quite novel with the motion sensing and what not, how does nintendo incorprate it? Flipping pancakes in Cooking Mama? Guiding a little butterfly around the screen, blowing magic dust on talking flowers?"
Forgot about Metroid Prime and COD4? MP was repeatedly called the best FPS controls outside a PC and now we're getting reports that COD4 dramatically improves that functionality. I don't think that can be dismissed just because girls like games...
So your response to someone's statement that you don't agree with is to call them a pedophile?
Wow... talk about a sad moment on this site. Even sadder is the fact that 7 people agree with you. I guess at least 8 people on this site need to grow up and learn that this sort of behaviour is never ok. It's not just trollish, it's libel.
How sad.
Also keep in mind that a lot of online sales were large bundles... for a while it seemed like that was the only way to get a wii, since a lot of stores' online shops refused to sell them any other way (Walmart, Target, etc.)...
If it sells that much, I'll eat my cat. :)
Anyway, the answer that's looking more and more certain this gen is parity. I'm beginning to believe there will be no clear winner this gen, just a lot of competition. That could mean that people fold and jump hoping to win next gen, or it could mean a paradise of great games for gamers.
Any console could still dominate, but there are no clear checkmates on the table. If anyone has a chance to dominate that's apparent ...
"I liken it to the PS2's situation.
If the Wii software library can grow significantly in 2008 w/ budget casual titles, top-rated core titles, innovative motion-sensing titles, and simple-but-fun WiiWare games, I thinkin the Wii will be alright."
It is a LOT like the ps2 library. People tend to get tied up in Metacritic scores, but in the end quantity was what mattered most to the ps1 and ps2 in the first couple of years. Quantity eventually begat qual...
".....their reviews make absolutely no sense."
A lot of the reviews on this one are mixed. One reviews says it's gross and disturbing in a good way. Another says there was nothing that shocked or startled them, but it was fun.
Seems like this will be a game with a lot of mixed feelings. Nothing wrong with that. Some people will love it, others hate it (like 1up) and the rest may be ambivilant... If you like it, buy it and have fun.
Unfor...
It's cool that you like Hot Shots.
SSG is a great game though, and way under-rated. It has a lot of depth and difficulty. At the same time a novice can pick it up and have a lot of fun. If this next version improves, it could well be the golf killer app of this gen. Play is already very golf-like. Putting is the only area that really needs improvement. The rest of the improvements will just enhance things.
Wii = Fun (For those who are secure enough to like other ...
Sorry if any of my posts seem angry or terse. It just brings it out in me when people dismiss things as crap just because they don't like them. I don't care for the 360, but I certainly don't think it's crap. I don't care for shooters, but that doesn't mean they're crap. There's a lot more to being trash than clockspeed or pixels.
To answer your question. Of course gamers want graphics to improve. I look at even the prettiest graphics on consoles today and I'm impressed but I s...
Or they might say "dang, I had as much fun with that little thing as I did with my $600 system. Why on earth did I buy that?"
See, we can all make groundless assertions. All this crap fails to take into account that the only thing that matters is whether the buyer has fun. I'm having fun. My in-laws and everyone I know with a wii is having fun.
So really, your take matters as much as all these anal-ysts. Not a bit. Only people's own view of their own co...
"The Wii is not a real machine for gamers. I'm a gamer so it's a fad to me.
Wii = Gimmick
XBOX 360 = Games
PS3 = Games + Movies
It's good that it's reached such broad market appeal. But come on, if you're a gamer and you could only choose 1 console for the next 5 years. Would you make it the Wii?"
At this point I would.
For me:
Wii = 5 of the 7 games I own are fab. (The other two are ok) with 3-...
Look at baggy jeans... early nineties to present. Still a fad that's just beginning to fade. Of course it may always be active in urban culture, but that's no different from people who still use their Commodore 64's as desktops.
So yeah, if the wii is that kind of fad, it's trouble for competitors.
"In 1996, Nintendo claimed to have "shortages" of the Nintendo 64 and in 2001 the same with Gamecube. Which is why Playstation kicked their ass every holiday and will repeat this holiday. Not with the PS3, but with the PS2."
So they're really bad money-grubbing thieves? If that's that truth, then they're not greedy, they're incompetent.
So they're going to see that they can get a true next gen experience, pass on it, and get a ps2?
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Yeah, I don't think the sites would be receptive to changes like that. It would be nice if it was easier to parse the numbers though.
I know it means some work, but I guess I bought a lot of turkeys back in the day (like Beyond the Black Hole, basicly a memory/pong game with 3d glasses and a space theme) and I'd like to have my $40 back (sounds cheap now, but I worked a lot of part-time hours for that pos).